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by drob518 5mo ago
I find it interesting that people still build and like TUIs that have menus and buttons. Trying to stuff a 1980s windowing paradigm into a terminal just seems odd to me. I never really liked the Borland interface. The article says that menu
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by drob518 5mo ago
The post focuses on Python, but I think it touches on an interesting question before skipping past it: ideally, what language would be best for our AIs to be programming in? The article says Rust. But can we do better? Rust has strong typin
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Like I said, Safari has its own issues. But huge power consumption isn’t one of them.
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Interesting, thanks. I’ll give it another try. It certainly used to be a pig. I remember times when the fan on my MacBook sounded like a freaking hovercraft and you’d go into system monitor and see a Chrome process just sucking down every C
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I gave up using Chrome a decade ago. It’s a power sucking pig. Safari has its own issues, but at least it’s usable. When I need something that isn’t Safari, I use Firefox.
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But is that likely, particularly as the market matures? That seems unlikely to me. We had some of the same sorts of management middleman tools and organizations ideas 15 years or so ago in the cloud computing world and all that pretty much
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by drob518 5mo ago
Hm. Would be interesting to see the finance spreadsheets for this. Typically the B-round guys are looking for something approaching a 10x return. Can anyone justify OpenRouter being worth $1.1Bn? That seems really high for a “management”&#x
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Omelets and eggs and all that.
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Anthropic's growth is 'just the tip of the sphere' for AI rally(cnbc.com)
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We have a deep capacity for remixing.
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Now I feel less bad about start all my LLM queries with “Beotch, …!”
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It’s not quite as cacheable as YouTube, but a lot of it is still pretty cacheable. Actions aren’t. Issues, wikis, and READMEs are. File views are. Most projects aren’t changing daily. The few that change daily aren’t changing hourly. There
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“A failure occurred. This was caused by something going wrong. Changes to operating guidelines have been instituted to ensure that things will not go wrong in the future unless we happen to do the same thing again.”
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The operational equivalent of pre-crime.
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I find our human need to embrace nostalgia interesting. That we would design blocky “pixel fonts” in vector formats so that we can scale and resize them is quite ironic.
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On one hand, all these mini interpreters and compilers are cool. I have a soft spot for extensible systems. On the other hand, all these things are a huge security problem. When every subsystem and data format is carrying around its own Tur
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Nobody cares until the code gets so twisted in knots that bugs and security issues predominate.
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I’d point out that smaller and simpler also makes their router code easier to review and that fewer lines will have fewer bugs (on average) and those bugs will be more obvious. But then, I’m old school and won’t let an AI work on code witho
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Unfortunately, I think this is correct. Such as it ever has been with technological change. The folks at the bottom bear the brunt of the dislocation and the folks at the top pat themselves on the back for being so forward looking and get h
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Right. And the best way to think about microcode is as code for a wacky, custom VLIW processor that implements the programmer-level x86 (in this case) instruction set. Various fields in the microcode send signals to different parts of the p
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SpaceX is heavily reliant on Starlink for growth and profit for IPO(cnbc.com)
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Data?
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I think that’s true on divergence. Basically, the only most is living in the frontier, and even that is only temporary. At some point, the frontier advances such that 99% of tasks can use something short of a frontier model and only a very
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by drob518 5mo ago
Whoever purchased their RAM last month vs this month has the advantage, I suspect.
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I’m curious about the difference between Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemma 4.
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Yep. Something needs to break soon. Or rather, something WILL break soon, one way of another. Was talking to a friend last night who works planning infrastructure rollout and he said costs for equipment has roughly doubled in the last six m
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This is pirate radio all over again.
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Agreed. It only takes one of them to have an issue or be out of position. Like you say, it’ll be interesting to see what they come back with after a thorough investigation.
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Asm.js is dead! Long live WebAssembly!
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Currently, Apple is letting some of its models go out of stock in preparation for new models coming in a few weeks. I would expect at least 128 GB models at that time. That said, the memory crunch is hitting everyone.

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