nilirl

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by nilirl 22d ago
Sure and that's a new technique for indexing and querying. Where's the new design tension? Indexes always had to be monitored for freshness and queries have always needed cleaning or parsing.
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by nilirl 22d ago
Maybe I'm old but where exactly are the "dragons"? How is RAG any different from the search systems we've been building before LLMs? Is it the sudden need for everyone to design a search API and engine that's driven
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by nilirl 2mo ago
My point was your needs and problems are not everyone's needs and problems. I don't want to think of memory management in most projects, I want to focus on business logic, so I use Node.js instead of Rust, even if the latter gives
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by nilirl 2mo ago
> The idea of reactivity came from or was popularized by Angular.js No, spreadsheets popularized reactivity. And the general point is incredibly weak. Don't use frameworks and make your own? Sure, have your fun. But then try teachin
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by nilirl 2mo ago
This website is straining my brain. Ads that bounce around? Sheesh.
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by nilirl 2mo ago
Even with AI I think your animations were high effort. Great job!
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by nilirl 2mo ago
> I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred The whole post felt like a personal criticism of Jarred.
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by nilirl 2mo ago
Am I the only one not getting the hate for the website? The site looks fine to me. What about it is bad?
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by nilirl 2mo ago
> Truly robust engineering isn’t about what works for most; it’s about gracefully handling the edge cases. How do you justify this when you factor in cost and time?
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by nilirl 2mo ago
Not prevent, just not provide very responsive feedback, right? I don't know, I understand the principle, but I don't see how you can determine the value of a principle outside of a specific context. Even for accessibility, we can&
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by nilirl 2mo ago
I understand the design principle but I would argue it's a bad implementation principle. Engineering attention is finite. Why would you spend time thinking about 8 clicks when most people will only need ~3? Not all user-action possibil
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by nilirl 3mo ago
I don't want to hate without cause, so I read the prize winning entry 'The June'. So, now, I can hate with cause: it reads like someone who cares about what their MFA friends think. Meaning, it puts most of its emphasis on de
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Honest question: Does the founder end up making money this way? Can you really get rich building a failed business?
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by nilirl 3mo ago
The strongest signal you can give people now is offering personal interaction. It's expensive to go meet someone or ask someone if you can call them. I wrote about this from the perspective of someone with no connections [0] but I thin
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by nilirl 3mo ago
I wasn't trying to argue against democracy. I was asking about how we make it feel better.
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by nilirl 3mo ago
1. Incredible! Can I make an unsolicited ask? If you had industry specific templates for standardized PDFs it would be easier for me to send Parsewise to the insurance companies I'd worked for. Something similar to https://w
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by nilirl 3mo ago
I enjoyed your comment. Over the long term, democracies have mostly avoided self-implosion, so this political see-saw does seem to work. The question is: is there anything we can do to make it feel better to live in?
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Your argument hinges on deciding what "works" means. You're saying it "works" for some people but maybe not in a way or scale that was originally intended for it to "work". But isn't that how all lear
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by nilirl 3mo ago
That's fine if they're benefiting from the status quo, that decision making should be left to those in-context. The political experiments should be chosen and driven by small units in order to be safely contained. Planning shoul
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Yes, but they're not safe experiments. And they're not experiments in the sense that we don't focus on shaping the reusable knowledge they produce. It's not enough to try things, we also need a social system in place to
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by nilirl 3mo ago
I've been thinking about this too: why aren't we able to run safe political experiments? We're missing guardrails to allow safe experimentation and we're missing institutions to provide affordances. I think the difficult
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Does this also extract semantic relationships and data dependencies between fields? In the past I'd built an internal tool that transforms insurance PDFs to structured data. I wanted to extract explicit data dependencies between fields
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Ok, I love it. Can you simplify how form dynamism works? I skimmed the docs and saw 'states', but it didn't immediately click how it works. Do we build a tree of rules outside of the components? Are states attached to each co
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by nilirl 3mo ago
For more advanced students, those with preconceived ideas, teachers use a refutational style of teaching. It's not the same as argumentation because the goal is to find an appropriate bridge from one model (the preconceived, naive mode
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Meaning?
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by nilirl 3mo ago
The author's argument is hilariously wrong because we've been doing something for thousands of years: teaching. And it works, to some degree. And how do teachers teach? They don't start by trying to argue or by trying to prov
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Scientists and consultants both build models. The scientists do, Step 1: Build Model Step 2: Think of implications Step 3: Check if observations make sense based on implications Step 4: If wrong, refine model or go back to Step 1. If right,
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Why does it feel bad to look at? I understand design can have many goals, but surely it should atleast feel like ... something good? I've never once used a Google interface and felt anything good.
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by nilirl 3mo ago
> denied her access to the legal system in all her dealings with Meta How ... how is that legal? Why would that ever be made legal? Apparently businesses can use contracts to opt out of regular public courts and agree on using a neutral
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by nilirl 3mo ago
Where's your argument, Braveheart? Why play coy? If people don't like this choice, where's your defense for it? The demo is not egregious by itself, it's the choice of the demo for this circumstance. Why boy-hits-boy-wit

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