shmel

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by shmel 5d ago
It reminds me of "640KB of RAM is enough for everyone". Look where we are right now. We always find a way to spend resources. I was frustrated with my last laptop because of frequent swapping/OOM, so I built a desktop with 64
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by shmel 21d ago
I think this quote is often misunderstood. It isn't really about machines, but about English definition of swimming (and thinking): a living creature moving in water. That makes debating whether submarines can swim rather pointless. Yo
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by shmel 2mo ago
Are you saying that publicly funded fundamental research is somehow a bad thing now?
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by shmel 3mo ago
or, hear me out, we can try the Irish way? Just let them fail ffs
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by shmel 3mo ago
It's certainly personal. I live alone for the last 11 years and I remember the pandemic as the worst period of my life exactly because I couldn't interact with people. Surely moving to another city just before played a role, but I
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by shmel 4mo ago
it already exists! https://letmegptthatforyou.com/
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by shmel 4mo ago
I admit I look at the code less and less now. But when I do want that I just ask Claude to show me the code verbatim. It is almost always faster than click in IDE because it greps with insane speed. After all, when it's fully AI-genera
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by shmel 4mo ago
Do we still need an IDE though? I am very happy with Claude Code last 6 months. I can totally see why Google got rid of everything, but the dialog box. Perhaps it was stupid to do that without warning, but ultimately this is the future.
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by shmel 5mo ago
Right, because it totally worked with drugs. People just don't use them anymore. Weed is impossible to come by nowadays.
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by shmel 5mo ago
Not saying you are wrong, but I'd like to see some evidence on that. Just because your heart is pumping faster doesn't mean your cardio fitness is getting better. Otherwise we could all just snort cocaine and skip the gym. Alcohol
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by shmel 6mo ago
I think it will be more similar to the cloud. I remember people predicted that once you move to the cloud, you'll realize how expensive it actually is, but the cost of migration back will be high. While, yes, the cloud is expensive, mo
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by shmel 6mo ago
There are even people who listen to music at home! They even buy expensive speakers just for this purpose =) I listen to music pretty much all the time except when I talk to other people and sleep.
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by shmel 6mo ago
I got insanely more productive with Claude Code since Opus 4.5. Perhaps it helps that I work in AI research and keep all my projects in small prototype repos. I imagine that all models are more polished for AI research workflow because that
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by shmel 7mo ago
I grew up in Siberia where it gets cold down to -40C (coincidentally it's also -40F). I don't recall power going out for more than a few seconds. 24h without power or heating sounds batshit crazy for me. If it's a regular occ
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by shmel 8mo ago
Retiring the most popular model for the relationship roleplay just one day before the Valentin's day is particularly ironic =) bravo, OpenAI!
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by shmel 8mo ago
It reminds me that story about a teenage learning Rust that got a refusal because he had asked about "unsafe" code =)
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by shmel 8mo ago
what about laws against porn? Oh, wait, no, that's a legitimate business.
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by shmel 8mo ago
> Have we? It feels like a lot of stuff in my life is unnecessarily expensive or hard to afford. We have, yes. If you notice things to be too expensive it's a result of class warfare. Have you noticed how many people got _obscenely
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by shmel 8mo ago
Who knows? Might have been a special military operation, right? /s
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by shmel 10mo ago
It's literally in their FAQ: https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/faq/ Anyone curious about how Monero is implemented would immediately understand why it's a bad idea to use remote nodes. >What is th
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by shmel 10mo ago
I really hate that the desktop app unlinks after a relatively short period of time. I rarely use Signal, so few of my friends are there, so I have to relink the desktop app almost every time I open it. I wouldn't mind scanning a qr cod
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by shmel 10mo ago
Which is pretty odd as WhatsApp allegedly uses the very same E2E encryption and has no problem implementing a web client. I really don't see the point of Electron if it doesn't allow you to provide a web client.
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by shmel 10mo ago
... by using your own glasses with a hidden camera? Sounds like a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun.
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by shmel 10mo ago
Equally there are security concerns having sites inside the US.
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by shmel 11mo ago
You can't possibly have the same recommendation for all geographies. Florida and Scotland have somewhat different level of UVB especially throughout the winter, come on.
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by shmel 11mo ago
I think we can clear the backlog real quick if we use LLM-As-A-Judge =)
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by shmel 1y ago
Perhaps they just don't care enough? I got unsupervised internet access when I was 10 and I don't see what's wrong with that. Similarly, video games didn't make me a psycho.
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by shmel 1y ago
Do you also support a blanket ban of CCTV in public spaces? I am pretty sure that the bank had a camera in the ATM recording a public pavement 24/7 and nobody bats an eye.
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by shmel 1y ago
It's obvious, but the problem was that enough people would die in the process for people to be worried. Similarly, if the current AI will be able to replace 99% of devs in 5-10 years (or even worse, most white collar jobs) and flatten
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by shmel 1y ago
That is easy to solve though. If Apple/Google become essentially an utility, they are legally mandated to provide an account for any EU citizen =)

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