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by aerxes 2mo ago
Next items on the roadmap: * Ability for the dispatching agent to ask clarifying questions * Telephony kit so your agent can make outbound calls and wait on hold * Openrouter integration for offloading llm generation I am aiming to build th
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Show HN: PipeCrab – a Rust voice agent that runs multiple tasks at once(github.com)
2 points by aerxes 2mo ago|1 comments
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by aerxes 3y ago
That wasn’t the point nor even an offhand comment in their post. C++ is fine and has a lot of libraries built up — especially around image processing. It will be quite some time before Rust replaces C++. But if I had time to learn only one
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by aerxes 4y ago
That’s what debate’s about. I do recognize that caring about single threaded workloads and performance do contribute to snappier UI (and backwards compatibility).
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by aerxes 4y ago
The point that I’m making is that you can write multi threaded applications without dropping support for single core systems.
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by aerxes 4y ago
I’m not advocating making software multithreaded only , since obviously that doesn’t make sense. But, in many modern languages (including c++) multi threading 1. Doesn’t significantly detract from the performance of single core systems 2.
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by aerxes 4y ago
If we were arguing about designing vehicle safety testing suites for the worst performers (a very real problem that we have right now) we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. Writing multithreaded applications increases the performanc
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by aerxes 4y ago
I don’t know dude, if you want to write software for the worst performers instead of commodity hardware that’s up to you Just that single core systems are dying and probably won’t come back. Even Raspberry Pi’s are quad core now.
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by aerxes 4y ago
The data that it presents shows that >50% of PCs surveyed have 6 cores or more.
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by aerxes 4y ago
This reads as something obvious. Of course between choosing a simple solution and a complex over-architected solution, you would choose the simple one. The key word here is “over-architected”. The author is nitpicking academic and bureaucra
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by aerxes 4y ago
Gonna beat a dead horse here, but >50% of PCs that are surveyed by Steam have 12 threads or more. That’s PCs that have steam installed at all. Intel’s bare minimum current-gen i3 processor has 12 threads. That’s the absolute cheapest des
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by aerxes 4y ago
Follow-up question: What is the model’s behavior when “idle”. Does it propogate actions independently or does it only respond to stimuli?
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by aerxes 4y ago
I’d like to really poke at this “meditation” effect. Is LaMDA aware of passing time? Does it remember information from encounters that take place over a week or month?
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by aerxes 6y ago
This postmortem is incomplete: it fails to address the main three roots of the problem: 1. This business is too flippant with their write-able production access. 2. No user should have DROP DATABASE grants on production. 3. Clearly one of t