sixtram

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by sixtram 3mo ago
Oh, I'm glad I don't work in the oven business. We're just starting a stealth startup that's revolutionizing dishwashers, and the prototypes are amazing. They use less water, less detergent, and this weekend we're h
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by sixtram 3mo ago
So you're saying I can absolutely have a deep, nuanced discussion with an LLM, as long as I don't ask how he arrived at his conclusions?
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by sixtram 3mo ago
You say you can have increasingly nuanced discussions with stronger models. What I say is, when I asked Claude why he applied a certain change I didn't understand, and boy, it was a small change, he said he "reasoned from first pr
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by sixtram 3mo ago
Is it really cheating if you work hard and memorize all the questions? That's basically learning.
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by sixtram 3mo ago
Just 300 a day? That's only one ticket every 1.5 minutes. I hope in a year we can fix an issue under 30 seconds with ZERO supervision.
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by sixtram 7mo ago
Why does the AI need SQL queries? Who needs that? It will just write its own ACID-compliant database with its own language, and while it's at it, reinvent the operating system as well. It's turtles all the way down.
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by sixtram 8mo ago
To continue, this design has additional benefits: The code is not littered with dry-run flag checks; the internal code doesn’t even know that a dry run is possible. Everything is rolled back at the end if needed. All database referential in
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by sixtram 8mo ago
I use a similar strategy for API design. Every API call is wrapped in a large database transaction, and I either roll back or commit the transaction based on dry-run or wet-run flags. This works well as long as you don’t need to touch the f
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by sixtram 8mo ago
love the title of Windows recovery process screen: uninstall latest quality update
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by sixtram 8mo ago
could you share an anonymized desk photo?
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by sixtram 9mo ago
I've just got a new Samsung and it's wobbling too. I hate this. Why can't they at least put the cameras in the middle? Or maybe horizontally centred? Or they could just put another bumper on the other side to make it symmetri
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by sixtram 9mo ago
When I started high school in the early '90s, there was a compulsory summer reading list of 10–12 books, each ranging from 300–800 pages. Then we had to write essays about them. This was just our summer homework before the new school y
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by sixtram 10mo ago
What about reusing a CTE? Let me import a CTE definition so that it can be used throughout my app, not just in the current context.
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by sixtram 1y ago
Just two days ago, I asked ChatGPT to provide an explanation of the place-value system that my six-year-old could understand. The only problem was that it mixed up digit value and place value, which caused it to become confused. I spotted t
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by sixtram 1y ago
For me, it seems the issue with the recipe was due to pre-recorded segments. The guy quickly realized that the "AI" was ahead of the script and cut it short to avoid making a bigger mess during the demo. As for the Zuck segment, I
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by sixtram 1y ago
The last time I asked for a code review from AI was last week. It added (hallucinated) some extra lines to the code and then marked them as buggy. Yes, it beats humans at coding — great!
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by sixtram 1y ago
A PhD-level degree in fabrication.
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by sixtram 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4mXZN1Zzk
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by sixtram 1y ago
The last time I asked an LLM AI to review my code, it added extra lines that weren't originally there. Then, it claimed that there were many bugs in those lines. When I pointed this out, it apologized. But I don't know how much ti
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by sixtram 1y ago
I have two iPad Airs, first generation, but the latest YouTube app no longer works on them. Skype and Teams don't work on old iOS either. Do you have any ideas other than using them as photo frames?
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by sixtram 1y ago
and then there is Marco Pierre White, How to finely chop onions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBj9H6z6Uxw
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by sixtram 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/386/
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by sixtram 1y ago
But you can click on the chicken and it will jump. KPIs matter.
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by sixtram 1y ago
I taught my five-year-old to read in approximately three months. We progressed from simple letters to sounding out two letters, then three, then words with hyphens, then simple stories, and finally children's books. We practiced daily
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by sixtram 1y ago
I'm just wondering, if AI replaces programmers, will our super AI also fix all the slowness and bugs in current software? I saw an Anthropic Claude guy talk about how AI will replace most programmers within 2-3 years, but definitely by
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by sixtram 1y ago
Yesterday, I asked AI for help: Check my SQL stored procedure for possible logical errors. It found a join error that I didn't remember including in my SQL. After double-checking, I found that it had hallucinated a join that wasn'
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by sixtram 1y ago
A totally broken function that a single person uses once a month to save five minutes isn't nearly as valuable as a well-designed feature that 5,000 users rely on daily to save just one minute each session.
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by sixtram 1y ago
We shipped our VB6 software on a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Actually, we had to add some random stuff to the installer to make our software fit on two floppies instead of one, so that customers would think our application was more complex. Our CE
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by sixtram 1y ago
The question is, can you guarantee my safety?
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by sixtram 1y ago
I'm wondering if you feed all the Google street map photos into a special ML designed just for that, how important could that be for say the CIA or FBI?

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