Yes that sound like important and useful use cases. However, these are solved by boring old school ML models since years...
I think what they're saying is that you need the summaries to do these things
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williamdclt commented on AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong lastweekinaws.com/blog/aw... · Posted by u/keithly
Not the OP but I’ve had AWS-staff recommend different prefixes even as recently as last year.
If key prefixes don’t matter much any more, then it’s a very recent change that I’ve missed.
Might just be that the AWS staff wasn't up to date on this
Microservices for _organizational_ challenges.
Lots of people think microservices = performance gains only.
It’s not. It’s mainly for organizational efficiency. You can’t be blocked from deploying fixes or features. Always be shipping. Without breaking someone else’s code.
> Lots of people think microservices = performance gains only.
I don't think I ever heard that. Who claims that microservice architectures are for performance gains?
williamdclt commented on Airbrush art of the 80s (2015) coolandcollected.com/airb... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
Ironic, because we didn't know the art was improved by the subtle texture of imperfections. We were totally going for maximum hyperrealism and clean precision. I had the same experience of craving an airbrush, obtaining an airbrush, then within a year seeing a demo of 32-bit color graphics editing (a museum had a computer set up for the public to try it out) and feeling silly.
> Ironic, because we didn't know the art was improved by the subtle texture of imperfections
I might be talking out of my ass, but I'm pretty sure we've "known" for centuries that imperfection has an enormous place in art. Before computers, before photography.
williamdclt commented on The Kuzma Self-Playing Guitar System core77.com/posts/137962/T... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Is there a fundamental reason why a "perfect mechanism" like this sounds just like a "perfect string" = midi guitar instrument = harmonic sequence of a vibrating string? Does it mean that human fingers are responsible for the remaining harmonics that we associate with the "guitar sound" on top of the "theoretical guitar tembre".
I'd guess that it's a combination of things:
- The material of the robot's "finger" makes for a very clanky sound (metal?). Actually it sounds kinda like a harpsichord - The perfect rhythm makes for a very robotic feel - The perfect consistency of how a string is plucked (same attack/volume at every note) also makes for a very robotic feel
The first is about harmonics, the second two not so much, but I'd expect that harmonics are the lesser of what makes it feel midi-ey. After all, some people play with metal picks or fingerpicks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpick).
williamdclt commented on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context anthropic.com/news/1m-con... · Posted by u/adocomplete
i don't know if anybody else has experienced this, but one of my biggest time-sucks with cursor is that it doesn't have a way for me to steer it mid-process that i'm aware of.
it'll build something that fails a test, but i know how to fix the problem. i can't jump in a manually fix it or tell it what to do. i just have to watch it churn through the problem and eventually give up and throw away a 90% good solution that i knew how to fix.
You can click stop, and prompt it from there
williamdclt commented on What does it mean to be thirsty? quantamagazine.org/what-d... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I just remember reading that adults start to lose their ability to sense thirst.
Wikipedia says 50:
In adults over the age of 50 years, the body's thirst sensation reduces and continues diminishing with age, putting this population at increased risk of dehydration.
It's a big problem for the elderlies, it snowballs into serious issues. Don't feel thirst -> be dehydrated -> UTI -> hospital.
And having to be stay at a hospital for a length of time for any reason is very much Not Good for an elderly person. Other illnesses, muscle atrophy, disorientation, loneliness, cognitive decline...
Pretty sure a majority of regular people don't want to go to work and would be happy to see their jobs automated away provided their material quality of life didn't go down.
> happy to see their jobs automated away provided their material quality of life didn't go down
Sure but literally _who_ is planning for this? Not any of the AI players, no government, no major political party anywhere. There's no incentive in our society that's set up for this to happen.
williamdclt commented on PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator thephp.foundation/blog/20... · Posted by u/lemper
Why not just make types psuedo-objects?
$myString.trim().replace("w", "h");
Which has the advantage of also offering a clean alternative to the fragmented stdlib.
> Why not just make types psuedo-objects?
With this sort of "just" I could build Paris out of matchsticks
Do they? After too many functional battles I started practicing what I'm jokingly calling "Debugging-Driven Development" and just like TDD keeps the design decisions in mind to allow for testability from the get-go, this makes me write code that will be trivially easy to debug (specially printf-guided debugging and step-by-step execution debugging)
Like, adding a printf in the middle of a for loop, without even needing to understand the logic of the loop. Just make a new line and write a printf. I grew tired of all those tight chains of code that iterate beautifully but later when in a hurry at 3am on a Sunday are hell to decompose and debug.
I think it's a bad trade-off, most languages out there are moving away from it