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tylersmith··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
Someday computers will be able to do basic arithmetic and people will learn that 95000/600 < 500.
tylersmith··on AI LLMs can't count lines in a file
An LLM itself can't use wc. Coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor will call out to command line tools for this kind of problem when the LLM detects it.
tylersmith··on Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
You don't need an explicit rule, you just need to be smarter than than the average mid-curve tries-too-hard-to-feel-right hn poster and realize when you're repeating a calling convention too much.
tylersmith··on LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
The gamification is what made it work for me. I had 2 months to learn some Turkish before a trip and once I realized it was a game I beat everyone else in my cohort every day. When someone would come up on my heels I'd make sure to spend 30-60 extra minutes that day. I still know Turkish better than any other language and I've been immersed in Spanish for 3 years.
tylersmith··on Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
This is right by where I grew up and the broadcast tower and turnpike sign were the first two things I noticed too, but the ability to realize it was the East side instead of the West side because the tower platforms are lower is impressive.
tylersmith··on Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
$200 per PR is significantly cheaper development than businesses are paying.
tylersmith··on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
There's nothing you can do even with an account.
tylersmith··on Claude can now search the web
It's a user agent not a robot.
tylersmith··on "Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI
It's not trained on "the commons", it's trained on a large number of individual products with their own ownership and licensing. If copyrights are being violated the restitution will go to those owners, not to "everyone".
tylersmith··on Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
I think the inline command pallete likely ran into an internal error making it be unable to generate, and then its "come up with a message telling the user we can't do this" generation got StackOverflow'd.
tylersmith··on Sam Bankman-Fried thrown into solitary over Tucker Carlson interview: report
For many people, Sam is a more relevant adversary than the Department of Corrections.
tylersmith··on Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation
They've always been behind. They're closer than ever but still miles away from Claude's code abilities.
tylersmith··on Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation
No free models are even in the same class as Claude when it comes to code. Investors are clearly confident that moat won't be crossed soon.
tylersmith··on Git without a forge
> monocultures are bad, and doesn't want to support them

is just

> it's popular, it must be eschewed.

after a chatgpt pass

tylersmith··on Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?
Fire the bad engineer.
tylersmith··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Nobody is actually confused, it's just performative whining.
tylersmith··on iTerm2 critical security release
Ghostty hasn't had to put out a critical update since before 1.0 launched.
tylersmith··on Ghostty 1.0
You have OpenGL 3.2 but need 3.3
tylersmith··on Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science
Yes, it's called bias.
tylersmith··on Boeing to Sell at Least $10B in Shares to Plug Cash Drain
Who decided that's what they were supposed to do with it?
tylersmith··on How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)
Why did you expect that? Why would someone reward your personal choice in dedication?
tylersmith··on OpenAI Pleads It Can't Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
The value of all human labor does not come from copyright.
tylersmith··on Lynn Conway has died
It's so cool how so many important women in computing are trans women.
tylersmith··on You'll regret using natural keys
Which only reenforces the point that using what is exposed as the ID is not safe as a natural key.
tylersmith··on Orthodox C++
That is what HolyC is.
tylersmith··on Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners
The arbitrage is happening on on-chain exchanges which require transactions to work with.
tylersmith··on Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun
There will always be people unable to figure out basic skills but that's not a reason to handicap the entire system.
tylersmith··on Deterministic Quoting: Making LLMs safer for healthcare
Yes, and Dropbox is an rsync server.
tylersmith··on Pokémon Go players are altering public map data to catch rare Pokémon
Why should it be that way?
tylersmith··on A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
> But to push back, if you’re talking about a 5 minute task, that you’re using once every few months, a free trial timed the way you are asking, might mean you never end up needing to purchase a license.

That's why they want that model. Complaints like the GP's are just a thin veil over being too cheap to pay for the software they use. You can see it in the other responses to your comment.

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