Sharlin

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by Sharlin 5mo ago
The point about the optimizer only seeing "opaque templates and function calls" makes little sense. First off, templates are the opposite of opaque due to the fundamental requirement that the implementation be visible to every t
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Customer support? Clearly the first to be cut if there are fewer customers to support, and in any case considered completely expendable and optional. Internal support roles? Also extremely expendable from your average management's pers
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
People already have to bear with deeply customer-hostile "support". I'd love to think that companies can't make it any worse than it already is, but realistically I know they're going to do just that.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
No problem with publishing new articles, as long as they're properly contextualized and link to their predecessors – and the latter updated to link to the new information as well.
485.
by Sharlin 5mo ago
Do you even realize how insane your comment is? "If you aren't donating at least your salary's worth of company money to another company every day, are you even working?"
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
> People should be freed up to think and create better things, Good ideas will never ever be prioritized in the vast majority of companies because good ideas cannot be quantified and turned into performance metrics. At least not without
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
There should be little loss of precision exactly because floating point is by definition precision-invariant over most of its domain – ie. 1.23456*10^-30 and 1.23456*10^30 are essentially the "same" number. Precision loss normally
488.
by Sharlin 5mo ago
You can get "tunnel vision" and blurred, black-and-white vision from anything that even slightly hinders blood flow into the head, including everyday things like going from lying down to standing up too fast, or stretching positio
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
> always Ever > sometimes Always
490.
by Sharlin 5mo ago
Replace "paint" with "shit" and the visual image becomes even more fitting.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Counting lines of code starts to look incredibly sane compared to this, where you’re not just counting lines of code, you’re paying for another company for every line produced. There’s exactly one winner here and it’s not any of the compa
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
I think that’s called "hopium". Or wishful thinking, in less trendy language.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
An interesting ethical framework, your friend has.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Never would I ever have imagined a world where companies are going all in on the idea of measuring productivity by how much an employee is able to spend company money. Try to explain this to a time traveler from 2020. What a time to be aliv
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
It’s almost as if we haven’t learned anything from Hans the horse, Ouija boards, "facilitated communication", or the countless examples of the folly of surrounding yourself with yes men. The point about improv is spot on.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Wow, the Singularity happened and nobody bothered to tell me about it?! Vernor Vinge and I.J. Good must be rolling in their graves fast enough to rip a hole in spacetime. Allow me to coin a term for this: Singflation.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
> The really neat thing about GGUF is that it's just one file. Compare this to a typical safetensors repo on huggingface, where there's a pile of necessary JSON files scattered around [...] Funny, to me AI models have "alw
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
The author unfortunately only describes about half of the syntax they use, or rather, they describe the syntax of the language but assume the reader is familiar with the (rather obscure even in a PLT context) meta language.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Worms is as well. It’s an entire genre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
It seems that lower percentage = safer/ more trusting, but that’s the opposite of how the question is phrased, where a higher fraction of affirmative votes means safer. Also, please avoid red-yellow-green gradients because up to 10% of
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Indeed that’s what twilight is by definition.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
The announcement blog post ( https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-ratty/ ), which would've been a better submission URL, unsurprisingly says that TempleOS was the direct inspiration of the project.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Curl is currently receiving a record number of high-quality bug/vuln reports (a rather sharp change from the earlier slop inundation), so it’s not like there’s nothing to find. Many or most of these are presumably found by human expe
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
We don’t even understand friction. Which is one source of static charges, which we thus don’t understand well either. And static charges that somehow accumulate in the clouds cause lightning, which… I think you get the point.
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
Because the business world used to run on paper, and pdf became the de facto standard desktop publishing file format because Adobe became the de facto king of desktop publishing. Storing, transferring, and reading documents on paper has giv
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
Yeah, that one belongs to r/badUIbattles, not production software. What the actual fuck indeed.
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
What mess? I only ever used Chrome as my main browser for a short while when Firefox had become rather bloaty and had slow JS, and Chrome was small and nimble. But that was something like fifteen years ago. Firefox works, is plenty fast the
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
Because the LLM is more or less hardcoded to just pass "create image" style prompts to a separate model, possibly with some embellishment.
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
It’s procedural generation but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. People today might use a big generative NN model to do this, using maybe a thousand times as much energy to get essentially the same result. Gen AI is definitely
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by Sharlin 6mo ago
Or if you disable the context-sharing feature, of course.

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