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This is probably bad news for ChatGPT 5. I don't think it's that likely this co-founder would leave for a Anthropic if OpenAI were clearly in the lead. Also from a safety perspective you would want to be at the AI company most lik
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Webgpu makes sense for anything that needs to render quickly or that needs a lot of control over how things get rendered. A slideshow program with custom font rendering & line wrapping and nice shader based transitions between slides fo
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It sounds like we are mostly in agreement, actually. Mathematicians don't start by creating an outline of a paper they have to write. They start by proving a theorem of some kind -- that's the part that involves thinking hard -- a
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This reads like a strategy for creating filler content. If you have to write a school essay an outline helps you churn through all the BS. By contrast, when you try to write something meaningful almost all effort goes into two things (a) fi
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> But that just, you know, scratches the surface. You probably develop and deploy software using a half dozen different package managers with varying degrees of accommodation for operating against private, internal repositories. That&#x2
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The author argues that the CEO of CrowdStrike has failed upwards. I don't agree. CrowdStrike makes compliance software. CrowdStrike's main purpose isn't to provide protection against cyber attacks. Businesses don't care
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I hope you'll take the time to teach your children to think independently, and when you do you'll discover that as they grow a bit older they'll have different values and draw different conclusions on issues you care about. I
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Ideologically I agree about the absurdity of school-mandated spy- and crapware. However, my fierce hatred of advertisements and trackers is merely a personality quirk. A quirk that, although mainstream on this forum, is shared only by a tin
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This isn't about toddlers and nobody here has argued that the parent who parents least parents best. The list of things that are conceivably harmful to a child or teenager is practically infinite. It includes almost all sports, most ho
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If the kids turn out alright then of course it won't be a problem. But that's question-begging. My argument is that parental dogmatism is dangerous. When you set out like "we're right about technology and all other paren
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One downside of having an unusual childhood -- even if it is by most metrics a good childhood -- is that it might make it much harder for the kids to relate to other kids as they get older. > “Conformity is overrated,” I tell them joking
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This looks really great. Impressive work, especially for your age. I think the bottom half of your landing page is much stronger than the top half. Why talk about encryption before explaining what the actual features are? "Sharing&quot
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Although I only looked at the code briefly I suspect it will very hard to get good performance from the API as provided[1]. It looks like you have to do a function call for every high level assembly instruction which in turn does quite a bi
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Humanity evolved 300,000 years ago 290,000 of which we spent in dirt huts. Then we built supercomputers, went to space, and split the atom. It all happened in the blink of an eye. Zero growth is what we've seen for most of humanity. Ou
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A surprising amount of wildly successful people disregard evidence that conflicts with their worldview. This essay suggests that they are wrong kind of stubborn, but real world outcomes suggest otherwise. Steve Jobs famously decided he no l
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Digital nomads don’t settle but other digital nomads will take their place if the country has enough on offer. When a city is able to attract educated, intelligent and motivated people through a simple tax policy change you can expect all s
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A related issue is that TOPT security guidelines suggest using a 160 bit key. Some organizations use 20 chars with alphabet A-Za-z0-9. Easy mistake to make, a byte is 8 bit after all. However, 62 ^ 20 is only 120 bits (give or take). Way le
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The S&P 500 is a list of the largest and most profitable public companies. It's hard to do better than the most successful businesses. Most other indices and hedge funds don't outperform the S&P 500. Most private equity sh
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If you can't share memory between threads you can't write high performance programs. If you have a global interpreter lock you can't write high performance programs. If your threads can only communicate through channels or IP
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You can't actually override operator_plus in Python for numbers. Numbers in Python are magic for performance reasons. You can look at the Python bytecode to easily see this: def add_five(a): return a + 5 dis.dis(add_f
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15 years ago CPUs cared much more about branches and much less about cache locality and threading. Nowadays it's actually really hard to shovel data into the CPU as quickly as it can churn through it. The kind of optimizations talked a
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Oops, fixed that. (But as far as I know even performance-oriented Scheme compilers like Bigloo don't generate very efficient code nor do they auto-vectorize. I don't think there is any Scheme compiler that is in the same league as
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What this blogposts gets at, indirectly, is optimizing "Zero cost abstractions". In C++ there are many constructs that when translated directly to machine code would result in a severe performance penalty but clever compilers can
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> But [the strcmp] is there, and a string comparison will usually (but not always) require comparing each of the characters in the string with the ones in the other string This is not true in anything except for toy interpreters, for a n
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Previous generations lived through world wars, famines, and other devastation. Those born in the wrong place also face unimaginable hardship today, but most of us have not been that unlucky. Still, youth unemployment in the south of Europe
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Not when the log is append-only.
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Julian Assange published evidence of war crimes committed by the US Army. Both the leaker/whistleblower (Manning) and Julian Assange got their lives ruined over it. What is the lesson here? That if you value your life you should look t
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And what gives brains this unique power? Do brains of lesser animals also have this unique “thinking” property? Is this “thinking” a result of how the brain is architected out of atoms and if so why can’t other machines emulate it? Our brai
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Because of the incremental nature (it can't think moves ahead) only a tiny percentage of all viable life forms can be produced by evolutionary processes. Species forged by their ruthless struggle for survival. Maybe humanity will be th
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I'm not 100% sure how Zig allocators work but it looks like the arena memory is getting re-used without zeroing the memory? With slight memory corruption freed memory from a previous request can end up leaking. That's not great. E

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