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by maerch 25d ago
Nowadays the analogy to “not reading bad books” is “not consuming social media”. Reading a bad book seems so much more beneficial to your concentration, focus and attention span than doomscrolling that it’s a valid recommendation. The bar i
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by maerch 7mo ago
Finally, someone is fixing a problem that’s tailored to me. For me, FFF obviously stands for “Fat-Fingered Finder.”
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by maerch 8mo ago
It’s already happening. This came up in a webinar attended by someone from our sales team: > "A typo or two also helps to show it’s not AI (one of the biggest issues right now)."
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by maerch 8mo ago
> Huh? No, that's been established since Karpathy coined the term; you don't review the code, only use the agent and don't care about how it was done, just about the results. However, nowadays it is used as a synonym for e
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by maerch 8mo ago
In that case, removing „perhaps“ would have helped a lot. It is not about maybe being hired, but about maybe being interviewed.
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by maerch 9mo ago
The closest I come to working with part-time, minimum-wage workers is working with student employees. Even then, they earn more and usually work more than five hours a week. Most of the time, I end up putting in more work than I get out of
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by maerch 10mo ago
Factorio 2.0 seemed to pull it off. I think that as long as users don’t feel misled by a DLC that only adds a few skins, they generally appreciate larger updates to a game.
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by maerch 11mo ago
Exactly this. I thought about getting a T7, but the price is just ridiculous. And it’s not even like you’re paying for quality, there are so many complaints about both minor and major issues.
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by maerch 11mo ago
People being prevented from doing their job because of code formatting? In my nearly 20 years of development, that statement was indeed true, but only before the age of formatters. Back then, endless hours were spent on recurring discussion
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by maerch 11mo ago
> My experience is it often generates code that is subtlety incorrect. And I'll waste time debugging it. > […] > Or it'll help me debug my code and point out things I've missed. I made both of these statements myself
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by maerch 1y ago
I still have a bad taste in my mouth after all those GPT-5 hype articles that claimed the model was just one step away from AGI.
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by maerch 1y ago
> The agent follows references like a human analyst would. No chunks. No embeddings. No reranking. Just intelligent navigation. I think this sums it up well. Working with LLMs is already confusing and unpredictable. Adding a convoluted R
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by maerch 1y ago
Apart from the “—“, what else gives it away? Just asking from a non-native perspective.
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by maerch 1y ago
I’m really trying to understand your point, so please bear with me. As I see it, this prompt is essentially an "executable script". In your view, should all prompts be analyzed and possibly blocked based on heuristics that flag ma
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by maerch 1y ago
I am not sure how good your test really is. Or at least how high your bar is. Paul Erdös was told about this problem with multiple explanations and just rejected the answer. He could not believe it until they ran a simulation.
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by maerch 1y ago
> A repeated trend is that Claude Code only gets 70-80% of the way, which is fine and something I wish was emphasized more by people pushing agents. Recently, I realized that this applies not only to the first 70–80% of a project but som
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by maerch 1y ago
It’s just the ChatGPT translation, and it’s a literal one. That said, I’ve never heard that phrase in German either.
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by maerch 1y ago
Meanwhile, in Germany, you can get raw pork with raw onions on a bread roll at just about every other bakery. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett When I searched for the safe temperature for pork (in German), I found
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by maerch 1y ago
Thanks for sharing! I will try this out. Sounds like something my kids would love.
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by maerch 1y ago
Like many others in threads like this, I initially felt repelled. It’s restrictive, it’s super expensive, and I dislike some (though not all) of the design choices. But then I remind myself: it’s not a product made for me. I don’t have to l
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by maerch 1y ago
That was my first thought. This can go downhill pretty quickly. Nobody suspects that you expose your account with a link to a mention.
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by maerch 1y ago
Sometimes I’m astounded. Just when I think I’ve heard of most tools in a certain AI category, I come across a link here to a GitHub repo with over 4K stars. Has anyone used this one and can share their experience with it compared to other t
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by maerch 1y ago
After reading Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book (assuming that at least half of it is true), it seems that Zuck doesn’t hold any political beliefs at all. Just opportunism, nothing more.
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by maerch 1y ago
Recently, I found my old ICQ chat history from back in the day. It was a joy to go through, sometimes a little cringeworthy, but overall I really enjoyed it. It felt like a time machine taking me 25 years back, helping me reconnect everythi
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by maerch 1y ago
That hasn’t been my experience. A few tech-savvy people and those close to them may use alternatives, but even then, it’s usually just for groups where someone refuses to use WhatsApp. For everything else, they still rely on WhatsApp. On to
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by maerch 1y ago
I’ve been using Signal as my main chat app on iOS and desktop for a long time. Yes, this happens to me every other month too. It’s annoying, but I can live with it.
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by maerch 1y ago
It’s about taking small steps to get the flywheel turning, not about “just doing it.” You need small wins to build up motivation for the bigger, more complicated tasks. If you want to lose weight but don’t feel motivated, it might be becaus
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by maerch 1y ago
> Issue #113 - “Please continue being awesome.” That emoji-laced drive-by encouragement (August 2018) still pops into my head whenever motivation dips. This warms my heart. While the internet is infamous for its negativity and how it mak
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by maerch 1y ago
Whenever I see arguments about past scapegoats, something about them doesn’t sit right with me. Some things today are simply more addictive than others—and often deliberately designed that way by large corporations. More importantly, they’r
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by maerch 1y ago
> Jobs where they make you clock in X hours but actually work X+Y. This of course can be reported, but not many people do (lack of inspectors, fear of losing the job, slowness of the justice system...) I would add that there are also cas

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