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by paldepind2 1mo ago
My theory (which might be completely wrong) is that models do this because it improves quality for vibe coders. When vibe coding the content of user prompts is ground truth and the only way any human thought affect the code base. So if the
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by paldepind2 1mo ago
Lots of praise for Pi in this thread, so I'll offer up a diverging opinion. Given all the hype, I was a bit underwhelmed by Pi. It definitely has some good ideas around customization, but it annoyed me in many little ways. For a progra
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by paldepind2 1mo ago
You can do that in Copilot in VSCode. There’s a fork icon before every message that creates a new session from that point. The relationships are not maintained in a tree though (not sure if Pi does that).
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Down with the Hierarchy: The "H" in HNSW Stands for "Hubs"(arxiv.org)
2 points by paldepind2 2mo ago|0 comments
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by paldepind2 2mo ago
Ah, ok. Visibility into subagents makes perfect sense. From the "reddit-style" description I was imagining something where the user was conversing non-linearly with the agent at different points in some big tree.
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by paldepind2 2mo ago
Can you go more in depth on why LLM conversations should branch reddit-style? That doesn't seem immediately clear to me, and I'd be afraid that the different branches would step on each others toes? (also I'm assuming what yo
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by paldepind2 4mo ago
What do you use for hosting the PWAs?
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by paldepind2 4mo ago
Jevons paradox starts with some resource being used more efficiently. A classic example could be coal. The first steam engines used a ton of coal, but over time more efficient steam engines where created that used way less coal. One might t
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by paldepind2 4mo ago
From the article: > Jevons Paradox: when something gets cheaper, you tend to use more of it, not less. That's a butchering of Jevons paradox. What's stated is not a paradox, but a very natural effect. Obviously usage of somethi
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by paldepind2 6mo ago
Sorry if this is a basic question, but what's you workflow for feeding the papers into the LLM and getting the implementation done? The coding agents that I've used are not able to read PDFs, so I've been wondering how to do
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by paldepind2 6mo ago
I completely agree with the points in this article and have come to the same conclusion after using languages that default to unary curried functions. > I'd also love to hear if you know any (dis)advantages of curried functions othe
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by paldepind2 1y ago
> Local-first was the first kind of app. Way up into the 2000s, you'd use your local excel/word/etc, and the sync mechanism was calling your file annual_accounts_final_v3_amend_v5_final(3).xls To be precise, these apps whe
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Show HN: Universal single-letter project commands to speed up your CLI workflow(github.com)
2 points by paldepind2 1y ago|0 comments
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by paldepind2 1y ago
I never understood why people are so keen to do that in TypeScript. With that definition a `UserID` can still be silently "coerced" to a `string` everywhere. So you only get halfway there to an encapsulated type. I think it's
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by paldepind2 1y ago
Yes, absolutely. I did programming competitions back in high-school (around 10 years ago) and common folklore was that back in the days knowing dynamic programming could win you a medal, but today it was just basic expected knowledge.
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by paldepind2 1y ago
> I guess Google’s years of experience led to the conclusion that, for software development to scale, a simple type system, GC, and wicked fast compilation speed are more important than raw runtime throughput and semantic correctness. I&
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by paldepind2 1y ago
> A quick Google search with "flutter setstate is not refreshing" reveals a struggle that you will face quite often when running Flutter. It sounds like an easy fix, but the nature of Flutter using a bunch of nested Widgets cre
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by paldepind2 1y ago
How often do you break your phone that you've save sooo much? Mine is at least 2 years older (I got it 2 years before the Fairphone 4 was released) and I've spend 0$ dollars repairing it.
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by paldepind2 1y ago
RAID is not backup, but in some circumstances it's better than a backup. If you don't have RAID and your disk dies you need to replace it ASAP and you've lost all changes since your last backup. If you have RAID you just repl
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by paldepind2 1y ago
I was a bit confused by the remark that comptime is referentially transparent. I'm familiar with the term as it's used in functional programming to mean that an expression can be replaced by its value (stemming from it having no s
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by paldepind2 1y ago
This is honestly really cool! I've heard praises about Zig's comptime without really understanding what makes it tick. It initially sounds like Rust's constant evaluation which is not particularly capable. The ability to have
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by paldepind2 1y ago
> I'm not very familiar with these relations, but shouldn't function returns be covariant? `String => Cat` is a subtype of `String => Animal`? You're right :) I mixed up covariance and contravariance for function par
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by paldepind2 1y ago
> Wait, if I recall correctly, covariance has long been established as a mistake. Perhaps you're just missing some words here, but, just for clarity: it doesn't make any sense to say that covariance is a mistake. Covariance app
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by paldepind2 2y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but neither vertical tabs nor tab groups are fully ready and shipped. From a quick search, it seems that you need to make edits in `about:config` to enable tab groups and use nightly to access vertical tabs.
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by paldepind2 2y ago
My understanding is that it will be much harder as ARM is way less standardized than the Intel x86 platform. This is something that Linus Thorvalds has talked about in the past [1]. Think about how huge an effort it is to get Linux to run o
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by paldepind2 2y ago
Absolutely. I did a little bit of iOS development at some point and was genuinely shocked by how bad the documentation was and by how often WWDC videos was the best documentation available. To give a concrete example: At WWDC20 Apple showed
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by paldepind2 2y ago
> Suppose the war ends. Will the Europeans keep boycotting the cheap russian gas? I think they absolutely will, yes. It will cost some money, just like spending more money on defense will, but from what I can see, no one in the European
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by paldepind2 2y ago
Thanks for expanding! I think your original comment would have made more sense with some of these arguments included. Point 1 is especially prudent. It really would have been trivial to see if the bed is actually running an SSH server on so
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by paldepind2 2y ago
I don't really understand the take here. The post makes it very clear what is concrete evidence, what is speculation based on that, and the reasoning is much better than what you give it credit for. For instance, what would you suggest
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by paldepind2 2y ago
I think the key feature is _cooling_ the bed, with warming secondary to that. That arguably sounds like a great nicety to have, notwithstanding all the downsides mentions in the post.

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