nrds

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by nrds 3mo ago
Literally every sentence dang has ever written on this site, that I've seen, is snarky. > Yes, in the sense that if there's nothing interesting to say about a quote then there's no reason to copy it into the thread. This o
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by nrds 3mo ago
> snark and indignation These are preference-based but you're pretending they're objective. I find _your_ comments to be full of snark and indignation more than any you respond to, but of course you won't agree. (But becau
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by nrds 3mo ago
The problem with this belief is that it implies that all of bigtech is massively overpaying for top talent who would happily stay on for pennies. While bigtech overpaying talent is more plausible than any other bigcorp doing so, it's
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by nrds 3mo ago
It is no coincidence that countries which need it least can unban it. Deindustrialization activists will focus their efforts on countries where the ban matters.
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by nrds 3mo ago
Exactly; this is not the product of serious legal work.
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by nrds 3mo ago
Wait until you realize that MCPs are just the APIs that we've failed to write before, and skills are just the documentation and simple CLIs we've failed to write before
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by nrds 3mo ago
Indeed, given 60 Minutes' historically fraught relationship to the whole concept of "truth", it's hard to credit the whole story.
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by nrds 4mo ago
Failure to read the room might explain why the tourists persist in the questioning beyond politeness, but not why they embarked on the quest to interrogate the worker to begin with. My family does this and I can barely go anywhere with them
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by nrds 4mo ago
We've been daily-driving this model for a few weeks and let me tell you, everything it does is a lot. Fast as fuck and it's actually not bad intelligence-wise for a fast model. It basically tries to make up for any intelligence de
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by nrds 4mo ago
Wait until you realize that the difference between path and query string is entirely arbitrary and decided by the server. Query strings should never have existed. They are an implementation detail of CGI webservers that leaked all over ever
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by nrds 5mo ago
You're drawing an equivalence between the wrong pair of things. I'm not saying that term=program; I'm saying that the type checker, qua `term -> context -> decision`, bound to a particular term, is a program `context -&
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by nrds 5mo ago
So you're telling me that cells use an attention system for DNA?
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by nrds 5mo ago
You have done no more to show an actual distinction in the approach than TFA and its linked blog post... It sounds like a naming thing to me. On one side we name the term/program as a term and see it as something checked by the kernel,
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by nrds 5mo ago
To be fair, lean wastes and leaks memory like a sieve, but this is almost all in the frontend. It has nothing to do with the kernel or the theorem proving approach chosen.
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by nrds 5mo ago
Well... effect programming using vtables. I think this is an emerging paradigm, but it is very early yet so it's difficult to define precisely. My primary inspiration for the concept is theorem proving languages like Lean in which type
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by nrds 5mo ago
No, I'm saying it is checked and then discarded. (Or at least, discarded by the kernel. Presumably it ends up somewhere in the frontend's tactic cache.) That matches perfectly the metaphor, "rubs out earlier parts of proofs t
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by nrds 5mo ago
The author appears to have a serious misconception about Lean, which is surprising since he seems to be quite knowledgeable in the area. Specifically, the author seems to be under the impression that Lean retains proof objects and the final
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by nrds 5mo ago
Deceitful omission from TFA: the warning lights which the firefighter admits seeing override any tower authorization. Omitting this leaves a reader with several incorrect impressions: INCORRECT: The truck was cleared to cross the runway. CO
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by nrds 5mo ago
Zig is just doing vtable-based effect programming. This is the way to go for far more than async, but it also needs aggressive compiler optimization to avoid actual runtime dispatch.
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by nrds 5mo ago
> a version of the Internet that is just intermittently and somewhat mysteriously broken. That's actually just how the Internet is. Nothing to do with the great firewall.
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by nrds 5mo ago
Yes, absolutely.
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by nrds 5mo ago
You have to throw the context away at that point. I've experienced the same thing and I found that even when I apparently talk Claude into the better version it will silently include as many aspects of the quick fix as it thinks it can
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by nrds 5mo ago
I've been using pi.dev since December. The only significant change to the harness in that time which affects my usage is the availability of parallel tool calls. Yet Claude models have become unusable in the past month for many of the
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by nrds 6mo ago
The far more important question is whether it's bad for the stock price of a few pharma companies.
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by nrds 6mo ago
I mean imputed prestige within the organization. Being an L5 is nothing; it's the promote-or-fire cutoff at Google AFAIK. But being a Principal is slightly more than nothing; it's two levels above the promote-or-fire cutoff. I mea
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by nrds 6mo ago
I've worked at both Microsoft and Google in the past 6 years and the notion that msft "Principal" is equivalent to goog L5 is crazy.
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by nrds 6mo ago
> We won't do something like this again. This has just as much value as when an LLM claims it won't make a certain mistake again, and for exactly the same reason.
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by nrds 6mo ago
I think about this at least once a week. I first became aware of the phenomenon of an enlightened anti-UNIX bundle in ZFS; in particular how it unifies lvm, RAID, and the filesystem. While zfs isn't universally loved, it seems that eac
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by nrds 7mo ago
> This works so much better. Pi coding agent does this by default with all outputs but Claude (all versions tested, including opus 4.6) just completely ignores this capability. Even when the tool output explicitly tells the agent that th
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by nrds 7mo ago
Indeed, I wonder whether the vaccine content matters at all in current vaccines. We could probably just inject people with the adjuvants and get the same result.

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