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jiggunjer commented on AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore   praf.me/ai-coding... · Posted by u/_praf
energy123 · 6 days ago
It's not parody. I'm trying to provide the LLM with what's missing, which is a theory of how the system fits into the world: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

Without this it defaults to being ignorant about the trade-offs that you care about, or the relevant assumptions you're making which you think are obvious but really aren't.

The "simple stream" aspect is that each task I give to the LLM is narrowly scoped, and I don't want to put all aspects of the relevant theory that pertains just to that one narrow task into a more formal centralized doc. It's better off as an ephemeral part of the prompt that I can delete after the task is done. But I also do have more formal docs that describe the shared parts of the theory that every prompt will need access to, which is fed in as part of the normal context.

jiggunjer · 4 days ago
So like: <prompt> <intent>Generate a metaphor-rich essay on the fragility of digital memory in the age of infinite storage</intent>

  <assumptions>
    <tech>LLMs understand metaphor but may default to literal interpretations unless nudged</tech>
    <audience>Reader is tech-savvy but emotionally attuned</audience>
    <bias>We romanticize loss and impermanence; permanence is sterile</bias>
    <style>Poetic, but not florid. Think Calvino meets cyberpunk.</style>
  </assumptions>
  
  <worldModel>
    <digitalMemory>
      <definition>Not just data retention, but emotional proxies, identity scaffolding</definition>
      <paradox>We remember too much, and thus forget how to forget</paradox>
      <analogy>Digital memory is a hoarder’s attic with perfect climate control</analogy>
    </digitalMemory>
    <humanMemory>
      <contrast>Fuzzy, selective, narrative-driven</contrast>
      <value>Its gaps are what make it beautiful</value>
    </humanMemory>
    <systemInteraction>
      <modelRole>LLM is not just a scribe, but a co-dreamer</modelRole>
      <risk>Model may over-index on coherence, losing the emotional fray</risk>
    </systemInteraction>
  </worldModel>
  
  <openQuestions>
    <q>Can forgetting be designed into digital systems?</q>
    <q>Is nostalgia a compression algorithm?</q>
    <q>What does it mean to "misremember" in a world of perfect logs?</q>
  </openQuestions>
  
  <edgeCases>
    <case>Model generates a dystopia instead of a melancholic tone</case>
    <case>Model literalizes metaphors (e.g., "clouds forget")</case>
    <case>Model assumes user wants a solution, not a meditation</case>
  </edgeCases>
  
  <bestPractices>
    <tip>Use metaphor as scaffolding, not decoration</tip>
    <tip>Let ambiguity breathe—don’t resolve every tension</tip>
    <tip>Favor rhythm over precision in sentence structure</tip>
  </bestPractices>
  
  <meta>
    <duration>Prompt typed in 2 minutes, no edits</duration>
    <mood>Sleep-deprived but lucid</mood>
    <goal>To make the model feel like it’s dreaming with me</goal>
  </meta>
</prompt>

jiggunjer commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android   9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat
GeoAtreides · 7 days ago
Second phone for all official business apps, banking, etc. Never leaves home and it's used only for this purpose
jiggunjer · 7 days ago
Then use a laptop instead? Or you have one of those "modern" banks that's app only?
jiggunjer commented on Replacing cron jobs with a centralized task scheduler   mayhul.com/posts/schedule... · Posted by u/tlf
jiggunjer · a month ago
Aka workflow orchestrator, pipeline manager, process runner, automation tool.

It's not clear if they used a product or DIY solution. The nice thing many existing products offer is a web UI and a database.

jiggunjer commented on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google   theverge.com/openai/70599... · Posted by u/rcchen
sagarpatil · 2 months ago
I strongly agree with you. I’m more of a CLI guy, and Claude Code just works. Most good projects have a CLI anyway (gcloud, GitHub CLI, Vercel, etc.). I prefer CLI vs MCP’s. I’m on the $200 plan, and it’s absolutely worth it (never thought I’d say this for a CLI app).
jiggunjer · 2 months ago
But CC is more work to setup, especially if you want to use multiple models. Not even sure it supports all the models that the IDE products do.
jiggunjer commented on SQLite Date and Time Functions (2007)   www2.sqlite.org/cvstrac/w... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7
crazygringo · 3 months ago
For storing actual moments in physical time (especially past events), and where the time zone is irrelevant, for sure.

But for storing future events that are tied to a time zone, you need the string with time zone. Otherwise when time zone definitions change, your time will become wrong.

jiggunjer · 3 months ago
UTC is pretty stable though. I recall they will obsolete leap seconds somewhere in the next 10 years
jiggunjer commented on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle   corentin.trebaol.com/Blog... · Posted by u/5mv2
iainctduncan · 3 months ago
This is not homelessness. This is "bandit camping". Not a value judgment on the act - when I was young climbing bum I did me a fair bit of it. But calling it homelessness is pretty insulting to the actual homeless, who aren't doing it by choice to optimize their time for a relative luxury.
jiggunjer · 3 months ago
Actually the ETHOS classification system for homeless focuses more on where a person is living as opposed to why they're living like that. OP would alternate between two categories.
jiggunjer commented on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature   herecomesthemoon.net/2025... · Posted by u/Mond_
layer8 · 4 months ago
The one thing that I don’t like about pipelining (whether using a pipe operator or method chaining), is that assigning the result to a variable goes in the wrong direction, so to speak. There should be an equivalent of the shell’s `>` for piping into a variable as the final step. Of course, if the variable is being declared at the same time, whatever the concrete syntax is would still require some getting used to, being “backwards” compared to regular assignment/initialization.
jiggunjer · 4 months ago
Exists in R: Mydata %>% myfun -> myresult
jiggunjer commented on Whenever: Typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python   github.com/ariebovenberg/... · Posted by u/pkkm
wodenokoto · 5 months ago
Funny it doesn’t add comparison to date times in pandas, which is probably used to handle more dates than any of the others.
jiggunjer · 5 months ago
Pandas uses stdlib or numpy for it seems.
jiggunjer commented on We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing   theverge.com/tech/640119/... · Posted by u/Tomte
4ad · 5 months ago
All raw means is scene-referred data. The idea that somehow raw means "raw" data from the sensor is an often repeated idea, but unfortunately is completely nonsense. Modern sensors do on-chip noise reduction, they can be programmed to give data in all kind of formats and with different processing done to it. The same sensor used in different cameras can have different ISO. The same sensor used in different cameras can produce different RAW files even at the same ISO. Not just in the sense of a different file format, in the sense of different data in the file, from the exact same sensor, but programmed differently.
jiggunjer · 5 months ago
Source? There are lossless and lossy transformations. In many scientific contexts raw implies no lossy transformations in terms of information.
jiggunjer commented on Games Workshop and the big ambition of a miniatures business   bbc.com/news/articles/cr5... · Posted by u/defrost
Retric · 7 months ago
They aren’t really dominant unless you so heavily restrict the space. The more popular “battlefield” simulation between armies are more abstract aka Risk, Chess, etc or video games like StarCraft.

Restrict things enough to basically describe 40k and sure they’re dominant, because you’re excluding most games.

jiggunjer · 7 months ago
It makes sense to just consider the category of tabletop games in terms of market analysis.

Saying those games are a small part of the overall games market is stating the obvious. Some people just wanna play tabletop games.

u/jiggunjer

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