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yen223

8,227karma·2,953submissions·June 6, 2012
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Just another software guy.

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Open source AI will win. It's the same reason why out of all the languages on the web we could have used, Javascript won.
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This is a typical bugfix session
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I could have sworn Claude Code could already do this before Fable. Things get really magical when it starts working with adb to screenshot and debug Android apps
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Indians are victims, and in order to protect them we must deny them the ability to move and work?
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What's wrong with Indians? Why do so many people here want us to hate on Indians?
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hotpot: google authenticator but for the command line https://github.com/yen223/hotpot
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A post that lives rent-free in my head points out that a kid who is addicted to chatgpt is going to be more literate - and therefore likely better educated - than a kid who is addicted to tiktok
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What is the argument behind the Turing test?
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In Australia, the cheapest BYD EV is cheaper than the cheapest Toyota.
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Fun fact: Australia's most popular vehicle has always been utes (aka pickup trucks) Last year it was the Ford Ranger.
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How big of a bubble do you have to be in to be thinking "I like cleaning" is the majority position among normal people?
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I run my code on Emacs as nature intended
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this is easily explained by "database migrations are incredibly difficult and very risky"
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Nothing stopping you from doing that in a post-LLM world
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"Annualized revenue" is a projection, and is known to be a projection.
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LLMs did not invent clickbaity headlines. Kinda odd that people think it did
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Sorry yeah, I meant to say LLMs have no concept of time, so time estimates they give are almost always hallucinations
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LLMs have no conception of time, unless you explicitly feed in timestamps to the context
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I thought they'd be good at vectorising raster image, but no.
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Drawing vector graphics. Image generators can make reasonable-looking raster images. LLMs are good at coding. But drawing SVGs sits at the worst of both worlds.
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The big tip I have for you is to understand wake windows. Babies can get too tired to sleep(!) so you need to make sure to put them to sleep roughly 1-1.5 hours after they last wake up. Highly recomme…
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The truly hard part is putting them to sleep
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I use cloth diapers, but modern disposable diapers can hold a lot, a lot of pee. Significantly more than any cloth diapers can. This means a lot less blowouts with disposables.
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Haha, we got second-hand cloth diapers. Figured it can't be worse than what our little one is going to do to them!
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A lot of people seem to think this to be an LLM problem, but you're right. This is a general epistemological problem with relying on the Internet (or really, any piece of literature) as a source …
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I feel uncomfortable that I can't actually verify that this story is true. Asking Opus 4.7 who the reigning 6nimmt! champion is leads to this article and a warning about a possible hoax
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