danybittel

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Memory Management in Miqula(medium.com)
2 points by danybittel 2y ago|0 comments
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by danybittel 2y ago
This is absolutely not what I'm seeing. Travel is at an all time high with crazy amount of traffic jams, every weekend. Restaurants are full, parks, museums.. full. It is almost eerie just how everybody is going out and about like ther
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by danybittel 2y ago
But we eat more. People often seem to not realize that overweight is a risk factor for cancer.
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by danybittel 2y ago
You are probably joking, but that is literally what MS said, they don't even hide it. A quote from the register: "Suleyman (Head of MS AI) did allow that there's another category of content, the stuff published by companies
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by danybittel 2y ago
"I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 1990s has been it is fair use" And that social contract did not include AI. You put content on the internet becau
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by danybittel 2y ago
I'd say it's the other way around, people with Aphantasia trend towards tech. Especially software is very abstract, you can visualize parts of it in your head but it's often not enough precise or just too complex. Even a smal
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by danybittel 2y ago
My experience is the exact opposite. To implement a new feature, I usually first refactor, make space for the new feature, improve existing design. (uphill). Then I implement the new feature as pristine and clear as possible (top). Then I f
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by danybittel 2y ago
I'd say these are essential complexities, they are features necessary for the client. Accidental complexity would be, if you for example, assigned the work on your new house to different "teams". Then the "guest room&quo
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by danybittel 2y ago
"Essentially every application on my computer is a silo." So true. And so is every company. They have very little incentives to make your data accessible. Or is it "their" data? You can also go "turtles all the way
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by danybittel 2y ago
Wouldn't it be fun if electric cars were the same way as PC's. Plug and play the parts you want, switch motor / battery.. choose a new chassis as you wish. And LED lights of course.
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by danybittel 2y ago
Oh I love this: "I use programs as a way of remembering stuff. My memory is the programs I write. If I learn something math or physics or some other maybe biology and I write a program that represent that so I can read the program late
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by danybittel 2y ago
I usually also like type annotations for return types. The problem I'm having with my PL is with generics: If the return type depends on T but is not T. If I infer the return type it's obvious.
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by danybittel 2y ago
Vicky is not talking about the a story structure. If you followed a story structure, you start with how you've been (I always loved windows), then what happened (I got an automatic update), then piles of problems (The computer wouldn&#
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by danybittel 2y ago
Interesting! You seem take "language" really far / different. How about something like editing an image in Photoshop? There's a vocabulary (the commands) they get applied to the image. There are also rules (constraints).
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by danybittel 2y ago
> How is this related? That is sort of my point, if you think of a PL as a language, visual programming is not related. You are drawing a line somewhere between PL and visual programming. If you think of a PL as a specification, it is th
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by danybittel 2y ago
A language is ... does not mean ... is a language. A dog is an animal but an animal is not always a dog. I think it's clear for the both of us that PLs are not the same as languages. I would just go a little further and calling it a mi
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by danybittel 2y ago
Even if you consider it communication, that doesn't make it a language. Plenty if communication happens through other means. If we look at the debug session or bash scripting, the closest thing of a two way communication. It doesn&#x27
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by danybittel 2y ago
Who are you "communicating" with? A programmer does not communicate with a computer, through a PL. He or she writes it down, to later be executed or interpreted, so the computer can "communicate" with the user, through
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by danybittel 2y ago
"Language" in the context of PL is a misnomer. People even scientist seem to fall into that trap (remember the literate programming movement). PL's are better described as "Specifications". More similar to file form
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by danybittel 2y ago
Both Intel's and AMD's newer chips have NPUs as well. They are also better in the power consumption area, not as good as arm though. I don't see a reason they can get there as well, the actual instruction set does not matter
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by danybittel 2y ago
So, you are arguing that It's easier to download the source and compile it yourself than downloading the compiler?
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by danybittel 2y ago
While it's clever, it is also counter intuitive. I would expect an array to be 0(n) when inserting from the beginning. If I wanted something fast from both side, I'd use a double ended queue[1]. This, as the author shows, lead to
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by danybittel 2y ago
Isn't that exactly what an LLM does? Predicting the next token?
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by danybittel 2y ago
I remember my brother once (mid nineties) had a graphics tablet that came with a pen (corded of course) and a "mouse". But the mouse only worked on the tablet and had clear area with a crosshair. Is that the same thing? (Unfortuna
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by danybittel 2y ago
The ribbon has a fixed height. All it's elements have the same height, so you can arrange them side by side. If you have a ribbon on the side, the elements would need to have a fixed width. If you look at an office ribbon, it's go
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by danybittel 2y ago
There is a really great talk on how the ribbon was invented: https://youtu.be/Tl9kD693ie4?si=3o0PiiipTgqVQiYC (first of ten parts)
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by danybittel 2y ago
The ribbon was invented when we had 4:3 monitors. Recently I helped my sister on a 16:9 laptop, yikes. The actual content of excel is left in a narrow long strip. Luckily it can be collapsed pretty easily.
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Where does constant data go?(medium.com)
1 points by danybittel 2y ago|0 comments
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by danybittel 3y ago
I think it's not a good idea to cram it all into colors. Many of these things are already possible in modern editors. Through hover, squiggly lines, faded out lines, marking at the left / right of the lines or other hints. If you
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by danybittel 3y ago
> Many settings, such as your car, would improve if a driver could talk with a car instead of pushing buttons. You have watched too much sci-fi and not read enough UX.

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