BearOso

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by BearOso 10mo ago
It's seemingly an experiment to see how an LLM performs when the task is just outside of its milieu. The answer is not very well.
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by BearOso 10mo ago
The terminal screenshots are terrible, too. They're using a non-monospace font and the kerning is messed up, making everything double-wide.
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by BearOso 11mo ago
But how do you know you're getting the correct picture from that throwaway UI? A little while back there was an blog posted where the author wrote an article praising AI for his vibe-coded earth-viewer app that used Vulkan to render in
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by BearOso 11mo ago
> Nintendo games even temporarily dropped music voices (typically preferring the second square wave voice, then the first) to play sound effects. This even happened on the SNES. A few Square games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6
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by BearOso 11mo ago
Maybe it's the opposite. IBM spent years on the technology. Watson used neural networks, just not nearly as large. Perhaps they foresaw that it wouldn't scale or that it would plateau.
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by BearOso 11mo ago
I don't know when the phrase "em dash" got popular. It was probably due to web development, because, unless you were into typesetting, nobody knew what "em" was. We always just called them dashes--two hyphens make a
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by BearOso 11mo ago
I think the move to more test-driven development has made everyone a little bit overconfident. I've seen pull requests merged that pass all tests, but still end up bug-ridden. There's just no substitute for human eyes looking over
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by BearOso 11mo ago
Thanks. Turns out that shader is a builtin of three.js.
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by BearOso 11mo ago
I think it just tokenizes everything and does pattern matching to find compositions it can exploit. It's not unlike compiler optimization.
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by BearOso 11mo ago
I tried to find some code that wasn't minified to assess the quality of this, and I found some shader code for the sky in the gemini version. The whole shader looks like it was regurgitated verbatim. This wouldn't hold up to licen
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by BearOso 11mo ago
Good question. Looking at their expenses, though, it seems to be just a plethora of piddly donations. $1M here and there, and it adds up. That does fit with the lack of focus narrative.
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by BearOso 11mo ago
That's a good example. I'm probably significantly underestimating the amount of people needed. $500M can hire a lot of $250k salaried engineers, though.
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by BearOso 11mo ago
From their history, you can expect the exact opposite. Remember the Mr robot fiasco?
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by BearOso 11mo ago
The amount of money they get from Google is vastly more than it takes to hire a few dozen people full-time to develop a web browser and email program. People in the organization are trying to use what's left of the name recognition and
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by BearOso 1y ago
Yes, and everybody who enriches themselves using their political positions. These jobs are as public servants . They're supposed to be working for the people. That's why the emoluments clause is there.
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by BearOso 1y ago
One of the best examples of this are the first two GBA Castlevania games, Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance. The former was developed without consideration of the actual screen and was extremely dark and hard to see. The latter d
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by BearOso 1y ago
Video rendering can still be done with overlays, but it's a little more substantial, involving separate planes with the locations configurable on the graphics card. Look up MPO, Multi-Plane Overlay. Your green stripe is likely because
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by BearOso 1y ago
It was never an integral part of the windowing system of either operating system. That idea never panned out. Quartz's drawing functions included what was needed for postscript, but the UI was done solely with bitmaps and cached bitmap
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by BearOso 1y ago
> It’s not that baseball got lazy. It got layered, commercialized, optimized, and strategized, but it forgot about time management. This is why I can't stand modern basketball. Deliberate fouling in the last quarter is optimal and s
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by BearOso 1y ago
It's all up in the air when you have completely different environments. These benchmarks are mostly useful for comparing similar chips from generation to generation.
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by BearOso 1y ago
Those benchmarks were messed up. Notice bcachefs is the only one using 512b block size. That's going to massively increase overhead.
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by BearOso 1y ago
My argument is any investors should already know what they're getting into.
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by BearOso 1y ago
What investors? It isn't a public company, and it's registered as a benefit corporation. Anybody who gives them money should have a clue that its priority is not shareholder returns.
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by BearOso 1y ago
> “The vibe they gave was ‘So, what is it that you do here?’ and ‘Why can’t AI do that?’” —TTS worker From what I've read, this particular group of children naively thinks "AI" can and should do everything. As in, they thi
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by BearOso 1y ago
It's not limited to Microsoft. Nvidia and AMD Windows drivers also do the same. Even mesa has a few lists of program-specific flags: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src&#x2F
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by BearOso 1y ago
The VGA 320x200 mode, either 13h or "Mode Y", ran at 70.086 Hz, so that adding up to ~2.5 years is just coincidental. It's a shame the source code for doom isn't available, and that the author couldn't just link dir
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by BearOso 1y ago
The LLM will tell you an approximation of what many responses on the Internet said the math should be, but you should have the knowledge and check if it's actually correct. An LLM can give you a hazy picture, but it's your job to
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by BearOso 1y ago
I don't think the workers are the problem. It's "design by committee." The workers just do what they're told as the managers micromanage every aspect of the game to milk the most profit out if it. It's the same
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by BearOso 1y ago
They said it took months for each CPU to fail. Both systems used the same inadequate heatsink/fan. Then there's also the lower-end motherboards (they are not "top-quality", the brand means nothing) and the miniscule 450W
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by BearOso 1y ago
Those PC ARM chips like Snapdragon were designed first and foremost for mobile, too.

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