IsTom

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by IsTom 2mo ago
If you believe that I've got a halting problem oracle to sell to you.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
I might have learned all this too long ago and lost touch with how it's like to learn this, but: how is learning about using pointers in C different from using object references and array indices in python/js/java?
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by IsTom 2mo ago
The point is that you need multiple plantations like this to make enough feed for the cows to make equivalent calories/proteins.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
TBH fortified yeast flakes are a pretty good spice.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Why couldn't they, if they've got DNA and ribosomes?
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by IsTom 2mo ago
> but also gave us Amazon, Google and 2020s Microsoft. The major fault I see here is that people didn't forsee that the default GPL should have had AGPL's clauses.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
> if the productivity boost is high they will use it anyway if their rules keep crippling their own models Individuals maybe, companies won't and that's where most of money is at.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Back then OOP was all the hype and inheritance was cool.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
How is 30B smaller than 27B?
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Adding too many tests was a real issue before LLMs. You end up in situations where you when you add a feature there's 200 (out of e.g. 10k) tests that fail and you have to figure out which of them should fail and you need to fix them a
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by IsTom 2mo ago
With the "It's not X, it's Y" at the end I sure hope that it's the case.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
And not to be confused with its plural form "opera".
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by IsTom 2mo ago
> So many audio-to-digital conversions used cheaper anti-aliasing filters, with a narrower pass-band, which could be significantly lower than the 20 kHz promised by the CD technology. The CDs mastered in this way had a worse quality than
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by IsTom 2mo ago
> Record companies accordingly used sampling rates just dense enough to keep most listeners from complaining, and called it good. It was good for their profits, sure, but it made the music sound flat and tinny. Were there CDs with lower
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Until they apply what that did to Github's uptime
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Internet walled gardens are all opt-in and still they've made the web a worse place.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Still there's not a single example.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
I think it's enough that a single layer fits on each chip if you can daisy-chain them with good interconnects.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Hasn't this been happening for a while now?
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Are you saying that Hurd will also kill Google/Linux?
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by IsTom 2mo ago
It might also be that the security sandbox was haphazardly vibeslopped together.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
There's plenty of tools that can cause harm without having to be creative to use them.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
I think it's just regular corporate speech. LLMs do this, because they've learned on this kind of posts.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
We'll yet see where the wind blows, but there's a real possibility of copyright issues for machine-generated code down the line.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
If I wanted to be uncharitable, the question of "how much slower you'd be without AI" compares against people's AI-less productivity from 2026, which could have become much less than 2025 AI-less productivity, if hypothe
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by IsTom 2mo ago
Ah, that makes sense, thanks.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
But won't your boat displace more water by lowering a bit if you've got additional mass on board?
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by IsTom 2mo ago
If you've got X GB of weights in slow access memory (be it RAM vs VRAM or SSD vs RAM) and Y GB of fast memory then no matter what, if you want to use them you'll need to transfer X-Y GB and will be bound by memory throughput. You
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by IsTom 2mo ago
I think it speaks about the current state of github that I had to scroll 12 projects to find the first entry not related to AI.
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by IsTom 2mo ago
There is a limit how much you can squeeze out of given hardware. Betting on it being closer to 100t/s than 6t/s is only that, a bet.

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