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swyx
24,260karma·6,031submissions·December 9, 2015
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Writer/Angel in devtools and smol AI enjoyer.
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ah so you havent discovered the secret 10th badge yet, have you
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dont make them the scapegoats. who was it that said "behind every rule on that wall is an idiot who made it necessary"
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> I'm in the UK and so far my age verification has involved doing a selfie with the webcam for Reddit. That's it. No one needing my name, ID number etc. (Apart from banks of course). a co…
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oh my god it finally happened, a downvoted danabramov comment
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more context in small writeup + we interviewd the team behind this when it was announced: https://www.latent.space/p/swe-bench-dead …
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more like they wanted to release it yesterday but merely had some last min flags they wanted to hold off for
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can u test it on say who won the 2024 US election
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> Web Applications Convert Better ok, now do this analysis for mobile apps...
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why would chip affect token quantity. this is all models.
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related comments from Shazamers - OG shazam paper https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf (he has a talk on youtube btw look it up if really care) - http…
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are there notable open source forks or open source cal competitors that go for the "just keep it simple" vibe?
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real people just need like 20 at most.
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ridiculous statement. most people dont need long tail.
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a more authoritative source (aka a tweet) woudl be nice.
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err ok but i wasnt saying to monetize (not that you were saying it)
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i've sung since discovering choir and acapella at age 16. gave it up right after college. never thought i'd return to it again. discovery this year is despite being almost 40 and obviously b…
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agree. it breaks a lot, integrations are hard, it turns out, and openclaw can only fix itself so much before you need human intervention and it just stops
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very helpful, thanks. good on WA for providing actually working support. people will fuck up when testing legitimate stuff, it happens.
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just so we know the consequences - is ban permanent? is there an appeals processes?
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you make fun of it but i kind of like that the security community has just embraced this kinda old school hokey term. its a short hand. leave them be.
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> Heroku Workflow
The shell helpers use either an explicit app name argument or HEROKU_APP_NAME. nice to see heroku still alive...
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also people overpay for skew protection and you can make consistent money selling skews (until that one time it blows up on you)
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no it should matter less over time
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i think the intended target of the software matters - Zechner needs to make a small tasteful core agent that others can extend/depend on, whereas Lopopolo needs to ship a large 1M LOC enterprise …
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you dont understand why zuck, who paid $1B for instagram when they had no revenue and 7 employees because he is paranoid about platform shifts, decided to join the race for (what is seeming highly pos…
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hmm the repo doesnt mention this at all but this name and problem domain brings up HippoRAG https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14831 <- any relation? seems odd to miss out this exactl…