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by jart 2y ago
Yes but it’s different this time. LLMs are a general solution to the automation of anything that can be controlled by a computer. You can’t just move from drawing ICs to CAD, because the AI can do that too. AI can write code. It can do mana
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by jart 2y ago
If everyone is switching from drugs to social media, then that's progress. Twitter and Facebook won't harm your body. They're also free, so your habit will never make you poor and desperate. This kind of revolution in improvi
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by jart 2y ago
Stack Overflow is now a proprietary database too. Given the choice between that, and a proprietary robot offering 10x as much clarity and quality, I'd choose the robot. Not all LLMs are proprietary in the same way as Claude. Many LLMs
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by jart 2y ago
We still get the pro plan, which saves $10/month. But that's not good enough. Popular open source maintainers deserve their most expensive enterprise plan. Microsoft indemnifies enterprises from me, but they won't indemnify m
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by jart 2y ago
I'm just teasing out the one-time costs. Keep in mind, I'm using the above example to trace the libc/libc++/libcxxabi/libunwind runtimes. The first time you throw, it does a bunch of extra stuff, like getenv() and a
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by jart 2y ago
The SJLJ runtime doesn't lock a global mutex seven times each time you throw an exception. I'm not kidding. If you use DWARF exceptions then, each time you use the throw keyword, libunwind::DwarfFDECache<libunwind::LocalAddress
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by jart 2y ago
It's worth mentioning this scalability issue doesn't apply to SJLJ exceptions. I wrote a program that throws an exception and catches it to warm up, and then throws a second exception. void first() { throw ""
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by jart 2y ago
Thanks for sharing your story. Wow that sounds brutal. Almost sounds like having a blotch on your eyeglasses you can't clean. Do the floaters move around in your vision too? Because if they stay in one place, I imagine it could be tune
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by jart 2y ago
You have permanent floaters in your eyes because you took bad pills? Wait what?
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by jart 2y ago
97% English? Boring. It should be able to detect regional English dialects. I want to know what kind of English.
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by jart 2y ago
Even without a CLA, Redis was originally licensed BSD. Releasing code under a BSD license is making a promise that you are OK with people using your code for commercial purposes. If you as a developer express personal feelings of dissatisfa
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by jart 2y ago
Redis has a CLA so contributors can't use their gifts as leverage to control others. https://redis.io/legal/redis-software-grant-and-contributor-...
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by jart 2y ago
That may be true of node.js codebases, but last time I checked Redis was written in C and only depends on ISO and POSIX standardized stuff. I doubt there's been any leftpads that have broken the old versions by now.
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by jart 2y ago
Open source is a gift economy. Receiving a gift does not form a social contract that entitles you to future gifts. It is not a "rug pull" for someone to stop giving you gifts. The old versions of Redis are yours for all time. No
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by jart 2y ago
Not really. Half of people are barely literate. Maybe the top 10% have writing and language skills cogent and coherent enough to hang out on a website like this. So realistically we're talking about maybe 20% of the people you're
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by jart 2y ago
You return from a 15 day hiatus to tell me this?
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by jart 2y ago
The middle class is the bourgeoisie, not the 50th percentile.
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by jart 2y ago
I don't know about you, but I already feel enough guilt about how we eat animals. I even feel bad about throwing away a stuffed animal. We don't need some journo shoving another knife through our collective hearts about eating veg
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by jart 2y ago
It is so utterly deranged and insane that NYT says plants are making "mournful cries" when the source paper doesn't support that. When I'm hungry the sounds my stomach makes on its own isn't me weeping and wailing.
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by jart 2y ago
No, it's not. Honey is defined by the USDA as being flower nectar that's been processed by bees[1]. Artificial honey can not be called honey[2]. If they're mixing it with high fructose corn syrup, then there should be a way t
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by jart 2y ago
But all the honey labels say the only ingredient is honey. We've always been able to assume that with things like jams, or any other food, when manufacturers adulterate it with things like corn syrup, or even mild poisons, they proudly
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by jart 2y ago
Just paying my respect for what Oskari pulled off. I tried building my own hobby OS and didn't get nearly this far. I just thought that, like Linux, this UNIX-like OS deserved a name that's closer to the source. For example, Linus
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by jart 2y ago
Rename the project UHHNIX or OOHNIX. Great work!
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by jart 2y ago
I could program even a markov chain to generate a lot of odd unusual potentially interesting stuff, but no one would call any of it a new form of poetry, because establishing something like that requires social status, which robots don&#x27
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by jart 2y ago
They could, but they probably won't. Poems like GP are basically using the power of emotional manipulation for good, and companies like Anthropic try very hard to prevent Claude from having that capability.
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by jart 2y ago
You can if the assignment is to write something in iambic pentameter.
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by jart 2y ago
Yeah but it was the return to the wrong engineer. While Pat allegedly architecting i486 is major respect, it was ultimately an iteration of i386 which is where the alpha is at. Guy who architected i386 (John Crawford) is too old. So that le
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by jart 2y ago
Just tried the SDRAM tweak and got myself a respectable 10% speedup with LLMs. Hat tip.
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by jart 2y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I always thought that one was a bit of a stretch.
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by jart 2y ago
Almost no one checks for error when printing to stdout. That's why SIGPIPE exists. Complexity, readability, etc. is the argument people make when they've run out of arguments.

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