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chocrates

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    Comment #49189063

    I like function names like that. If your function name is obnoxiously long then you might be doing too much in your function. I'm a bad programmer though and nothing I do is partic…

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    Comment #49103239

    It feels more like a fork scraping a sunburn for me, than repeatedly stabbed with a needle

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    Comment #49012912

    Practically I would need to wait for hugging face models to adopt this? My harness tokenizer is just an estimate since the model tokenizes on my api calls?

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    Comment #48978224

    Why do we need these? I have sunshine streaming headless to my laptop without issues

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    Comment #48896066

    I try every couple years. I even got myself to relearn the first part of calculus once. Of course I've never used it and it's gone again

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    Comment #48564131

    Have you looked at gitlab lately? They have a ton of ai features built in. I'm not a gitlab user, just learning it, so I can't say how half baked they are or not. At a high level t…

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    Comment #48452903

    My engineers write better code when we enforce types. It's easier to do this then retrain everyone on Go and rewrite all our code. New stuff is often in Go now, but prototyping qui…

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    Comment #48430796

    A reverse funnel

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    Comment #48418954

    Weren't we promised that quantum dead reckoning was right around the corner?

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    Comment #48416588

    Asking it why it did something will not get you usable data. It will read what it did in the context and hallucinate a reason.

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    Comment #48387936

    Porque no los dos?

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    Comment #48386223

    Liquid seems like a better approach from an engineering standpoint because it is non compressible. But then I imagine dealing with liquid is more of a pain than air.

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    Comment #48278745

    Someone said GitHub is racing to the mythical "zero nines of availability" and I love it

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    Comment #48278680

    Tl;Dr blame Gatorade marketing. The book "waterlogged" does a good takedown of the myth. Basically only you need to drink when you are thirsty.

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    Comment #48278668

    Americans don't eat vegetables though

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    Comment #48248336

    On a task by task basis the code Claude generates is pretty good these days. The biggest issue I see is that it wants to rearchitect the code constantly and I have no faith in my t…

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    Comment #48002647

    Heh nice, I have 4 openmanet nodes on HaLow right now

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    Comment #48000906

    Assuming you mean mesh in general: Meshtastic like projects - emergency communication - low power data transfer for sensors - low data rate data transfer for mobile groups. Air sof…

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    Comment #48000858

    Is there a better designed mesh project like those two getting built that you know of? Reticulum?

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