akkartik

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   by akkartik 3y ago

   Lightning is one of my favorites as well. I never read another Koontz after it, back in '97 or so. Perhaps I should.
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   As it happens, I just built the minimal, hackable tool for drawing boxes and arrows that I've always wanted. https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/snap.love
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   I vouched a functionof's comment.
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Think about when you use GPT to generate prompts, something that seems to be growing common. Once you have a pipeline like that, changing the (meta)prompt can be expensive. You designed the pipeline thinking you only have to come up with th
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Source code: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f3413564b1fa9c69f2bad4b040... Source code for the platform: https://github.com/copy/life
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   The Best of Orion's Arm(borretti.me)

   52 points by akkartik 4y ago|12 comments
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   Minor quibble. "Summarization can be done with little to no insight at all. Perhaps to do it better requires some insight." By this standard caching requires little to no insight at all. Perhaps some predictors require insight.
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   by akkartik 4y ago

   AI: just another way to get people to give you their password :)
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   RIP, Prince Joli Quentin Kansil (Jan. 27, 1943 – Mar 27, 2023)(blog.fogus.me)

   2 points by akkartik 4y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I mirror my repos to a bunch of services, and I've personally found `git push` to be much slower on codeforge than most places. I suspect they're having some short-lived scaling issues (that I am totally sympathetic to)
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    How can anyone explain everyone? Succinctly: I want Twitter to fail because Elon Musk violates contracts. A little more: If he gets away with it, more companies will fire employees without paying severance. Toilet paper is also a perk worth
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I got sick of juggling code that migrated from one category to the other, so I wrote a little script that deals with chopping up a large source file into multiple TUs before feeding them to the compiler. https://github.com/a
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    Small Project Build Systems (2021)(neilmitchell.blogspot.com)

    35 points by akkartik 4y ago|16 comments
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    > There's also tons of sites that get the "HN hug of death" when they're posted here (or Reddit, or wherever else that generates a surge in traffic). Tragic to miss out on all those potential hits and easy to prevent
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Have you ever actually had this problem? I haven't in 20 years of hosting a site.
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I'm pretty sure there are hosting services who can just take your site offline if you exceed your bandwidth quota. AWS makes this complex, so just don't use AWS. I wish residential providers would support a second level of quota m
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    A Rant on Terra (2019)(erikmcclure.com)

    13 points by akkartik 4y ago|5 comments
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    How God Plays Chess (2018)(en.chessbase.com)

    2 points by akkartik 4y ago|0 comments
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Thanks so much! I just tried it out and finally got to see time travel debugging working with my own eyes[1]. I'm glad to have it in my toolbox. [1] Though I had to use sudo a few times, reboot, see some scary warning that it might not
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    > The main thing that I wanted to address in the parent comment is that needing tools to debug your code somehow means that the code is a mess - no, sometimes it doesn't. Ah. I totally agree with that. Or at least, it's the sor
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    The big problem with debuggers in my experience is the difficulty of setup. They take a lot of code to build, and if you use a slightly different language or compiler or OS you're SoL. Or at least facing some rabbitholes of unknown dep
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I'm very happy to hear it! Can you point me at a few of them?
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I'm not arguing "don't use debuggers." I'm arguing, "don't just use debuggers." I elaborate more on this argument in the first 2 minutes of this 4-minute video: https://handmade.network&#x2
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I'm constantly finding new places in my program to add prints to. This isn't just copy changes. (Though that has also had a huge impact occasionally in understanding something. Imagine emitting 2 variables and then focusing on 1 o
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    But it sounds like you had to come up with your own tools because a debugger wasn't enough? That's my biggest criticism of debuggers having used both approaches: you forget that sometimes you need new tools. Whereas with prints yo
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I work on this. Check out the final demo at http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22 Another demo since, showing how I write tests: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/109742488349122478
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I tend to think of it as not dependency gated but social-technology gated. As you say, the critical resource was leisure, sufficiently widely distributed as to lead to humans playing status games like, "who can polish the shiniest mirr
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    100% Division of labor: making accidental complexity essential since 1945. Then again, perhaps we need to account for opportunity cost. Even if persistent storage can take many forms, it's hard to imagine that equivalent features could
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    Totally fair. Sorry, I'm walking in halfway to this conversation with a different axe to grind.
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    by akkartik 4y ago

    I think the crux is which side gets to be called "essential". Is it the abstract problem the code is intended for, or is it the real world we're living in. Mike Acton argues for the latter ( https://www.youtube.com&