jackcviers3

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by jackcviers3 2mo ago
On the other hand, the open weights models could crawl and annotate and rl the training data that Anthropic and OAI did in exactly the same way, and take the exact same legal hits. They use distillation because it's cheaper not to do s
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by jackcviers3 2mo ago
A stopped clock is, after all, correct twice a day.
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by jackcviers3 4mo ago
You need 0.5 to 1.5 acres per person for non-mechanized industrial argriculture. Nowhere with land that is truly arable enough for that is going to _sell_ you 1 acre at a time. In the U.S., you buy at least 40 acres at a time. In the U.S. M
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by jackcviers3 5mo ago
For most teams, whether or not you can say no to building something is ambiguous at best, at least if you wish to stay on that team and at that company. It's definitely one of the things that has made me vote with my feet in the past.
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by jackcviers3 5mo ago
It has been a very bad bet that hardware will not evolve to exceed the performance requirements of today's software tomorrow, just as it is a bad bet that tomorrow someone will rewrite today's software to be slower.
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by jackcviers3 7mo ago
I'm going to guess that someone who can afford smart glasses can afford to have another pair of unsmart glasses. What is it about the _glasses_ that people find creepier than a smartphone that can literally do even more invasive things
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by jackcviers3 7mo ago
Great, let's regulate it! And why are glasses more offensive than cell phone cameras, or go pros, or drones? I genuinely do not understand why people don't worry about the other form factors, but draw the line at the glasses, so h
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by jackcviers3 7mo ago
It seems like a more polite way of handling this in private spaces is just to ask that people take them off - just like we do when a pig farmer walks into our house with their boots on. I get why people are creeped out by them, but we get f
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by jackcviers3 7mo ago
I mean, I grew up with AOL AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC... yet I switched every time a new tech came out with more of my friends on it. Why do we think discord will be any more sticky than Digg or Slashdot, or any of the above? People will
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by jackcviers3 8mo ago
Isn't that true of python as well? I would argue that Github's decision to use markdown for formatting, more than any other, is what resulted in its widespread adoption to other use cases. The simple tool to share code ate the wor
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by jackcviers3 11mo ago
The last one is fairly simple to solve. Set up a microphone in any busy location where conversations are occurring. In an agentic loop, send random snippets of audio recordings for transcriptions to be converted to text. Randomly send that
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by jackcviers3 11mo ago
I'll add to this - if you work on a software project to port an excel spreadsheet to real software that has all those properties, if the spreadsheet is sophisticated enough to warrant the process, the creators won't be able to re
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by jackcviers3 11mo ago
And adding ads into the responses is _child's play_ find the ad with the most semantic similarity to the content in the context. Insert at the end of the response or every N responses with a convincing message that based on our discuss
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by jackcviers3 11mo ago
Tech debt doesn't accrue because of fast feedback iterations. Tech debt accrues because it isn't paid down or is unrecognized during review. And like all working code, addressing it has a cost in terms of effort and verification.
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by jackcviers3 11mo ago
I'll attempt to provide a reasonable argument for why speed of delivery is the most important thing in software development. I'll concede that I don't know if the below is true, and haven't conducted formal experiments,
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by jackcviers3 1y ago
You _can_ largely ignore the toxicity. Don't give toxic individuals attention, and they go somewhere else to stor the pot. Just debate the ideas with the merits in the source code, ignore the haters, and be kind and helpful. It's
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by jackcviers3 1y ago
Same. It's easy to setup and use. As is gptel, aidermacs, and claude code ide.
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by jackcviers3 1y ago
A true inspiration
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by jackcviers3 1y ago
It's clearly a consistent typo and was probably part of the prompt used to generate the article.
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
With the size of the asteroid, is this one where we could use the gravity tractor[1] or the Yarovsky Effect[2] techniques for deflection, or is there not enough lead time? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_tracto
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
It is. There are scraping third party services you can pay for that will do all of this for you, and getting blocked by IP. You then make your request to the third-party scraper, receive the contents, and do with them whatever you need to d
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
You can feed them whole books, but they have trouble with recall for specific information in the middle of the context window.
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
Why couldn't they add a tool that literally calls stockfish or a chess ai behind the scenes with function calling and buffer the request before sending it back to the endpoint output interface? As long as you are training it to make a
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
Everyone has their threshold for how many times you are allowed to be incorrect within a given context, sure. > adversarial audience... Yes. Even if the audience you target is small and on your side today, a successful piece of writing w
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
It's intended as a replacement for _scala_ builds. Having a build definition in the native language that doesn't require a different syntax (like a declarative syntax such as maven xml or toml) makes task customization easier for
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
As one teacher and several profs told me, "You don't need to say, 'I think', because the fact that you are saying or writing it means that you think it". In other words, if you are uncertain, don't express the
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
And scalachess is written in scala, to piggyback off a post earlier this month that claimed the language is dead. The project is very successful and has been around and maintained for years.
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
Curious, why would it matter that the cursor stays where you were when paging down?
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
What is a good estimate of the number of times these boosters and engines will be reusable?
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by jackcviers3 2y ago
We use it for all new services at Writer. Jack Henry, SiriusXM, Starbucks, Disney streaming services, and Capitol One all have services (not data-science) divisions producing new projects in Scala ranging from the last five years to today.

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