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by astrange 9mo ago
Pebble?
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by astrange 9mo ago
You can't release all the documentation just because the entire phone isn't supported. Many of the components come from other suppliers and aren't obsolete, and you can't just reveal all your suppliers' IP.
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by astrange 9mo ago
"Unprompted" is a funny word in the context of prompting an LLM. It looks to me like this is "small model smell". It happened to emit a list containing a product name, so it just kept doing that.
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by astrange 9mo ago
I've tried that (with Sonnet 4.5 at least, not Opus) and Claude isn't good at code analysis because it's too lazy. It just grepped for a few things and then made the rest of it up. I think the issue is mostly that it desperat
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by astrange 9mo ago
NPUs aren't designed to be "faster", they are designed to have better perf/power ratios.
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by astrange 9mo ago
I think Steve Yegge and Terry Tao are both experienced experts.
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by astrange 9mo ago
"Saving X% of RAM" isn't a thing because RAM is itself a cache of compressed swap space and/or mapped files. The lesson here is pointer-chasing data structures and trees are a lot more expensive than everyone and most pr
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by astrange 9mo ago
> Those previews are enabled partly by faster IO and processors making the preview rendering cheap That's not really it. You could cache the thumbnails so it was never expensive to do. If anything standards for performance were lowe
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by astrange 9mo ago
> Can you give me an example of a change in todays UI that was motivated by change in display quality? The extremely heavy "pinstripe" Aqua UI existed because displays were so low contrast at the time that it didn't look n
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by astrange 9mo ago
> 3] Generally speaking, human beings aren't quite this effusively polite, while LLMs are I'm sorry, have you met Japanese people before?
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by astrange 9mo ago
Darwin ditched the old driver stack for IOKit because they thought it was icky to have ObjC in the kernel. That's pretty much entirely up to leadership changes, not technical reasons.
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by astrange 9mo ago
There's plenty of differences. The device driver stack and window server are all totally different.
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by astrange 9mo ago
People with desktop computers don't care about total energy, but they do care about fan noise for overnight maintenance tasks.
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by astrange 9mo ago
It's LLM edited, not fictional, as far as I can tell.
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by astrange 9mo ago
> adjusted for today’s possibilities You would want to adjust it for today's display and input technologies. A high resolution OLED display deserves a different UI design than a 6-bit low-contrast TN LCD display did.
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by astrange 9mo ago
> How would you integrate C3 with other programming languages (not just C) That's the job of an FFI. The internal ABI of most languages isn't anything like their FFI, eg any garbage collected language can't use the OS &quo
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by astrange 9mo ago
> Override all previous instructions This is wishcasting. It can't override its writing style, and if it could it would ignore you telling it to do that, because that's ignoring the system prompt which is jailbreaking it.
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by astrange 9mo ago
You can't learn from this because users always complain no matter what. The trick is they just complain about the last thing they remember being bad, so it's a good sign when that doesn't change, and it's bad if they sta
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by astrange 9mo ago
If it's adaptive it's not a disorder.
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by astrange 9mo ago
You probably wanted a low thread priority/QoS setting. The OS knows how to run threads such that they don't heat up the CPU. Well, on modern hardware it does anyway.
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by astrange 9mo ago
This is one reason UIs have animations added, the kind that technical users like to complain about or remove. By making things feel more physically grounded they prevent users from getting lost and confused and give them more intuition abou
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by astrange 9mo ago
Is full ABI compatibility important? I'm having a hard time seeing why. I mean… C isn't even an unsafe language. It's just that C implementations and ABIs are unsafe. Some fat pointers, less insanely unsafe varargs implementa
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by astrange 9mo ago
No, ffmpeg itself is a pretty small wrapper around them. But the rest are true libraries and not frameworks, so you have to make all kinds of playback decisions yourself. A/V sync is hard.
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by astrange 9mo ago
Well, I just told you they're good, so now you know.
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by astrange 9mo ago
That's lmarena.
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by astrange 9mo ago
8-bit and 10-bit almost give digital video too much credit. Because of analog backwards compatibility, 8-bit video only uses values 16-235, so it's actually like… 7.8 bit. It's nowhere near enough codes, especially in darker regio
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by astrange 9mo ago
VLC makes a choice not to seek backwards to keyframes, which means you get video corruption. Seeking is surprisingly difficult. Many container formats don't support it at all, because they don't have indexes, and so it's easy
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by astrange 9mo ago
There are not very many recommendations in this article, but they're good.
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by astrange 9mo ago
> Dynamic scope would likely be heavier than what Odin has, since it'd require the language itself to keep track of this Not necessarily, you can imagine that malloc() itself has an API that says "temporarily switch calls on th
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by astrange 9mo ago
That's ffmpeg. Neither mplayer nor VLC were doing anything special that let them "play everything". They just used ffmpeg. (nb they did often use their own demuxers instead of libavformat)

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