kortex

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by kortex 1mo ago
Rhetorically, why can't folks add the feature of PRs to Git? Git is fundamentally just a graph manipulation engine and data structure. It would just be another object type, in a layer which sits above the normal commit graph. Obviously
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by kortex 1mo ago
> "Tortured phrases" are bizarre, nonsensical word combinations—such as "counterfeit consciousness" instead of "artificial intelligence" Conterfeit Consciousness is gonna be the name of my new post-liquid an
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by kortex 2mo ago
One of the first ways I learned to meditate/access different states of mind was a technique described as "overload trance" (IIRC). The premise was, listen to a piece of music, focusing on one musical component, then while kee
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by kortex 2mo ago
Lmao not remotely. Their security is a joke. Axon's evidence system at least has concepts of security. Flock has had numerous high publicity security failures (see: Benn Jordan's work with 404 media).
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by kortex 2mo ago
> they respond by refusing to work. That's a ~~problem~~ solution that, at this time, has no ~~solution~~ problem. If a police department reuses to accept accountability, and dig in their heels by refusing to work, "just"
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by kortex 3mo ago
This RFC (the concept behind it) has been in the works in one form or another since 2008 > The HTTP SEARCH method was first formally proposed in November 2008 within RFC 5323. > Before it became a full RFC, the proposal progressed thr
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by kortex 3mo ago
I find it really fascinating that you use the metaphor to GA of a senior dev sweeping all the cruft away into a single clean abstraction, is that my read/smell of TFA (as a layperson for this depth of math) is that GA runs the exact sa
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by kortex 3mo ago
Did you mean hyperthermia? This whole thread sent me down a rabbit hole (I have several close folks afflicted by Lyme) and while at first glance hyperthermia might seem woo-ish, there is real research being done, particularly on hyperthermi
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by kortex 3mo ago
Robot arms can have reproducible movement with error bars measured in double-digit microns. Where they lack is in the force feedback, and even then they have had huge strides.
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by kortex 3mo ago
I'd rather have a pristine repo (no .ds_store/.idea/etc) than a pristine .gitignore file.
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by kortex 3mo ago
I think you misunderstand the functionality. It doesn't ingnore the diff completely. it just replaces the full contents with "`Binary files differ" > Use -diff to completely hide the internal file content during a diff.
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by kortex 3mo ago
It also directs Github to automatically collapse those files to the "Show Diff" interface by default. I'd still call the contents of things like lockfiles, protobuf output, big JSON blobs, etc, "noise" when reviewin
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by kortex 3mo ago
Super fun, got 70,250. Friends have always lightly ribbed me for having to go home and look up words i've used. Those remaining 100k words must be really obscure. One suggestion would be more convincing decoy choices, some were prett
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by kortex 3mo ago
That sure is an interesting take from someone with "anarchist" in their username. IMHO corruption is any time you use power/influence/station in order to skew the normal well-behaved channels of governance (cybernetics)
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by kortex 3mo ago
Psychededics are unpredictable. We know the government looked into their use as thought- and behavior-manipulating tools (MKUltra) but the results proved too chaotic. You might get a manchurian candidate...or the unabomber. But most likely
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by kortex 4mo ago
Drifting? I think it's there. basedpyright is awesome and super fast. Our latest services are all CI gated by type checking. Early in my career you'd hit so many dumb errors running your code - NoneType, attribute, value, and type
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by kortex 4mo ago
According to Pew, almost 70% of teens report to have used LLMs/chatbots, and 30% use it daily. This is also over 6 months out of date, which feels like an eternity at the current rate things change. https://www.pewresearch.o
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by kortex 4mo ago
> > As a group, teenagers and young adults hate AI Anecdotally, I've observed a robust correlation between the cost/quality of the model, and attitude towards it. Most of the general public, young folks, and old folks (ie ou
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by kortex 4mo ago
I think the analysis-space really needs to be divided into three groups: software, media (audio/video/image) generation/alteration, and everything else. Software - this tech is ludicrously powerful and productive. But it&#x
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by kortex 4mo ago
Are the datacenters that are being built not directly analogous? Even if the hardware in them is cooked after 5 years, the buildings, power, cooling, and fiber interconnects are still all valuable. The models may go out of date but the proc
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by kortex 4mo ago
> What if the primary goal of the first AGI is to keep itself at the top? What if it's goal is to prevent any other AGI? Scary thought... is basically the premise of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Build
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by kortex 4mo ago
The younger devs have largely been the ones showing us old farts (eg millennials) how do to the really sophisticated stuff with claude - custom skills, plugins, tooling like openspec, things that have had massive benefits over stock claude.
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by kortex 4mo ago
I think my company is a microcosm of the current state. The non-engineering side (HR, correspondence, marketing) are on the "forced adoption" side, giving out gift cards to folks using Glean the most. In engineering, we can't
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by kortex 4mo ago
zionism != judaism
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by kortex 4mo ago
That's literally what OpenSpec does ( https://openspec.dev/ ). It's quite nice. I've only exceptionally rarely seen claude do something wrong based on spec docs when it's fully spec'd out. More often
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by kortex 4mo ago
I agree with voidfunc. A lot of what police do could be offloaded to other occupations. A lot of needless deaths could be prevented if there were more rungs on the escalation ladder between "do nothing" and "folks with guns s
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by kortex 4mo ago
You might wanna check out https://copier.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Dunno if it's your exact use case but it's been amazing for keeping a polyrepo microservice ecosystem in sync.
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by kortex 4mo ago
I'm not in front of my terminal, but I'm almost certain there is a way to do this. And if not, it would not be hard to add. I can't really take the article fully seriously when they are like "uv cant do this. Well actual
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by kortex 4mo ago
Thought provoking, but i dont understand what making an incompatible protocol would do. As soon as you have a machine-processable protocol (kind of a tautology), you can build bridge layers. Sounds like an XY problem. What op wants is high
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by kortex 4mo ago
This isn't an academic journal or general purpose news article though. It's a small blog about a subculture. It'd be like spelling out GPU on a blog for building custom PCs, or BDSM on a kink blog. Spelling it out when 99.9%

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