IshKebab

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by IshKebab 2mo ago
CPython can't do this because it's a change in semantics. You need explicit opt-in from the programmer. Anyway adding this optimisation to CPython would be like putting active aero on a dandy horse.
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
Come on you know what he means. Blog posts, articles, that sort of thing. AI has definitely made reading things posted to HN a much worse experience (even if they aren't all slop). It doesn't seem to have infected the comments y
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
Not necessarily. Except for SpaceXAI's (haha) models, there's less risk of reality distortion in Western models. Probably doesn't affect his use case but you wouldn't really want to ask Kimi K3 for a history of China for
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
FPGAs aren't that difficult to program. Waves / timing diagrams are trivial to understand, they can just be very tedious to read. The different execution model to CPUs also isn't very hard to understand IMO. Hardware people
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
Hmm but when that argument was applied to phones, Android essentially got punished for being more open than Apple - you actually can have other app stores on Android, therefore Google could be held accountable for anti-competitive actions
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
If it's based on position mod 2, wouldn't inserting or deleting (or splitting/merging) words every now and then trivially defeat it? If it is based on position mod 2 then wouldn't inserting/deleting (or splitting an
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
Sure but there's no real way to use that in a portable way, at least not a way that maximises performance on every CPU you run it on. That's pretty much impossible at the moment.
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
> What you get is a beautiful animation that is 100% accurate and free of hallucinations. How do you know if you're learning this for the first time? Very risky to learn from LLMs. I've done it, but you have to keep your wits a
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
Well, prosecute him for vandalism then to recoup the costs?
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
1. No submodules. They suck. They don't work with worktrees. They're a pain to work with. 2. Cross-project changes become trivial instead of nightmarish. 3. Testing becomes tractable. Make a change in a submodule? Good luck testin
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
I think it's much cleverer about the order in which it tries to merge PRs, and how they are grouped. GitHub merge queues just do it in the order you click. Also I'm pretty sure it predates GitHub's implementation by a fair bi
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by IshKebab 2mo ago
Can they maintain it though? What's the biggest/longest running project you have where you don't look at the code?
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Yeah but this isn't (or at least wasn't intended as) a marketing exercise. It actually happened.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
I think they probably just aren't used much any more. Plus if you really need one you can get a tiny dongle for virtually no money that will probably better sound quality anyway.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Windows 11 was released before vibe coding was viable. And the shit show seems to be that they push ads and bloatware on people, not that it doesn't work reliably. Windows 11 IoT LTSC has been absolutely rock solid for me on both machi
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Can we add "some ancient Via CPUs" to the title. Current title is pure click bait.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
At least with Windows it's always clear what to do. Mac can dump you in a finder window with two icons. Very unclear. You may have forgotten how unclear this can be for the first time.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Yeah I remember the first time I had to figure this out. Absolutely incomprehensible, depending on the app you get. A lot of open source apps don't bother with a custom background and just have the two icons. Even if there's an ar
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Yeah I had to stop reading after the author thought he could draw some deep insight from the fact that someone with a boring finance job had a hobby...
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
This time it has the potential to be different because it might basically obsolete all white collar jobs, which is waaaay more jobs than even the industrial revolution, and in a much shorter time. Maybe anyway. I think that probably depen
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Using MMIO is cheating and makes the results very boring. It would be much more interesting to know the results if you're only allowed to use main memory.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Doubtful. The UK is practically at this point with generous benefits and a very progressive tax curve (you don't pay any tax on the first £12.5k of earnings). It seems like all it does is lock people into poverty with unreasonably high
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
Ok I should have said people have only started constantly complaining in the past year or so. Of course there was the odd complaint in the past, but now I see a thread about it at least ever month on HN, and loads of articles about migrat
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
I agree, but also in fairness it has taken this whole mess for Google to finally get off its arse and add proper age gating to Android (the Play Age Signals API).
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
No, it makes sense if whatever model you're creating a chip out of will not be irrelevant in 5 years even if it is much much faster & cheaper . There are probably limited applications but not zero.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
That sounds like a fun challenge. Feels a lot more tractable than the neural net one.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
I don't think so. GitHub was bought by Microsoft 8 years ago and people have only started complaining about its uptime in the last year or so - exactly correlating with the surge in LLM use.
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
I once saw a sign at a railway station in the UK that actually did say "normal service will be operating between the 12th of July and 18th of August" (or something like that). Made me laugh. At the time Anglia Railways had a rail
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
I think he's asked it to write in his specific style, or possibly he has edited parts of it to his style, or maybe used AI to generate the initial draft. Something like that anyway. There are some very clear AI tells (smoking guns if
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by IshKebab 3mo ago
At least it isn't dark purple.

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