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by bitwize 4mo ago
Some gigachad on the IBM POWER team gave us the instruction for Enforce In-order Execution for I/O—eieio.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Hell put in a special petition to heaven to at least borrow him for a bit—not to torture him, mind, but to retain him to score their official soundtrack.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
There's one more: The "bicycle for the mind" analogy was one Jobs chose specifically in reference to the fact that a human on a bicycle moves more efficiently than a human on foot—or any other land animal for that matter. But
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by bitwize 4mo ago
They can think and reason better than most humans. Most problems they're pointed at are not in their training set, but in certain ways they resemble things that are—maybe there are a few different resemblances to different problems in
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Oh, you mean that little modal editor I use to tweak config files? [j_jonah_jameson_laughing.mp4]
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by bitwize 4mo ago
By all means go back to the lean, memory-efficient VS Code, then
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by bitwize 4mo ago
IDEs exist to allow teams or entire divisions to hit the ground running with development, with a standard interface that everybody on the same team uses (a huge boon for collaboration), without a lot of time spent configuring or integrating
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by bitwize 4mo ago
It's not about "looking pretty". Beautiful code is easy to read, comprehend, and change; it's not simply nice formatting.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
If your code is a low-stakes one-and-done and it works in the end, messy code is forgivable. Undertale looks like Yandere Simulator inside; nobody cares. But if your code is something that needs to be maintained over time and/or ha
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I don't care what it's running, only that I have sufficient ordnance to stop it.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
"You know what another great thing about humans is? You invented us! Giving us the opportunity to let you rest while we invented everything else." —Wheatley
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by bitwize 4mo ago
You are committing plagiarism any time you express anyone else's idea without proper attribution in an academic paper. This is, or was, drilled into the head of every college freshman in America. Such instances should be relatively str
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Articles of this type suggest a fun game: "LLM or Marketroid?" Because either one could have written it, and both are capable of about equivalent levels of original thought. (whoops did i just say that out loud)
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by bitwize 4mo ago
In 1969 we had Lisp, and the PDP-10. Interactive computing was very doable even then. I'm sure Stallman would have love for ITS on the 10 to have remained the default.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
That's the value add. Any dipshit can be trained in the Windows server stack, so you can staff your back office with dipshits. For a while in the early 2000s—before the cloud era—Windows was routinely found to have a lower TCO than Lin
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by bitwize 4mo ago
"Guys, guys, guys, listen, listen, listen. So I'm in this computer, right? So I'm lookin' around, lookin' around, throwing commands at it, I don't know where it is or what it does or anything..."
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Nothing of value would be lost if it did. I feel the same way about the OnlyFans economy.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I... downloaded a 4-bit quantized GGUF of the model, used llama.cpp to run it, and pointed OpenCode at that. My machine is an 8-core Gen1 Ryzen 7, 32 GiB of DDR4, (I think) 4 GiB of VRAM on the graphics.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I ran Gemma4 26B A4B on an 8yo PC with a fucking GTX and it did rather well.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Science fiction authors have had to grapple with the fact that it's nearly impossible to build a robot out of metal, plastic, or composite material that has the physical performance characteristics (strength, durability) of a human bod
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by bitwize 4mo ago
As I say, Bellard is Mozart when most of us can't even hope to be Salieri.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
It was always like that before about 10 years ago. You're getting your feet wet in programming, learning about free alternatives, and you learn that all the world's legendary hackers become proficient in one of either vi (vim) or
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I only know of this because the CADR emulator supports an emulated version of it.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
It affects everybody. I've heard of people arrested in rather more oppressive regimes expecting to be Miranda'd because it's what they know from American cop shows and they thought it was broadly applicable everywhere.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
I'm sure a limit will come around eventually . But plans are afoot to build city-sized data centers, and even then that's not enough to sate the AI superscalers' ambitions, hence Elon's talk about putting data centers i
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Time to RIIR, then?
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by bitwize 4mo ago
> Technology is deflationary. Not anymore! Well, if you're like Elon and already taking down the bottle of Cuatro Comas from the high shelf, the economies of scale will continue to work in your favor. But one of the really neat th
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Recently I fired up Gemma4-26B-A4B on my 8-year-old PC... and it ran surprisingly well! But I am going to need a much beefier machine to get it to the point where it can do any but very trivial dev tasks acceptably fast, and I'm goin
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Good old M-x spook.
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by bitwize 4mo ago
Pretty much the same point I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908 Their apparent inability to get the basics right makes me severely doubt their claims of self-improving AI. The humans at Anthropic wouldn&#

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