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by elcritch 1y ago
Wow and TI produces some of the better documentation, at least for their analog parts. Their chips seem much more closed. The GPU drivers for the 2 decade old Beagle Bones require an account and NDA IIRC.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I'd argue they're technically not over-driving them if the speakers survive and work well. Rather it's that other vendors are under driving their speakers by using a simplistic algorithm. Apple is actually driving their speak
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by elcritch 1y ago
I can easily hit the daily usage limits on Claude Code or Openai Codex by asking for more complex tasks to be done which often take relatively little time to review. There's a lot of tokens used up quickly for those tools to query the
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by elcritch 1y ago
Basic understanding of a customer base could've avoided the BudLight fiasco too. Then again, I'm sure if you're an elite upper-middle-class executive from an Ivy League school the idea that you need to cater to lower class wo
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by elcritch 1y ago
Closer to 30 years I'd say. Probably a lot of working age men, especially construction.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I just want a service that does this. Pulls in the latest docs into a vector db with a chat or front-end. Not the windows containers bit.
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by elcritch 1y ago
It’s too cheap as a rate limiter as it is if you read TFA.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Essentially the Pow aspect is pointless then? They could require almost any arbitrary thing.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Reading TFA, those billions requests would cost web crawlers what about $100 in compute?
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by elcritch 1y ago
Technically you didn’t specify if your world view will improve or devolve. ;)
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by elcritch 1y ago
Unfortunately the LSP hasn’t improved that much. There’s been some work on to kill errant processes and such. So it’s a bit more stable. It does work pretty well when it works though. But I just kill it now. Unfortunately it may not be unti
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by elcritch 1y ago
I’d say the majority of Nim’s stdlib can be used without ref (arc) types. The compiler only generates ARC code if you use ref types not when you import a module. Yeah much of the basic stdlib only uses vector, string, and map types which ar
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by elcritch 1y ago
That hasn’t been my experience with Nim so far. Both Claude 4 and GPT5 both one shot Nim code almost perfectly now. They even made a Nim JavaScript app for me. On top of that I’ve been able to “vibe” code a couple of different libraries for
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by elcritch 1y ago
It’s more that Nim2 moved from a GC to ARC/ORC, scope based automatic reference counting (ARC) with an optional cycle collector (ORC). C++, Swift, and even Rust rely on reference counting quite a bit.
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by elcritch 1y ago
The notion that we need to all program in the top 10 popular programming languages seems dead with the advent of LLMs. I program a lot in Nim including professionally and strongly prefer it over Rust or even Zig. Primarily because I just r
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by elcritch 1y ago
One of the worst parts of humanity is that we're too often worse to those we are close to than to strangers.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I hope that the European Union reforms its bankruptcy laws to match those in the US. Bankruptcy clemency is one of those key advantages the US has to really enable entrepreneurship. Another one in California is no non-competes. As an Americ
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by elcritch 1y ago
> (which has no physical diagnosis criteria, just a subjective checklist), An ADHD diagnosis is not just subjective checklist. There's little regulation, but in order to get federal ADA accommodations in gradschool I had to get a di
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by elcritch 1y ago
I think of this stuff when folks say “trust the science!”. It’s all trust the science until that science conflicts with some broader agenda of a federal agency or a doctor’s whims about risks to their license. Medicine really has a bad prob
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by elcritch 1y ago
> If your perspective is "Might makes right" that's a worse position for a people with the history that the jewish people have, than a position that seeks justice. It’s not right, it just is. Ignoring realities of the situ
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by elcritch 1y ago
> No. There are surviving people with a clear right to return they were removed from. There’s very few Palestinians in Gaza alive from that time. Even then, while they may have a desire to return home it’s not something any other people
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by elcritch 1y ago
xAIs prompts are open?! Wow that's pretty impressive.
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by elcritch 1y ago
> The majority of Gazans would be happy if Israel just respected their right to return. Sure and Greeks would love to have Constantinople back. Greece attacked Turkey to get Thrace back and failed. Most of the Greeks living there were ex
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by elcritch 1y ago
> "Hamas wont stop until they are in a better position to defend palestinians" isnt the amazing argument you might think it is. Hamas has no interest in defending Palestinians much less peaceful coexistence [1]. Their primary g
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Luckily we now are able to launch stuff into orbit a lot cheaper. Including astronomy related hardware. That's already happening of course. Seems more effective for astronomers to embrace it. Perhaps by getting SpaceX to add a few
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by elcritch 1y ago
Or some sarcasm given their comment history on this thread.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Given how LLMs work it makes sense that mentioning a topic even to negate it still adds that locus of probabilities to its attention span. Even humans are prone to being affected by it as it's a well known rhetorical device [1]. Then a
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by elcritch 1y ago
I'm finding GPT5 to be more succinct and on par with Claude Code so far. They're really toned down the obsequiousness.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Recently I realized you can add Github Copilot as a reviewer to a PR. It's surprisingly handy and found a few annoying typos and one legit bug mostly from me forgetting to update another field.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Similarly I've been making Ansible Playbooks using LLMs of late, often by converting shell scripts. Play books are pretty great and easier to make idempotent than shell. But without Claude I'd forget the syntax or commands and it&

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