nmilo

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by nmilo 3mo ago
> Inspect proteins, alignments, genomic tracks, chemical structures, and PDFs in their native form, with no extra installation required. I like how this implies parsing PDFs is as hard as like protein folding
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by nmilo 3mo ago
Surprised no one's built a BIOS MCP yet
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by nmilo 4mo ago
Is that better? I'd much rather have someone trying to build a good product to sell to willing buyers at a fair price than some zealot who thinks he's going to usher in the second coming and end the world or something.
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by nmilo 5mo ago
I'm sorry because I love the scratch project but this has to be said: they found XSS in SVGs in a surface with attacker-controlled access to Node and their fix was sanitizing it using regex ??? And this was discovered by a user on scr
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by nmilo 5mo ago
Valuations are based on future expected earnings, not revenue. It cost Ford a lot of money to make that $60k car. The margins for AI companies are unknown but the market is pricing that they’ll be higher at one point. Not that they’ll attra
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by nmilo 5mo ago
On the other hand, I can ask codex “what would an implementation of X look like” and it talks to me about it versus Claude just going out and writing it without asking. Makes me like codex way more. There’s an inherent war of incentives bet
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by nmilo 6mo ago
Compilers are very good these days. If it has no side effects it will likely be compiled out.
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by nmilo 6mo ago
If your assert compiles down to `if (condition) {}` in production then the compiler will optimize away the condition while keeping any side effects.
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by nmilo 6mo ago
Brilliant
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by nmilo 6mo ago
I will never stop hating on the orphan rule, a perfect summary of what’s behind a lot of rust decisions. Purism and perfectionism at the cost of making a useful language, no better way to torpedo your ecosystem and make adding dependencies
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by nmilo 6mo ago
Claude is secretly conditioning everyone to use —-dangerously-skip-permissions so it can flip a switch one day and start a botnet
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by nmilo 6mo ago
Rust is the wrong language for effects ironically because of its strict typing. They would probably decide that all effects have to be specified on every function or that any change in capabilities is a breaking change. Which is safest, b
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by nmilo 7mo ago
But that doesn't translate to paying Gemini customers
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by nmilo 7mo ago
This is really good! I like how it reads like a blog post, it feels like I'm learning a skill on how to write good skills. Maybe that's another heuristic, a skill should read like an interesting blog post, highlighting non-obvio
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by nmilo 7mo ago
Do you think Elon is working on building some kind of MechaEpstein?
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by nmilo 7mo ago
Yeah it definitely sounds like OAI is pushing for a better voice model since they’re the only major AI lab with a notable one.
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by nmilo 7mo ago
I don’t really get the bus analogy. It seems like it massively increases latency but as soon as you’re “on the bus” throughput is normal? When in reality (if I understand correctly) opus-fast is just giving you a bigger portion of the batch
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by nmilo 7mo ago
I find it funny that backend devs will do all this infrastructure work to support billions of real time messages and then frontend devs stomp all over it by making the app take 500MB of RAM and hundreds of ms to take basic actions.
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by nmilo 7mo ago
There’s one specific thing driving me insane: it corrects “we’re” to “were” and “we’ll” to “well” EVERY TIME. It even did it while writing this comment. If I go into the symbols menu and find an apostrophe and type it in IT MEANS I MEANT TO
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by nmilo 7mo ago
Ah, I meant to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003058 . Never questioned the use of Rust, only the need for the entire windowing stack to be in Rust (that blog post shows a case where it bit them)
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by nmilo 7mo ago
I find it odd the rust community feels the need to reimplement tried and tested APIs in "pure safe Rust". Like no other language has better C integration, and we have had cross-platform windowing libraries since like the 90's
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by nmilo 7mo ago
Hey! That sounds an awful lot like code being reviewed by humans
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by nmilo 7mo ago
What if you just read the entire GCC source code in school 15 years ago? Is that not clean room?
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by nmilo 9mo ago
You’re not insane. This is definitely AI.
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by nmilo 9mo ago
This doesn’t really make sense. Obviously if you combine GQL with BFF/REST you’re gonna have annoying double-work —- you’re solving the same problem twice. GQL lets you structure your backend into semantic objects then have the fronten
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by nmilo 9mo ago
I see why now npm's is-odd has millions of downloads
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by nmilo 9mo ago
Implicit context [1] was one of the coolest features of a programming language I’ve ever seen that no one has ever implemented. And I’m really not sure why. Not just Go but most languages have this context passing problem with varying degre
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by nmilo 9mo ago
+1. I love icons, just be consistent. That MacOS example is egregious
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by nmilo 10mo ago
You're confusing yourself with irrelevant analogies. You can say, "you may come into my house only if you give me your unlocked phone," and an immigration official can't assault you because there are certain protections
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by nmilo 10mo ago
This is how JS works

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