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by zavec 21d ago
Between this and the nix/guix stuff, Farid is definitely becoming one of my favourite mad computer scientist bloggers, right up there with Justine. (Or computer mad scientist? Whatever (mad scientist) && (computer scientist) is
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by zavec 1mo ago
The way I've done it has been when there's a longer task, I give it a markdown document that has a plan with numbered steps, and then for each step start a fresh context window and tell it to update that doc as it goes with any de
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by zavec 3mo ago
I always wonder about the choice of hjkl, because don't people normally rest their hands one row to the left, on jkl;?
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by zavec 3mo ago
I was just looking at conductor and was not very jazzed about the fact that it was running the agents directly on the host. Being able to launch from a terminal means this one can (hopefully) run from inside the sandboxing setup I use for c
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by zavec 3mo ago
I think generally harnesses have this. In claude code it's `"preferredNotifChannel": "terminal_bell"` in the settings.json, pi and opencode looks like you have to either add a hook yourself somewhere or use an exten
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by zavec 3mo ago
Hmm, where have I seen a story before where a kid wants their parents to read the same book over and over. I can't quite put my finger on it...
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by zavec 3mo ago
It definitely seems brutal, but when I stop and think about it it's actually probably more humane for the prey than getting eaten alive, right?
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by zavec 5mo ago
Hell, I grew up with English as my first language and I still learned a lot of obscure vocabulary from magic! It's definitely not so good these days, but a format called premodern is getting more popular. You may find it worth looking
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by zavec 5mo ago
Homestuck is finally happening?
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by zavec 5mo ago
Alive 2007 is a bit late to be the 90s though
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by zavec 5mo ago
Lock picking is great! Many security conferences will have a "lockpick village" where there are just a bunch of locks, lockpicks, and volunteers teaching people how to do it.
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by zavec 5mo ago
This looks really promising, I am curious about the choice to use containers as the isolation layer though. If the goal is to treat agents as untrusted and isolate them fully I feel like microVMs would be a better option. If it supports OCI
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by zavec 6mo ago
> The courts decided that rap records had to clear every single sample, thereby basically destroying the art form, but now you can literally feed every book into a blender, piece another book together out of the pieces, and sell it. Are
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by zavec 7mo ago
This sounds fascinating, if you ever write more about it I'd love to read it!
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by zavec 7mo ago
Last rc is 2025 but there are at least still new commits (one from 3 hours ago)
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by zavec 8mo ago
> IMO the issue is not propaganda at all, but real physical problems that are not being addressed. I don't think those are mutually exclusive. There can be real problems, and propaganda can magnify those and lead people to decisions
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by zavec 8mo ago
It was the same when I graduated 6 years ago. We had projects to test our ability to use tools and such, and I guess in that context LLMs might be a concern. But exams were pencil and paper only.
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by zavec 8mo ago
There's also a sex toy
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by zavec 8mo ago
You haven't been getting the checks? Bring that up at our next secret cabal meeting.
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by zavec 9mo ago
I think you can with a user.js file, unless they changed that?
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by zavec 9mo ago
It's bitter for me because I like looking at how things work under the hood and that's much less satisfying when it's "a bunch of stats and linear algebra that just happens to work"
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by zavec 9mo ago
I guess it's nice for non-technical people who don't know how to use `about:config` but beyond that I don't really see the need. Hopefully adding that extra layer of indirection doesn't mean the users will have to wait t
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by zavec 9mo ago
Pragmatic is not bothering to switch to the shiny new thing just because it's shiny and new if your current tool doesn't give you any problems.
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by zavec 10mo ago
This is exactly why I just bought one! I take the bus to work, but I live about 1.5k from the nearest bus stop and it's pretty flat. Unfortunately it's just starting to be icy here so I probably won't be able to make much use
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by zavec 10mo ago
Ooh I'm definitely going to have to give that a read for my blog! For somebody who usually hates frontend development I sure do like to tinker with small blog improvements for some reason.
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by zavec 10mo ago
> Support from professional software vendors (Dassault, Autodesk, et al) and Nvidia could be better, admittedly, but these restrictions aren't very relevant to me. I think that's maybe what GP was getting at. If you know how to
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by zavec 10mo ago
LLMs are just what happens when we hit the singularity of caffeine consumption?
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by zavec 10mo ago
The DSL sounds interesting, if you talk about it anywhere I'd definitely be interested in reading more!
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by zavec 10mo ago
Oh hey I took his crypto class in fourth year! Fantastic prof, I should check this out to refresh my memory.
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by zavec 11mo ago
It's like back in school when there was a snow day!

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