bandrami

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by bandrami 7mo ago
I can't speak to China, but having spent most of the past decade in India and Sri Lanka I can say the problem there is that nobody is willing to unilaterally disarm. Everybody agrees that bakshish is deadweight loss and inefficient, bu
422.
by bandrami 7mo ago
That's how pari mutuel betting works; the odds are set by the bettors betting and unknown until the book closes. That's in fact the entire argument behind Kalshi: the betting is the means of odds discovery.
423.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Oh things must be about to get bad
424.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Hover is done by the client telling the compositor it would like the cursor to change its shape if it is over a certain area the client is drawing. But the client does not know where the cursor is or where on the screen the client is (or ev
425.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Neither way works in Wayland. A program can know where it was clicked but not where the pointer was immediately before that. For that matter Wayland doesn't have a concept of "the" pointer; there may be multiple pointers.
426.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Void had a port in the works at one point
427.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Well, in my case, because the VCF on my synth sets its cutoff frequency based on the pointer's Y position and its resonance based on the pointer's X position
428.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Everybody wants to use LLMs to produce things and absolutely nobody wants to consume the things that LLMs produce and this is the fundamental reason this is all going to collapse unless we find a way for producers to pay consumers to consum
429.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Ah, but now instead of one old difficult-to-maintain way of allowing an application to draw on a rectangle on the screen, we have five (and counting!) new and somewhat incompatible ways to do it. Progress.
430.
by bandrami 7mo ago
Sort of. If your software wants to do something like "know where the pointer is" it won't work on sway.
431.
by bandrami 7mo ago
As predicted, we will re-invent X11 one feature at a time. Maybe someday soon a Wayland window will be able to know its own screen position.
432.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Then you're forgetting the time your sysadmin spends doing that
433.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I find them the opposite of convenient ("where are they? are they charged? are they paired? did they lose pairing? did I just pair to my downstairs neighbor's TV? did he just pair to mine?")
434.
by bandrami 8mo ago
The DACs in most bluethooth earbuds are absolute garbage, but I think the bigger issue is people are tired of both having to charge them and having to keep track of where they are.
435.
by bandrami 8mo ago
You're forgetting to count the time you spend deleting the excess stuff
436.
by bandrami 8mo ago
But at that point it just becomes yet another escape sequence game; there's not really a solution here given that by design we only have one band to communicate with.
437.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Certainly those of us who maintain and administer it don't like that
438.
by bandrami 8mo ago
This. My aversion to LLMs is much more that I have low risk tolerance and the tails of the distribution are not well-known at this point. I'm more than happy to let others step on the land mines for me and see if there's better un
439.
by bandrami 8mo ago
This feeds the adoption problem, though: a lot of companies are thinking "why settle for the current models when even the vendors are saying the models in six months will be exponentially better? Let's let the early adopters work
440.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It doesn't work when that happens with humans so it absolutely wouldn't work when it happens with a machine
441.
by bandrami 8mo ago
With the caveats that banks can originate private credit as long as it is separate from their reserve system credit (and consequently does not increase the money supply when originated)
442.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I've got an M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and it runs Ableton and Serato so well I don't actually need a Pro anymore, so Mac may have shot themselves in the foot there.
443.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I'd really love it if the manufacturers would just say what wireless chipset they use in a given model but the unfortunate truth is even they don't always know for a given run
444.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Maybe that's a feature rather than a bug
445.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I'm very much an AI bear but I do think one interesting outcome is going to be that LLMs will stumble upon some weird ways of doing things that no human would have chosen that turn out to be better (Duff's device-level stuff) and
446.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I mean, it's ultimately a string, and the measurement of the entropy of a string is well-studied. The LLM might start gaming that with variable names so you'd need to do the AST instead. I may actually try something like that; coo
447.
by bandrami 8mo ago
It warms my heart to see the 303 getting a renaissance
448.
by bandrami 8mo ago
I mean, until we've at least been through a full lifecycle with its TCO we can't really say LLMs have replaced producing the software
449.
by bandrami 8mo ago
Like the fake facebook that had a security hole so severe every single participant had their API keys exposed?
450.
by bandrami 8mo ago
At some point people are going to start asking why software that doesn't need to be right should exist in the first place

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