packetlost

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by packetlost 6d ago
Algorithmic feeds make large "pile of all posts everywhere" social networks like Twitter and BlueSky viable IMO. The mentioned "For You" feed for BlueSky appears to be a variation of LinkLonk's algorithm (by the sam
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by packetlost 6d ago
Bluesky has gotten considerably more tolerable by... adding an algorithmic feed ("For You"). It's developed by just some guy with the server running in his living room or something. I know people in this thread are down on al
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by packetlost 6d ago
I was very happy to discover someone is building a phpBB-clone in ATProto (the thing that powers BlueSky): https://atmobb.app/ There's some hope that a small facet of forum culture can come back...
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by packetlost 7d ago
> They’re nondeterministic at a fine level, but can be “deterministic” at a more general level: e.g. you might know that one model will always return properly formatted json when asked. That might not be true of the replacement, even if
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by packetlost 9d ago
It could be, but if it's a few lines of config in Anubis it would be easier and more likely to actually be done.
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by packetlost 9d ago
> Are you sure we shouldn't rather spend time getting better at, say, playing the piano? Honesty, even if I could somehow make a decent living by doing that (you really can't), no I wouldn't.
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by packetlost 10d ago
I wonder if you could convince the Anubis author to implement x402 payments to bypass the PoW
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by packetlost 13d ago
You have it backwards, an intrusive linked list is a linked list that is embedded in another data structure. The classic example is a linked list whose elements live on the stack. The article is wrong too, or at least using the term over-sp
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by packetlost 14d ago
> which is the butt of every government inefficiency complaint I always find DMV (or whatever your state's equivalent) inefficiency arguments to be hilarious. They're run extremely efficiently for the government . They suck us
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by packetlost 18d ago
I'm personally pretty excited about Tangled (and ATProto in general), but I do have to caution that I've had some performance issues and some technical ones with hosting my own 'knot' and 'spindle' services
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by packetlost 18d ago
But it's an """ethical""" argument against it.
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by packetlost 21d ago
I'm happily in both depending on what it is. Even Sol / Fable cannot do some truly novel stuff and if you rely on it too heavily you get detached from the underlying systems to the point that it's both uncomfortable and detri
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by packetlost 21d ago
I think you're misreading it (I did the first time as well). GP is saying "graph thinking" was not as common in 1996 as it is today, so is saying the opposite of it being a declining skill.
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by packetlost 21d ago
As someone working in this space: unless they're a very big player with resources to create custom hardware, afaik there's no way to actually prevent the GPU host from seeing the request content. There's no "secure encla
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by packetlost 21d ago
For those who didn't read, this is the identity of the mysterious "Ox Alpha" model
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by packetlost 29d ago
He sells outrage to ill informed people who don't know any better. There's real issues, but it's far more nuanced than Zitron seems willing to bring to his audience.
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by packetlost 29d ago
Datalog is awesome but I just don't think it's going to get mainstream adoption at this point.
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by packetlost 1mo ago
Racket's lineage in Scheme is probably the reason it prefers lists over pretty much every other datastructure
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by packetlost 1mo ago
I've also had a ton of luck getting agents to make focused, (mostly) well crafted commits using my home-grown git-based task manager: https://github.com/chiefnoah/tsk It's very easy to be like: /tsk <
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by packetlost 1mo ago
It seems like a huge mixed bag. I have coworkers that has been able to "vibe" entire systems that somehow manage to work, but there's a lot of churn, weird bugs, and a huge reliance on <agent tools> to make any progress
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by packetlost 1mo ago
Avery is one of the few people I have enough respect for to look up to.
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by packetlost 1mo ago
Oracle banned AI code for copyright reasons, you cannot interpret that as a assessment of the practical output of the models.
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by packetlost 1mo ago
As someone who has mostly written Rust and Python over the last 10 years... yeah. Go is actually a really solid choice for Agents IME
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by packetlost 1mo ago
CL and Janet both come to mind as supporting image-based deployment.
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by packetlost 1mo ago
I've had a good time using my Google Home devices exclusively as kitchen timers and music playing devices, though they semi frequently get song requests wrong.
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by packetlost 1mo ago
There are Lisps with similar semantics. It faded (further) out of popularity for a number of reasons, but it still has its niche.
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by packetlost 1mo ago
> The one thing that falls over is that the webhooks are actually self modifying code since you have an 'on commit' webhook that bootstraps the actions logic from the workflow.yaml file(s) (which are not really config files, th
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by packetlost 1mo ago
The only statement I'm making about their system is that it appears to be poorly designed, as evident by their poor uptime. The rest is just visible details about what data is involved in performing the task at hand, agnostic to the im
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by packetlost 1mo ago
That "scheduling" is just a git hook and a message queue, maybe with some database updates in between with very clear boundaries that make sharding easy to reason about, assuming they have a sane architecture (they evidently don
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by packetlost 1mo ago
That kind of thing is extremely rare in the US sadly.

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