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bckr
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About bckr
happy to chat about crazy futuristic ideas, things you're writing, software engineering, music etc
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Comment #49211919
I like the ideas a lot. The Readme needs some polish (I think it’s great that it reads as hand-written; an LLM could make suggestions that make it just 10% easier to read). Is chor…
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Comment #49151835
What are the specs of your laptop and what tokens per second do you get?
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Comment #49126677
Right but what keeps the second line clean? You’re going to get spam there too.
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Comment #49125796
I think we have to do something this extreme. We have to give the system a total makeover. Somehow we also have to keep it from being fully centralized and have the big brother pro…
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Comment #49008895
Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links
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Comment #48992800
Yes, agentic coding is machine learning. Not because of the underlying language models, but because it is gradient descent, where the test harness provides a gradient for the agent…
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Comment #48894208
Most people don’t know about that because they live in an information bubble handcrafted by the oligarchs.
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Comment #48800689
Yes and Pythonic is the Pythonic word for idiomatic
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Comment #48776763
Engineer? Wow, that’s high falutin. Sanitation Technician is as high as I got.
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Comment #48738655
I suggest you encoding your invariants in the harness. Architectural invariants that can be mechanically checked, including which modules are approved, which dependencies, etc.
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Comment #48687279
VC startup world is not about intelligence. It’s about impressing investors.
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Comment #48673614
What models have you tried? Gemini 3.1 pro has vision capable of reading my sloppy diaries from 10 years ago, down to small glyphs and doodles.
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Comment #48673568
Wow. That sure is something.
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Comment #48673409
Yes. It’s astonishing how I see individuals with these enormous egos centered on their intellectual, technical achievements, who have such egregious blindspots surrounding their ow…
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Comment #48673277
Where I made up my mind is during “dance party” where the boys have faces and the girl has a dancing woman for a head. Overall the idea is creative, but also not at all what I hope…
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Comment #48661417
> Cursor is declining Yep. I switched to Zed over the weekend and I’m very happy so far. It’s snappy.
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Comment #48661352
“Listen” is being used in a non-literal way here, with the meaning “to accept as true”.
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Comment #48650854
We could all chip in
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Comment #48590667
We set up something with a registry of AgentCards and a messaging system with SSE streaming—then we realized we didn’t need an agent on the other side so now we have this weird hyb…
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Comment #48535575
I’m in the first weeks of designing nub: Not Unix, Basically. The motto is “general-purpose, provably correct software, for everyone”. The idea is to build, on top of seL4, a softw…
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Comment #48315406
Still haven’t succeeded! I’m on my 8th business since being a teenager. I have lost quite a bit of money. I’ve earned some through consulting. I think for those of use for whom it …
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Comment #48207757
Oh yeah, he’s the one who said glue people are useless
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Comment #48207734
When you have everything but can’t even keep your hands to yourself. Shameful.
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Comment #48131179
I think it’s worth having a tiny model that can convert a short sentence into a structured tool call. Now you can add an orchestration layer and you have separation of concerns. Th…
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Comment #47675572
yes. But also some stuff will be amazing.