pnathan

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by pnathan 1mo ago
> Suppose you have taste. Suppose you paid the full price and you can feel the sag in the sentence and the wrongness in the function. > > Congratulations! You now ship at exactly the same speed as the person who cannot. Yes, previo
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by pnathan 1mo ago
Reflecting on the matter with a colleague - Some people just want to _cook the steak_. They don't want to attend or understand to cuts, thermometers, and searing.
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by pnathan 3mo ago
(1) personally very annoying. I have been using fable to try to collect cutting edge math in one area and work on a hopefully new result with lean verification. (2) I am really tired of the AI community trying to threaten everyone with grey
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by pnathan 5mo ago
Shoot at high f numbers - as high as the lens will take without inducing diffraction.
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by pnathan 5mo ago
I have found TTArtisans 50mm f0.95 to be quite nice.
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by pnathan 5mo ago
This is good. I recently had to replace a generally working phone because the battery was dying and there was no cost effective & reliable means of replacing. A proper gasket and screws needs to be the standard solution here.
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by pnathan 6mo ago
Data is missing on this chart. It's my experience that opus 4, and then, particularly, 4.5, in Claude code, are head and shoulders above the competition. I wrote an agentic coder years ago and it yielded trash. (Tried to make it do the
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by pnathan 7mo ago
I am experimenting at a very early stage with using Verus in Rust to generate proveably correct Rust. I let the AI bang on the proof and trust the proof assistant to confirm it. There is another route with Lean where Rust generates the Lean
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by pnathan 7mo ago
I'd have to see more to have a final thought. As presented, Gollum is badly off, I reckon - missing the books textual description. The flowers are out of line. The dragon scene is wonderful and captures the situation. The dwarves are a
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by pnathan 7mo ago
Great article. I do have a deep fondness for SF billboards being building-stuff oriented. I don't care for consumerism. The vapidity of the products created is remarkable, however.
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by pnathan 8mo ago
I'm looking forward to when I can run a tolerably useful model locally. Next time I buy a desktop one of its core purposes will be to run models for 24/7 work.
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by pnathan 8mo ago
a lot of AI assisted development goes into project management and system design. I have been tolerably successful. However, I have almost 30 years of coding experience, and have the judgement on how big a component should be - when I push t
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by pnathan 8mo ago
Claude code's code review is _sufficient_ imo. still need HITL, but the human is shifted right and can do other things rather than grinding through fiddly details.
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by pnathan 8mo ago
I don't remember all the places I got software... :)
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by pnathan 8mo ago
> 30 years ago, it was safe to go to vendor XY page and download his latest version and it was more or less waterproof. You _are_ joking, right? I distinctly remember all sorts of dubious freewarez sites with slightly modified installers
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by pnathan 8mo ago
I am working on a little project in my offhours, and asked a non-hacker (but competent programmer) friend to take a run at exploiting it. Great success: my project was successfully exploited. The industrialization of exploit generation is
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by pnathan 8mo ago
I am _much_ more interested in i. building cool software for other things and ii. understanding underlying underlying models than building "better claude code".
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by pnathan 8mo ago
Did the operators _want_ to poke the well connected & well funded bear with a historical anger problem?
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by pnathan 9mo ago
This is it. Otherwise I'd know more about $that_technology than I would otherwise.
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by pnathan 9mo ago
I - senior - can patch an application in an unknown language and framework with the AI. I know enough to tell it to stop the wildly stupid ideas. But I don't learn. That's not what I'm trying to do- I'm trying to fix the
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by pnathan 9mo ago
Commercial law nuts and bolts is very algorithmic often. Criminal law is often fundamentally subjective, incorporating questions of intent and remorse.
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by pnathan 10mo ago
As a layoff justification and a hurryup tool, it is pretty loathesome. People use their jobs for their housing, food, etc.
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by pnathan 10mo ago
AI the hype beast product and the club for workers is a plague that I frankly hate. AI the manual algorithm to generate code and analyze images is quite an interesting underlying tech.
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by pnathan 10mo ago
The question of leadership is much larger, more general, and more timeless than the last 15 years. I invite those curious about it to look into the American Army. > Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing purpose, di
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by pnathan 10mo ago
Jules is nifty. Weirdly heavy on the browser CPU.
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by pnathan 10mo ago
There was an attitude at a University about 20 years ago when I was an undergrad, around, hmm, stochastic learning algorithms. And the attitude was, "we don't care why or how it works - we want to make the outcome happen". I
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by pnathan 10mo ago
The number of junior roles I have seen my companies open in the past 8 years - and I've been at a few different shops - is less than he fingers I have. And this is _before_ the AI-copolypse. Management has generally become persuaded th
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by pnathan 11mo ago
Yeah - I know in US law some terms are simply unenforceable and void. Much of the FOSS movement is designed around US contract law. There are issues with some US licenses being enforceable under other legal regimes - I was chatting a decade
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by pnathan 11mo ago
I would be curious if that is how Japanese courts would view it. They may not consider that a valid way. Or they might. But different jurisdictions vary.
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by pnathan 11mo ago
Nikon is building in authenticity tooling at the camera & sensor level with its latest cameras. Z6iii I believe was the first.

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