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> Are there decent wifi communicators on the market? I looked into some Lora projects for this but they never seem to actually ship or get past prorotype Yes, 100%. Meshtastic and …

> Why vibe code with a language that has human convenience and ergonomics in view? Recently I've been preparing a series that teaches how to use AI to assist with coding, and in pr…

> I often try running ideas past chat gpt. It's futile, almost everything is a great idea and possible. I'd love it to tell me I'm a moron from time to time. Here's how to make it …

If you're not sure about what a Markov Chain is, or if you've never written something from scratch that learns , take a look at this repo I made to try to bridge that gap and make …

> Please just use Docker in a microVM or whatever. It's 0% slower and 100% more mature. Wasm has different characteristics than docker containers and as a result can target differe…

> Yes, I want to play in easy mode. Why would I want to play in hard mode? Working alone can be much easier than managing others in a team. But also, working in a team can be far m…

> If everyone you’re managing is completely transparent and immediately tells you stuff, you’re playing in easy mode So much this. There are many managers who are effective at mana…

> effective management requires that you're able to trust that the person tells you when they've hit a snag or anything else you may need to know This is what we shoot for, yes, bu…

> I'm not sure that having the patience to work with something with a very inconsistent performance and that frequently lies is an extension of existing development skills. If you’…

> I can see why someone might say there's overlap between RL and SFT (or semi-supervised FT), but how is "traditional" SFT considered RL? What is not RL then? Are they saying all s…

> Having spent a couple of weeks on Claude Code recently, I arrived to the conclusion that the net value for me from agentic AI is actually negative. > For me it’s meant a huge inc…

I imagine there’s actually combinatorial power in there though. If we imagine embedding something with only 2 dimensions x and y, we can actually encode an unlimited number of conc…

> Is it enough to play Human Resource Machine!? That is fun. But this one truly is enough: Turing Complete. You start with boolean logic gates and progressively work your way up to…

This is the video I wished I had seen when I was a kid, feeling like assembly was a dark art that I was too dumb to be able to do. Later in life I did a ton of assembly professiona…

> Why can’t the LLM just learn your writing style from your previous emails to that person? It totally could. For one thing you could fine tune the model, but I don't think I'd rec…

> LLMs lie about their reasoning People do this all the time too! Cat scans show that people make up their minds quickly, showing activations in one part of the brain that makes sn…

I hear you. But consider this: substitute “LLM” in what you said above with “coworker” or “direct report”. Does having a coworker automatically make a person dumb and no longer wil…

When using AI, you are still the one responsible for the code. If the AI writes code and you don't read every line, why did it make its way into a commit? If you don't understand e…

I came here looking for information about why Ericsson stopped using Erlang, and for more information about Joe's firing. The short answer seems to be that they pivoted to Java for…

> I never used much IBM hardware, and always assumed that their terminals used EBCDIC and not ASCII. Generally this is true. But around this era I used a ton of 3151 terminals on A…

> C++ is for when complexity cost is worth trading for performance gain. What type of person successfully finds simplicity working in C++? > What type of person successfully finds …

> you can work on your problem, or you can customize the language to fit your problem better There’s a thing I’m whispering to myself constantly as I work on software: “if I had so…

Regarding stamina defined broadly as it is in this article: One of my favorite quotes comes from an unlikely source: Mike Tyson. "I don't care how good you are at anything. You don…

I noticed 4o mini didn't follow the directions to quote users. My favourite part of the 4.5 summary was how it quoted Antirez. 4o mini brought out the same quote, but failed to att…