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robbles

709 karmajoined 15 anni fa
Computer engineer turned software developer. Former startup founder. Interested in programming, electronics, startups, and games.

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robbles
·7 giorni fa·discuss
What is a "squat-length string"?

I realize this is one of Claude's copy tells (using excessively hyphenated words) but in this case I can't figure out what it means.
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
I'm curious whether anyone has run into hallucinations with this kind of use of an LLM.

They are pretty great at converting data between formats, but I always worry there's a small chance it changes the actual data in the output in some small but misleading way.
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
I've used OpenSCAD for a few small projects. The main draw for me is avoiding all the "fiddly mouse stuff". I figure it's a trade-off between simple stuff being more complicated, and complicated stuff being easier to bulk edit and organize.
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
This is a neat idea.

I don't know enough about the underlying proof-of-work stuff to comment on how effective this could be, but I think it's pretty funny that the UI examples say "I'm a human".

I guess "there's only a few of me at most" or "I could allocate enough computation to this that I'm probably not up to no good" don't read as clearly.
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
Good to know, thanks for the explanation!
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
It's a pity they don't ship to other countries than the US. I looked through their website and saw some fun stuff, but no international shipping.
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
I'm probably just not thinking through the problem fully, but: Wouldn't this be better solved inside the coding assistants? They're the parent process and should be able to tell when a sub command has hung.
robbles
·anno scorso·discuss
This is incredible, love how much further you've taken it than just the proof of concept as well.

This is probably just my opinion, but I kept thinking that a better word for "drive" given the domain would be "clock". It's basically a binary clock signal driving these, right? Maybe "clock drive"?
robbles
·2 anni fa·discuss
I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons. Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!
robbles
·2 anni fa·discuss
What brand of toothpaste do you use for this? I often struggle to find a toothpaste that's SLS-free but still has fluoride.
robbles
·2 anni fa·discuss
> here are the empirical distribution functions (ECDFs) with 30ms added to each response time

> The added constant seems artificial, but it's just viewing the results from the point of view of a client with 30ms ping time. Otherwise the log scaled x-axis would overemphasize the importance of a few milliseconds at the low end.

I thought this was interesting - maybe it's a standard practice I was just unaware of but it seems like a smart trick.
robbles
·2 anni fa·discuss
Doesn't this suffer from similar issues to a pie chart?

e.g. https://scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/data-visualisation-a...

I'm kinda suspicious that any data visualization that uses a circle is going to be hard to draw meaning from.
robbles
·2 anni fa·discuss
> The drones can be configured to scatter seed, spray pesticide, or spread fertilizer.

It's right there in the article.
robbles
·11 anni fa·discuss
great explanation, thanks!
robbles
·11 anni fa·discuss
If you write your own, how do you suggest avoiding the same coordinated omission error as those tools?
robbles
·11 anni fa·discuss
Tsung also has the interesting property of modeling traffic as individual user sessions, with probabilistic thinktimes and dynamic variables. Makes it possible to test your app in a much more realistic way than most tools, which just benchmark a series of identical requests or replay a log.