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by fmbb 26d ago
You are deleting the document from your computer. In some instances this could be a file on disk. But it does not have to be.
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by fmbb 26d ago
Producing more tokens means charging more money to solve a given task.
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by fmbb 27d ago
Do you believe this is a significant part of the increased GutHub traffic, people’s personal software?
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by fmbb 27d ago
Snake oil salesmen of all kinds make money all the time. What does that have to do with providing value?
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by fmbb 27d ago
Thanks for sharing. It was a fun read, and relatable.
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by fmbb 28d ago
I don’t think launching Go today would have been better than 15 years ago. Standard ML is a perfect programming language from the 90s. It unfortunately does not have a great eco system of packages.
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by fmbb 29d ago
There is no disconnect and your comment does not attempt to explain why this is some sort of contradiction.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
It’s find for actions and workflows as long as you do no interpolation and logic. Better move as much of that as possible into your own scripts. And your scripts can be portable between forges, and even run locally!
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by fmbb 1mo ago
They should replace the unicorn image with a horse or at least a zebra during ongoing incidents.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
There is not simply one government in the US. It seems the federal executive admin is censoring government websites of all levels and branches of government.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
> by decomposing problems and identifying optional solutions and weighing the solutions based on various risks, trade-offs and tolerances. This is how all people solve problems. Now everyone are not great at all parts, but this really is
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by fmbb 1mo ago
Maybe it just means more people are pushing some envelope (their own) faster and more often than before. In the aggregate everyone maybe learns on average about as much new stuff in a year anyway. There _are_ still humans out there talking
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by fmbb 1mo ago
A phone is my server now.
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by fmbb 2mo ago
I haven't read Hatchet, is it about fictional technology or real technology?
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by fmbb 2mo ago
Its the biggest button. They did not read the text to agree. It was the fastest way to get the banner to go away. Sometimes they force you to confirm multiple times if you click ”none” or ”minimal”.
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by fmbb 2mo ago
Is Kimi K3 subsidized as hard as the other models out there?
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by fmbb 2mo ago
> When an employer can confiscate someone's passport and one can only leave the country with their authorization, it is slavery. This happens in Europe as well. It is not legal, but it is the only way the Scandinavian berry market w
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by fmbb 2mo ago
Why does it matter for some Python implementation if the Google C++ implementation has a lazy or eager parser? The important part of protobuf is the spec of the wire format. That is what makes the standard an interop format. Personally I al
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by fmbb 2mo ago
> For example, I would argue that for someone with no experience, figuring out how to copy a file from one folder to another is easier in Windows Explorer than learning how to use cp. I don't believe this. If you find a person (well
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by fmbb 2mo ago
The Blue Lagoon is more like using waste cold than waste heat.
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by fmbb 2mo ago
make no mistakes
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by fmbb 2mo ago
How are you staying ahead?
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by fmbb 3mo ago
I have not seen Kent Beck argue for eXtreme Programming or other Agile methods in nuclear power plant software or aviation. These are niche industries and constitute a vanishingly tiny part of all the lines of code out there I presume. The
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by fmbb 3mo ago
Well he makes software and writes about software development doesn’t he? Hardware has some hard limitations. The reason software was even invented at all was precisely to escape those limitations.
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by fmbb 3mo ago
All tech debt I have ever seen in my 15 years of professional software development has been someone building too many abstractions or generalizations trying to future proof stuff.
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by fmbb 3mo ago
Human talent or LLM talent?
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by fmbb 3mo ago
> I always thought this complexity was there for some good reason (security?). It's just design by committee.
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by fmbb 3mo ago
> Economics is downstream of physics. I don’t think this is true if finance is included in economics. … unless of course by physics you also mean metaphysics.
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by fmbb 4mo ago
> Some times one will spin for a long time on certain problems where the other has no problem finding the appropriate parts of the codebase and getting an efficient solution. Surely this is just to the random nature of these stochastic p
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by fmbb 4mo ago
You prevent the LLM from deleting your instances by not granting its AWS user that permission. Whatever tool you let it use to talk to AWS is irrelevant.

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