A slower background transcode usually doesn't matter, but a faster transcode that stops important processes running in the meantime might. This is usually fixable with effort, but sometimes it's nice to not have to configure everything to the nth degree.
It's disappointing to me that a completely factual personal experience can be relayed with zero spin – and yet some of the replies act as if it's 100% spin without any factual evidence. Some people seem to prefer to respond to an imaginary version of a conversation rather than the one that's actually happening in front of them.
Would love to find more books like Blindsight, something about the way it described agency without consciousness was both creepy and extremely memorable.
While this is neat and I love the idea of these glasses and wanted to buy a pair, the reports of delivery and quality issues in the subreddit put me off until things stabilise a bit.
The difference between armchair pricing advice (and the advice of literature on the subject) vs the actual experience of trying to action said advice has lead me to question my sanity more than once.
I've never found cloud anything to beat the speed (and price) of a well placed server.
DO has always been a bit rich for my blood though, and even a low cost hetzner VPS has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago. I could be wrong there though I usually use Vultr for their SYD region.
This thread has turned into a great resource! build123d has been my favourite conceptually so far (it's just Python) but vcad looks very clean too. I like the abuse of + and - in both of these for booleans.
I've had a few experiences in France, as recently as a month ago. Not speaking French (I do not) is not generally a problem, no one seems to mind. What some parts of Europe do mind is being too... How do I put this politely... Obviously from certain places with very little sensitivity for where in the the world they happen to be at the time. Often loudly.
Glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks along these lines, and presumably by extension that teleportation by delete and rebuild mechanics would be mass murder.
You might no longer be you in the sense of you behave quite differently, but I remember being 16 and I don't behave like that either. The discontinuity is the point, as you eloquently put it.
I've found recent versions of Claude and codex to be reluctant in this regard. They will recognise the problem they created a few minutes ago but often behave as if someone else did it. In many ways that's true though, I suppose.
Not get stuck on an incorrect train of thought, not ignore core instructions in favour of training data like breaking naming conventions across sessions or long contexts, not confidently state "I completely understand the problem and this will definitely work this time" for the 5th time without actually checking. I could go on.
I've just come off a 2 month bender using Claude Code for, well, far too much. I had 5 instances running at once for days on end. It felt amazing, it felt like flying. And then something gave way and I couldn't focus on anything for 3 days. Diagnosed with ADHD some time ago I fell into this kind of trap well before LLM's, but not to this degree.
So I'm writing code by hand today and using Claude to track down type and dependency errors. It feels good, I might do this for a while.
Nzer but some cultural overlap between here and Aus, that’s far too advanced. Auckland for eg has almost unusable busses and trains but the answer to congestion is apparently to make it impossible to park in the cbd, rather than make any actual improvements.
Like, modern and understandable? I ask because English from more than a few hundred years ago is basically gibberish so I’m curious about languages where that didn’t happen.
I built one of these and I really wanted to love it, but in the end gave up because I just couldn't get comfortable with 3+ layers. On the lookout for a reasonably aesthetic TKL split - at least until I give in and make my own.
This is my favourite way to iterate, but the hard lesson is at some point after trying a bunch of things comes the Big Cleanup (tm). Is that a potential issue for this with Zig?
So if it can generate exactly what you had in mind based presumably on the most subtle of cues like your personal quirks from a few sentences that could be _terrifying_, right?
Doesn't this mean the ones that should be really worried are the project managers, since the SWE has better understanding over what's being done and can now orchestrate from a PM level?
There are dragons here. The hope, presumably, is to be able to describe a solution at a high level and have an AI figure out the details instead of a developer (or detail oriented) person. The problem I can see with this is ownership over those details, AI can't currently explain its reasoning or react too well to issues that crop up with its own previous decisions, since it's usually a 'fresh' instance for each prompt. In other words it might know how, but it can't know why. Or at least not without retracing every step every time.