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I think it should matter. When you ask the AI something you are in a frame of mind, you have a specific context, the question also holds value and context that might completely change the parsing of the answer or at least the difficulty of it.

What I'm asking and the response from AI through an intermediary lose some context (the prompt), it's like the telephone game where the data becomes more and more distorted, that's why people don't have an issue with their own AI generated answers.

Another issue is that when I'm talking with someone and parsing through what they've said I'm considering them, as a person, taking all available context (some of this might happen unconsciously).

In any case I don't think there is an easy solution to the problem.

I don't disagree with the concept of AI being another abstraction layer (maybe) but I feel that's an insult to a CNC machine which is a very precise and accurate tool.

backup, root, recover?

I really don't understand this. My line of thinking is that if someone is technical enough to root his phone he understands the risks. Why would they force banking apps to detect and not work on rooted phones? Why would the government care so much?

I also meant more advanced optimizations beyond what svelte does, like: inlining, loop unrolling, partial evaluation that would trickle down to the frameworks as well. I am aware that some of these and others are very hard to do on javascript as prepack shows.

I’d actually love to see something that goes in the opposite direction, highly optimized and compiled, where the result is as small, fast, and efficient as possible. I get that a lot of people dislike compilation, but once I have the CI set upI never found build steps to be a problem for me.

Some time ago while I was experimenting with writing Debian benchmarks[0], I found that by completely avoiding strings, using Uint8Arrays, and manually managing bounds/memory, I could squeeze out performance that almost made you forget you were writing JavaScript. I never ended up submitting a PR, but it was pretty eye-opening.

At one point I went into a rabbit hole and tried to build something similar on my own, but it got complicated very quickly given my limited compiler knowledge. That’s why I always thought Prepack[1] was such a cool idea.

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... [1] https://github.com/facebookarchive/prepack

From what I know it can't be "rotated losslessly" in all cases, only if the dimensions of the images are multiples of the MCU which are block of pixels whose size is determined by the chroma subsampling. Ex.: With the common "4:2:0" subsampling the MCU is 16x16 the image's height and width must be exactly multiples of 16, otherwise I think it's just visually lossless and uses some tricks that I'm still not sure how they work.

Always found clear linux very interesting and wanted to give it a try but totally expected this.

Unpopular opinion: I think I’m going to wait for version 4 /jk. But honestly, I’ve been spoiled by modern languages like Rust, Go, and even TypeScript with modern tooling, strong typing, stability, and performance out of the box. Right now, I’m just interacting with LLMs, not building them.

That said, I remember writing myself a note a few years ago to avoid Python projects. I had to clean up code from all over the company and make it ready for production. Everyone had their own Python version, dependencies missing from requirements.txt, three way conflicts between 2 dependencies and the python version, wildly different styles, and a habit of pulling in as many libraries as possible [1]. Even recalling those memories makes my stomach turn.

I believe constraints make a project shine and be maintainable. I'd prefer if you throw at me a real python instead of a python project.

[1] Yes, I'm aware of containers, I was the unlucky guy writing them.

I was thinking about buying an incinerator, I recycle my trash but recently found that everything gets mixed back together in the end by the privatized trash company and no recycling happens.

This makes sense and I'm with you, people that are polluting beaches and natural areas should face harder punishments. That being said I'm missing plastic straws for drinking cold coffee.

I really dislike when people don't see this. They try to cut 10 grams of CO2 per day while other industries (shipping, aviation, rails) produce hundreds of tons per day and even this transportation modes are less that 20% with most CO2 produced mainly being in energy production and used by industry.

Unless your employer pays for you to use agentic tools, avoid them. They burn through money and tokens like there's no tomorrow.

That's exactly how I started using them as well. 1. Give it just enough context, the assumptions that hold and the goal. 2. Review answer and iterate on the initial prompt. It is also the economical way to use them. I've been burned one too many times by using agents (they just spin and spin, burn 30 dollars for one prompt and either mess the code base or converge on the previous code written ).

I also feel the need to caution others that by letting the AI write lots of code in your project it makes it harder to advance it, evolve it and just move on with confidence (code you didn't think about and write it doesn't stick as well into your memory).

Blew my mind. I have hundreds of tabs open, no issue on linux chrome.

Nope, not yet. I tried that 3 times, once for my mac, then for my linux and once for a project. Every time I gave it a solid try found it lacking so I made a note to wait a few more years. The promise of reproducible systems is so hard to resist but nix brings crazy complexity (not all of it necessary), I'd prefer a system where their package repo has 4 packages but it makes it easy enough to me to bring other packages.

Writing nix is like writing functions but in order to remember the arguments and fields of those arguments in another file that you can only access through your browser. Look at any nix file, and tell me where each variable is coming from.

I'm getting a lot of value in areas where I don't have much experience but most of the time I still write the final version.

I'm not building commercial software and don't have a commercial job at the moment so I'm kind of struggling with credits otherwise I would probably blow 40-100$ dollars a day.

I was self taught before I studied, most of the "foundational" knowledge is very easy to acquire. I've mentored some self-taught juniors and they surprised me at how fast they picked up concepts like big O just by looking at a few examples.

Due to my current condition. I feel that I could do more both for myself and the world but unfortunately motivation plays a big role or otherwise I have to trick myself into feeling stressed in order to do things like work that might be boring or feeling observer.

So many reasons: absorb information faster; improve spatial visualization; motivation, intrinsic motivation hacking ; simulations...etc

Give me the code to my brain and let me edit it, with version control please :D

ok, that pretty cool research from Google, hope this leads to even more discoveries around the brain, hopefully it's time we get a better understanding of our brains and how to hack them.

Thank you for all the assurances and suggestions for the future. The meat was cooked very well but the problem I think it's that me and my friends (hunters) were unaware of such a possibility.

We were the ones that brought back, cleaned and prepared the boar with our bare hands with no precautions (we were in the mountains). The only thing that gives me a bit of piece of mind is that several months passed since then and we have no symptoms and I know many other people that have eaten wild boar from that area that have no symptoms.

I ate a lot of such boar meat last year in Greece, it instantly became my favorite due to the hardness and taste but based on this I may avoid it for the foreseeable future.

So public surveillance in US is already at the level where you can't do anything without the Government knowing. (not even burn a few nazi Teslas /s).

I don't favor Musk at all but I find it hard to believe that the nazi salute was on purpose, seems like that was blown out of proportion, but the chances are not zero, Musk grew in Pretoria, South Africa which had an Apartheid Government with similar ideology, a place which a lot of nazis took refuge after they lost the war.

I agree that everyone needs to face the consequences to their actions but feels a bit hypocritical and unfair seeing as how people with power and money just get away with it. I'd also love a clear picture of how these guys were caught so fast.

Just tried it. Not sure exactly what model is behind the scenes but it was cringe. I provided specs for a coding task, it told me that the specs are possible but too complex so it just gave me an alternative naive way of doing it. I use LLMs as a tool so I'm trying to be very exact with my requirements and wording, this felt like it was basically negotiating the requirements with me...kinda annoyed me, lol. My suspicion is that it was trained too much on chinese forums and the data was not refined enough.

This is crazy.. you guys are focused on vans and mini stories when all his sacrifice and that of thousand if not more americans was snuffed.

`Congress intervened by passing the FISA Amendments Act which, in part, granted “retroactive immunity” to the telecommunications carriers for their involvement in the NSA spying programs. This massive grant of immunity for past violations of multiple state and federal laws protecting communications privacy was unprecedented.`

I don't think it's working. So if I drink 3 small glasses of wine I shouldn't drive even after 3 days at 100kg? I'm glad you've mentioned vibe coding. You also don't need a server for doing a simple calc.

My first pair of glasses were glass and even though I suspect the prescription was not correct I never had eye strain and headaches but they shattered in less than a month and then I moved to polycarbonate...it took me a year to find out that the polycarbonate glasses were the ones causing me discomfort and strain. Since then I only get actual glass.

Lindsay Graham looks more like he pissed himself. So after he saw that bullying and the way the president conducted himself he couldn't be more proud? I've met some ppl, some crazies included, but none that distort reality the way trump and his supporters do. Is there like a crisis in the american education system, what is happening there?

The model is expensive, it almost reaches what I charge per hour. If used right it can be a productivity increase otherwise if you trust it, it WILL introduce silent bugs. So if I have to go over the code line by line I'd prefer to use the cheapest viable model: deepseek, gemini any other free self-hosted models.

Congratz to the team!