mindwok

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by mindwok 5d ago
Oh I see so they’re reserved space regardless. That makes sense !
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by mindwok 5d ago
Typically I see admins create partitions as basically failure domains - if one fills up it doesn't explode things relying on the others. Wouldn't this be worse in that regard? If you end up accidentally filling up your entire disk
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by mindwok 5d ago
aren't you kinda doing the same thing, trying to control others by pointing out they shouldn't complain?
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by mindwok 5d ago
Kudos to the author for sharing a candid and vulnerable post. I think we're all grieving right now for the things we loved: programming itself, open source software and the community around it, high salaries and high status jobs with c
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by mindwok 5d ago
That doesn't matter though, what matters is that sources of freshwater (rain over land) stays roughly the same. We can't assume that changes just because we evaporate water in a data center
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by mindwok 5d ago
Why does this matter? It remains fresh when its evaporated until it falls into the ocean, and then gets evaporated from there back into fresh.
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by mindwok 18d ago
Nobody in history wanted to either. Unfortunately we don’t get a choice.
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by mindwok 18d ago
If we look at history, humanity has been through some pretty crazy shit and we haven't gone over the waterfall yet.
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by mindwok 22d ago
He is definitely overly optimistic on timelines but pretty much all those things you mentioned are actually still happening, it's too early to say they haven't followed through.
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by mindwok 23d ago
I think the biggest actual piece of evidence is how hard the major players are trying to stop it
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by mindwok 24d ago
The attacks on Khan here personally irked me. I grew up in a small rural town where math teachers were rare and good ones were nonexistent. I still remember watching Sal Khan's videos on calculus after struggling to get any grip on it
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by mindwok 25d ago
I think the conclusion is a little too strong but mostly agree, Codex feels like a chisel and Claude feels like a wrecking ball.
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by mindwok 29d ago
Whether it's a bubble or not depends on how much the demand for compute and the type of workload keeps growing, though. If AI tends to be something used mainly in ideation and development, which is how a lot of people use it today, the
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I did this for my business' email about a year ago. A few weeks ago, I moved everything. Fastmail is awesome, but perhaps more important is how bad Gmail's web interface is. Fastmail is way more responsive and fluid and feels almo
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I'm a noob on this topic, but I think drug discovery is more amenable to this structurally than other problems. Simulating biology is what we were doing with protein folding before Alphafold, and the search space was far too large to f
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I genuinely think Dario is a well intentioned, intelligent dude, but I think him and Anthropic have a huge PR problem and are really out of touch with how they're perceived. Anthropic in particular has developed this almost Orwellian l
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I think it's more reasonable than it sounds on the surface. People's jobs, the bubble, etc are societal level problems and well beyond what Anthropic could even hope to influence on their own. Curing cancer sounds insane, but it&#
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Maybe that'd work, but I think it'd come across too mechanical. If it was going to refuse something it'd need to be congruent with its "personality" I think.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Yep, agree, very succinct way of describing my issue with it.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
True, but fancy autocomplete keeps exceeding my expectations in what it can do, so why not this one!
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Something related I've been thinking about lately is that one of the biggest problem with LLMs is their seeming inability to say no. Not in the hallucination sense, as in "I don't know", but like to have a subjective rea
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Conversely I'm a solo-dev and I ship a lot of slop I don't even look at. Granted my work is just basic CRUD apps, and I focus my efforts on validating important consequences (like does this break accounting invariants or something
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Aren't you just taking the same dismissive attitude towards management and doing it to engineers?
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by mindwok 1mo ago
At least OpenAI seems to want to do that, but the US is now forcing them to go through approvals. Anthropic seems much more hesitant.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
It’s not just speed, it’s also the rich feature set. Trigram search, JSONB, transactions, GIN indexes, full text search - not many databases combine them all into a Swiss Army knife like Postgres does.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
I don’t think this is true. There’s plenty of signals for trust - if pgrust keep pouring time, money, and effort into this and get people actually using it even in non critical workloads, it’ll snowball from there. Imagine 2 years from now
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by mindwok 1mo ago
For me now it’s simply cost and speed. With GPT5.6 and Fable (and respective open models since then) we passed a threshold where intelligence is sufficient. Now I just need speed of iteration and good prices.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
> mathematical impossibility of reversing some integer/mod calculation > There is a loss of information in mods and integer computations making them one-way That's not correct. Trapdoor functions aren't one way because
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Yeah but... Both things are true. LLMs are doing things we would have considered absolute AGI god tier magic 5 years ago. They also still can't count to 100 yet.
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by mindwok 1mo ago
Whether they should or shouldn't is a worthy question that they have no influence over. Taking the initiative and supporting the software they rely on is a good step in the meantime while we argue on HN about whether it's optimal

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