Hendrikto

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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
It is neither.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> In a world of agents, the expert finds the bug, asks the agent to fix it, realizes that the fix is incorrect because of sloppy thinking, does a few iterations until the feature works correctly That would require clearly (a) knowing wha
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
1. Some of those recent bugs were caused by unnecessary vibe-coded changes. 2. Of course bugs should be fixed. I even say so in the comment you replied to. You are attacking a strawman. 3. People will always make feature requests. Some want
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Take a look at the commit graph. Activity is at an all-time high by far, which it absolutely should not be. As an example, the entire test suite was recently vibe-replaced. An essential component for reliability and stability. And you can a
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Did he ask for help in churning all the code for no reason? Rsync was complete software. It does not need features, it needs stability and merely maintenance. If the author used AI for small, well-reviewed maintenance changes, that would be
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Because of the Musk reality distortion field. The claim is that all data centers will move into space, and that SpaceX will completely own that market.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
So it is essentially a made up number. Like everything Dario claims.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
HR is such a joke. The world would be better off without that farce.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
1. We are talking about datacenter GPUs here, not consumer ones. 2. Datacenters are currently extremely power-limited. Efficiency is king.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> We deserve not to have to deal with […] quirks, idiosyncrasies and design mistakes. True but unrealistic. Every language has warts, including Rust.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
In general, I get your argument, but cryptography is the perfect example for something so well-specified, well-understood, and extremely widely used, that these arguments do not really apply. You are not going to have to make backwards-inco
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Yes, the JIT compiler compiles code. Yes, the results are good. That does not change the fact that the JVM still has and uses a bytecode interpreter, which the comment I replied to disputed.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
You know what JIT means, right? It means that is is not compiled from the start and indeed runs on a bytecode interpreter until the JIT compiler kicks in.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
They scraped everything in that one million squared blocks area.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
You can do that in Germany for up to 2kW panels and 800W inverters. You can just buy them off the shelf and plug them in yourself, with no electrician or permit required.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
LLMs are good at producing code that seems plausible at first glance and appears to work, but it never really does. And when trying to fix things, you discover 7 slightly different ad hoc implementations of the same thing, with their own we
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> A CSPRNG is just an algorithm that uses some entropy as a key and feeds back on itself to generate a stream of random bytes. You say yourself that there is a distinction. CSPRNGs can generate unpredictable ("random") bytes, g
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
If one person at the top of the pyramid earns 100 times what people at the bottom earn, cutting a few of them is still meaningful. Also, cutting a single/few person(s) that are mismanaging the whole organization is extraordinarily valu
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
It makes it much simpler and more robust though. Also, it allows for content addressing a la Nix, among other benefits.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> like you need data centers in every continent or to quickly scale to 10+ thousands of cpus Which for some reason many people think they need, while in reality 1% actually need it.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
> I do wish to point out, of course, that the whole reason it was possible to experiment cheaply and come across this serendipity was because 9 months ago, faced with the choice to either do the bad easy thing or the good nothing, I chos
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
Parent said > State is in practice always subjected to side effects and concurrency. There was never any claim or assumption regarding f. Maybe the way you interpreted it is what they meant, but it is not what was stated.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
So it can be used by multiple universities who share the maintenance. That is my point: Not everybody has to develop their own.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
> That's why if x is state then f can never be purely idempotent That is simply not true. f could be, for example, “set x.variable to 7”, which is definitely idempotent.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
It allows verifying that the binaries actually match the source, which is extremely valuable.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
Why the fuck does that site break the back button? DO NOT do that.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
Same for me. I cannot access it either.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
The alternative is FOSS.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
For what they charge for these LMSs, they should definitely be able to sent some emails.
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by Hendrikto 6mo ago
I used LaTeX for approximately 10 years, for little things to relatively complex, including my bachelor’s and master’s theses. It never felt natural at reliable or consistent. Every customization required weird \makeatletter \makeatother ha

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