lostdog

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by lostdog 18d ago
What are the issues you had that pulled you away from tauri?
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by lostdog 1mo ago
Spotify shoves podcast ads in your face. Amazon does the same with product ads.
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by lostdog 1mo ago
Google wants money. The past decade they've been replacing any leadership who thinks about serving their users or creating amazing things with people who can only think in terms of immediate money. Don't expect them to make anythi
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by lostdog 1mo ago
Some do-nothing EVP probably just got control over the Gemini org
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by lostdog 2mo ago
Clearly the first step of slopbench2 should be to have the agent first write its own harness!
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by lostdog 3mo ago
I should set up a LARP where 30 people solve TIS-100 together
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by lostdog 3mo ago
> But lately there's capital available for quantum computers, fusion, synthetic bio, space exploration, asteroid mining, and lots more Hmm I wonder how these were originally funded when it was less likely that they would work. And b
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by lostdog 3mo ago
I have some coworkers that are similar in everything--education, work ethic, and intelligence--but some of the tick out ML ideas that work like clockwork, while others get hits rarely if ever. I cannot tell what makes it work for some and n
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by lostdog 3mo ago
1850s was the beginning of the railroad boom. You're thinking 1750s.
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by lostdog 3mo ago
"a real balance sheet, assets against liabilities, not a spending feed dressed up with colours" Ugh. Just write your own damn post already
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by lostdog 3mo ago
C++ was a superb language for its time. There was nothing faster with as-powerful abstractions. It showed how far you can change a language too, with C++11 being a massively better language with shared_ptr and company. It took in almost eve
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by lostdog 4mo ago
AI code is often fine. The point of the code is for the computer to do a job. And code is supposed to be consistent and boring and straightforward in its structure. AI is pretty ok at this. AI is terrible at writing. Its prose is awful and
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by lostdog 4mo ago
I haven't tried opus 4.8 yet, but I hope the writing quality has returned to the Opus 4.5 level. Anthropic really lost something, where 4.5 had this really crisp writing style that flowed really nicely and 4.6 and 4.7 sound much more &
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by lostdog 4mo ago
It is because they have power, and want to be addressed this way. And you are likely to lose your case if you don't follow their rules.
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by lostdog 4mo ago
The major axis is urban+gritty to more suburby and spread out. It's a very personal preference where you want to be, but most people dislike the most gritty areas (tenderloin, most of soma). It's worth aiming for a neighborhood at
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by lostdog 4mo ago
Yes, bbc had gone back to paywalling this month.
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by lostdog 4mo ago
Is real, physical engineering that much better? Take the new sf bay bridge span. It leaked, and had to be fixed to prevent critical parts from corroding. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Caltrans-was-warned-o
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by lostdog 5mo ago
Yes, if you just list 3 more problems about the US then it means that China has no problems at all.
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by lostdog 5mo ago
Grok is despised because it has more aggressive alignment.
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by lostdog 5mo ago
The best managers I've seen would turn this situation into a headcount request. The problem is leadership has priorities 1-5. Your team works on 1-3, but the PM keeps getting hassled about 4 and 5, so they look for levers to get them t
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by lostdog 6mo ago
And uv required some ground work, where the PEP process streamlined how you define a python project, and then uv could be built on top.
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by lostdog 6mo ago
Is there something mass-produced that's flexible and consistent like gridfinity? As a non 3d printer owner, I've been looking for something I can just buy that would work.
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by lostdog 6mo ago
Maybe it's time to do pair agentic engineering? Have two engineers at the screen, writing the prompts together, and deciding how to verify the results.
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by lostdog 6mo ago
Whoosh
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by lostdog 6mo ago
In MCP setups you do give the agent the full description of what the tool can do, but I don't see why you couldn't do the same for executables. Something like injecting `tool_exe --agent-usage` into the prompt at startup. Great ar
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by lostdog 6mo ago
Yes, sites should support a NoAds header that agents can provide, which ensures that the site doesn't provide any ads that the agent could accidentally click on.
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by lostdog 8mo ago
And get it into a modern certification. Want LEEDS? Get the sound measurement people out.
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by lostdog 8mo ago
Please post your address. I'd like to help make your home "feel alive."
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by lostdog 8mo ago
They are oppressed by their neighbors, who can scribble all over their home without consequences. Have you had to clean off graffiti?
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by lostdog 8mo ago
We begin teaching math by having students solve problems that are trivial for a calculator. Though I also wonder what advanced CS classes should look like. If they agent can code nearly anything, what project would challenge student+agent a

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