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by bitwize 12d ago
Emacs-ng embeds JavaScript or TypeScript or something and a web engine for UI. But then I really don't see the point. You're just about halfway to Visual Studio Code, so why not just use that?
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by bitwize 12d ago
"Now I see the whole picture. The Emacs Lisp interpreter lock bungs no cake. The buffer-pruning-time crenellation is a glaze which conflicts with the cthulhu fhtagn peripatetic saxophone layer; the result is not cromulent. Three pounds
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by bitwize 12d ago
They're already doing that, which is why you can't buy any fucking RAM. The semiconductor companies have already fallen past the event horizon of their commercial black hole.
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by bitwize 12d ago
Like the animated series version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7cMZPklcn0
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by bitwize 12d ago
Someone being wrong almost always offers an opportunity for them or others to learn. If someone extremely smart is wrong, the gaps in their knowledge may point to interesting directions for the curious. Einstein was wrong to doubt the princ
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by bitwize 12d ago
The "genie out of the bottle" argument has been used in the ongoing AI-or-no-AI, we're-so-cooked/we're-so-back debate among software engineers, something like: you can't undo technological advances nor would yo
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by bitwize 12d ago
One of the great joys of following guys I admire like Carmack is the little smile I get when I see one of his tweets and go, "yeah, John Carmack was totally wrong about that." For example he argued that UI buttons should act on pr
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by bitwize 12d ago
I think you got downvoted unfairly because I really think you're sincere. My brain heard your comment in the voice of Nightcrawler from X-Men —and as the descendant of German Catholics, he's become one of my favorites.
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by bitwize 12d ago
> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms. AI is getting good at picking those as well. Frontier mode
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by bitwize 12d ago
Verifiable slowdown doesn't help you much if there are parties (like Chinese frontier labs) who didn't agree to the slowdown.
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by bitwize 13d ago
Another fictional example: Mr. Meeseeks. Especially when the agent starts recruiting other agents.
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by bitwize 13d ago
The idea has been to get the nerds out of computing since 1971. Milt Bryce and his son Tim were pretty much the inventors of modern information-systems management[0]. And they were open in their hatred of and contempt for programmers and ho
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by bitwize 13d ago
Sam: OK, Dario, you win. We're pacing the frontier. This is what you wanted. Dario: All right, frontier is paced! From now on, AI moves forward at a rate WE decide! [Kwindla Kramer bursts into the apartment] Kramer: You guys might want
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by bitwize 14d ago
I was just thinking of this today. AI is pretty much precisely a Theranos style grift, but unlike Theranos, who were shooting for something outright impossible, Dario and Sam may be running the biggest "fake it till you make it" s
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by bitwize 14d ago
I lived in the same building with a bloke who did dangerous construction type work in the Pacific NW. Sawing branches on high cliffs, that sort of thing. He'd make a grip on a job, come back home and spend it all on booze, weed, and wo
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by bitwize 14d ago
Finest Buggywhip Maker in the Land Whinges About Those New-Fangled Automobubbles, Take #7642 It's over. AI is here, and it's so vastly better than any tooling we've produced before, that you have to be really stupidly stubb
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by bitwize 14d ago
I want to see one of those AI-generated Seinfeld episodes with Dario as George and Sam Altman as Jerry, respectively. Dario: We gotta pace the frontier! Sam: How do you pace a frontier? The frontier's not goin' anywhere. It&#x27
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by bitwize 14d ago
This is why I say that those who say "AI is a tool" don't quite have it right. AI is a service . Your power saw doesn't cut the wood for you while you go do something else, and then ask if you would like it planed nex
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by bitwize 14d ago
The on-screen "turtle" made famous by microcomputer Logos was originally just such a robot: a wheeled dome with a pen inside that you could program by giving commands written in Logo. Papert reasoned that you could get kids intere
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by bitwize 14d ago
Because it's a movie
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by bitwize 16d ago
NT kernel rewrite when?
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by bitwize 16d ago
> Software Bill of Materials Yet another thing that came from PRIDE, despite that PRIDE itself is little known in today's software industry.
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by bitwize 16d ago
Models are the worst now that they ever will be. Frontier models do a phenomenal job of employing good engineering practices and code style compared to where they were mere months ago. Unassisted programming is dead. Programming as a human
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by bitwize 16d ago
I learned to hate corpo jobs less by thinking of them as "farming gold out of a megacorp". Of course I'm losing my ability to do even that, as sloppotrons beat half-century-old grognards every damn time.
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by bitwize 17d ago
The economics of it are such that writing code is, for humans, a handicraft to be indulged in out of idle curiosity. When it comes to actually useful software, for personal or industrial use, that is better off produced by machine; it'
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by bitwize 17d ago
The Hunting for More Money
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by bitwize 17d ago
We know that they're trying to invent a machine god, and if they're even partway successful shit's gonna get real, real fast.
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by bitwize 17d ago
If reality plays out like the novel series, the rational thing is to accept the rule of our machine overlords, for they will protect us from even bigger threats.
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by bitwize 17d ago
Yes, it's fine to run a model on bare metal. The model is just a token predictor. Leave out the fine semantics about this; it's a function taking a set of input tokens to output tokens. It can't mess with your computer or fil
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by bitwize 18d ago
That's going way back, and was portable enough to be used on a variety of operating systems. There was a package of it for the HP Integral! An early version of Xlisp was used as the basis for Autolisp, but Autolisp wasn't updated

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