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Podcast Transcript Fetcher for Lenny's, Dwarkesh, 20VC, and More(github.com)
2 points by madanparas 2mo ago|0 comments
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by madanparas 3mo ago
The DMS operating system on the 1130 had a 5-character filename limit. Chuck Moore wanted to name his language FOURTH, to signal a fourth-generation language. The filename limit truncated the name to FORTH. A disk system constraint from 196
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by madanparas 3mo ago
The ECI process forces the Commission to respond formally, not to legislate. The Commission said no, which SKG anticipated. They had already secured a legislative call signed by 45 MEPs and are pushing to amend the Digital Fairness Act thro
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by madanparas 3mo ago
The help doc explicitly carves out Codex: "Lockdown Mode does not affect network access in Codex." The mode limits outbound requests in chat to block prompt injection exfiltration, but Codex network access is a separate setting. A
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by madanparas 4mo ago
You're right. The typed buffer locals optimization keeps TypeScript semantics intact by exploiting the existing Buffer/Uint8Array type annotation to skip the NaN-unbox. It's not dropping types, it's using them. The floor
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by madanparas 4mo ago
The "RL repair loop" is iterative LLM prompting with stderr feedback, not reinforcement learning. There is no training code, no reward function, and no environment in the repo. The loop also freezes the scene spec and only regener
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by madanparas 4mo ago
Perry uses NaN-boxing to preserve TypeScript's dynamic type system at runtime, the same approach as JavaScriptCore. The PERF_ROADMAP is honest about the cost: 1.86x behind Zig on image convolution, with 1.24 billion wasted instructions
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by madanparas 4mo ago
Per-car prices (Hyundai 61 cents, Honda 26 cents): Source: Wyden-Markey Senate letter to FTC, July 2024. https://www.motor1.com/news/728428/automakers-sold-data-chea... https://therecord.media/mark
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by madanparas 4mo ago
Hyundai received 61 cents per vehicle from Verisk. Honda received 26 cents. California's $12.75M fine against GM, the largest CCPA penalty ever, is less than the $20M GM made from selling the data.
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by madanparas 4mo ago
The NYT frames these as two sides of the same intellectual marriage. Miller's own tapes say he accomplished "nothing basically" during their four years and would have left her even if she had stayed in love with him, because
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by madanparas 4mo ago
Add a README file, bro
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by madanparas 4mo ago
There's a 300-page MIT Press book analyzing exactly this line of code: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); :GOTO 10. It's free as a PDF and covers the mathematics (Truchet tilings), the C64 hardware, and the cultural history. The article
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by madanparas 4mo ago
The article opens by saying LAN's chief advantage was "nearly eliminating latency" and closes by saying revival is as easy as sharing your Wi-Fi password. Wi-Fi and a wired switch are not the same thing. The one thing that ma
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by madanparas 4mo ago
Is Apple Vision Pro still alive, or is it on life support?
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by madanparas 4mo ago
bro 42 at 4x. the model read the whole internet and became a Douglas Adams fan.
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by madanparas 4mo ago
The real story isn't the $2B. It's that the foundry is standalone, so other quantum hardware companies can use it. Shared infrastructure beats nine separate research cleanrooms.
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Reddit and Perplexity got us leads faster than Google ever did
8 points by madanparas 1y ago|1 comments