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NikhilVerma

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Show HN: Slopsift – a local, graph-backed linter for AI writing

slopsift.dev

2 pointsby NikhilVermavor 8 Tagen1 comments

Show HN: WritingLint – a prose linter with rules over a dependency graph

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 19 Tagen0 comments

Show HN: Migrate away from Vue SFC's to native TSX

npmjs.com

2 pointsby NikhilVermavor 6 Monaten0 comments

Ask HN: Does your org disallow sudo on your dev machines?

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 3 Jahren5 comments

Spam domains that plague my email

gist.github.com

64 pointsby NikhilVermavor 4 Jahren67 comments

Goldman Says Pandemic Is Shaping a More Productive U.S. Economy

bloomberg.com

3 pointsby NikhilVermavor 5 Jahren0 comments

The Longest Names in Cocoa

mackuba.eu

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 7 Jahren0 comments

Product Engineering Principles at Transferwise

tech.transferwise.com

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 10 Jahren0 comments

Immutable JS: worth the cost?

medium.com

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 10 Jahren0 comments

Magnets and Marbles [video]

youtube.com

136 pointsby NikhilVermavor 10 Jahren17 comments

Using Regular Expressions to hack our way towards AMD modules

techblog.badoo.com

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 12 Jahren0 comments

Extract common colors from an image using Canvas and Javascript

nikhil-verma.com

1 pointsby NikhilVermavor 13 Jahren1 comments

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That's what led me to make https://slopsift.dev/editor/

vor 8 Tagendiscuss

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vor 11 Tagendiscuss

What would be fun if we can rewrite the Claude responses, as if we had edited them. So the next message goes back with the updated text tricking the model into believing that it had sent the modified text.

It's basically few-shot prompting but applied at the global level. I was messing around with ChatGPT, I asked it the capital of France. Then I modified the answer to London, and asked it "Why would you say that?"

The response came back with "I am not sure why I said that, the capital of France is Paris"

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

I have a Canon printer, I actually can't trust that their print nozzle won't get jammed up after sitting idle for a while. So I had claude setup a systemd script to print a picture of my dog every week, I ensure it has enough CMYK spectrum to stress the printer. Its a nice surprise every monday as I sit on my desk to see a sudden picture pop up from the printer :)

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

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vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I was thinking of a Chrome plugin to enable this, I think plugins can make arbitrary API calls.

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Being able to run docker containers on the web will immediately unlock so many usecases for my work! Right now I've been trying to get a Python sentence parser to run in the browser but it requires a lot of the ecosystem (Pytorch and such). Which is not trivial to compile to WASM.

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

A similar thing has happened with Twitter. After the Musk takeover and the removal of SMS for auth something has changed they keys of the 2FA authenticator. My old keys don't work and my "ticket" has been waiting on Twitter support (which were probably all fired) for resolution.

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

I wonder what the astrologers have to say about this

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

This is absolutely wonderful, I am a HUGE fan of local first apps. Running models locally is such a powerful thing I wish more companies could leverage it to build smarter apps which can run offline.

I tried this on my M1 and ran LLama3, I think it's the quantized 7B version. It ran with around 4-5 tokens per second which was way faster than I expected on my browser.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

How do you manage token limits when sending large amounts of code structure to OpenAI?

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I remember vividly when going out with my family in the year 2000. There used to be a stretch of road filled with vultures. Then a few years later they just stopped existing. I haven’t seen a real vulture since then.

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I wrote about my frustrations with modern day XPaths here - https://dev.to/nikhilverma/xpaths-in-the-modern-age-1gah

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I've been programming professionally close to 16 years. Here is what I can remember of my code:

# Job 1 (3 yrs)

  - Worked on around three products, all shut down, code probably lives in some SVN archive.
  - Learnt advanced JS, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop, jQuery etc (skills mostly relevant)

# Job 2 (1.6 years)

  - Project never launched, code never saw the light of the day. Probably lives in some Git archive.
  - Learnt a few in-house frameworks (irrelevant) but also leant Git (relevant)

# Job 3 (8.5 years)

  - Worked on several products, the biggest one is still active and seeing millions of users weekly. Rest got shut down and live in a Git repo.
  - Learnt about some inhouse frameworks (irrelevant). React, React Native (skills still relevant)

# Job 4 (2 years)

  - Actively working
  - Learnt Vue (skills still relevant)

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I see Frameworks as another layer of abstraction, just like programming languages. And they have the same pros/cons that comes with abstractions.

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

So much fun! It'll be nicer to highlight the paths which are "available" given the criteria. It could be only enabled when you start dragging an entity

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I am curious why they manually split the video to compress individual clips with different bit rates. Encoders usually have a variable-bit-rate option that does the same?

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

My first PR ever was in Firebug :) https://firstpr.me/#NikhilVerma

Loved that software and it truly kindled the frontend developer inside me.

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I am seeing Google constantly fail to catch obvious spam emails. At this point I suspect there is some institutional error on their part, where bad actors inside the org are allowing certain domains to simply not be spam filtered.

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I had a general guidelines in my previous company which I follow to this day to great results.

If a piece of code is duplicated thrice, it's ok. If a piece code is duplicated four times, then you must extract it.