metalrain

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by metalrain 2mo ago
Even with locally runnable small "open" models you are relying on scraps of others. They are much worse at the LLM game and you don't know when they stop releasing the weights. How can you go the opposite direction? Instead o
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by metalrain 3mo ago
I think it's appreciation of the world and people to look and think, "some people did that". So many people working together globally to produce anything you see, sometimes over decades and many lives. There is extraordinary
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by metalrain 3mo ago
In the story they spend months to build the MVP and people don't like it. This clearly is first point where they could "fail fast", but they believe they can improve and they do. I guess I'm thinking where is the "f
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by metalrain 3mo ago
Usually no. And I have to say that no one tries to build a failed business. Founders can be really earnest about their intentions, work harder when they see the cracks, but often it just doesn't work, they don't find the right way
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by metalrain 3mo ago
Only functional startups I've seen solve actual customer problem and don't try to solve all problems. Usually they have tried several things before they found one that actually is worth solving. But everyone makes mistakes and bad
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by metalrain 4mo ago
Isn't any camera with low enough angle good for license plate reading with additional software?
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by metalrain 5mo ago
I noticed that gameplay speed depends on the window size. I'm assuming that larger canvas takes longer to render. It seems too fast at small window sizes and maybe too slow at 4K, not sure what is the intended speed.
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by metalrain 6mo ago
I think it's more abstraction problem. You could write more code, but you also could abstract code more if you know what/how/why. This same idea abstracts to business, you can perform more service or you can try to provide mo
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by metalrain 7mo ago
That doesn't sound like ban, you have to disclosure yearly the amount of stock you have demolished, but there is no mention of penalty or anything like that.
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by metalrain 7mo ago
This is a big deal and it's not just code. Any decision maker can be cyberbullied/threatened/bribed into submission, LLMs can even try to create movements of real people to push the narrative. They can have unlimited time to
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by metalrain 7mo ago
Communities also evolve and devolve with time even without large external event. Maybe you don't feel the same belonging in the friend group after ten years or community grows to become something it wasn't in the beginning. Maybe
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by metalrain 7mo ago
I think it's the loss of control. Even if you can achieve awesome things with LLMs you give up the control over tiny details, it's just faster to generate and regenerate until it fits the spec. But you never quite know how long it
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by metalrain 8mo ago
Good point, sales is the winning factor in most cases. Why is Microsoft one of the largest software companies? Sales.
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by metalrain 8mo ago
Yes and that is exactly why they are losing. They have hostages not customers.
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by metalrain 8mo ago
Yes, many don't like Sharepoint, but still they use it. It's the tool they can use. Customers don't care if Sharepoint uses LLM, they just want to share ideas, files, reports, pages, etc. If LLM makes it easier, great! If som
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by metalrain 8mo ago
I see that Software as a Service banked too much on the first S, Software. But really customers want the second S, the Service. When you sell a service, it's opaque, customer don't really care how it is produced. They want things
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by metalrain 8mo ago
I'm constantly reminded how software is all around us, we don't even notice it. Operational excellence survives, no matter the origin.
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by metalrain 9mo ago
I think we will use more tools to check the programs in the future. However I don't still believe in vibecoding full programs. There are too many layers in software systems, even when the program core is fully verified, the programmer
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by metalrain 10mo ago
Skills.md will in time have same problem as MCP, they will bloat the context. I wonder if we could just have the scripts without the descriptions and LLM would have been trained to search the most useful things in specific folder.
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by metalrain 11mo ago
I like the idea but the example doesn't make much sense. In what application would you load all users into memory from database and then filter them with TypeScript functions? And that is the problem with the otherwise sound idea &quot
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think LLMs are best as learning tools, explaining code and producing something that can be then iterated.
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by metalrain 1y ago
You don't need blockchain for that. Total BS.
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think chatGPT is like porn, it suppresses the urge but it doesn't give the resolution.
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by metalrain 1y ago
Neat, but how do you close the message blocking the calendar?
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by metalrain 1y ago
I have found that cooking for family, friends or small communities can scratch that itch. Results are tangible, you are doing something with your hands, it only takes few hours (often much less) and you get to give something to people you l
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by metalrain 1y ago
I tend to have very periodical special interests, maybe 1-3 months per topic. It's not long enough to make life changes, to chase that crazy in me. Maybe I have to become "Today I Learned" style content creator
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by metalrain 1y ago
I've been dating recently and I think planning dates is mostly fantasizing. I plan the time, place and activities, imagine things to discuss, how I feel, how other person might feel. Everything feels well thought out and detailed, unpa
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by metalrain 1y ago
I think the problem is that when confronting all future plans you might find out you don't like any of them. But you have to do something, choose something. So it's almost better if you don't think too hard, just do it and fi
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by metalrain 1y ago
I feel like AI is great tool to expand the environment of your knowledge, kind of like wikipedia (I wonder why ). But poor as accurate source of knowledge or provider of accurate answers.
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by metalrain 1y ago
People only click from search when they have actual need to visit the site. E-commerce, image/video content, social media, etc. That is pretty much as it should be.

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