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yen223

8,228karma·2,954submissions·June 6, 2012
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Just another software guy.

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A lot of such cases. Claude itself had (has?) fewer users than Perplexity, let alone Meta AI, Gemini or ChatGPT
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Bears look smart, bulls do things
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Gotta crush the competition
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The typography in Maggie Appleton's blog is unparalleled https://maggieappleton.com/
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I suspect the average excel spreadsheet has fewer bugs than the average custom in-house enterprise software
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please nobody tell this person about milliseconds
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My dream world is we apply time zone logic to every other unit of measurement. 1 metre can be 100cm or 200cm depending on the season and your location
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It depends on whether you're making the breakfast, or someone else is making your breakfast. Light breakfasts are popular if you have to make it yourself
5mo ago·view thread
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At least some of the comments here are likely AI-generated
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Most people nowadays are not vaccinated against smallpox anymore
6mo ago·view thread
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You can do both! Better trains and more EVs replacing gas cars can be done simultaneously!
6mo ago·view thread
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I feel like it's worse to force someone to buy something they do not want, knowing full well it's going to materially harm them
6mo ago·view thread
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This is the kind of stuff we have to do because almost all browser <input> elements are terrible in terms of customisability. Especially radios and selects If you're one of those who think …
6mo ago·view thread
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I wasn't talking about the performance of solar, only the demand for electricity. Someone pointed out that the big problem with solar isn't how do we store daytime solar for nighttime use - …
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Australia is lucky, we get hot summers and mild winters, which means our electricity demand is highest precisely when we get the most solar. That's why something like 30% of Australian houses hav…
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The cool thing is you can just try it. The barrier to entry is incredibly low right now. If it works for you, great. If it doesn't work for you, great. At least you know.
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The scenario is well-defined. There's nothing logically impossible about the host not knowing which door has the car, and still opening the goat door. "Impossible" in the program just r…
7mo ago·view thread
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We are conditioning out the case where the host picks the door with a car, so there's only two scenarios of equal probability left. Hence 50-50.
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https://github.com/yen223/monty_fall/blob/master/Monty%20Hal... The math is contingent on whether you know the host knows or doesn't know where the door with …
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The scenario is the host doesn't know which door has the car, opens some random door, and that door happens to have a goat behind it. If you were in this scenario, your odds of getting the car do…
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It is incredibly annoying that in the case where the host doesn't know where the car is but opens a goat door anyway, the probability goes back to 50-50
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Claude's frontend design skill is an interesting read https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... …
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It is funny how things that are hard for humans are also hard for LLMs
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Same goes for human comments tbf
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I miss requirements all the time, by never talking to the client
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