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by gf000 2mo ago
Works, sometimes. But they can fail spectacularly and unexpectedly even on very basic questions/instructions, like so simple that a hand-coded word-matching style logic could get them right 20 years ago.
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by gf000 2mo ago
That's a good way to put it, but still my experience is that worse code bases are non-linearly harder to maintain and improve in the future, software tends to break down without a good enough base. Sure, in the future full rewrites and
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by gf000 2mo ago
It barely works even today, like Siri is laughably bad.
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by gf000 2mo ago
It's not true - agents will visibly struggle more with worse code bases. If anything, certain kind of maintainability matters more in this era, than before, because it is so much cheaper to just generate a huge amount of low quality
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by gf000 2mo ago
Neither does my amygdala reshape itself and move closer to my frontal lobe, nor do my cells change their DNAs (minus damage). Just because "the substrate" has some fixed parts doesn't materially change the equation, I think.
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by gf000 2mo ago
> irrelevant to us because we're not What an unnecessarily dismissive "argument". I'm certainly not a CPU, nor a painting, nor a bird, yet plenty of people find these topics and many others interesting.
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by gf000 2mo ago
I didn't have good experience with Hermes. Vellum.ai was better, but unfortunately it had a bug where opencode go providers failed to work for a time, so I instead starting writing my own. (Now it is working)
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by gf000 2mo ago
But unsafe Rust is still considerably safer than C (not sure about how it stands up to Zig, though)
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by gf000 2mo ago
Semi-related - I think that controllers would be a very nice single input device for many kinds of workloads, especially if you can occasionally just dictate text. It's kind of sad that it's not supported all that well.
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by gf000 2mo ago
Sure, but if one wants to play tester, don't complain when you eventually find a bug.
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by gf000 2mo ago
Without dbus, X would also have plenty of its features fall flat, it's the de facto IPC mechanism of Linux desktop for better or worse, so it's like "my car won't start if I don't have any fuel" complaint.
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by gf000 3mo ago
One caveat is that many existing search engines are actively worse than what they had before. Exact keyword matching had its use, but now they do some kind of vector search but without the text understanding of LLMs. Making anything more co
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by gf000 3mo ago
Also, like where else would the indices live? They are in memory to make going to definition, source, analysis etc fast. It's not even using java objects for these, so a feature-equivalent solution would be similarly "fat".
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by gf000 3mo ago
Given that it was formalized correctly, which is far from trivial in many cases (Of course LLMs can help there, get it right etc, just a caveat that people have to keep in mind)
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by gf000 3mo ago
Formal verification proves if your specified theorem is correct. You can state any number of properties, in one extreme you just have basic types. The interesting, 'hard-to-wrap one's head around' thing is that this verificat
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by gf000 3mo ago
Not the parent commenter, but most of it is surprisingly simple. You basically start with a "chat app" where you have a list of messages, send the whole conversation to an LLM and it replies back, which also gets added to the same
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by gf000 3mo ago
Well, another way to put it is that the western markets managed to keep it out via propaganda and other soft influences on people.
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by gf000 3mo ago
Yeah, I love how people assume large powers have to do something. They are at most expected to do certain reasonable stuff (most of the time, a war is not beneficial to anyone so they try not to escalate that far), but there is not really
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by gf000 3mo ago
How can you steal something that won't materially be less from that? IP laws are cancer, and are definitely not in humanity's interest.
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by gf000 3mo ago
As opposed to finding some shady website with the same info?
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by gf000 3mo ago
Come on, nukes are not feasible to goddamn governments. The hard part is not "the science" behind it, the hard part is spinning stuff at such a high rpm that a tiny vibration will have the whole thing catastrophically collapse, th
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by gf000 3mo ago
> the couple multi-trillioners will have all the wealth of the world, and it will all crumble down You mistyped it.
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by gf000 3mo ago
Then I buy a very expensive GPU rack and timeshare it with a couple of friends.
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by gf000 3mo ago
I agree, I personally really dislike discord - I do get that it works better for certain group sizes, but still. Given that most of the clients are open-source, I wonder why signal or someone else didn't just change the "backend&q
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by gf000 3mo ago
Well, I'm fairly sure that Telegram has substantially more users, so not getting spam is more likely due to that only.
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by gf000 3mo ago
How is that any better? Still no e2ee, proprietary, arguably worse UX for chat purposes.
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by gf000 3mo ago
For full-screen applications, Wayland has a protocol to let it display frames at its own pace - meant mostly for games for this very reason.
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by gf000 3mo ago
Humans are good at predicting stuff, and they can notice when the expected doesn't happen. But I wouldn't necessarily say that people can notice it everywhere in every state of mind. The medium, context etc all matter a lot.
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by gf000 3mo ago
And for the complete picture, X is predominantly used with a compositor, so that same extra latency exists there as well.
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by gf000 3mo ago
But one is a "malloc allocation" and the other is a special "java allocation". The two are apples and oranges and it makes no sense to compare them -- the latter is severalfold cheaper. Of course this comes at a price (r

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