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by hansvm 4mo ago
And the main road with cars wouldn't be an issue if people had a little common sense and respect. I was descending down a mountain road on my bicycle once, definitely speeding (enough so that I caught up to the traffic ahead of me -- r
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by hansvm 4mo ago
It's also very likely not physically possible for that car, and unless they're referring to straight-line stroads, many suburban routes can't sustain an average of 160mph with any current car.
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by hansvm 4mo ago
> staff+ Maybe. It looking easy isn't the point. If you have the knowledge and skills such that doing so is a semi-repeatable endeavor, especially in a world where your colleagues apparently missed that 10% savings lying on the floo
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Most vendors make it so hard to handle that defaulting to chargebacks is sensible (at least when the charge reasonably qualifies -- the kid with a parent's card example doesn't seem appropriate). If a vendor makes a $20 oopsy, it&
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by hansvm 4mo ago
I'm personally getting asked more questions as people get emboldened by AI and then need it de-sloppified.
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Yep, as a rule of thumb generative models need to be much larger. As a small caveat, that's because of what we're doing with those models; generation itself can also be tiny and fast, but only when the output space is sufficiently
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Yes, but simple models are far more expressive than people give them credit for. As one example, I've shoved <100 parameter networks into driver code before and hand-tuned them to run in 10-20 nanoseconds. E.g., touchpad hardware te
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Is that a rhetorical question suggesting those people are wrong, or are you asking for, e.g., the technical reasons some software only works with Chrome in the mix?
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by hansvm 4mo ago
> otherwise, popular solutions would integrate the idea None of the major players are incentivized to care about this, especially not over other opportunities. Why would you expect them to integrate it? One of the biggest wins you can in
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by hansvm 4mo ago
A coworker had me work through a particular problem (some no-importance web demo) with Cursor and Sonnet 4.6. It still sucked, but there was a qualitative shift in suckiness, one that I realized could finally be used to solve some real prob
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Why would double be a good rule of thumb for typical US SWEs? Most of the costs aren't proportional to salary, and the ones which are aren't anywhere approaching 50%, much less double.
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Maybe for f16. The compiler's implementation could just be checking all numerators to see if the transformation is safe. The corner cases are messy and not quickly brute-forceable for f32 or brute-forceable at all for f64 though, so I
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by hansvm 4mo ago
Thank you :)
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by hansvm 4mo ago
The other side of this isn't sunshine and roses either. Imagine you're a reasonably talented developer and just can't seem to break into a good job. You've been working delivery or something to make ends meet, and somebo
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by hansvm 5mo ago
That's not totally true. It's sufficient to be exactly representable, but you only need the reciprocal rounding error to be small enough to guarantee the multiplication rounding step fixes it across the entire range of numerators.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
It depends what you mean by "general purpose." First, these things generalize more often than you'd expect. Second, even in the absence of generalization they're still useful for, e.g., fingerprinting activities to manuf
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I dunno. Varints in the wild tend to be misused, and there are external proto schemas at work we have to integrate with which would literally be both faster and smaller as gzipped json. They're misused because they have an API encourag
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Oh yeah, it's definitely super rare, especially when we do anything to force the landing. The Snowden example is the only one coming to mind, and that was a decade ago. There are a number cases where the stop was known ahead of time (l
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Well let's get right on that then. If you'd kindly share your address and those of your favorite friends and family, we'll go distribute a couple hundred in damages to each of them.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
And never have an emergency (accidentally, FBI-forced landing, etc) causing you to accidentally inhabit those countries either.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Elaborating on my last comment, I didn't. Kusakabe is great though if you want something comparatively cheaper. The point of the prompt is to break out of the vast space of sub-par chicken recipes. Fried, salty food is delicious, but y
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by hansvm 5mo ago
I didn't.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Being able to wade through the bullshit is a valuable skill, and the worse your cooking is the less valuable an LLM will be. That said, prompting matters. Something like the following, chased with any necessary questions to ground the detai
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Most "professionals" in most professions are mediocre, and even when they have potential their incentives are rarely aligned with yours. Bank inspectors don't care about the same things you do, and construction workers don&#x
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by hansvm 5mo ago
That's how it worked the last time I bought a car. I submitted the opt-outs with the purchase paperwork, the ~sales~ data sharing agreements with 10k of the dealership's closest, paid friends were processed first, and I had no end
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by hansvm 5mo ago
You can tell when a home was built like that though. Why did you purchase it regardless? Why did you do it again after your first experience?
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by hansvm 5mo ago
That sounds plausible. If you're talking about total shop count of any kind, then as a conversion factor between my numbers and yours we're saying there are 20-100 types of shops people visit with any regularity in a year. That so
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by hansvm 5mo ago
> 10 houses per shop Broadly speaking, that sounds super low, and it also doesn't echo the business density I typically observe. I think even for lifestyle businesses you need hundreds of homes actively using your services, maybe th
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by hansvm 5mo ago
> a -dry vs --dry flag I've mentioned this before, but you want the default to be a dry run and for there to be a --commit, --prod, --for-real, or whatever you want to call it to opt in to the destructive behavior.
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by hansvm 5mo ago
Among other things, a couple big culprits are STACK_GLOBAL, which converts strings on the stack into a Python object, functioning something like global_name = pop() module_name = pop() push(getattr(import_module(module_name), global

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