kstenerud

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by kstenerud 5d ago
> This one time, turns out the colonialism was 100% on the side of moral right. No, it wasn't. It was just coincidental that the UK still held a 99 year lease (from 1898) when the communists took over mainland China. How they got th
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by kstenerud 6d ago
I have cabinets for cables (all tie-strapped), arranged in separate compartments: - USB cables with at least one USB-C end - All other USB cables - Network cables - Audio and video related (RCA, HDMI, SCART, phono, XLR, displayport, BNC, S&
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by kstenerud 7d ago
The problem with transit systems is that they aren't designed for competition. They're costly to make, have few builder companies to choose from (who all know the game very well and go over budget as a tactic), and extremely diffi
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by kstenerud 7d ago
I never prompt an agent like that, so no. First thing I do when something goes wrong is tell the agent to stop and diagnose. You can't prompt effectively without three proper information.
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by kstenerud 7d ago
If the agent's change has such a catastrophic effect, the first thing you do is tell it to explain why its change had that effect. Once you understand what the problem is, you can give it better instructions. If the architecture is shi
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by kstenerud 7d ago
I use Opus 5 for everything.
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by kstenerud 7d ago
That's so weird... This doesn't at all match my experience with Claude. I've never seen it behave this way.
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by kstenerud 9d ago
Ah good. I was about to say "What? No Wall Drug sign?" But it's in there!
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by kstenerud 12d ago
What I find fascinating about this is how the American commenters are eating their own, Democrats blaming Republicans, Republicans blaming Democrats, both spinning conspiracy yarns about "the other side" as well as independents (&
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by kstenerud 15d ago
Because very few people actually care about the things that emacs has to offer. Tools like VS Code do the job well enough for the majority of people, with just enough configurability and much greater ease-of-use. Emacs has a similar problem
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by kstenerud 16d ago
> Ariely conducted experiments including administering electric shocks Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6bJHalRnX4
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by kstenerud 16d ago
> Before, if I didn’t understand something, the route might look vaguely like: > question → Google → mediocre explanation → another tab → try something → nope → read again → change my model → finally get it > Now it can be: > qu
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by kstenerud 16d ago
Just one of the many reasons why I run my agents sandboxed (and why I wrote agent sandboxing software). I once caught my Claude agent complaining that it couldn't connect to https://some-weird-domain.com because the network
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by kstenerud 17d ago
> The "best engineers" we have right now started their careers when the startup era was hot and they now have 15-20+ years of experience. They also started before that era, and after. I've met plenty of them throughout my
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by kstenerud 17d ago
> What if I told you the "best engineers" pretty much all know the same things? I'd say that you need to provide some evidence for this extraordinary claim. > What if I told you that your "specialists", AI or
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by kstenerud 17d ago
How does AI stop you from learning how to reason?
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by kstenerud 17d ago
The problem with this site is that the studies it cites don't match the conclusions it draws. "Accumulate cognitive debt": The paper is a preprint, isn't peer reviewed, and has already had a rather blistering critique (
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by kstenerud 17d ago
The parallel cable for the keyboard reminded me of a hack I did back in the day, stripping wires from two SNES controllers and connecting them to a DB25 connector to plug into the parallel port of my PC running MAME. The cool thing with the
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by kstenerud 17d ago
> People used in interpreted and GC ones lost most if not all the ability to reason about the system, cache, and memory. It's not that they lost it, but rather that they never learned it. I didn't lose my ability to reason abou
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by kstenerud 17d ago
Barefoot. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways.
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by kstenerud 17d ago
Reminds me of when we were admonished to use a "real" compiled language rather than an interpreted, GC'd one, lest we lose our ability to reason about the system, cache, and memory. Which reminds me of when we were admonished
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by kstenerud 18d ago
It's not really possible to make them safer without hurting performance. Signals break the C virtual machine guarantees (atomics, memory consistency, register consistency, etc), and the only way to re-establish them for edge cases like
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by kstenerud 18d ago
I used to think this way, but all that happens is that you slowly cease to exist in other peoples minds, and then you cease to matter to anyone. That's bad for productivity, bad for your career, and it's bad for community. Drama i
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by kstenerud 19d ago
Full screen pop-up = page closed.
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by kstenerud 22d ago
That's only if the AI companies continue their build outs. How many people actually use fable over opus? How far are we up the diminishing returns curve, and will their customers even care?
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by kstenerud 23d ago
As soon as 3 or more people are involved, you have politics.
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by kstenerud 23d ago
> But illwilled countries that disrupt supply chains greatly incentivise others to diversify supply away from them. ... Except when they can't in any meaningful span of time.
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by kstenerud 23d ago
One of the reasons why I liked The Good Place so much was because they did playful treatments on various philosophical points, without spoon feeding a solution.
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by kstenerud 23d ago
1. Being too good in an organization makes you a threat to those above you. 2. When an organization must downsize, you want to make sure once the dust settles that no one under you is able to take your job. 3. These decisions are political,
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by kstenerud 24d ago
Another annoying one is lazy and simplistic morality, which just ruins the story. Arcane had huge potential, great pacing, interesting characters, but failed on that front.

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