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by kqr 6d ago
Aren't "not rich" and "poor" very different things?
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by kqr 8d ago
This surprised me too. I suspect the robots only got a "use mutation testing" prompt and independently decided that it must mean manual mutation testing, or possibly that they ran in a sandbox where an automated mutation testing t
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by kqr 8d ago
I believe it would. Automated mutation testing is the test coverage metric that is nearly impossible to cheat.
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by kqr 8d ago
I thought it pretty clear that the code was generated by the same agent that received the testing prompt, so there were no constraints on the code structure, and the testing strategy was known at the time the structure was generated.
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by kqr 8d ago
This is answered by the large plot early in TFA. All tests were made using the same model, and adding no special instructions at all provided performance above the average.
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by kqr 8d ago
I don't know what I'm most impressed by: (a) the testing expertise, (b) the time spent looking into the reasoning mistakes generated by LLMs, or (c) the insane amounts of money this must have cost!
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by kqr 10d ago
Indeed. Trim wheels when rolled upward trim for higher speed, i.e. nose down. Wait, this agrees with GP's experience but not mine. Did OP invert it?
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by kqr 10d ago
Like many side scrolling airplane games, the object controlled in this game behaves a lot more like a rocket than an airplane. I suggest learning a little about the physics of airplanes[1] to improve the feeling of flying. I made a prototyp
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by kqr 10d ago
What is the wind dynamics? I would have expected to climb when the headwind increased but I didn't. I also didn't manage to stall, only invert when I went out of bounds.
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by kqr 12d ago
I had no idea people had so strong feelings about theme toggles. I know some applications offer the choice, but I imagined it was because a small set of developers took it as a fun challenge to implement. One of my banking apps has a theme
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by kqr 12d ago
Spaced repetition: https://onlymove.net/
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by kqr 12d ago
I get this use-case, but what makes an MCP server better than a custom CLI tool that exposes those same operations? That's how I've solved similar things in the past.
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by kqr 14d ago
I noticed this when I tried to get LLMs to play text adventures. Early on in my experiments, I wanted to give them hints when they got stuck at a puzzle. I did this by stopping the loop, injecting thoughts into the LLMs own persistent scrat
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by kqr 14d ago
I jumped on the lifetime offer I received from rsync.net at some point (one of the few providers I would trust with such an offer!), so I no longer pay for backup as long as I stay below some ridiculously high number...
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by kqr 14d ago
What makes the front wheel brake a bad idea? I almost exclusively use the front brake, because that's the one that'll actually stop me. (Source: when I used rim brakes I had to replace the front brake pad three times for every tim
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by kqr 14d ago
> Many of the front brakes installed on less expensive bicycles are worthless and give riders a false sense of security. You should test the brakes before every ride! The front brake should make it very, very hard to push the bike forwar
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by kqr 14d ago
> But when we switched to hand brakes, it became impossible, as you need a free hand and speed control at the same Did y'all have only one hand?
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by kqr 14d ago
I doubt they're actually that beginner friendly. My children switch between coaster brakes and hand-actuated rim brakes regularly (different sets of bikes in different locations) and they have preferred hand-actuated rim brakes since t
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by kqr 15d ago
Usually something more subtle like adding an early return somewhere before the offending line, or inheriting from that class and blanking that method, or something along those lines.
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by kqr 15d ago
It's a different mindset. Has nothing to do with curiosity. For me and you, "fixing" something means finding which assumption was violated and redesigning the solution in light of that. Sometimes this means adding code, somet
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by kqr 16d ago
I can imagining that being scary two different ways. I would not want to wake up because whatever this thing is, I love it. I'm having an amazing time, dream or not.
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Your syntax highlighter is wrong (2014)(jameshfisher.com)
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by kqr 16d ago
Completely with you. I've played with limited syntax highlighting in the past (class names were blue, to answer the question in TFA), but for the past few years I've been running with plain black-on-white, with only a green highli
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by kqr 17d ago
This all rests on the assumption that design errors are independent beween LLM-generated programs for the same specification. That's not true for humans (Knight and Leveson, 1986) and I highly doubt it's any more true for robots.
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by kqr 19d ago
> A weird poorly specified format that is only fully editable from one editor. While this has been true historically, the Org maintainers are moving away from that approach. The example that comes to mind is that parsing and interpretati
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by kqr 21d ago
The problem with the wheel is not inventing it so much as finding ways to use it. Aside from capstans and pulleys, the wheel is mostly only useful in combination with good infrastructure or complicated machinery.
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by kqr 21d ago
> PageRank doesn't work today That's silly to say when it can be fruitfully applied in so many situations. Any time you have noisy and sparse pairwise comparisons, you can think of them as one of the sides of the pair vouching
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by kqr 21d ago
> One of the basic rules of thumb in typography is that, when writing a piece of text, you should choose one typeface and stick to it. Likewise, a splash of colour may grab the reader's attention, but it will inevitably decrease the
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by kqr 21d ago
But on the other hand table are represented with trees![1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree#B-tree_usage_in_databas...
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by kqr 21d ago
Right! As I was reading I was thinking of ways to evolve this, and one idea kept coming back: What if we don't store compiled code in the SQLite database, but something primitive like s-expressions representing code? Then we could upda

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