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I always assumed LLMs would be one component of “AGI”, but there would be “coprocessors” like logic engines or general purpose code interpreters that would be driven by code or dat…

100%. I know I’m in the “get off my lawn” phase of my career when I see things like MCP and LangChain, but know I would have been excited about them earlier in my career.

Tailwind’s abuse of CSS classes as a DSL has always felt like a hack to me. You shouldn’t need a special editor extension to get highlighting/autocomplete/etc, just use TypeScript …

Or not even imagery collection, but testing to see what our response is like. If we're scrambling and unable to explain/contain it, that's useful for an adversary to know a little …

This is all inevitable. At worst it's pulling the issues forward by a few months or years, and I don't think anyone will meaningfully address the problem until it's staring us in t…

> not responsible for the technical successes He's not doing the nitty gritty engineering day-to-day, but he understands enough to ask the right questions, give his teams permissio…

> Fixed in master: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git/commit/?id=84bd... Waiting for the bug report that the fix broke someone’s workflow. https://xkcd.com/1172/

Not quite the same, but EMT conduit is very popular for shade structures at Burning Man and similar events. You can get fittings that will hold up very well in windy conditions (if…

$50,000 income, 4 year product lifespan? Obviously doesn’t apply to all engineers.

Who do you think writes those CAD and design tools that help “actual engineers” solve the same problems over and over?

I don’t think it’s at all unreasonable for an engineer using a device for 8+ hours every day to pay an additional, say, 0.5% of their income (assuming very conservatively $100,000 …

LLMs are also often used in the search component of RAG, by generating embeddings that are then indexed and searched. (I don’t know if that’s how Bing AI works)

I think in both cases some amount of interpretation was required: - for Perl, OCR to a character set - for Piet, manual “convert[ion] into a clean image file using close colours fr…

A couple other potentially desirable properties you could incorporate: - K-sortable: ensures good locality when used as an id in a database (e.x. https://github.com/jetify-com/type…

(parent commenter is founder/CEO of Stability AI, Emad Mostaque, I assume)

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2023/all2023/72/

Not sure why you obfuscated it but here's the code for anyone curious: function update() { if (!ticks) { player = { x: 40, vx: 1 }; enemy = { x: 100, eyeVx: 0 }; multiplier = 0; ad…

Agreed, when Ruby became popular it was primarily competing against languages with verbose and rigid static type systems like Java. That is no longer the case, and the benefits of …

> Obviously Mini was using the encryption properly else it wouldn't have worked to begin with. Just want to point out this isn’t inherently true. For example an insecurely generate…

- Styles colocated with markup/logic (I consider this an advantage with a component library like React, others may not) - No global styles stomping on each other, styles scoped to …

Another new library (I haven’t used yet) that supports pseudo selectors is called CSS Hooks: https://css-hooks.com/

Shopify has a styling library for React Native called Restyle: https://github.com/Shopify/restyle I like it a lot. It lets you define a theme with design tokens like spacing and co…

If you implement a feature like this, please, make it optional and obvious when it’s enabled. It’s maddening when tools try to be too smart and don’t get it perfect (I have been gu…

I don’t understand how these two statements are both possible: > "Several passengers recalled that after takeoff the aircraft cabin seemed noisier and colder than they were used to…

There’s even packet radio BBSs aroun. I connected to KE6JJJ’s in SF a few years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/s/wNUaNbGH6S I think you can also still find pockets of si…