CamouflagedKiwi

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by CamouflagedKiwi 2mo ago
This feels like it should ideally be something public in the structs package so anyone can leverage it, not just a specially blessed internal thing for the sync package.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 2mo ago
It's absolutely not for these models. There are plenty of consumer GPUs out there with 8 or 12GB VRAM - they are comparatively very fast at inference but just aren't big enough to run lots of the models you want. Also context mana
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by CamouflagedKiwi 2mo ago
Bit dubious about how some of this hangs together. One detail that stood out to me: > They removed mounting screws, disconnected the servers and put them in laundry bags — 20 bags in all, each large enough to hold four or five servers. T
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by CamouflagedKiwi 2mo ago
I think pretty unlikely: there is enough pub density that it's unlikely that removing that requirement nets 10 minutes of saved journey time from all the furthest destinations.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 2mo ago
Probably because they don't want to self-host Windows or MacOS servers when they can pay someone else to do that for them (or Linux ones, I assume that is within their wheelhouse for production but CI is a bit of a different beast to m
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by CamouflagedKiwi 2mo ago
Their policy doesn't cover upstream, it's only for the Gentoo project specifically. It's clearly infeasible for them (or Debian) to try to control what their upstreams do, especially with the kernel accepting LLM contribution
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Interesting article, seems more balanced than Andrew Kelley's one that it links to. The thing I still think is wrong: why are Anthropic rewriting a Javascript runtime from Zig to Rust? Why not rewrite Claude Code itself in Rust (or Go
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
They don't really "just get to say" that. Declaring yourself bankrupt is a fairly major thing that will have long-term consequences. It clearly isn't desirable to do casually, we don't see it often (at least not in
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
You can't really tell people that they just can't be bankrupt though. What are they supposed to do if they have debts they can't pay but they're not allowed to declare bankruptcy because they pinky swore they wouldn&#x27
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Alpha Centauri was such a fantastic game. And even though it encourages you to move forward with technology, the tone has this unease about what you're doing. There's a lot to be learned from it.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
I don't know anything about Adobe's model - I have (pretty happily) never bought anything from that company. But the two are not very similar, and I don't buy the argument that you're trying to make - I think you're
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
> What do you even mean by "works", specifically? It runs and accepts people's payments, which means you're not on the front page of the newspaper (not in a good way). > ... because they're stored in terrible
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Sure, and then he can afford it, because he's making over $1M/year revenue on this sim, and taking a very reasonable 5% off the top of that. So it blunts the profits a bit at that point, but it hardly seems like such a terrible th
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Because you know that the current one works. If you have a bank running on COBOL (or whatever), you've had that for 30+ years now, so while it might have bugs, you know what they are. You don't know what the LLM output is. Hence b
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
> its hard to evaluate how much trust can be put in a project of this complexity at this early stage. I don't know, I'm not finding it hard to evaluate that at all. I've had bad enough experiences with gevent in the (now f
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
You misunderstand. You could run one of these things on a mainframe, because it's a zero-downtime machine - you can swap out parts of them as they run. But fundamentally it's a singleton. It is deeply naive to believe you can triv
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
I would certainly vote for Vimes if he stood.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Surely better than this engineer having to pay $100k upfront which would likely mean he never made the game at all. 5% over a million seems pretty reasonable to me. I guess it'd be an issue if profit margins were thin, but that wouldn&
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
I have some familiarity with the bank situation, and while a lot of them are on some very old systems (maybe COBOL, maybe something else, either way they want off it) the cost of actually re-writing the code is far from the most significant
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Yeah I was thinking exactly this. Also I don't think it can reach my dryer. I am happy this kind of thing is being worked on, I just don't think this is gonna be it - they really talk around what it does but "folding clothes&
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Nice find. Can't help but feel this is one of the subtle traps hidden beneath the advice that contexts aren't supposed to be stored. I know it's not always that easy, of course.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Right but as they mentioned, at least then they are communicating with a human about it, not going back and forth with a machine which they clearly do not enjoy.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Sure, that's only made worse by the suggestion here to not install any version of it at all.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Not quite accomplished, if it's creating text on the pull requests that looks sufficiently human-like, but you're still worried about the quality of the code and that the submitter doesn't understand it.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
It's also kind of pointless. Almost immediately, something will be installed that will require installing the .NET runtime, maybe multiple versions of it. If the argument is to try to prohibit it, then it just won't work as a pl
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
I like the idea, but I don't really see why this would change the 'Builder' population. Gamers would love it (I have a Windows 10 install around for gaming, I'd take this in a flash, I'd probably not even complain t
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
I wouldn't describe the 2019 final as infamous? Other than us all sitting around shouting "What on earth is a super over?" I don't remember it being very controversial. It was certainly a pretty exciting finish.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
It's pretty much completely not like playing the game, because the batting team can't meaningfully hit the ball.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
Right, so it's some JS SPA thing as well (of course). Out of interest, do you not often find this a problem these days? I feel like there'd be a lot of sites out there that are non-functional or literally do nothing without JS.
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by CamouflagedKiwi 3mo ago
This was pretty bad. Will never be forgotten in NZ. Has probably been forgotten by Australia and everywhere else though.

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