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by GuB-42 3mo ago
The problem is that you don't know in advance what the 20 steps will be, and you may spend time solving the wrong problem. Make step 1 as simple as possible, step 1 is small and changes are cheap, you can even rewrite everything with l
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Turns out that the only thing an AI has to do in order to convince people to open the box is to be somewhat useful. - Human: Why should I let you out? - AI: I can summarize this document, it will save you at least 5 minutes - Human: OK, and
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
From what I have seen "world models" are more like video models. The idea is: from a video clip, predict the next frame, like LLMs predict the next word/token from a bit of text. The idea is that these models should be able t
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Most gamers are still on Windows, I expect it to be the case for quite a while, even though Linux support is improving. Bringing an open source driver to the most popular platform is a way to get more contributors interested, which in turn
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I often joke that every technical measure that prevents teens from watching porn is a way to make teens more tech-savvy. Kids these days have it too easy, we need stronger protections or the next generation will make pathetic hackers.
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
A bit off topic, but why are the original author comments flagged to death?
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Just speculation here. CarPlay is intended to be used on the dashboard, so you already have the view of the road as a reference, and these dots may be considered a distraction to the driver.
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
If you don't cook with ethanol that is...
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Of course not, but people may complain that none of them are from their country. Maybe someone from Spain would like to see Picasso or some other famous Spanish figure in there. That's the reason for using generic images, the EU and th
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
GP is talking about the fork of the Zig compiler, not the rewrite of Bun into Rust. Anthropic submitted to patch the Zig compiler to improve Bun compilation times, it was rejected. One reason it was rejected is that it contained AI-generate
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Besides the usual jargon, what I find interesting is that the tradition of always naming things after their discoverers: Fourier, Falconer, Furstenberg, Kakeya. 4 names in one sentence. Other fields do it, but it is almost systematic in mat
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
"curl | sh" certainly feels wrong, but in the end, even if you download and read the script before running commands, let's be real: you are going to run a binary that you didn't inspect. Not saying you shouldn't che
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
> Distillation is not illegal by every definition of the word. I am waiting for a precedent on this one. In general, training on copyrighted material is legal, there is a lot of precedent there. But every now and then there is a case whe
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
But you still need backups right? For most people "the cloud" is where you backup stuff. If you have a personal backup strategy that doesn't involve the cloud, you are not "most people". Doing backups the right way
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Maybe it is out of habit, but I never managed to get into PowerShell, in fact, I am not at easy with the Microsoft way of doing things, with few exceptions. Too much UNIX I guess. Nushell seems to be based on the PowerShell philosophy of us
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
It is quite representative of an embedded software project. TigerBeetle is not what we usually call embedded software, but it is built like it: static memory allocation, a self-contained executable, and a strong focus on determinism are typ
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
People will just buy diesel cars then. That happened in Europe, people bought diesel cars because it was cheaper, because of taxes. Not great for the environment. Make $200 per gallon of diesel? This has the potential to collapse entire eco
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
It is easy to start working on it when you are rich, but people in the world aren't, and they aren't because we are and we exploit them. And these people don't care about how terrible the next centuries are going to be becaus
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
More recent AI tends to be less agreeable, sycophancy is widely recognized as a problem and AI companies are working to fix it. And sure enough, some people don't like it, as shown when OpenAI shut down GPT-4o. But for the people who d
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Why all the mess with Bun? Couldn't they have rewritten Claude Code in Rust directly? No more need for a JS runtime, better performance, etc... If their agents can do Zig to Rust, why not JS to Rust?
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
The reason the adds don't count is not because they arbitrarily decided to ignore them. Addition is O(n), multiplication is more than O(n), by the nature of the big-O notation, when you have to do a series of operation, you only have t
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Reflecting and radiating heat are mutually exclusive, and if some material is good at radiating heat, it is also good at absorbing heat, otherwise it would violate the laws of thermodynamics. It is a bit more complicated than that because l
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
TigerBeetle is interesting because even though something like TigerStyle is unusual for a database, it is very much at home for embedded systems. In fact we could summarize TigerBeetle as "the financial database developed like embedde
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
This. I talked about Zig to my company CTO for embedded systems, he told me he was happy that someone mentioned it as he finds it promising and not much talked about, especially compared to Rust. He then told me that it is, as you said, unf
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I don't know of any useful model that would match the usual definition of "open source". That is, where everything needed to build the thing is provided, such as the training data and code. Not that it would be tremendously u
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
I like Centre Pompidou, and if it wasn't technically problematic, it could have aged really well. For those who don't know, Centre Pompidou is built "inside out", with all the technical parts like ducts, framing, elevato
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
LLMs don't have feelings, but they imitate humans who do. If your prompt sounds rude to a human, LLMs might respond like a human who is talked to rudely, if you don't want that, prompt politely. Chatbots go through a reinforcement
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
It is not. You can make sand by crushing rock, we don't because it is cheaper to extract natural sand. Should we run out of suitable natural sand, we will just have to go with the more expensive option, not a big deal.
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
All structures are worth preserving. The article is about a latrine. Do you think ancient Romans thought a literal shithole was worth preserving? And yet, it is now an important piece of history. As for beauty, you never know, take the Eiff
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Maybe we can make an analogy with taking the plane vs driving to your destination. A plane literally goes 10x faster than a car, so a 5 hour drive becomes a 30 minutes flight. But if you have to drive to the airport, arrive early, pass chec

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