geekraver

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by geekraver 29d ago
I am self-hosting with Gitea. Have action runners set up on my Windows PC and Mac (with a container for Linux). Works great.
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by geekraver 4mo ago
AI is a tool. You can use it to make better software, or worse. In an ideal world we would use it to make better software; there’s enough bad software out there already. Unfortunately, unfettered capitalism has few incentives to support tha
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by geekraver 4mo ago
And when the heavy subsidies of cloud AI come to an end? Plus the Macbook can do other tasks as well; presumably you need a computer anyway so should deduct the value of a computer for non-AI tasks from the cost.
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by geekraver 5mo ago
What about non-Finnish sauna heat? Or do I have to go to Finland?
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by geekraver 5mo ago
Wow, totally ignores the one framework Microsoft developed that was actually a pleasure to use (WinForms). Avalon sucked IMO; it was just a continuation of the fever dream at the time of making everything XML (or XAML in that case). MFC suc
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by geekraver 5mo ago
Because it’s a functional society that has a government that works for the citizenry and not a small cadre of wealthy sponsors?
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by geekraver 9mo ago
ETTD
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by geekraver 1y ago
I do find it encouraging that there’s not a lot of pro-Trump sentiment on HN these days. Unlike, say, in October/November 2024…
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by geekraver 1y ago
Make sure to test you thyroid hormone levels
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by geekraver 1y ago
“Completely preventing X is impossible. As such, attempting to stop it is a foolish endeavor” has to be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard. Substitute almost anything for X - “the robbing of banks”, “fatal car accidents”, etc.
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by geekraver 1y ago
Given the number of times Musk has been pissed or embarrassed by Grok saying things out of line with his extremist views, I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s not intended. It would be easy enough to strip out of the returned system prompt.
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by geekraver 1y ago
And models eat apps over time. If you build an app that’s valuable, OpenAI takes note.
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by geekraver 1y ago
Same, mine is about to graduate with a CS masters from a great school. Couldn't get any internships, and is now incredibly negative about ever being able to find work, which doesn't help. We're pretty much looking at minimum
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by geekraver 1y ago
This is one of those places where having a selected “security image” makes sense. That popup should not just be easily spoofed text.
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by geekraver 1y ago
The pylance team has started exploring this, namely whether it makes sense to have an API for type checkers that is not the LSP, as language servers have a somewhat different goal in which type checking/inference is an enabling techn
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by geekraver 1y ago
Apart from Forth, Lisp and Lua, Tcl also deserves mention as a small embeddable language. Not sure of its state today; I think by v8 it had started to get more complex, but its original incarnation was very simple. I remember getting Ouster
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by geekraver 1y ago
“It can’t happen here”
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by geekraver 2y ago
Ph.D. programs being stopped: https://www.wesa.fm/health-science-tech/2025-02-21/universit...
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by geekraver 2y ago
Much better than some of the garbage solutions I have seen, including from sources that should know better, like The Algorithm Design Handbook. Some really absurd approaches out there, so bad I wrote a blog post about it in 2015: https:&#x
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by geekraver 2y ago
Friends don’t let friends use 4Chan - I mean X
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by geekraver 2y ago
https://www.audiolabs-erlangen.de/resources/MIR/FMP/C0/C0.ht... might have something
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by geekraver 2y ago
Is this going to be followed up with a “functional programming is the bestest” post?
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by geekraver 2y ago
Which they can avoid by resigning. So the worst penalty for almost any crime is they might have to step down,
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by geekraver 2y ago
So the president can’t kill their opponent over a golf game but can order the military to kill their opponent over a golf game. Got it. In the worst case they might have to resign before being impeached but at that point they are permanentl
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by geekraver 2y ago
Along with K&R (and K and Plauger’s “Software Tools”), the Dragon book, Bentley’s Programming Pearls, and Holzmann’s Beyond Photography, AST’s books were the most formative in my life (I started coding in 1976 but was self-taught until
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by geekraver 2y ago
This squares with my experience in the demo. It’s 98% there but that 2% is adding a lot of cognitive load and stress, so it’s a negative ROI.
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by geekraver 2y ago
Or when you have a #$@^$! notch
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by geekraver 2y ago
Not with standard LLM models. Generating garbage is easier; deciding that it’s garbage much more difficult. This is an inherent problem with “prompt optimizers” like DSPy.
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by geekraver 2y ago
This is cool. I have been doing this a bit more manually, by using a Chrome plugin that does YT summaries and shows transcriptions using Claude. I don’t like those summaries so I paste the transcriptions into ChatGPT (GPT4) with a prompt “P
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by geekraver 3y ago
https://pnewman.org/engineering_mgmt_checklist.txt is about the best signal/noise ratio I have seen.

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