mezyt

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by mezyt 1mo ago
I was wondering how anyone could reach the token limit of a 200$/month Claude subscription. I never did on a 20$ one, and I'm parallelizing Claude to the absolute limit of what I can reasonably keep in mind. And I do that day and
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by mezyt 3mo ago
Makes sense for small tool like ls, and doesn't for things that are actually complex like the python language or sqlite.
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by mezyt 3mo ago
https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main/profiling
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by mezyt 3mo ago
The 2000x number is based on a pathological directory in black's repo https://github.com/psf/black/tree/main/profiling which make duplicate-code really slow and a fix was done in pylint 4.1.0 accord
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by mezyt 4mo ago
ruff is a rust rewrite of flake8. Got bought by OpenAI after a meteoric rise in the python ecosystem.
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by mezyt 4mo ago
Great case where rust works well too. I won't cite every famous libs that got rewritten in rust but it wasn't all with LLM.
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by mezyt 4mo ago
Turn out people like to ask low quality questions, as evidenced by the reputation of Stackoverflow moderators.
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by mezyt 5mo ago
Profession (1957) by Isaac Asimov is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664195
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by mezyt 6mo ago
I once copy pasted a spam email in https://www.bullshitremover.com/ and it simply returned "bullshit".
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by mezyt 8mo ago
The worse system is already getting gamed. There's already too much on the line for researchers/students, so they don't admit any wrong doing or retract anything. What's the worse that could happen by adding a layer of t
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by mezyt 8mo ago
The metaphor doesn't match very well here because stackoverflow is not selling new tape at a premium but giving them for free and reading a stackoverflow answer is harder than asking an LLM. Could be that AI companies feeding on stacko
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by mezyt 8mo ago
Remind me of a recent discussion we had among Stackoverflow moderator: > “Think about it,” he continued. “Who discovers the edge cases the docs don’t mention? Who answers the questions that haven’t been asked before? It can’t be people t
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by mezyt 8mo ago
A half conversation is a lot more disruptive because your brain try to fill in the gap of information.
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by mezyt 8mo ago
Plus, how many shell can one individual open in a day ? I'm doing that once per day on a good day, maybe twenty if I have a lot of unplanned work on subprojects that needs to be done concurrently with my main task.
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by mezyt 1y ago
shadowsocks was the winner of the state of the art I had to do at work. It address the "long-term statistical analysis will often reveal a VPN connection regardless of obfuscation and masking (and this approach can be cheaper to suppor
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by mezyt 1y ago
There's a script to update from python2 to python3, it's now the most used language in the world, and they learned their lessons about the python2 to python3 migration. A python3 script is literally the most likely candidate to be
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by mezyt 1y ago
Meanwhile, as a maintainer, I've been reviewing more than a dozen false positives slop CVEs in my library and not a single one found an actual issue. This article's is probably going to make my situation worse.
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by mezyt 1y ago
> There is probably more JS written than any other language by orders of magnitude. And the quantity of js code available/discoverable when scrapping the web is larger by an order of magnitude than every other language.
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by mezyt 1y ago
Yeah ok. I was viewing AI as "a tool to help you code better", not as "you literally can't do anything without it generating everything for you". I could do some assembly if I really had to, but it would not be effi
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by mezyt 1y ago
> I fear that LLMs have already fostered the first batch of developers who cannot function without it. Playing the contrarian here, but I'm from a batch of developers that can't function without a compiler, and I'm at 10%
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by mezyt 1y ago
Code coverage tools allow to pragma the defensive code which will appear reasonable to most reviewers ?
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by mezyt 1y ago
I've hired by Linkedin recently and had to triage that stream of shit. There's 50% of candidate with no qualifications at all, then 25% that are somewhat qualified for something but not for the job at hands, then on those qualifie
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by mezyt 2y ago
> Well, nobody will be able to reproduce their work (unless other people also publish fraudulent work from there) In theory, yes, in practice, the original result for amyloid beta protein as the main cause of Alzheimer were faked and it
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by mezyt 2y ago
> Many jurisdictions are downright hostile and obstructionist for any renewable investment. Right, as long as energy prices are not guaranteed no one is going to invest massively. No one want to be the one having to eat up a 8000$/m
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by mezyt 2y ago
> As for employees? They are typically not calling the shots about company direction. They can be motivated or not, knowing that the founder made big bucks and they made nothing is bound to lower motivation. Thus the title of the article
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by mezyt 2y ago
> I recently need to find some details of hardware implementations for a feature. I used Google to find specs for this hardware. The specs were hard to read or didn't explain things as I needed. So I asked ChatGPT and it gave me wha