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sidpatil
·4 giorni fa·discuss
This phenomenon is referred to as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
sidpatil
·13 giorni fa·discuss
I'm pretty sure Coursera or edX was using this same approach a while back — they'd make you type in a paragraph of text, then they'd use the timing information as a fingerprint or signature, to authenticate you as the actual student.
sidpatil
·mese scorso·discuss
In software, this is known as Hyrum's Law: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
sidpatil
·2 mesi fa·discuss
https://rakhim.org/honestly-undefined/19/
sidpatil
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> There's also the weirdness of tunneling protocols like PPPoE which only exist to tunnel Ethernet through non-Ethernet systems.

Isn't PPPoE the opposite — carrying a non-Ethernet protocol over Ethernet?
sidpatil
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Original title: 'Rubens Menin's "Very Very Old" Port wine'
sidpatil
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Someone here mentioned a whole ago that the labs deliberately haven't tried to train these characteristics out of their models, because leaving them in makes it easier to identify, and therefore exclude, LLM-generated text from their training corpus.
sidpatil
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Why?
sidpatil
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Construction and home contracting follow building codes.
sidpatil
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Only if it's decomposing aerobically.

Anaerobic decomposition, like what you find in a septic tank, doesn't produce any heat.
sidpatil
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> I don’t care if you make an honest mistake. Hell, I don’t even care if you make a careless mistake, as long as you fix yourself. Everyone messes up - it’s how you act afterwards that matters.

You're not the one in control of their employment status and workplace reputation.
sidpatil
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Is nuclear energy considered renewable?
sidpatil
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It looks like Slidev is designed for presentations about software development, judging from its feature set. Quarto is more general-purpose. (That's not to say Quarto can't support the same features, but currently it doesn't.)

I'm not affiliated with Slidev. I was just curious.
sidpatil
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It's not, to be fair.

> I use my own `.md` plan files rather than Claude Code’s built-in plan mode. The built-in plan mode sucks.
sidpatil
·5 mesi fa·discuss
> smaller scale stories are replaced with moving the big plot forward

This is pretty common in TV shows, from what I've noticed. It takes a few seasons for a show to find its footing.
sidpatil
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Does this products directly compete with GitHub Models [1]?

[1] https://github.com/marketplace?type=models
sidpatil
·5 mesi fa·discuss
You might be interested in Substrait (https://substrait.io/).
sidpatil
·6 mesi fa·discuss
> It may be that like clothes, there's only so much need for software.

Clothing demand has increased greatly in the past decade due to fast fashion. Much of this clothing is designed to cost a few bucks, last a few wears, then get thrown out. It's an ecological disaster.

Maybe we'll see something similar happen with software — as production costs fall, trends will shift toward few-use throwaway software. I highly suspect this is already happening.
sidpatil
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I'm unfamiliar with all the changes coming soon. What would you need to refactor?
sidpatil
·8 mesi fa·discuss
You would need to rerun the LLM, but you wouldn't necessarily need to rebuild the codebase from scratch.

You can provide the existing spec, the new spec, and the existing codebase all as context, then have the LLM modify the codebase according to the updates to the spec.