fsloth

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by fsloth 9d ago
Porting has never been hard. Just follow the platform guidelines. Make sane architecture. Done. I mean _it's just work_. You don't need to invent anything. Just do the work. What _is_ hard is when people run after silver bullets t
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by fsloth 9d ago
There is no ”easy” porting. Once this is accepted the rest becomes easier as you are not wasting time trying to find a silver bullet. I mean it’s then ”just normal work”.
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by fsloth 9d ago
” If you write your app using win32, you won’t be able to port is very easily.” This is wrong way around. If you don’t support the platform your app runs on using the native api:s to the hilt your port is just bad. If you actually want to s
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by fsloth 9d ago
The CPU on most machines is quite proprietary. I don’t understand this faux purity dogma. Practical computing is not and never has been an abstract pure concept. It’s about making machines built by corporations to do usefull things at scale
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by fsloth 11d ago
"no STEP/IGES/BRep output" SketchUp does not really have that either if you are expecting something else than triangles. Since sketchup has polygons you could argue they are brep but even then only accidentally. Architec
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by fsloth 11d ago
" if you want something that can be manufactured that's not good enough" People design all sort of buildable things in SketchUp and it's just about dragging polygons around. You _may_ need accurate surface if you run you
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by fsloth 12d ago
AdaShape, a non-complicated 3D modeler for 3D printable shapes (desktop). I just released a new version with lots of new modeling tools: https://adashape.com/blog/alpha-0-2-0/ As a highlight the lofting tool is pr
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by fsloth 14d ago
This is a bit strange article. If you enjoy doing a thing in specific way, nobody is going to take that away. Chess is a great example. More players than ever, perfectly obsolete if you compare yourself to a computer, but that does not hurt
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by fsloth 14d ago
"has AI broken that stranglehold?" Whatever AI is, it _is_ a huge democratizing influence in all fields.
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by fsloth 18d ago
The dog is even more on the nose. The shadow shape is almost the same despite the dog getting quite a lot of volume around it's original body parts.
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by fsloth 18d ago
Not all people can!
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by fsloth 18d ago
If you want to discuss a matter, it would be nice to spell out your point of view. How is the person supposed to know your opposing point of view if you don't tell it?
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by fsloth 19d ago
Oh! So were sheep just for meat back then?
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by fsloth 20d ago
Sinners was very cool but I'm surprised to find it as Hugo winner.
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by fsloth 1mo ago
Yeah configuring whitelabel products for customer’s brand should be right in LLM:s ballpark.
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by fsloth 1mo ago
Well we would think that wouldn’t we but businesses can be run by people for whose business ”works mostly” is good enough.
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by fsloth 1mo ago
"LLMs can't write code worth a damn" I think it depends on the - ahem - context. In my experience they usually can, sometimes they can't. But generally their sense of software architecture remains abysmal, so even if the
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by fsloth 1mo ago
"People will write new UI frameworks and languages if the problem seems interesting to them." I would think even with AI assistance industrial quality solutions (which is what we are talking here I think ) still require corporate
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by fsloth 1mo ago
”GUIs always look bad outside of the "main" platform.” I think this is slightly wrong in two ways. i) If you want platform native then reimplement the gui on every target platform. It’s as ”simple” as that. If you need to ship to
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by fsloth 1mo ago
" highly conscientious " Just doing what others wish is not conscientous in itself! It _may_ be depdending on situation but it can be just pathological towards the self. When it's psyhocologically hard to do things you imagin
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by fsloth 1mo ago
Same!
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by fsloth 1mo ago
This I don't understand. If it's not your job, then just ignore the reports. If it's actually critical, someone will put money on the table and then it's a business. And then it's about scheduling and resourcing - a
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by fsloth 1mo ago
Personally I have zero reasons to upgrade from IPhone 13 until the software stops working. I hope it will last me several years more. Beautiful hardware.
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by fsloth 1mo ago
"it refuse to OCR public-domain books that included content that it didn’t like, such as references to prostitution in 19th-century books about Japan." Thoughtcrime -like territory and self-sensorship. The AI safety lobby is such
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"Revolution by robot – The Brain that talks to Tools"(Popular Mechanics 1959)(archive.org)
3 points by fsloth 2mo ago|2 comments
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by fsloth 2mo ago
This article from Popular Mechanics from 1959 -almost 70 years ago - sounds eerily similar as the pitch decks of so many "AI" CAD startups. Some problems appear almost as industrial invariants.
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by fsloth 2mo ago
I’m not sure we are at the top. Swarmed lower tier models appear to scale up in competence. So something like a Fable swarm running at 100x the speed might provide surprises. But ”top of the curve reached” feels like the likelier scenario.
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by fsloth 2mo ago
I don’t think average user _needs_ to solve frontier challenges. ”Call to Jane”, ”turn on the lights” and ”what’s the weather this afternoon” is more like it I would guess. Ofc if the model has some critical bugs that’s another matter.
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by fsloth 2mo ago
Weird - I would have expected Disney of all streamers to respect IP better given how dependent they are on IP.
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by fsloth 2mo ago
To me "explosive" means it comes unannounced and evacuates bowels within few seconds, ovepowering any sphincter resistance. If that's your normal poop maybe seek medical advice.

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