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by unchar1 26d ago
From the article > CLIs have purposes for which they’re irreplaceable. Building a CLI is almost always a good idea. Building a TUI almost never is. You're also arguing for CLIs which are absolutely great. But TUIs provide none of th
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by unchar1 3mo ago
It's not just figuring out if a model is good at things, but is it good at the things I care about. Using a targeted eval suite (like a test suite) tells us that.
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by unchar1 4mo ago
Opening the site on my macbook shot the CPU usage to >50%. Seems a bit ironic considering that it's supposed to be a specification on how a website should be.
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by unchar1 5mo ago
What was the reasoning for this change?
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by unchar1 6mo ago
Claude tends to disregard "NEVER do X" quite often, but funnily enough, if you tell it "Always ask me to confirm before going X", it never fails to ask you. And you can deny it every time
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by unchar1 7mo ago
The good thing is that local models are catching up very fast.
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by unchar1 7mo ago
Calculators are a particularly bad example for your case. There was absolutely hyperbole against calculators when they were introduced. [1] With similar sentiment as well "They make us dumb" "Machines doing the thinking for u
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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC(harshanu.space)
356 points by unchar1 7mo ago|360 comments
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by unchar1 11mo ago
This looks interesting. One small feedback: It took me a while to figure out what it actually does. The homepage makes it look more like coolify or dokku.
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Node LTS release to have TypeScript support available by default(twitter.com)
5 points by unchar1 1y ago|1 comments
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by unchar1 1y ago
We did an A/B test of an old SPA app, and a modern re-write using SSR and server-rendered pages. By every performance metric, the new app was faster. But we kept getting user feedback that the new site was "clunky" and "
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by unchar1 1y ago
Would it make sense to have a per-country H1B cap?
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by unchar1 1y ago
You can write memory safe code in any language, but having a machine i.e. the Rust compiler check it for you is less error-prone than if a human does it. Also if you look at the repo, only 3% of the codebase is in Assembly. IMO if >95%
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by unchar1 1y ago
Parts of it could probably already exists in the LLM's corpus, but being able to join them together to build new things is what makes "vibe coding" so useful. Even though, from personal experience, at scale it still falls apa
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by unchar1 1y ago
Library and ecosystem support is a big thing. Rust being ML-ish, and having a large ecosystem is probably it's greatest strength
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by unchar1 1y ago
I see an option on the application form "I'm not UE citizen". Should that have read "EU Citizen" instead? Also it's a little strange to ask for a passport photo, first time I've seen that.
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by unchar1 1y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is macros.
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by unchar1 1y ago
> Your Node.js server then interprets that JavaScript and executes C++. Umm...no? V8 specifically compiles it into machine code directly. There used to be a pseudo-translation layer in the CrankShaftScript days, but that hasn't been
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by unchar1 1y ago
> To be clear, they are not "using" TypeScript, it's more accurate to say they are providing TypeScript bindings. Interesting that you say it's more about providing "bindings", and not really "using&quo
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by unchar1 1y ago
Nue seems to be in an odd space. It's an untyped framework, built on top of "web standards". But if you wanted web standards + web component, Lit already fills that space. If you want untyped JS or little/no JS at all, t
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by unchar1 1y ago
From the link [3] you posted, > If you're rabidly anti-TypeScript and think that us doing this vindicates your position, I'm about to disappoint you. Rich and the rest of the Svelte team are still using typscript, just through
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by unchar1 1y ago
USB microphones usually have audio converters built into them. So if you're going for a cheap wired headphones, it's usually better to go with one with a 3.5mm jack.
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by unchar1 2y ago
> fish instructions: > set PATH $PATH ~/.npm-global/bin Fish has some nice utilities for these type of set calls set --append PATH ~/.npm-global/bin
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by unchar1 2y ago
> Yaak is still open source under the MIT license. You can view, modify, and run the source code for both personal and commercial use. Licensing applies only to the prebuilt binaries. That's a pretty interesting pricing strategy. I
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The Great Re-shard: adding Postgres capacity (again) with zero downtime (2023)(notion.com)
30 points by unchar1 2y ago|8 comments
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by unchar1 2y ago
Cool site! Is there any way to see the top posts? It's really helpful when I'm trying to catch up on things. I know HN doesn't, but I can usually use hn.algolia.com to find the top posts.
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Honeypot.io Is Shutting Down(twitter.com)
1 points by unchar1 2y ago|1 comments
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Acing the System Design Interview(seangoedecke.com)
3 points by unchar1 2y ago|0 comments
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by unchar1 2y ago
According to their docs, SST uses Pulumi under the hood [1] It's supposed to be a bit easier for developers to pick up, but you should be able to achieve the same thing with Pulumi AFAIU [1]: https://sst.dev/docs/#
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by unchar1 2y ago
I agree. But it's one reason why someone who is concerned about performance, may prefer classes by default.

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