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by fidotron 1y ago
I have seen two apparently contradictory things. Firstly, there absolutely are people popping up in certain domains with LLM assisted developed products that could not have managed it otherwise, with results you would not suspect were made
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Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown (2013)(bjk5.com)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
There is a famous line about legal writing: “There are two things wrong with almost all legal writing. One is its style. The other is its content.” [1] PG going for the "they're connected" angle, not too convincingly as shown
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by fidotron 1y ago
https://www.ey.com/en_gl/weoy/class-of-2024/united-kingdom
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The computer revolution hasn't happened yet [video] (1997)(youtube.com)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
I would agree with that if there were no distinction between clients and servers. i.e. agents and LLMs are resources that should be discovered and exploited in the same exact way as anything else, and switchable in the same ways. The whole
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by fidotron 1y ago
> I think the opposite, MCP is destined to fail for the exact same reason the semantic web failed, nobody makes money when things aren't locked down. I think this is right. MCP resembles robots.txt evolved into some higher lifeform,
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Even in your v8 example, that's a JIT optimization, not "how the language works". You break that optimization, which you can do at any moment with any change in your code base, you're back to similar sizes. The whol
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by fidotron 1y ago
"However, the text message, which must have been sent just before the sub failed, took longer to reach the ship than the sound of the implosion." Right . . . they need to explain their reasoning there because it doesn't add u
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by fidotron 1y ago
> We need to spend 40 bytes storing a number. But . . . why? Assuming they aren't BigInts or similar these are maximum 8 bytes of actual data. This overhead is ridiculous. Using classes should enable you to be much smaller than the
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Rock, paper, scissors showdown(luduxia.com)
88 points by fidotron 1y ago|38 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Having only recently encountered this, does anyone have any insight as to why it takes 2GB to handle a 100MB file? This looks highly reminiscent (though not exactly the same, pedants) of why people used to get excited about using SAX instea
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by fidotron 1y ago
There's a very simple trick to dealing with these sort of recursive fractals: use logo/turtle graphics. The reason is the angles stay the same, and you're making local decisions based on scale as to if you skip over something
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Which Way Round – test your ability to follow object rotations(luduxia.com)
3 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think Andreas Kling behind Serenity OS, and now the Ladybird Browser, has broadly the right ideas, and Serenity OS is actually named after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer . You might be burned out, espe
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by fidotron 1y ago
The team on the iPhone was surprisingly small. Not small by startup standards, but nothing like as big as many would imagine.
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by fidotron 1y ago
If it's a phone it will have to run Android, with the Play Store to get the apps, at which point it will be very dependent on Google. You aren't going to get people giving up their mobile banking apps to carry an AI phone that doe
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by fidotron 1y ago
> The next major device will definitely be AI-first. Be more specific though: what form factor will such a device be in? A coffee maker? A phone? Glasses? Cars? A building? The AI wave seems to be hoping a whole load of hardware revoluti
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Bell users experience widespread outage across Ontario, Quebec(cbc.ca)
4 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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Push – A 64Kb Demo for the Acorn Archimedes(github.com)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|1 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgT1aA8yv6Y
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by fidotron 1y ago
Great to see Bembo being properly appreciated. It's kind of ironic that a system that ships with Computer Modern doesn't end up creating more Bodoni/Didone fans.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I like the aesthetic, but 16:9 and 90s computing together is just wrong. The back breaking not quite square trinitron monsters were the best.
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by fidotron 1y ago
To take the example of why London to Berlin by train is viable, and NYC to Chicago is not take a look at a map. There simply aren't many places between NYC and Chicago (except maybe Cleveland), while London to Berlin crosses whole othe
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Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of Activity (1987) [pdf](cdn.aaai.org)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
He also covered the opposite extreme: https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-03-25
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by fidotron 1y ago
Wally not washing towels because when he uses them he's the cleanest thing in the house, so logically they should get cleaner every time . . .
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by fidotron 1y ago
In modern systems everything is buffered, often way too much individually, let alone in aggregate. If it were not for the games industry it would be much worse, they are the only force incentivizing keeping latency within somewhat acceptabl
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by fidotron 1y ago
The original hardware, which I last played last year at Fun Spot, holds up surprisingly well. The responsiveness destroys modern systems completely, and vector displays are great. Tangentially there was a niche but slightly notorious port
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by fidotron 1y ago
The whole point of a spatial finder is it leaves things physically in the same place, which is very definitely not true of the ribbon menus (or their precursor in Office 2000 where menu item visibility was reliant on how often you used them

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