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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> Norway better than YAML, in my opinion. I agree that Norway is better than YAML. Let's keep Norway and dump YAML. > There is no problem with YAML I am reminded of: "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!&quo
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> you'll be mostly fine. You mean other than when we won't be? :-(
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
My point is, that if companies develop ASICs for LLM work, then GPUs will stop being the go-to computation device for these workloads, and that will mean, hopefully, that their architectures will stop being warped so as to cater to LLM work
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Will these CPUs be available anywhere other than on Xiaomi devices?
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
I hope the LLM wave will leave GPUs behind to go back to pursue more general-purpose computation rather than spending their die area on multiplying 4-bit-number matrices and such things.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
If you think tanking Trillions in investments, warming the earth and increasion ocean water levels, creating water shortages and brown-outs is "good for all of us" - well, the rest of us beg to differ.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
There is no such thing as a "healthy competitive market". That is a totem, or a fantasy. As is exemplified in the article itself, the reasonable behavior of commercial corporations is to make the market non-competitive and 'u
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
CUDA is proprietary technology, guarded by patents and mostly closed-source. And its originator, NVIDIA, while being a member of the Khronos consortium, and technically supporting OpenCL, makes it much more difficult for you to do anything
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer For me, walking down the hallway where I work is usually sufficient... Hell, what am I even saying? I have a large list of them to begin with, and it rarely gets shorter
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered for humans does not matter for agents. sure, man, whatever. Yet another HN item linking to a blog pos
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Point of clarification: Rummaging through that site, and as far I can see - the Forth language is not used.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
But you can condemn the organization and people pushing for the deprecation and abandonment of another protocol, when the alternative one (Wayland) has nowhere near the level and quality of support and breadth of capabilities as the existin
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Great, I can run Compiz Fusion replacement, yay.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> especially when toolkits start to drop support. Which toolkits are dropping support for X11? AFAICR, few toolkits support Wayland (even though the two major ones, GTK and Qt, do).
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
I was about to reply that it is now a project with many contributions, but looking here: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/graphs/contributors?from... it seems that there are only two additional significant
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
So now, instead of people spending their time crafting software, they'll divide their time between telling some LLM to do it in their stead and blogging about their woes with the LLMs. All while continuing to deem themselves capable of
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
I am not a fan of Wayland. I've not really bought the value proposition; and see also: https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d... what's more - this seems like yet another RedHat/IBM
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Oh, no no no thank you. Don't connect my watch to anything. Not to mention, I expect that to reduce my watch's lifetime by 10x at least. Interestingly, though, the aesthetic reminds me a bit of my W71, which is more boxy and less
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Large enough companies always set up rent mechanisms. > Amazon is stealing from the customers they said they were here to serve. The stealing is, of course, much more fundamental than the search tax. I am reminded of the saying by 19th-c
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Why try to tank Norwegian pensions by having them buy OpenAI before the LLM capital expenditure bubble bursts? 8-\
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
It's very weird looking in from the outside. I mean, sure, the US is the dominant power and everything, so things like Iraq and Iran could be construed as just collateral damage from their imperial maneuvers. But it has just piled on,
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> I moved to Sol for my writing and it is so so much better. No it's not. The bad part about it is that some machine is writing instead of you, not the specific stylistic idiosyncracies.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> (electricity prices for instance) because nobody can agree on anything. I would say that's more like because the US has arranged for Europe's fossil fuel energy sources to be disrupted or cut off: * Libya - NATO made a pig&#x
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Are we now going to live in a world in which people bitch and moan about large private corporations' LLM text generation service and whether it's good or bad etc.? As though they're supposed to be benevolent and serve the pub
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
If this is intended for reading and writing by humans, then JSON doesn't cut it since you don't get comments (and perhaps also because of the weirdness of 64-bit floating-point values). Plus, XML is more "structurally nuanced
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Why would zipped JSON be fundamentally superior to zipped XML?
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Went to that FAQ again, and it contains false claims. They say: > we’re built with privacy as the default. Which is not the case, they are built with monitoring, calling-home and transmission of quite a bit of telemetry as the default.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
It's not anonymized, because your communication with Mozilla has plenty of identifying information. Also, Mozilla officially un-committed to not using sell this and any other data it collects from you: https://arstechnica.co
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Binface's most important non-platform items are: * Take millions in funding from shady crypto-billionaires. * Use anti-immigrant demagogy and lies.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
I, for one, welcome our new metallic receptacle nearly-elected overlord. (better than the elected one, that's for sure.)

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