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by derefr 5mo ago
Iterative, or recursive? IMHO, if you're working on large feature changes, before nudging the agent to write any code , it's best to: 1. establish consensus, just in the chat, on the problem domain — i.e. the business-domain pr
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by derefr 5mo ago
Or https://www.arduboy.com/ . (Though both of these are "more capable" in the sense of kids being able to make their own games for them; not necessarily in the sense of the games having even the fidelity of a Gam
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by derefr 5mo ago
> the point is to shave off the last cent A Tag-Connect footprint has a BOM cost of zero. (Though not a TCO of zero in a closed enterprise ecosystem, as everyone needing to debug the devices needs to buy a stupid $60 pogo-pin cable.)
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by derefr 5mo ago
> Ultimately, the point of hardware attestation isn't to ensure that your device is trusted, but that the action you're trying to perform was done by a human, not a bot doing millions of them per second. It's just another
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by derefr 5mo ago
In languages without compile-time keyword arguments but with block comments, you can use them inline for this. createUser(user, /* isAdmin */ true, /* sendWelcomeEmail */ false);
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by derefr 5mo ago
> The corollary to that is a clever bureaucrat can kill a proposal simply by inviting many decision makers to a meeting. Not particularly clever. My experience is that low-level team/line managers typically already have the authori
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by derefr 5mo ago
> At that point, there's probably not much major input you can have into the core architecture or strategy Sure you can? In this concrete case, Redis is very "flat" — there's the data structure implementations, and th
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by derefr 5mo ago
Also kind of makes sense out of the concept of "Desk Accessories" (i.e. the things under the Apple menu in Macintosh System 1 — Lisa OS also had these.) Every Lisa OS "task" (there were no processes in the pre-emptive se
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by derefr 5mo ago
What did Xenix did that was so distinctive?
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by derefr 5mo ago
Accessible for development , sure. Developers and hobbyists are willing to pay $500 for an FPGA devkit, and that's been possible for a long time now. But, more recently (last 10 years), we've seen increasingly-low-LE FPGAs on inc
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by derefr 5mo ago
"Going through things" isn't always necessary / is avoidable in some deployments. And 2.4GHz signals can propagate an okay distance between nodes if there aren't things to go through. (Globalstar's emergency SO
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by derefr 6mo ago
It'd make a lot of sense to sandbox AF_ALG, then, wouldn't it? At least for userspace-driven invocations. Let the kernel keep its current code-path for kernel-driven invocations, but have the same code unit files also build so
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by derefr 6mo ago
> Analyze if it's malware how exactly? Maybe the repo/worktree is named my-big-evil-virus-trojan-malware-worm?
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by derefr 6mo ago
I would point out that for the Pico (RP2040) and Pico 2 (RP2350) in particular, there's not only a datasheet, but also first-party tutorials that walk you through laying out a minimal reference board design: Pico 1 (RP2040): https:&#x
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by derefr 6mo ago
> or in the simulator Inadequate simulator, then, no? (I imagine analogue RF board-level simulation is a lot more expensive than digital-logic board-level simulation. Might have been impractical way back when, such that we only used to h
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by derefr 6mo ago
Do you have an Apple Watch paired to this iPhone? (I know that installing apps on iOS forces installation of the equivalent watchOS apps; not sure if having a watchOS app installed/running/activating itself forces installation of
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by derefr 6mo ago
It's funny to think back, as I've just recently installed a browser extension to do the opposite (i.e. to prevent "open in new tab" tabs from doing any work until I foreground them.) Today, my computer's memory is
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by derefr 6mo ago
I find that often the developers of these apps don't speak English, but want to target an English-speaking audience. For the marketing copy, they're using the LLM more to translate than to paraphrase, but the LLM ends up paraphras
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by derefr 6mo ago
Is that through solid-core fiber? Because hollow-core fiber also exists.
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by derefr 6mo ago
At least in this case (not so sure about the Prompt API case mentioned in another thread) the agent is "in" the page. And that means that the agent is constrained by the same CORS limits that constrain the behavior of the page&#x2
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by derefr 6mo ago
10. The interesting thing about these instruction streams, though, is that they're all being driven in lockstep externally by the decompressor. None of the level-data ISAs contain anything like a backward JMP-like opcode, because eac
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by derefr 6mo ago
> I still struggle to comprehend, even in the slightest, how programmers back then did what they did - and the worlds they created with the limitations they had to work with. Highly related: two videos covering exactly how they fit... -
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by derefr 6mo ago
I would point out that the default BPE tokenization vocabulary used by many models (cl100k_base) is already a pretty powerful shorthand. It has a lot of short tokens, sure. But then: Token ID 73700 is the literal entire (space-prefixed) wor
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by derefr 6mo ago
I've always figured that constraining an LLM to speak in any way other than the default way it wants to speak, reduces its intelligence / reasoning capacity, as at least some of its final layers can be used (on a per-token basis)
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by derefr 6mo ago
The embedded engineering mindset is not a mindset of "writing bug-free code"; it's a mindset of treating the first ~20% of the time budget you're given for the project as time spent designing and writing code (and constr
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by derefr 6mo ago
FYI, the LLM letter-counting problem has nothing to do with counting per se, and is instead entirely down to LLMs not getting to see your raw UTF-8 byte stream, but rather having a tokenizer intermediating between you and it, chunking your
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by derefr 6mo ago
Refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici... The largest electricity consumers all have good places to put solar farms.
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by derefr 7mo ago
I dunno; I think in practice an absolute sometimes shakes out just fine. In this case, I see no reason that we would want to draft constitutional rights such that we consider a government's actions taken in pursuit of their national
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by derefr 7mo ago
So... if we all care so much about shooting down the bad idea, why is nobody proposing opposite legislation: a bill enshrining a right to private communications, such that bills like this one would become impossible to even table? Is it jus
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by derefr 7mo ago
Is it not a web component, per se? Per the article, all the React stuff does seem to bake down to HTML Custom Elements, that get wired up by some client-side JS registering for them. That client-side JS is still a "web component",

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