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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
> because we have gotten better at compatibility. Have we though? I feel the opposite it true. These days developers expect users of their modules and frameworks will be regularly updating those dependencies and doing so dynamically from
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Except 8 years is impressive by modern standards. These days, most popular ecosystems have breaking changes that would cause even just 2-year-old code bases to fail to compile. It's shit and I hate it. But that's one of the reason
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Figma is another subscription-only service with no native applications. The closest thing we get to “disruption” these days are web services with complimentary Electron apps, which basically just serves the same content as the website excep
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I’ve got 8 year old Go code that still compiles fine on the latest Go compiler. Go has its warts but backwards compatibility isn’t one of them. The language is almost as durable as Perl.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I’ve worked in the AI space and I understand how LLMs work as a principle. But we don’t know the magic contained within a model after it’s been trained. We understand how to design a model, and how models work at a theoretical level. But we
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I’ve heard this argument made before and it’s the only side of AI software development that excites me. Using AI to write yet another run-of-the-mill web service written in the same bloated frameworks and programming languages designed for
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
People have been building alternatives to MS Office, Adopt Creative Suite, and so on and so forth for literally decades and yet they’re still the de facto standard. Turns out it’s a lot harder to disrupt than it sounds.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
The problems about documentation I described wasn’t about the effort of writing it. It was that modern chipsets are trade secrets. When you bought a computer in the 80s, you’d get a technical manual about the internal workings of the hardwa
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
The golden age for me is any period where you have the fully documented systems. Hardware that ships with documentation about what instructions it supports. With example code. Like my 8-bit micros did. And software that’s open and can be mo
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I disagree. They’re both inserting Bi as the distinction. The difference is the GP focused more on the abbreviation, but the implementation logic is similar.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
You’re both right. It just depends on the problems you’re solving and the languages you use. I find languages like JavaScript promote the idea that of “Lego programming” because you’re encouraged to use a module for everything. But when you
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Have you actually tried high temperature values for coding? Because I don’t think it’s going to do what you claim it will. LLMs don’t “reason” the same way humans do. They follow text predictions based on statistical relevance. So raising t
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
That’s basically what Kibi et al is though. It’s Ki(lo) bi(nary) — kibi. Yeah it sounds dumb, but it’s really not that different from your suggestion.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
No it’s not. KiB is an abbreviation for kibibyte Eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
There’s nothing to circumvent. Just continue to use you current login manager like you’ve been doing for years already. This only affects a new login manager. Not existing ones.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Again, this is a new piece of software. It does not affect existing login managers (eg SDDM) and nor does it affect KDE Plasma itself. The approach the KDE team took here is 100% the correct approach and, crucially, does not affect Plasma’
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
…or just continue to use SDDM like before. It’s a new piece of software that’s tied to systemd. Existing software is unchanged.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
They’re not. This is one new and entirely optional login manager. Nothing that is already available is changing
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
tl;dr: this is a new login manager. Nothing is changing for existing login managers. So you can continue to use KDE Plasma on alternative init daemons / non-Linux OSs like before.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Consumer laptops have been frozen on 8GB of RAM for a while already. Yeah you can get machines which are higher specced easily enough, but they’re usually at the upper end of the average consumers budget.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
My point is that if they’re talking specifically about SVR4, then it was popular. And if they’re not talking specifically about SVR4, then it’s not “early Unix”. As I said, I’m not trying to claim that they’re “wrong”. Just that the whole t
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
> but a lot of 70s and 80s "Unixes" don't exactly resemble what we think of as "Unix" anyway And that's exactly why the term "early Unix" suggests "pre-SVR4". Once a platform has matured,
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
D has a GC and it’s optional. Which should be the best of both worlds in theory. Also D is older than Go and Rust and only a few months younger than C#. So the question then becomes “why weren’t people using D when your recommended alternat
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
That’s genius but one has to ask: how much does it cost to maintain these speed restricting features? In the UK, the cost of owning a car is high yet our potholes, while frequent, are small enough to survive. Thus being more of an annoyance
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Thanks for the insights. I'm not familiar with .gguf. What's the advantage of that format?
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
All the big European car manufacturers also have EV cars too. Plus there are plenty of popular options for high-end EVs that are far more glamorous as well as practical than the Cybertruck.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
> the only thing keeping Tesla where it is is the bullshit dispersal field that surrounds Musk. I'm not 100% what you mean by "dispersal field", but outside of America, Elon's image in recent years has done more harm
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I've found LLMs are quite good for tailored game hints where you don't want more of the story or puzzle ruined. Rather than looking up walkthroughs and hoping you don't accidentally digest something you didn't mean to, y
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
How does LM Studio differ from Ollama? Why would I use one rather than the other? The impression I get is that LM Studio is basically an Ollama-type of solution but with an IDE included -- is that a fair approximation? Things change so fast
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I'm old enough to have lived it. :)

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