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by nfg 23d ago
Lunar libration is easily apparent and actively exploited by amateur astronomers to glimpse more than 50% of the surface.
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by nfg 2mo ago
« it's telling that you perceive any criticism of AI code reviewer burnout as "sticking your fingers in your ears" » Go back and re-read the quote from your comment - which I responded to: “ You will not convince the person d
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by nfg 2mo ago
I don’t buy it - if you’re an engineering leader and this is happening it’s your responsibility to get out there and fix the problem through education, process improvements, improved automated quality checks, better planning. Sticking your
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by nfg 4mo ago
Ever work on a AAA game?
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by nfg 5mo ago
From left to right: Saturn, Mars and Mercury.
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by nfg 6mo ago
I’d agree, though maybe there’s a more charitable reading of the OP - “uninformed” is one of those accusations that it’s rarely very polite or fair to level against an individual but sometimes is reasonable against a group based on observa
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by nfg 6mo ago
And this has been comparing like for like with CC - say Opus 4.6 on the same reasoning effort? Hasn’t been my experience particularly but fair enough. I do tend to use them in different situations (CC outside of work).
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by nfg 6mo ago
Have you used the gh copilot cli? What would stand out most to you as gaps right now?
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by nfg 6mo ago
Fame doesn’t enter it - the point is Karpathy has about as strong a claim as anyone to having “actually used LLMs for non trivial tasks”.
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by nfg 6mo ago
Do you realise who you’re replying to?
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by nfg 6mo ago
If you could share I’d be really interested in hearing a concrete example of the two behaving differently. I work in Microsoft (not on copilot - though I’m an heavy user, and use Claude code in a personal capacity) and would be quite happy
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by nfg 6mo ago
As a matter of interest are you using the copilot cli?
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by nfg 6mo ago
Nearly 6 months in South America - then we ran out of money and headed home!
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by nfg 6mo ago
Memories! Back in 2012 after 8 months across Asia (through Turkey, Iran, India, Nepal, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Hong King) we took a flight to Buenos Aires (well, via SF for a weekend) then went entirely overland: - Buen
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by nfg 7mo ago
> In other words, that usage you like is costing them tons of money Evidence? I’m sure someone will argue, but I think it’s generally accepted that inference can be done profitably at this point. The cost for equivalent capability is als
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by nfg 7mo ago
If this is like the flow it uses for a codex / ChatGPT subscription it doesn’t even register a handler - the redirect opens as a 404 in your browser and there are instructions in copying the token from the query string!
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by nfg 7mo ago
How much are you taking?
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by nfg 7mo ago
> I do wonder if there is going to be much of a difference between using Claude Code vs. Copilot CLI when using the same models. I’m also at MS, not (yet?) using Claude Code at work and pondering precisely the same question.
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by nfg 7mo ago
Interesting - these head to head comparisons you’re doing with the same model - what harnesses are you comparing, say Claude code / codex versus copilot cli? > I'm not sure if its understood how bad it really is within the org.
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by nfg 7mo ago
Sure I love Claude Code too - I use it plenty outside of work. But funnily enough I’ve been asking myself about whether to get my org on board with internal Claude Code trials and was struggling to truly articulate what we were losing versu
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by nfg 7mo ago
Really? I’d be interested to hear more. Disclaimer: I work in Microsoft (albeit in a quite disconnected part of it, nothing to do with GitHub or Copilot).
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by nfg 7mo ago
I’d suggest doing some research on software quality. Two years back I was all for buying one (I was considering an EX40), but I got myself into some Facebook groups for owners and was shocked at the dreadful reports of quality of the softwa
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by nfg 8mo ago
Agreed that it can work well, but it can also irritating - I find myself using private conversations to attempt to isolate them, a straightforward per-chat toggle for memory use would be nice.
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by nfg 10mo ago
It’s likely very out of date (Iran has a young, culturally dynamic population) but I really enjoyed https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mantle-Prophet-Religion-Politics-Ir... - I read it before visiting Iran as a tourist 15 years ago.
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by nfg 10mo ago
I’m not really suggesting it’s the right approach for CAD but prompting UI changes using sketches or mockup images works great.
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Exterior Ballistics in an O'Neill Cylinder(tmoabom.blog)
3 points by nfg 1y ago|1 comments
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by nfg 1y ago
None that I know of, Source Depot is derived from Perforce.
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by nfg 1y ago
I recommend people read this to see why this comment is wrong: When the Cloke Broke by John Ganz https://a.co/d/hL4vo7d
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by nfg 1y ago
> I believe that Microsoft does not care about Gaming those days. I’d be interested in hearing you expand on that! Disclaimer: I work there :-)
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Unexplained starlight pulses found in optical SETI searches(sciencedirect.com)
6 points by nfg 1y ago|0 comments

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