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Art, Bespoke, Artisinal, Mass produced, Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Material Science. Mass production is certainly here for the majority of progra…

Good article if you read it all. > Those decades spent fighting memory bugs in C or C++, with the scars to prove it, are worthless in the age of Rust, Go, Python and JavaScript. Fo…

Ok so Intel managed to make a 20W TDP chip that gets 6.x Gflops/W. Call me back when they’ve got a chip that still gets 6.x Gf/W with a 200W 1,200Gflop package like the M3 next on …

I have two Apple Studio monitors and a max-ram MacBook Pro. Work only paid for the MBP and only after I jumped through the necessary hoops, which I was happy to do. Had they not, I…

Ok. I had pizza last night. It was delicious. Most meals are packaged protein workout food. But I have a griddle and I love to make brunch, burgers, sliders whatever. A lot of my j…

Remember when car companies couldn’t get the chips they needed to make cars? And so now there’s not enough used cars. And so car companies charge way more the new ones and just sto…

> I read loads of books, but nothing you read in a book makes much sense until you do it yourself Yeah, totally agree. Same is true for LLMs. These models have all the information.…

I get this is a cheap response but “you’re doing it wrong”. Early last year they were shite. Then they became good enough to write tests. Then they became good enough to write code…

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I think that’s the difference. Using LLMs to learn how to write interesting code, I hope, would be welcomed. I’m not confident that’s true though, reading some of these comments.

>the US is perfectly capable of ramping up manufacturing to ungodly numbers Evidence? Genuinely curious. I read that for every ship the US can build, China can build 200. Our drone…

TFA admits that Amazon's AI revenue is only 59% from Anthropic and OpenAI, with 41% coming from actual customers using bedrock. That seems like they are in a winning position. I've…

I would assume that while Iran doesn't have the material for a bomb, they have enough nasty material for an air burst to do significant long-term impact. They couldn't possibly use…

Difference is, it can teach you.

Opus, assume i know nothing about web development. if i wanted to design a new webpage, with a good design, what are some of the terms of art, some best practices? Like if i wanted…

Ok. Let’s read the papers cited: > Our results further confirm that experts are more proficient in self-assessing their abilities than novices.

Well we all love Liquid Glass. Most loved UX update in iPhone and macOS history. Massive dealbreaker for an app not to look like Liquid Glass. I definitely choose apps based on whe…

It’s probably good for Cursor to lose customers like this. The old model of SDE writing code and harness helping with tab completion is just so unproductive that it might reflect b…

Yeah. It’s propaganda. It ought to be “Not your code? Not hardware you designed and built? Not your coins.” But then like ten people could safely own BTC. BTC is a criminal conspir…

This. This is why the burst of posts on HN of “I made this useful tool/crate/application” were just so sad. The old model was getting what the kids now call aura by developing usef…

Don’t worry. I’m sure they’re not training it to be good at things like writing database backends, financial services, logistics systems, user interfaces, or anything of economic v…

32bit ARM remains my absolute favorite instruction set. And yeah, C compiler output was criminal! I wrote products entirely in the BASIC assembler. What a time to grow up!

> In this case, there isn’t much of a mistake to point out. I don’t buy this. There is no $249 device that I would trust with even 1 BTC. These folks looked at the options to prese…

Might have been the plan all along.

RAID is not backup. Snapshots on same storage are not backup. For “the oh I don’t like this edit of my Word doc, do I have a version from yesterday”, sure, snapshots. For momma giv…