veidr

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by veidr 21d ago
Ditto. I've started to wonder if the real problem with many of these complaints about LLM writing is actually reading comprehension.
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by veidr 21d ago
This heuristic is commonly believed — and expressed on this website — but is idiotic. Plenty of people have known how to use em dashes when writing on a computer since the 1980s. (This was true even before UTF-8 was invented to make extende
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by veidr 1mo ago
This (Anthropic's "watermark" stance, I mean) is so fundamentally ludicrous that I have assumed it is a (wholly insincere, but arguably pragmatic, at least from their perspective) attempt to deal with the EU and their latest
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by veidr 1mo ago
This is stupid. There is no better time to use your phone than when taking a shit. For years, that was the only context in which I read Twitter, and that still holds true today for the various things that replaced Twitter for me. The toilet
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by veidr 3mo ago
I love this font. I think it is probably the only coding font I have ever actually purchased.
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by veidr 3mo ago
I have always wondered what this OS looks like. They have an incredibly detailed website with zero screenshots.
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by veidr 3mo ago
What? Of course... of course the dog is conscious. Did you mean dogs don't have values and judgements? I suspect they do, and those might be much more different than dog consciousness vs human. And one judgement might be "human go
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by veidr 3mo ago
"coding is largely solved" and "our app uses Electron" are incompatible, self-refutational statements
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by veidr 3mo ago
I like to think I'm part of the reason the bots use em dashes so much, since I've been using them — or the ASCII "--" that we used to have to type to represent them in the pre UTF-8 times — since you could write stuff
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by veidr 3mo ago
2025 xmas day, was at my wife's parents' house in rural Japan, my kids were all playing with their cousins, I was posted up with my laptop just listening to some podcast about the benefits of making time for long walks in middle a
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by veidr 4mo ago
This fixes a dozens-of-times-per-day annoyance for me. The grid is good, but even better is the instant virtual display switching. Nowhere is the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts annoyance of modern macOS worse than having to hit Ctrl→→→→→→→
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by veidr 4mo ago
No, he's stated the opposite, e.g. https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2058283214981251080?s=46 But AFAICT he's never suggested they reviewed all the code, and that they didn't seems like a pretty s
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by veidr 4mo ago
And, haven't you also been doing so since around the turn of the millennium? So, you might also be repped writ large in their their training data... (;^_^)
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by veidr 4mo ago
OK now I reverse my reversal; you — and original me — are/am right: read Deepness first. First! haha
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by veidr 4mo ago
yeah, but substack is mostly just another twitter low-engagement farm also, your last-line worldview... i mean i get it, but... just basically sounds like the twitter origin story (T_T)
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by veidr 4mo ago
i miss smart people writing blog posts that stopped after twitter and went asymptotically downhill from there approaching, but never quite literally getting to the point of eating a dog shit sandwich (despite the same nauseous feeling and b
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by veidr 4mo ago
running out of money, for an open source project of almost any kind, is safer than "running into money" with the wrong strings attached (still reserving judgement on Bun, though — I mean, we'll soon see, one way or the other!
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by veidr 4mo ago
Oh. Well, then, yes I agree. It certainly does remain to be proven if anybody can make "Node, but better" a business. Certainly the recent layoffs¹ of ~half-or-so of the Deno team doesn't bode well for it, as AFAIK Bun was
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by veidr 4mo ago
I think the Anthropic acquisition means that Bun isn't in that business anymore. Bun is still fixing fundamental Node problems, but that's no longer the business . The business value the Bun team needed to deliver (to make the
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by veidr 4mo ago
That is probably true, and I was assuming that if you read A Deepness in the Sky , you would go on to read A Fire Upon the Deep . But I got it backwards. While A Deepness in the Sky is set earlier than A Fire Upon the Deep , it was act
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by veidr 4mo ago
OK. But without changing programming laguages, "fix some fundamental Node problems" vs "don't fix those problems, just run them faster, and maybe inline the most popular dependencies"... Surely we can agree that one
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by veidr 4mo ago
lol — what you're saying doesn't make sense to me, but I'm sure it makes sense to somebody What I was specifically referring to is Deno (originally) trying to fix the (glaring, fundamental) problems that Node imposes on the w
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by veidr 4mo ago
well to me that would still count as "it sucks" but sure anthropic might not agree
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by veidr 4mo ago
I agree it sounds like that, but (having that same thought) I kept the temp in the living room 20℃ or less for a week but nah My best guess at this point is the 2025 LG TVs have some different HDMI ARC something something compared to the 2
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by veidr 4mo ago
yeah — i have my kids on Macs, bc I'm lazy, but just the ones with only two USB ports and nothing else — otherwise never-ending, unresolvable nightmare unless it's just some Apple thing you're plugging in
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by veidr 4mo ago
So true. I had this gaming PC — and once a year doing excel and dropbox exchanges with my accountant, but other than that, gaming PC — and it never had an issue, from 2020 or 2021 to last month. So I decided to move it to the living room, a
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by veidr 4mo ago
Vernor Vinge has some hits and some misses, but A Deepness in the Sky (best to just take the plunge and read it without googling — it's good either way, but better if you don't even read the back of the paperback). Then, a bit
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by veidr 4mo ago
Well "slop" is doing a lot of work there. If it's all incomprehensible garbage-code that no human can understand? Then... yeah very marginal value to me, in terms of hacking on it. However, I think if it turns out that that&#
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by veidr 4mo ago
I can understand where you are coming from, but I myself am coming from a quite different place. I'm a long-time Deno fan, and to me Bun was less interesting because a.) it seemed like a much-less-ambitious Deno, and b.) I don't w
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by veidr 4mo ago
No, and there's been a lot of confusion about that on this website. They did cite Rust's safety as a motivating factor for the port. That doesn't imply trying to achieve that simultaneously with the language change — which is

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