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by alganet 1y ago
> make everyone have the stuff billionaires have instead of how they are going to eliminate billionaires It's the other way around. Billionaires lack something: the sense of working to get things. True sense of value. I want billion
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by alganet 1y ago
They were awful compared to newer models, but for the price of nothing , pretty good deal. If no good use is found for high-end GPUs, secondhand models will be like AOL CDs.
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by alganet 1y ago
Why not? This is the exact model in which WWII operated. Car and plane supply chains were practically nationalized to support the military industry. If drones, surveillance, satellites become the main war tech, they'll all use silicon,
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by alganet 1y ago
Yes. I think this also supports my case. For me, it was obvious to use `parse_ini_file` because it greatly improved performance (I didn't had to parse it by hand) and familiarity (PHP users already know ini). On the other hand, there i
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by alganet 1y ago
One could make a vague substack post about this.
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by alganet 1y ago
More a sequence of potential events than a timeframe. High-end GPUs are already useless for gaming (a low-end GPU is enough), their traditional source of demand. They're floating on artificial demand for a while now. There are two mark
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by alganet 1y ago
Right now, all silicon talk is bullshit. It has been for a while. It became obvious when old e-waste Xeons were turned into viable, usable machines, years ago. Something is obviously wrong with this entire industry, and I cannot wait for it
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by alganet 1y ago
running into a windmill considered harmful
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by alganet 1y ago
it rewards viral, vague behavior that only draws clicks but doesn't actually generate knowledge
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by alganet 1y ago
LLM tech probably will find some legitimate use, but by then, everything will be filled with people misusing it. Millions of beginner developers running with scissors in their hands, millions of investment in the garbage. I don't thin
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by alganet 1y ago
I win either way. If AI takes over in the predicted scale and timeline, I'll be one of the members of the last generation of developers who never felt even a single drop of impostor syndrome. People like me will be essentially walking
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by alganet 1y ago
By the way, no hard feelings. The best thing that happened with my early projects was the local community I was able to help build here in Brazil. I've seen many local contributors that helped with my early projects do things well beyo
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by alganet 1y ago
Some 15 years ago, I made a small configuration language: https://github.com/Respect/Config/blob/master/docs/README.md Then, two years later, toml (by a GitHub founder) appeared. It is almost an exa
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by alganet 1y ago
Use a whitelist-based extension such as NoScript: https://noscript.net You can then enable just enough JS to make sites work, slowly building a list of just what is necessary. It can also block fonts, webgl, prefetch, ping and a
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by alganet 1y ago
Your comparison with natural organisms _brightens my day_, but it is irrelevant for the context we're discussing.
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Trivia: Windows also has %PATHEXT%. It's a set of executable extensions like bat, exe, com, cmd. It is what allows calling `program` and reaching `program.exe`.
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by alganet 1y ago
I am sorry that you do not see yourself as different from a desk lamp.
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by alganet 1y ago
Real examples often work better. Last week I was learning about Itanium. It was a processor designed specifically for HP. Its goal was to replace both x86 and PowerPC. HP would design the new systems to run on Itanium, and Intel would desig
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by alganet 1y ago
Thanks for clarifying! Also, good catch in using the chat history to reconstruct the first phases of work. I believe it can be a fun experiment for others to try to reproduce it from scratch using the prompts and image assets only.
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by alganet 1y ago
Let's skip over to a real example, it's better. If you start designing hardware for AI, together with AI designed to run just on that hardware, and tie those design cycles together, you'll get a design by commitee. It is very
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by alganet 1y ago
When you divide and specialize manufacture, you get efficiency. When you divide and specialize design, you get design by commitee.
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by alganet 1y ago
I am sure hobbysts vibe machine a lot, and there's nothing wrong with that, but that's not supposed to be representative of the industry.
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by alganet 1y ago
I think indie games could be a really good use case for coding AIs. Low stakes, fun-oriented, sounds like a match. The first commit[0] seems to have a lot of code, but no `PROMPTS.md` yet. For example, `EnergySystem.ts` is already present o
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by alganet 1y ago
There are many industries that specialized but kept and refined old knowledge instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over. > That is because you are replying to two different people. He chose to follow the argument of the previo
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by alganet 1y ago
If I did, people failed to explain why. I think I made an excellent counterpoint that is not against specialization, but complementary. This counterpoint is particularly important in an age where specialization is being oversold and mixed w
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by alganet 1y ago
You're changing your argument. Before, you said people _can't_ (in general, anyone that knows how to code cannot possibly learn how circuits work). Now, you're saying that _you don't want to learn_. That's on you, b
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by alganet 1y ago
Machinists know their materials. They might not know every step to process it, but they understand the manufacturing process of different kinds of metals and their properties. They definitely don't "vibe machine" without thin
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by alganet 1y ago
I'm fairily confident that someone like Ben from Applied Science can both laminate circuits and write modern code. https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience https://github.com/benkrasnow If he can, what&
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by alganet 1y ago
You're misdirecting. He's criticizing the act of _not building_ on previous learnings. _It's in the damn title_. Repeating mistakes from the past leads to a slow down in such advancements. This has nothing to do with learning
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If I break some source code by messing with it, I know what happened. I might even learn from it. Now if npm breaks it, or Claude breaks it, a developer might not even know what was broken. He's talking about that kind of thing, not th

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