sampullman

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by sampullman 4d ago
I'm sure that's part of it, but I run it side by side in my review bot, and Astra medium effort consistently catches more issues than Sol 5.6, using fewer tokens. For coding it's a little harder to tell, but at least the pros
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by sampullman 4d ago
Write a decent comment, for one. It struggles with some of the firmware stuff I do, though that's more due to a lack of a proper automated feedback loop.
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by sampullman 5d ago
Many of my tests after a certain point were open book, or at least explicitly allowed a cheat sheet. It wasn't going to help you if you didn't know the material, though writing the cheat sheet in the first place is a pretty good f
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by sampullman 5d ago
Hand writing assembly produces more efficient and concise code, at the cost of developer time and required expertise. It was true for a long time, now not so much.
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by sampullman 6d ago
Is this sarcasm? I assume most studios are integrating AI into their workflows, but I still haven't seen a single vibecoded game that looks interesting.
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by sampullman 7d ago
You can get a pretty good 1080p60 video at only 6mbps. Depends on how well the sender is encoding I guess, but it shouldn't be too much more than that.
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by sampullman 7d ago
Rotation data isn't included in the file, or it just doesn't display with the correct orientation? Sometimes Google photos shows the wrong orientation for my pixel photos/videos but it's just a display issue.
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by sampullman 8d ago
Is the core of your argument that the industrial revolution and other such changes should have been aborted due to their downstream negative affects? They also lead to great advancements in quality of life, and the capability of sustaining
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by sampullman 8d ago
It looks at least partially hand edited to me, although it's getting pretty difficult to tell with Astra...
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by sampullman 8d ago
This is difficult to read, maybe just link to a gist?
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by sampullman 8d ago
Can't rule out privilege without knowing a bit more background. Most people work hard, it increases the odds of success but isn't necessary.
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by sampullman 8d ago
Sol and Opus are pretty good with the right prompting and feedback framework. Or, my standards are lower. It's sometimes hard to tell in these discussions whether people are talking about getting production quality results, or stuff th
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by sampullman 9d ago
Right, it's all just text file management. My point is that if I can add a few lines of description with links in my readme/agents/etc instead of manually including skills in the prompt, without any downside, I'd rather
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by sampullman 10d ago
How about linking to a separate docs file from the Readme, same as how you'd split separate topics into different files for humans? The context cost is low and as far as I can tell it's pretty much how Claude's "memory&q
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by sampullman 10d ago
It's not so simple, the rampant corruption under Ngô Đình Diệm, misappropriation of aid, etc. shouldn't just be swept under the rug. Hindsight says remaining capitalist probably would have been better for the average person, but i
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by sampullman 10d ago
I remember some people doing this maybe 15 years ago, I think these types of hipster-ish trends recycle every generation or so. I don't see it as harmful, but it's not for me either. My personal stuff goes down when my DDNS script
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by sampullman 11d ago
This is exactly what I meant, and Japan is not special in this regard. In nearly all cases, with a few exceptions, external influences are molded and integrated into the underlying culture. It's the same story with American influence o
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by sampullman 11d ago
It's the first time I've seen this put forward, I thought the effects of occupation were obvious and undeniable. To me at least there is a clear influence in art/music/cinema, technology, and food. Though over time, it f
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by sampullman 11d ago
Using minority report as an example of a good policing system is a bit unsettling.
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by sampullman 12d ago
That's true, but TBP has been going pretty strong for over 2 decades. It can be hard to totally shut something down, if people want it.
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by sampullman 14d ago
Labor costs are lower, but rising, and already high enough that automation can be appealing. The Chinese government is also pretty good at finding things for people to do, so I doubt that's a factor. Go to any big park in a city and se
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by sampullman 15d ago
You've emphasized this point more than once, but I don't think it's a good counterargument to the GP. It is equally valid to say that they have explicitly (voluntarily, knowlingly) chosen to accept donations for their work. B
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by sampullman 17d ago
I know what "Day 1 CPT" means and am specifically curious about real abuse of the system at Cal. In my opinion, it would have to be obvious and fairly extreme to take action over, because there are issues that dwarf whatever impac
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by sampullman 17d ago
You said "They are simply not encouraged to circumvent their program of study and go to work under the guise of "CPT."" This implies that you are familiar with the system and aware of how it's abused, so presumably
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by sampullman 23d ago
In an abstract sense, yes. Compilers let programmers work at a higher level of abstraction. LLMs bring it to an even higher level, though the abstraction is much leakier. For the time being, a good understanding of programming and domain kn
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by sampullman 23d ago
I think the point isn't that you'll necessarily build a great browser (or LLM), but the experience will benefit you in other ways.
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by sampullman 24d ago
Sol adds comments when I use it, but it's not nearly as verbose as Opus 5/Fable. For the latter I'll often include an example of a comment it wrote, along with my own rephrasing, and tell it that "future readers will und
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by sampullman 26d ago
That's exactly what I mean.
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by sampullman 26d ago
It requires a different but somewhat overlapping set of skills, and the barrier to entry is much lower. It's neat that 7 year olds can make games, but they're probably not publishing polished and marketable products.
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by sampullman 1mo ago
I've heard some variant of "we built this thing", which I think is valid. I'm not sure how I feel about anthropomorphizing a coding agent at this point though, which is what you're implying.

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