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_tom_ commented on Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions (2024)   vermaden.wordpress.com/20... · Posted by u/zdw
_tom_ · 6 months ago
Organization:

I got a storage organizer with 24 drawers. One for each type of cable I use. So instead of one big box that I have to hunt through, I have instant, labeled access to all my usb cables, and a few other cables and items.

_tom_ commented on Tetrachromatic Vision   bookofjoe.com/2025/05/my-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
mholm · 6 months ago
15 years ago, Sharp released “Quattron” TVs with yellow subpixels. It was effectively indistinguishable, even in person.
_tom_ · 6 months ago
But was it distinguishable by tetrachromat?
_tom_ commented on After millions of years, why are carnivorous plants still so small?   smithsonianmag.com/articl... · Posted by u/gmays
_tom_ · 6 months ago
You are assuming that they haven't.

Brambles can trap sheep, benefiting from the sheep as fertilizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGobnZq83g

Falling coconuts can not only kill people, but probably kill far more small animals, again benefiting from them as fertilizer,

_tom_ commented on Cray versus Raspberry Pi   aardvark.co.nz/daily/2025... · Posted by u/flyingkiwi44
_tom_ · 6 months ago
The pi has a sub $100 accelerator card that takes it to 30 TFLOPs. So you can add three more orders of magnitude of performance for a rough doubling of the price.
_tom_ commented on (Backup!) Built an AI that brutally roasts your website designs   ugh.design... · Posted by u/jayantrao94
_tom_ · 6 months ago
Doesn't work. Did it die under the load?

Firefox and safari, iPhone.

_tom_ commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts   fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
AstroBen · 7 months ago
I've had a lot of success using LLMs to deepen my understanding of topics. Give them an argument, and have them give the best points against it. Consider them, iterate. Argue against it and let it counter. It's a really good rubber duck

> The expert skills... currently come from long experience writing code

Do they? Is it the writing that's important? Or is it the thinking that goes along with it? What's stopping someone from going through LLM output, going back and forth on design decisions with the LLM, and ultimately making the final choice of how the tool should mold the codebase after seeing the options

I mean of course this requires some proactive effort on your part.. but it always did

The key point I think though is to not outsource your thinking. You can't blindly trust the output. It's a modern search engine

_tom_ · 7 months ago
I think it's the writing.

I learned long ago that I could read a book, study it, think about it. And I still would really master the material until I built with it.

_tom_ commented on Human coders are still better than LLMs   antirez.com/news/153... · Posted by u/longwave
mattnewton · 7 months ago
This matches my experience. I actually think a fair amount of value from LLM assistants to me is having a reasonably intelligent rubber duck to talk to. Now the duck can occasionally disagree and sometimes even refine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

I think the big question everyone wants to skip right to and past this conversation is, will this continue to be true 2 years from now? I don’t know how to answer that question.

_tom_ · 7 months ago
For me, it's a bit like pair programming. I have someone to discuss ideas with. Someone to review my code and suggest alternative approaches. Some one that uses different feature than I do, so I learn from them.
_tom_ commented on Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text   github.com/mermaid-js/mer... · Posted by u/olalonde
billyp-rva · 7 months ago
> And I don’t know anything else that shows git blame for who changed what in my diagram, when.

You could do this with any diagrams-as-code tool, no?

_tom_ · 7 months ago
I think he's saying you can click and edit on the diagram, which mermaid doesn't support. This does propagate back into the source.

I think you are talking about "just change the text and regenerate", which achieves much the same goal.

I'm not sure in what cases the former is better.

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