sequin

4 ms·

1.
by sequin 5mo ago
This is never going to be resolved through speculation. There are parallels with the Zodiac killer's identity where there's a group of very likely candidates but no conclusive proof to definitively settle the question one way or t
2.
by sequin 6mo ago
Resist hypes and just use whatever you feel like. Torvalds uses a 40 year old EMACS implementation and that seems to be working for him.
3.
by sequin 6mo ago
I left Spotify years ago. Youtube is so much nicer in terms of content alone. But Youtube, with its insane backlog of video's not available elsewhere, is straight up a monopoly, so they too will start squeezing customers at some point.
4.
by sequin 7mo ago
I'm just so glad I'm past the phase where I'd worry about these things. It's very exhausting.
5.
by sequin 7mo ago
I doubt talking heads on the TV can move markets.
6.
by sequin 7mo ago
How can the models be impressive if they switch to Chinese mid-sentence? I've observed those bizarre bugs too. Even GPT-3 didn't have those. Maybe GPT-2 did. It's actually impressive that they managed to botch it so badly. Go
7.
by sequin 7mo ago
The Weezer video was quirky, funny, creative, catchy and appealing to multiple generations. A stroke of genius by Microsoft.
8.
by sequin 8mo ago
Probably a prank or an ambush set up by the anti-billionaires.
9.
by sequin 8mo ago
FWIW, I just gave Deepseek the same prompt and it solved it too (much faster than the 41m of ChatGPT). I then gave both proofs to Opus and it confirmed their equivalence. The answer is yes. Assume, for the sake of contradiction, that there
10.
by sequin 8mo ago
Rather the opposite. A vibe-coded startup cannot survive if it can be trivially duplicated. The proof will be in observing the inverse phenomenon; (pure) software companies disappearing.
11.
by sequin 8mo ago
It's certainly morally and legally dubious to facilitate attacks on things that others choose to use in within their own private domains, just because you disagree with that choice. But that's how these people roll.
12.
by sequin 8mo ago
I honestly don't understand why a terminal emulator needs to be performant. Seems like peak bikeshedding to me.
13.
by sequin 8mo ago
Very, very few people care about privacy to a meaningful degree, even if they (loudly) profess that they do. For communication apps specifically, there's also the network effect problem and having to deal with the increasing proliferat
14.
by sequin 11mo ago
Many people (not the EFF or ACLU, lol) saw it coming years ago and put in a monumental effort to try to turn to tide, only to be relentlessly repressed and dehumanized by bolsheviks and idiots.
15.
by sequin 11mo ago
I'm the same. For my use case there is little benefit in using those tools, and for security and privacy reasons I don't want to unleash all this software on my computers and network.
16.
by sequin 11mo ago
Same; any time I see BWT I think of Fabian Giesen. I think he was only 16 or 17 when he wrote that article. By chance I once sat near him and the rest of Farbrausch at a demoparty, but I was too shy to say hi.
17.
by sequin 1y ago
What a miserable and hopeless undertaking having to do this tightrope act of appeasing existing users, prospective users, advertisers and lawmakers. Managing a fledgling social media platform emerging out of ideological fault lines while ot
18.
by sequin 1y ago
How did they get the passwords to his Google and Coinbase accounts? He reused passwords? The same one for Google as for Coinbase? Or did they reset his Coinbase password via his Gmail? The post doesn't make this explicit, but it warns
19.
by sequin 1y ago
These are all very circumstantial.
20.
by sequin 1y ago
Considering the need for LLM boilerplate coding as a language and tooling failure is an interesting observation. It begs the question why there is still such a thing as boilerplate. I mean I understand how programming languages work and why
21.
by sequin 1y ago
This could have been an amazing short sci-fi story.
22.
by sequin 1y ago
Making sensible choices requires thinking things through, and understanding what it really is that you are doing, or refrain from doing it. Experts are just as prone to neglecting this as novices. But expressing your misgivings about prevai
23.
by sequin 1y ago
Around $15/month for Claude (yearly subscription they offered me at the start of the year). Had a Gemini Pro sub for 1 or 2 months but it didn't impress me that much. When I need real horsepower (usually advanced math stuff) I use
24.
by sequin 1y ago
I don't get this. I have no education, no resume, no Linkedin and I've never applied for a job in my life. Employers/recruiters reach out to me, and I usually turn them down. I'm not humblebragging, I'm not better a
25.
GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?(gmplib.org)
249 points by sequin 1y ago|233 comments
26.
by sequin 1y ago
In this day and age, text is abundantly accessible at all levels of complexity, and you can generate infinitely more with LLMs. Affordability is not an obstacle to developing reading comprehension, and hasn't been for a long time.
27.
by sequin 1y ago
GitHub is a completely different scale. If Google hadn't wasted its opportunities to become the prime source code platform they'd also have issues.
28.
by sequin 1y ago
High school dropout, never attended college. I never had any problems getting work. Having done extensive open source work has helped a lot. YMMV.
29.
by sequin 1y ago
It seems that at least in software engineering, Claude is popular and people are shoveling tons of money into it, whereas non-tech people are not inclined to pay for ChatGPT. Market share might not be so important if your competitor is raki
30.
by sequin 1y ago
She :)

More ›