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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> Perhaps renting a small coworking space in town is the safer financial move The article states that in only 4 years it's already broken even vs renting a coworking space. Plus it is at least a theoretical bump to the property valu
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> exploding dogs I've heard of bomb disposal dogs, but this is an angle I hadn't previously considered
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by swiftcoder 23d ago
> mean I can deliver the same software in one month that I delivered in maybe 3 months before Right, but are you delivering 3x more software now, and more importantly, are you selling 3x more software now?
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by swiftcoder 24d ago
> it allows me to automate simple things like writing small patches or config changes in a matter of minutes where before I would have invested hours One of the problems here is that things like this only count as "increased product
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by swiftcoder 24d ago
> Ten years ago I got 64gb of ram in my laptop We were definitely outliers that long ago. I put 64 GB in a MacBook Pro back in 2019, and that was (a) overkill for everything I ever ran on that machine, and (b) stupidly expensive by 2019
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by swiftcoder 24d ago
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised by both restaurants tasting menu prices. Those seem downright reasonable for their locations.
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by swiftcoder 24d ago
Driver: San Francisco, while not to scale, felt like it captured the feeling of driving around the city
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by swiftcoder 24d ago
> How many words are in the previous message? Its amazing to me that providers haven't added any sort of masking of the prompt in the thinking traces to avoid prompt extraction via this sort of trivial attack
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by swiftcoder 25d ago
> Hmm, don't people think that if the frontier labs really put enough engineering effort into preventing distillation that they would be able to do that, or at least diminish it significantly? Distillation was big news a year or eve
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by swiftcoder 25d ago
> or put a LoRA on top of their Haiku Are there any creative-writing LORAs published for open-weight models?
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by swiftcoder 25d ago
This is an unfortunate side effect of bridging an API from a language that supports function overloading, into a language that does not
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by swiftcoder 25d ago
> The whole point of being "nomad" is to leave quickly as well. There are certainly a crowd of (mostly young, or early-retired) digital nomads for whom the mobility is a big priority, but as time goes by a hell of a lot of them
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by swiftcoder 25d ago
> Not saying it can't be fun, but you can live in a country town almost anywhere, if I just want a permanent base hours from any airport, and they all tend to be a lot cheaper than living in the "big smoke". I think folks
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by swiftcoder 26d ago
Yeah, back in the firephone days everyone who worked on the hardware side had lab126 on their contract. The software teams all had digital products instead.
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by swiftcoder 26d ago
I feel like Lab126 (Amazon's hardware R&D lab) should probably make the cut
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by swiftcoder 26d ago
The other thing that always strikes me when rewatching Blade Runner, is just how much time to breathe every little scene is given. Maybe a little too much time in some of the longer director's cuts, but it's a really stark contras
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by swiftcoder 26d ago
Makes sense. Last router upgrade I reached the point where my wifi speeds (at least near the router) were indistinguishable from plugging into gigabit ethernet - that's fast enough for any home task, and the same speed as my fibre upli
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by swiftcoder 27d ago
> With a fast backend ~1-5ms response times (not even that fast). Even though benchmarks suggest this sort of performance should be trivial, most real-world servers I have interacted with do not reliably managed to process a request, mak
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by swiftcoder 28d ago
> It's like cutting the brakes of police cars or deflating their tires These two things are decidedly not on the same level. Cutting someone's brakes is an attempt to kill the driver. Deflating tires is just plain old property
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by swiftcoder 28d ago
> Mouse looks painful There is something very "Apple 1-button mouse" about it, for sure
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by swiftcoder 28d ago
Worth noting that deepseek has had a separate vision-capable model for some time, which also powers their chat interface's vision mode
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by swiftcoder 28d ago
Any kind of spatial/graphical task is likely going to go better with a vision-capable model. Feed it a napkin-sketch of what your app should look like. Have it verify screenshots of the UI it just built. All of these one-shot-a-video-g
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by swiftcoder 28d ago
As someone who works on a very GUI-centric OS (i.e. Mac), TUIs just don't integrate very well with the rest of the non-Terminal ecosystem. They don't support standard GUI shortcuts. They don't support drag-and-drop. I can&#x2
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by swiftcoder 29d ago
Every time I'm reminded that Slack is part of Salesforce, I become nostalgic for the good old days
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by swiftcoder 29d ago
> why do they need a consultant to do the switch? Last time I had to cancel a Comcast subscription it took half a day of phone calls, and then I still had to hand-deliver the modem to a pretty dodgy service centre the wrong side of Dorch
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by swiftcoder 29d ago
> If the customers had been handed the software on day 1, by day 100 it would be full of security bugs, would need to be re-written for the new version of Node.js (the old one having been deprecated and also full of security bugs). We do
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by swiftcoder 29d ago
> Just wondering, whenever things go wrong with Rust - why do you all (Rust devs) point the finger at JavaScript? I know it is almost a sport to point fingers at the "evil rust evangelists" on HN at this point, but a quick look
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by swiftcoder 29d ago
build.rs by design can run absolutely anything. There tons of build.rs scripts that invoke a whole-ass C compiler toolchain to build and link C dependencies... It isn't so much a question of sandboxing build.rs, as fundamentally changi
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
I really wish the DIY folks would measure the airflow and sound levels on this sort of thing. CADR and decibels are going to vary wildly with fan choice
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by swiftcoder 1mo ago
> even when infrastructure is properly in place Is it though? I've cycled in a number of US cities, and even in the ones that have bike lanes, most only have small sections that are physically-divided from traffic, and pretty much n

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