muglug

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by muglug 7d ago
> He is surely very evidently mentally ill. I don’t think that’s accurate or helpful. I think he found himself in a situation that he could not cope with in a rational manner. I suspect that many people, myself included, would struggle i
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by muglug 8d ago
> 95–100% agreement for actionscript Great news for a language whose last stable release was 20 years ago
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by muglug 9d ago
You might want to use https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/upshot/extremely-de... as a reference. Some of the polygons were a little off
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by muglug 9d ago
It specifically says he worked for the US gov during that period, so your comment needs an edit
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by muglug 10d ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550174
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by muglug 12d ago
Your proof that it’s fake is just that the website was registered a couple of days ago?
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by muglug 14d ago
> It's Bluesky, they hate AI That's not true. The Bluesky team are themselves pretty pro-AI and open about how LLMs are used to build Bluesky and are necessary for moderation. Lots of SWEs on Bluesky (e.g. me) use LLMs a lot an
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by muglug 21d ago
I think it's important to point out how much easier it is to create a new typeface based on an existing one and using the metrics of another one, than to create one from scratch. For example, I've built metrics-compatible versions
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by muglug 26d ago
Claude can add comments in code that are better just living as a comment on the PR. You'll ask it to do something and it'll comment the code with an answer to what you asked it, rather than just explanatory comments to whoever com
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by muglug 27d ago
If you’re the size of GitHub and you’ve been running your infra for years with very little variation in traffic patterns you have a strong incentive to optimise costs for that existing behaviour.
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by muglug 1mo ago
Eh 2020-2022 saw a nationwide increase in crime.
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by muglug 1mo ago
Not a Republican by any stretch of any imagination, but here’s my attempt at a steelman argument: I imagine these companies were already spending some amount on crawlers that would poll every N milliseconds to get an edge on some market-mov
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by muglug 1mo ago
You’re not “giving up” on accessibility. You’re just not getting it “for free” — though it was never free to begin with. When you’re dealing with things like spreadsheet viewers, disengaging from the DOM for sighted users can actually make
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by muglug 1mo ago
Different posts on HN can attract different audiences.
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by muglug 1mo ago
> MirrorCode only covers programs with plain-text output. MirrorCode does not test AI abilities in software that is inherently visual It’s an interesting eval but this is a distinct limitation — most applications that consumers use direc
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by muglug 2mo ago
Counterpoint: stretching fonts is commonly regarded as a typographic sin, and a condensed form of Georgia exists: https://carterandcone.com/font/georgia/
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by muglug 2mo ago
Fable was not convinced: https://claude.ai/share/1597e697-0638-488a-971d-e17872943137
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by muglug 2mo ago
Get help.
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by muglug 2mo ago
A lot of people who know mathematics say Nielsen’s paper is riddled with errors. I regret sharing it here. > Undergrad who hasn’t passed his first semester yet Not sure what you’re talking about. According to his wiki bio he’s done two
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by muglug 2mo ago
Thanks — sorry for spreading nonsense.
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OpenAI's claimed disproof of Connes' Rigidity Conjecture is invalid [pdf](philarchive.org)
33 points by muglug 2mo ago|42 comments
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by muglug 2mo ago
> We have seen many projects that adopted AI under corporate pressure circle the drain. Which? > Often the corporations themselves backpedaled after some months. Which
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by muglug 2mo ago
Yes. But you’ll spend more in tokens than you’ll get back from prize money.
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by muglug 2mo ago
Yeah you’ll never catch me drinking a Guinness while standing on my head at a company event. Mostly due to a total lack of coordination.
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by muglug 2mo ago
A major rewrite in another language is also unusual for this project. It took TypeScript a year to go from announcing tsgo to releasing TypeScript 7.0. That work was done in parallel; here the work is being done serially — and it’s likely t
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by muglug 2mo ago
Maybe they will! Are you expecting them to live-tweet their work or something?
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by muglug 2mo ago
This post doesn’t make sense. It was rewritten in Rust. The rewrite itself is complete (no more Zig). Various people have claimed that Bun in Zig had a lot of tech debt. If they’re to be believed, it seems natural to assume the rewrite do
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by muglug 2mo ago
Lovely to hear the choir rehearsing a psalm sung in the longstanding Anglican choral tradition (Psalm 91 to a tune by H. Walford Davies). Having spent a lot of time in those sorts of churches, feels weird to walk right up to the altar.
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by muglug 2mo ago
Totally get that for code! But there are orgs where non-code things are compartmentalised — maybe for leak reasons — that still want to employees to make use of agents.
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by muglug 2mo ago
[I work for Slack, opinions very much my own] Having agents see everything you and your colleagues see is cool. The challenge comes when you want to make certain things private to certain people. In that world you don’t want multiplayer age

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