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bfung
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About bfung
https://benson-guides.blogspot.com/
fung [dot] benson [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comment #49148358
I don’t know what datasets are available to these LLMs, but I’d imagine if there was training on CAD code, text, and images, a prompt steered towards that probably could get it pre…
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Comment #49051161
It’s not really feasible, in my opinion. US Gov could make US companies comply, like have Huggingface take down models out of compliance. But most likely, a foreign-to-US Huggingfa…
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Comment #48916397
“It’s a Unix system. … I know this” XD Back in the days when it was an MS-DOS world…
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Comment #48839057
Anyone see how Opus did? lol Also, eerily accurate timeline!
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Comment #48838575
Correction: facts are facts. How a person perceives facts categorizes them into a political bias bucket.
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Comment #48798877
Congrats! > Group projects were also a common complaint. You were randomly assigned a group, but it was often unclear if the participants were even doing the course - many people w…
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Comment #48693468
Totally agree, misleading. The syntax looks like rust, but esp w/the memory management model (reference counting), it’s going to have more overhead than rust when it’s running, mor…
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Comment #48551991
Oh we’ve been ready and it’s been known. We’re just too stupid to do anything else.
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Comment #48521060
> waiting for an animation to complete before the app will start acknowledging my keystrokes. Or you find out you can input as the animation happens, but when the animation finishe…
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Comment #48438385
Meta: so many words to say - save local first & sync in background. Feels like AI slop. Doesn’t address the concurrent update problem except for “optimistic”. At least provide some…
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Comment #48406390
How does one choose what sequence of bytes constitutes a token?
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Comment #48394423
And you know what the tokenizer is made of? Weights.
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Comment #48350902
Test Driven Development. There's more than several /tdd skills that are popular.
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Comment #48243835
Really? Putting quotes around strings is called escaping now? One workaround is to escape the string, like this: countries: - DE - FR - "NO" - PL - RO Comon, it’s 2026, yeah yaml’s…
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Comment #48156432
Just follow the man, not the brand. He’s still doing his thing: https://www.natesilver.net/
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Comment #48116608
Just reporting what I’ve experienced. No need to go with the ad hominem attack. I happen to lead a team with a major Rust infra project and I stand by the experience with usage acr…
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Comment #48103617
1. Amount of Rust training data isn’t as much as Go. 2. Golang syntax and style is very verbose yet simple. There’s not as many options nor programming language to domain mapping n…
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Comment #47712699
One simply does not [“provision” more hardware|(reboot systems)|(redeploy software)] in space.
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Comment #47649034
As a Costco member and customer, I’d actually trust the leadership more than most companies. Use the tariff money and keep that $1.50 hotdog ~ enough avg Americans can use that bre…
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Comment #47472639
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Comment #47282004
Not purely an advertisement, it’s a real app! https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/updog-ai/ But it does help with marketing and showing off our tech.
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Comment #47270400
I don’t feel that old, but I guess being 45 is ancient in tech. The Silicon Valley tech jobs we have now has a history rooted in World War 2 and funding of it by the US gov. https:…
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Comment #47270345
I’d argue it’s come full circle and it hasn’t changed a bit. There wouldn’t be a Silicon Valley without World War 2 and US gov. funding of Stanford to develop radar basically. The …
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Comment #47241171
When humans write the software, who verifies it? half sarcasm, half real-talk. TDD is nice, but human coders barely do it. At least AI can do it more!
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Comment #47069899
Hot take (?): The random sizing today is great: * If you want a better fit, go physically to a store instead of shopping online and try them on. * the vanity part is also fine, no …