ColonelPhantom

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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
Aren't LLMs a classification problem in a sense? "Given this text, classify it based on the next token" seems like a viable interpretation of the problem. Although there are a couple thousand or so classes, which might be a l
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
That's probably libadwaita (the successor to libhandy), which by the way also forces the Adwaita GTK theme. This post is about the Adwaita _icon_ theme. Those are 3 different components (solib, CSS, icons) that all happen to be called
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
> Some GPUs have used vectors in the past Which ones? I'm aware of AMD/ATi Terascale using VLIW, but I'm pretty sure that architecture also used SIMD (requiring the use of both VLIW and large 'waves' to achieve m
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
Aren't shader programs more like ISPC (or OpenCL/CUDA), in that the programming model is based around 'pretend each SIMD lane is thread'?
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
Don't forget Compiz, with all the fancy effects like desktop cubes or wobbly windows. Even Linux was not free from the 3D desktop.
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
Arguably, most of that is probably dead code included from <iostream>. Most of it is likely never called for a simple Hello World. Similarly, in C, you can just give the definition of printf and omit the include of stdio.h, which also
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
Ooh nice, I completely forgot that that existed. When you say the compiler explorer can do it, do you mean that it will 'inline' the output in a similar way to the assembly i.e. you can view the results 'within' the sour
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
The readme indicates that it uses system headers (G++ libstdc++) by default. Since it's source-to-source, I don't think being based on clang actually matters for anything unless you happen to use GCC-specific extensions. I would a
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by ColonelPhantom 2y ago
Honestly, from the title, I expected something that gave actual 'insights' into the compiler, rather than the code. For example, indicating applied and potential (missed) optimizations. But seeing what it was, I was definitely not
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Because a deliberate vulnerability is much easier to hide than actual malicious content. One could probably sneak a buffer overflow or use-after-free into a C project they maintain without being noticed. Actually shipping a trojan is much h
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Well, yeah. The attacker, operating largely under the name Jia Tan, has successfully manipulated the original author (Lasse Collin) to become a maintainer. The attacker indeed laid dormant for two years, pretending to just be maintaining xz
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
When computers are slow, the primary way out is finding out WHY they are slow. Finding this out requires... meaningful performance analysis. That's right, this 1% perf hit will make it extremely easy to find the reasons for 5,10,20,50%
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Also, if you want LBR on Zen3 or earlier, you're SOL. I noticed that one the hard way. Stuff like this is making me lean more towards getting an Intel for my next computer, at least on desktop where their worse power efficiency is less
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Like Kraftwerk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyuxz9R2XiY (It's actually the build-up to Radioactivity, but it's often listed as a separate track for some reason.)
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Won't the proposed implementation risk doing duplicate work? e.g. another machine starts on your work, but then you ask for it before it's done. So you'd probably need the "not available, but already 'stolen' c
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
One potential issue is tracking. By sharing caches across websites it becomes possible to use timing attacks to track different users. This is why browsers are working to isolate caches per site: https://developer.chrome.com&#x2F
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
> How-the-ever, GNOME is ahead of them because of the progress on high dynamic range color, non-fullscreen/partial scanouts, variable refresh rates, and the hidden work in GNOME extensions enabling things like PaperWM. What?? Plasma
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Yep. The only compositors of any significance that do not use wlroots are Gnome/Mutter and KWin. I guess Weston is also an independent compositor, but I don't think anyone actually uses that.
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
But many Wayland protocols are actually becoming shared. For example, Plasma 6 replaced a "-kde-shell" protocol with the standardized "layer-shell" protocol.
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
GNOME originally stood for GNU Network Object Model Environment, so both G's are in some pedantic sense the same. I don't think there's a very close relationship between GNOME and GIMP, but do keep in mind that GTK, the &#x27
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
> On GNOME you cannot minimize windows at all if I remember correctly. This is incorrect. You can minimize windows on Gnome, but the button to do it is hidden by default. It can be re-enabled in Gnome Tweaks, and there is also a keyboard
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
> but you also rarely get the full 1080p screen height on a Plasma desktop, since you've got a big panel at the bottom of the screen The panel is around 50px or so at most, by default it seems to be 44px. And I indeed think the scre
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
More the opposite; switching to being copied by Windows 12. Seriously. KDE: let's make our panel floating by default to distinguish ourselves visually from Windows! later Microsoft rumored to introduce floating panel in Windows 12.
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
> the editor window is nearly as tall as a 1080p but it can barely display 20 lines No it's not 1080p tall? The image is 945 pixels tall, including an extensive box shadow. I'd wager that it's around 800 pixels high. The f
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
> Please for the love of god don't remove the lines and other distinguishing features between UI elements. Did you actually look at the screenshots? KDE did not remove separation between elements. However it is now achieved by dra
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
How is VSCode cluttered? It's not perfect, but the UI is pretty well organized between the titlebar, sidebar(s) and status bar. I think the UI is way cleaner than e.g. the old JetBrains UI. The new JB UI is on the other hand pretty com
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
Ultimately, for Rust all you really need is an editor with good LSP support. rust-analyzer offers a lot of what you could want out of an IDE (although when trying RustRover I noticed some other nice things such as the ability to 'facto
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
I don't have a lot of experience with Emacs, let alone evil (and none at all with meow or god). But my experience with it was that evil felt distinctly.. hacky? For example, Evil felt like it interfered with selecting restarts in Sly.
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
CUDA dropped Tesla (from 2006!) only as of 7.0, which seems to have released around 2015. Fermi support lasted from 2010 until 2017, giving it a solid 7 years still. Kepler support was dropped around 2020, and the first cards were released
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by ColonelPhantom 3y ago
I picked the upgrade to the low-power screen, which should look much better than the base screen, although probably not as good as a Mac one. OLED would cost an extra €100 compared to that, although it does have some compromises such as hig

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