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It's not just figuring out if a model is good at things, but is it good at the things I care about. Using a targeted eval suite (like a test suite) tells us that.

Opening the site on my macbook shot the CPU usage to >50%. Seems a bit ironic considering that it's supposed to be a specification on how a website should be.

What was the reasoning for this change?

Claude tends to disregard "NEVER do X" quite often, but funnily enough, if you tell it "Always ask me to confirm before going X", it never fails to ask you. And you can deny it eve…

The good thing is that local models are catching up very fast.

Calculators are a particularly bad example for your case. There was absolutely hyperbole against calculators when they were introduced. [1] With similar sentiment as well "They mak…

This looks interesting. One small feedback: It took me a while to figure out what it actually does. The homepage makes it look more like coolify or dokku.

We did an A/B test of an old SPA app, and a modern re-write using SSR and server-rendered pages. By every performance metric, the new app was faster. But we kept getting user feedb…

Would it make sense to have a per-country H1B cap?

You can write memory safe code in any language, but having a machine i.e. the Rust compiler check it for you is less error-prone than if a human does it. Also if you look at the re…

Parts of it could probably already exists in the LLM's corpus, but being able to join them together to build new things is what makes "vibe coding" so useful. Even though, from per…

Library and ecosystem support is a big thing. Rust being ML-ish, and having a large ecosystem is probably it's greatest strength

I see an option on the application form "I'm not UE citizen". Should that have read "EU Citizen" instead? Also it's a little strange to ask for a passport photo, first time I've se…

The first thing that comes to mind is macros.

> Your Node.js server then interprets that JavaScript and executes C++. Umm...no? V8 specifically compiles it into machine code directly. There used to be a pseudo-translation laye…

> To be clear, they are not "using" TypeScript, it's more accurate to say they are providing TypeScript bindings. Interesting that you say it's more about providing "bindings", and…

Nue seems to be in an odd space. It's an untyped framework, built on top of "web standards". But if you wanted web standards + web component, Lit already fills that space. If you w…

From the link [3] you posted, > If you're rabidly anti-TypeScript and think that us doing this vindicates your position, I'm about to disappoint you. Rich and the rest of the Svelt…

USB microphones usually have audio converters built into them. So if you're going for a cheap wired headphones, it's usually better to go with one with a 3.5mm jack.

> fish instructions: > set PATH $PATH ~/.npm-global/bin Fish has some nice utilities for these type of set calls set --append PATH ~/.npm-global/bin

> Yaak is still open source under the MIT license. You can view, modify, and run the source code for both personal and commercial use. Licensing applies only to the prebuilt binari…