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The LLM itself doesn't, but agents can research, compare, add to their memory, and use that to narrow the results down to a probabilistically higher set of outputs; I have used an LLM for my own MRI results and it was nearly spot-on, verified by a subsequent visit to a specialist. YMMV as they say. But I do believe we are entering the era where LLMs are considering past interactions and long context windows to inform it of personal preferences and history in order to output more accurate results.

I've been using Augment lately in dbt, PHP, and Typescript codebases, and it has been producing production-level code, it has been creating (and running!) tests automatically, and always goes through multiple levels of review before merge.

Posts like these will always be influenced by the author's experience with specific tools, in addition to what languages they use (as I can imagine lesser-used languages/frameworks will have less training material, thus lower quality output), as well as the choice of LLM that powers it behind the scenes.

I think it is a 'your mileage may vary' situation.

I had the same issue described in the article... how do you choose a community?

It was the first question I had when looking into Mastodon, and a few minutes in I closed the tabs.

I don't want to choose a community, I want a single place/domain I rely on, I don't care if the backend is decentralised, I want the entry as a new user to be as low as possible, I need to understand the product in a few sentences.

They lost me as a potential user, I wonder how many more they lost. That entry barrier (just as with UX / registration forms) has to be as low as possible.

Indeed, as long as we can export data I wouldn't mind too much. Worst case you can write your own tool to represent the data in a visual format you desire. I think the columnar structure of Notion (which collapses on mobile) is quite neat.

The only thing I'm scared of is I've started writing a book (in Notion), and it would be a shame if something happens to it due to unrecoverable data loss...

Absolutely love Notion for the aspects mentioned in the article; I love how I can cluster everything together (work, life, etc.)

From short term planning (templates for my week which I copy every Sunday to start a fresh week - these templates are a 7 day todo list (in columns) with a link to my main calendar, project 'kanban' boards, and a linked "general todo" list for things that don't fit in the week and keep dragging on)

After being addicted to scheduling everything in a calendar (for about 5-6 years), and having to drag items I didn't complete to the next day every single day, working with templates (and linked lists / embedded sections) in Notion is really a game changer. I've tried many other to-do tools (like Wunderlist which I loved before it came Microsoft To-Do, which I still gave a chance but had too many bugs).

Notion is just a game changer plain and simple, I hope they never break it, this is the only tool I have come to love and trust to keep my entire life in.

The intersection between Geoguessr and making music; I started a series called Making music on Geoguessr a few years ago, and since then have become quite passionate about the game and learning geography.

I recently started a website that combines StreetView scenes with part of it generated by DALL-E - thisstreetviewdoesnotexist.com - also forced myself to learn a little Svelte for that… React had been my previous go-to when dabbling in front-end.

I spent 2-3 years alone, I alienated my friends and pursued my interests, spent 1/3 of my spare time playing CSGO, 1/3 of the time crafting music, and 1/3 of the time writing software and coming up with ideas for startups and web projects. Other than work, I was truly isolated.

Half of me was completely content with the fact that I had my own space, my solitude, my quiet space, my time. I was in control. Yet, after years of this, heck... even after months of this, something starts ticking in your brain... that feeling that you are missing out on things.

Since then I managed to connect with people, through gaming, but later on in real life, that became a huge part of who I am. I also opened up to coworkers, and even though anxiety and depression can be a massive burden and make it really hard to "open up", I fought through it, through the panic attacks and everything, and now I feel like I'm finally starting to appreciate company.

Yet, I love being alone. I love creating, I love my space, and I love being in control of my time, as it is finite, and we can control how to spend it... But it feel nice to let other people into that time, and also to give some of it up to spend time with others; we are all humans with a million thoughts and a million things troubling us and pulling us in all sorts of directions...

That said, I think solitude has massive benefits as well; over time it allows you to read yourself, which in turn helps you to read others. To discover how your mind ticks is to discover how we all differ, and social clues notwithstanding, it does help progress towards a more social behavior.

Solitude as well as companionship both are indispensable in the long term; the key is to balance both. One time I went to a hotel next to a waterfall in northern Mexico for 3 days without a mobile phone... it was bliss. Yet at the same time I recall festivals with friends, barbecues, and gaming nights with the same fondness.

All it takes is time and thoughtfulness.

The target market of the business is a strategical internal investment from a marketing and product perspective; this is not something that needs to be communicated externally...

Simply direct internal AEs/CS/PS + branding/messaging/content to target & serve specific segments whilst offering a very basic level of support towards SMBs, and remove free tiers (opting for "contact us for pricing" action buttons for example).

Afterwards the organisation will organically shift towards that direction; but by making this a public thing it hinders opportunity and affects public perception.

Whenever I'm anxious it is not just one voice but almost an internal cacophony. I found that if I shout "STOOOP" at myself (internally), while clenching my fists, it almost always quietens the whole chorus down.

I clicked the 5 because it is the only thing I found that looked like a link, and half expected to go to the end of something (this was after scrolling through amazon results, page after page without finding what I was looking for, so I guess my idea of "reaching the end" might have been biased.

I had this earlier! A bunch of sites were down for me, I couldn't even connect to this site.

The problem is I don't know where to find what was going on (tried looking up live DDOS-tracking websites, "is it down or is it just me" websites, etc. I couldn't find a single place talking about this.

Is there a source where you can get instant information on Level3 / global DNS / major outages?

We should write a plugin which normalises headlines, essentially a de-click-bater. By training a NN on neutral headlines vs doom/anxiety-inducing/clickbait headlines we can essentially provide the inverse as well.

"The Danger Of Seeking a Life Purpose" from Sorelle Amore is an interesting video that lightly touches on this subject. Whilst I do not agree with everything mentioned, I do have one word of advice: Find hobbies, find many hobbies, switch constantly, and you might just find one niche you love... and once you find something you love, you'll dig into it like the hacker you are, and then you'll dig deeper, and you'll dream, and you'll envision, and you'll write, and you'll create, and you'll go leaps and bounds beyond what you thought you'd be capable of... and you'll fail, but you'll rebound... and you'll enjoy every single moment of it.

"Pouring your soul into something that can provide meaning to your life" doesn't just happen, your life has no meaning, just like mine doesn't... but you can pour something into your life regardless, and this will be much more satisfactory, knowing we all die, accepting we all die, and still having fun in this short moment of time we are here... and creating for fun, and... living!

In my case, I've started delving into creating a new language, creating a typography for this language, writing a universe where people talk in this language, writing a story that happens in this universe, and further down the line I plan to write poems and music that happens in this universe... and all along I know this is not my life's purpose. This is just a creation... We don't need a purpose per-se, we need something we love, like the love of exploring, the love of creating, or the love of pursuing new dreams.

The last thing you say is that you'd like to pour your soul into something that can provide meaning without rushing into the next side project... I'd argue against that, pursue ALL the problems, ALL the side projects... and then you'll find one thing that really clicks, and at that moment you'll know where to invest your energy.

And maybe, purpose. But purpose is a side-effect.

My mistake, I didn't check before posting.

The use case was: Keep the table online and don't bring down the Galera cluster (which happened when running an ALTER on a table with millions of rows).

We went for pt-online-schema-change (from Percona) which copies, alters the new table, keeps them in sync, and then replaces it. All automated which is pretty sweet.

One of the answers on here has more info:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/463677/alter-table-witho...