illuminator83

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1. 31.▲
   by illuminator83 1y ago

   malloc and free aren't overhead. If I'm reading a file, then opening and closing a file is not overhead either. But if I'm reading a file and some convoluted system in my own process is slapping some 3000% extra work on top
2. 32.▲
   by illuminator83 1y ago

   Well, I think some people underestimate how old and badly written a lot of software can be. I've seen some seriously bad legacy code bases. In fact, I've spent many years of my career hired specifically to redesigning and rewritin
3. 33.▲
   by illuminator83 1y ago

   IMHO Garbage collection is and always was an evolutionary dead end. No matter how nice you make it, it feels wrong to make a mess and have some else clean it up inefficiently at some point later. And because of that it always involves some
4. 34.▲
   by illuminator83 1y ago

   Been doing that for many years now. Other printer companies don't exist for me.
5. 35.▲
   by illuminator83 1y ago

   Well, they've been using the whole internet and anything else they can get their hands on to train their models. If you are using LLMs and want to continue seeing them get better and more useful, you really have to accept that they tr