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by hamstergene 2mo ago
Same, and it led me discover there was already a wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete
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by hamstergene 3mo ago
What I didn’t like about this series of books was choosing “garbage collection” as umbrella term for both tracing GC and reference counting, without verifying if programming community would agree with that, which turned out they didn’t. I’
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by hamstergene 4mo ago
Because the most important parts of the expertise are coming from their internal "world model" and are inseparable from it. An average unaware person believes that anything can be put in words and once the words are said, they mea
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by hamstergene 4mo ago
macOS and Windows both used to allow running arbitrary binaries from a web page. Linux GUI users get away purely because it’s unpopular target for as scammers, once naive grandmas and 12-year olds start using it, I’m sure there will be comp
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by hamstergene 6mo ago
A simple answer is that they see neither. What they think they see is actually a short snapshot of North Korean life with a red circle, a red arrow and a red caption text that says "North Korean propaganda here!!! -->", careful
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by hamstergene 6mo ago
This is indeed interesting because rotating 2D screen is not necessarily the same type of brain processing as experiencing things fly around you. Even VR is not necessarily the same, because knowing you're safe may be different from ta
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by hamstergene 6mo ago
Normally I cringe at doomsday preppers but given how many dictators out there love the idea to cut their country off Internet whenever anything starts going not in their favor, I imagine a lot of people may find this useful. I wouldn’t want
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by hamstergene 7mo ago
I can speak for myself: when I ask if the shiny side reflects the heat better, I don't mean to also ask if the difference is significant. It's really just curiosity, whether my school physics intuition holds up or lies to me, that
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by hamstergene 8mo ago
I personally reported that around time when Mac OS X 10.9 (first non-cat) came out and immediately saw it marked as duplicate. So at least 13 years and counting.
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by hamstergene 8mo ago
Imagine being a person like me who has always been expressing himself like that. Using em dash, too. LLMs didn’t randomly invent their own unique style, they learned it from books. This is just how people write when they get slightly more l
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by hamstergene 8mo ago
Agree, to me this "research" is like proving grocery stores are vulnerable to theft by sending students to shoplift. If review process guaranteed that vulnerabilities can't pass, wouldn't that mean that the current kerne
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by hamstergene 9mo ago
Having created 100 of nano-sized projects does not add up to having developed and maintained one large code base. Coding agents are eating up programming from the lowest end, starting from pressing button on the keyboard to type the code in
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by hamstergene 9mo ago
I feel like many people in the comments aren't aware that Karpathy is an ML scientist for whom programming is a complementary skill, not a profession. The only reason he came up with "vibe coding" is because maximum complexit
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by hamstergene 10mo ago
A great opportunity to bring up that a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range has never needed a cloud account, has never had to become unavailable whenever AWS goes down, and certainly doesn't have to b
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by hamstergene 10mo ago
I am really surprised how well AI excuse works, most journalists just take CEO words as is, and make no effort to assess: is that even credible? Obviously layoffs correlate with AI age, but it's most definitely not AI replacing jobs, n
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by hamstergene 11mo ago
Endless volume escalation is known as Lombard Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_effect At parties it is mainly due to room's echo. The best and cheapest is open-air, where voices fly into the sky and n
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by hamstergene 1y ago
Sometimes I think the way CRDT research formulates the problem, itself obstructs evolution of local-first. That obsession with Google Docs-like collaborative real-time text editing, a pretty marginal use case, derails the progress from wher
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by hamstergene 1y ago
Locals have always been allowed to quit the new job on day 1, and it has never been a crisis for employers. A company that is confident it is offering worthy salary and career should have no extra reason to worry a foreign worker will quit
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by hamstergene 1y ago
This list of specific examples exists in your head solely because of backing by the media.
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by hamstergene 1y ago
First of all, misleading title? It says that tech debt must be treated as regular business tasks when needed, not denies its existence. > Throughout my career, I’ve been an engineer complaining about tech debt, a manager prioritizing (an
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by hamstergene 1y ago
More like, wear a full body raccoon suit.
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by hamstergene 1y ago
Apps are sandboxed and don’t have full disk access unless you want them to. Article’s claim that websites have same capabilities largely defeats its own argument that websites have less capacity to collect tracking data. Either can be used
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by hamstergene 1y ago
The other side of the coin is that website forces you to trust your data to the website and almost always locks you in with them (the regulation to provide "export" of data worth nothing if competitors are not required to be able
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by hamstergene 1y ago
There could be generational gap here: for many people the first JS was ES5 or later, which is after the language was taken seriously and fixed. The difference between Python2 and ES1-ES3 was much bigger than between modern Python and modern
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by hamstergene 1y ago
I think coding assistants aren't great at UI/UX yet because they can't see, their understanding of left/right/lighter/darker is guessed from textual descriptions that accompanied CSS tutorials but they are neve
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by hamstergene 1y ago
An easy answer for what's missing is that the industry isn't run by people who read "No Silver Bullet". - Articles about tricky nature of tech debt aren't written by people who call the shots on whether the team can
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by hamstergene 1y ago
It would be great if every complex or volatile third-party library came with its own mock and an abstract interface to which they both conform. Including pieces of language’s standard library itself. It makes so much more sense this way: -
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by hamstergene 1y ago
Remember how the central idea of Orwell's 1984 was that TVs in everyone's home were also watching all time and someone behind that device actually understanding what they see? That last part was considered dystopian: there can&#
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by hamstergene 1y ago
I think the question was pretty clearly worded: > Title: What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? > Text: I was just spending a second thinking of what insanely wealthy people buy, that the not ins
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by hamstergene 1y ago
I wish we all could agree on a terminology where taking a pill daily is management, not a cure. A cure should be a one-off measure after which one stays cured. If not forever then at least for years. Something that needs to be repeated, esp

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