a_e_k

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by a_e_k 1y ago
The other part of that argument that I've seen is that they'd be able to use generic tools made for humans.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I'm used to things like `// clang-format off` and on pairs to bracket such blocks, and adding empty trailing `//` comments to prevent re-flowing, and I use them when I must. This was more about lamenting the need fo
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Yes, so much this! I've often wished that formatters had some threshold for similarity between adjacent lines. If some X% of the characters on the line match the character right above, then it might be tabular and it could do somethin
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by a_e_k 1y ago
And Emacs was banished to a write-in this year, when it was near the middle of the pack at 4.2% (Emacs) and 0.4% (Spacemacs) last year. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated... It's also bee
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by a_e_k 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Neat! IF-wise, there's also M-x dunnet which has shipped with GNU Emacs since 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnet_(video_game)
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Darn. By "compact", I thought there'd be some clever sparsity or compression to get below 1 bit/flag in common cases.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I've played with a similar idea for writing technical papers. I'll give an LLM my draft and ask it to explain back to me what a section means, or otherwise quiz it about things in the draft. I've found that LLMs can be kind
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I was wondering that too. A DHCP server, apparently: https://www.isc.org/kea/ (This is one place where I think a little editorializing to the page title to add context would be helpful.)
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Oh, that's a nice optimization!
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by a_e_k 1y ago
This is hilarious. While I work, one of my cats loves to share my desk chair and sleep between me and the backrest (forcing me to sit closer to the front edge). I've noticed she favors lying on her left flank there, and she is, in fa
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Playing around, I found that the generator approach was competitive with this if you permuted the loop nest , and often even slightly faster (at the 1000 character length): def any_gen_perm(s): return any(c in s for c in &quo
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by a_e_k 1y ago
This is explicitly called out in the canvas spec's best practices section with a laundry list of things you'd have to re-implement [1]. > Authors should avoid implementing text editing controls using the canvas element. Doing s
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by a_e_k 1y ago
You're right to ask about that! ...
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Experience, though, can definitely vary by domain. Trying to get one to code an algorithm recently that I had a pretty good idea of took longer and gave worse results than just doing it myself. On the other hand, something like wrestling w
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Now if we could only get one near Seattle! (I've never really understood why a tech hub as large and historical as Seattle doesn't have one. It's weird that it's such a relative desert.)
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by a_e_k 1y ago
If you're happy running local models, llama.cpp's built-in web-server's interface can do this.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I've been noticing your commits as I skim the latest git commit notes whenever I periodically pull and rebuild. Thank you for all your work on this (and llama.cpp in general)!
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by a_e_k 1y ago
This is excellent. I've been pulling and rebuilding periodically, and watching the commit notes as they (mostly ngxson, I think) first added more vision models, each with their own CLI program, then unified those under a single CLI pr
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Knock yourself out: https://archive.org/details/101basiccomputer0000davi/mode/2u...
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I picked up my copy of the microcomputer version at a neighborhood rummage sale in a park as a young kid. It's one of the earliest things from my childhood that I still have. Good times.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
They were also how you edited your program in the absence of a coding editor. You'd type LIST to see your current program, type a new line with the same number to replace an existing line, or a new line with a new number to insert it
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I won't be surprised if this thread ends up locked, the way it's going.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I'll admit that I am curious about if we'll ever see a conservative African pope.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I'm seeing ~38--42 tps on a 4090 in a fresh build of llama.cpp under Fedora 42 on my personal machine. (-t 32 -ngl 100 -c 8192 -fa -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -m models/gemma-3-27b-it-qat-q4_0.gguf)
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by a_e_k 1y ago
There's a famous anecdote about C.S. Lewis saying much the same thing: > On the way to an Inklings meeting, he gave some money to a street beggar, and I made the usual objection: "Won't he just spend it on drink?" &gt
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by a_e_k 1y ago
I was once an author on a systems paper where everyone after the primary author was ordered by (decreasing) tenure on the development team.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Also discussed on /r/cpp: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1jy6ver/utlprofiler_si...
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by a_e_k 1y ago
> balanced windows [1] > [1] That is, three windows of the same size side-by-side. `C-x +` (M-x balance-windows) for those who don't know . There's also M-x balance-windows-area.
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by a_e_k 1y ago
Oh, this will be nice. I've had a home-grown (rotate-windows) function in my config for a long time. I love it when I can shrink my config because core now has an equivalent.

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