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ElectricalUnion

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    Comment #49164338

    What "democratized computing" was cheaper computing and VisiCalc, not WIMP and GUI? But again, VisiCalc is intentionally limited, it's not a all-powerful environment, on purpose. I…

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    Comment #49163803

    Almost all web chatbot providers have code sandboxes that they will run (limited) tooling for you. If you ask for it , it will run deterministic linters, formatters, format convert…

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    Comment #49163767

    > the terminal is a scary place Isn't the the powerful, unlimited, unopinionated blank LLM text input waiting for your instructions eerily similar to a scary terminal? WIMP and GUI…

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    Comment #49147476

    Problem is that bash is too sharp to handle to smart and gullible clankers without a sandbox - That I think everyone should be using anyways, for everything, even things not relate…

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    Comment #49147329

    Aren't those speeds for the first few tokens, that, because of no context for attention to attend, are much faster to compute that the others? I expect the actual token speed to no…

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    Comment #49129206

    Then have it summarise the meeting transcription over the entire week for the report next week . ftfy.

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    Comment #49129194

    By the time the tokens start coming out 30h later you might need to use your laptop again...

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    Comment #49129168

    Ok, this one will take just 30h (compared to that other project that would take 6.25 days) to start writing output tokens after you say hi in Claude Code.

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    Comment #49074717

    Won't the answer (even for a pretty basic message like "hi") at SSD speeds take like a _entire week_ to _start showing useful output?_ (attempting to do 22k average claude code sys…

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    Comment #48798242

    The funny thing is that JSON parsing is usually kinda unsafe in it's main target language JavaScript, and usually safe in other languages, because of the `__proto__` prototype poll…

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    Comment #48797354

    > I don't think providing 90% of the structure you need is a failed abstraction. It is, when the "10%" is the actual hot queries that your system will use the most? Code right now …

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    Comment #48797167

    I believe the main usecases for this is not requiring changing code, not requiring adding a reverse proxy in front of code I can't change, and "OSI"ish protocols (as in, not really…

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    Comment #48796748

    If your files and folders are rw even in a encrypted form, you're still vulnerable to ramsomware if you don't have some sort of immutable ro backups.

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    Comment #48787745

    > developers on any sufficiently large team will come up with extremely widely varied queries to access equivalent information. Ah yes, the famous database integration anti-pattern…

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    Comment #48787657

    > ORMs are good for management and simple CRUD cases I for one think that "simple CRUD cases" is bullshit, those applications don't exist. In practice, System-of-Records systems ar…

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    Comment #48659729

    > That is a hardware limitation Sounds like a intentional firmware (aka: software) limitation to me?

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    Comment #48533868

    > The insert is upper boundable in advance A concurrent DML happening then suddenly your MERGE INTO WHEN NOT MATCHED INSERT/INSERT INTO SELECT is way larger that you thought? I tho…

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    Comment #48427174

    But now you have a even larger problem that the initial problem you were trying to solve: trying to sieve thru millions-of-hours of just slightly tangential videos trying to find t…

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    Comment #48350516

    The protections between users are reasonably strong. Android uses them with great success, by isolating every vendor within their own user. Things start going to hell when everythi…

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    Comment #48250561

    How did you manage to get the Java LSP to do that? Mine just insist on re-parsing the entire codebase every time I view a file.

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    Comment #48249746

    I will give you a class of programs humans wrote and they want improved: LLMs. Those were written by humans, and don't involve unsolved mathematics. Is your claim tht you just need…

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    Comment #48243513

    > It's not a terrible idea; it's actually amazing. You got it wrong, the terrible idea is `pyxy-org/pyxy` >> invalid TypeScript. > If you don't happen to have react, preact or a si…

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    Comment #48229951

    No, that is not TypeScript. That's TSX. If you don't happen to have react, preact or a similar front end library, and a appropriate bundler, it is invalid TypeScript. > That looks …

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    Comment #48186463

    Jetbrains IDE, sure, they take their sweet time indexing your project, but once per start. The Java LSP is a egregious "thing" that takes 10 to 30s to read your whole project for t…

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    Comment #48174933

    > I want to run a modern OS with modern features and still run any software that I already paid for 5, 10, 20 years ago. I already have a bunch of software that I paid for more tha…