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by jchw 3mo ago
I was under the impression that the new FFmpeg nmr codec indeed outperforms the Apple one in every bitrate with Google's new Zimtohrli benchmark as well as ViSQOL. That would suggest Apple doesn't really have to open source anythi
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by jchw 3mo ago
Yknow, I really didn't mind Claude Code that badly, but subjectively speaking I really do like Codex more after using it for a couple weeks. Feels a bit snappier and lighter weight. I know with OpenAI you can actually use third party t
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by jchw 3mo ago
I would hope so! Otherwise the Pareto front wouldn't have moved in ~20 years which would be rather hard to believe. However, at the same time, h265, h266 and AV1 are all vastly more complicated, and will have less broad hardware accele
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by jchw 3mo ago
Yeah. I think h264 is coming soon, too, though. Most of the remaining known h264 patents expire next year, with only one patent extending out further. I do believe that more modern codecs like h265 and AV1 have a lot to offer us, but having
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by jchw 3mo ago
Sure, when it comes to the big corporations I don't deny CCP's influence on their strategy. Hell, in some cases, it's easy to root for their strategy, because sometimes our tech industry sucks. Don't have to love them to
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by jchw 3mo ago
Well of course nobody believes that, there are a large number of great Chinese open source projects, and plenty of great Chinese contributors to open source projects. I have zero doubts that Chinese people are at least equally as capable of
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by jchw 3mo ago
Ubuntu does include it, since 24.10, but Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't. It just barely predates (an ABI stable release of) SDL3. Now that 26.04 is out, it won't take too much longer for that reason to hold off on SDL3 to disappear, but I
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by jchw 3mo ago
Yes, but also it depends. For Windows and macOS, it is just a flat "yes", since obviously in that case SDL isn't a system library. If you're installing a game on Linux via Steam or Flatpak it isn't going to use syst
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by jchw 3mo ago
On Linux, often times you will be using SDL3 regardless, as sdl2-compat and sdl12-compat are the default implementations of SDL2 and 1.2 on some distros. This has a lot of benefits, from more apps working natively on Wayland (which gives lo
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by jchw 3mo ago
I can't deny this is true, but it hasn't made me hate my job. More than anything, I'm trying to figure out how to thrive in a very different environment. I've definitely realized that sitting there and handcrafting my co
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by jchw 3mo ago
Well first of all, any non-trivial use of LLMs is going to be orders of magnitude more tokens than this, usually multiple millions at minimum. Benchmarks are just benchmarks after all. Secondly, humans vs LLMs are apples vs oranges. It make
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by jchw 3mo ago
Monomorphized generics alone don't do it, but pervasive use of monomorphized generics definitely can make binaries huge and make compile times slow. Zig may avoid it generally, but C++ doesn't. (Even Go's generics did s
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by jchw 3mo ago
Go's approach to generics is decent. It gets some of the benefits with some of the downsides. When coding in Rust, I am always so desperate for better compile times, especially for "clean" compilation because I make heavy use
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by jchw 3mo ago
Uh, I would consider them to be highly related, they both ultimately come from the fact that LLMs are trained to respond in a favorable fashion to the end user, and they're both manipulative in nature. I also object to the idea that
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by jchw 3mo ago
100% the latter. It is kinda nuts that you even have to ask when you had to put "act as if it cared". There's enough left to unpack from that statement to fill a calendar month of time. I don't think AI is particularly d
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by jchw 3mo ago
Manifest v3's actual motive was so shamelessly transparent that most of us just don't allow the "safety" argument for it to really be entertained. I don't have a suspension of disbelief rich enough to pretend I don&
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by jchw 3mo ago
I think it might be even worse. LLMs seem to get tragically stuck on certain patterns. Maybe it's partly because a pile of weights essentially always starts from scratch in the same condition, but even within a single conversation, i
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by jchw 3mo ago
This app requires Google Play. AOSP alone won't cut it.
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by jchw 3mo ago
Personally, I find LLMs really fun to work with, and the more capable they are the more fun it will get. It's one hell of a force multiplier. It is fun in a totally different way than programming is. The "fun" or "joy&qu
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by jchw 3mo ago
Fair point, although I get the feeling you may underestimate the state of disorganized chaos that my filesystems sometimes become.
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by jchw 3mo ago
Hmm. Personally, I disagree; I'd prefer to outlaw it explicitly. That's just my opinion, but I think that regulation has failed to keep up with the pace of technology and we've essentially lost the effect of some constitution
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by jchw 3mo ago
Do we genuinely, really need a mass surveillance network? Isn't the expansion of surveillance through increasing prevalence of technology already way too much? Police can real-time track almost anyone if they have a warrant as it is, t
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by jchw 3mo ago
Excellent quote. It's easy to draw conclusions one way or another, but the real challenge to fixing the budget is easily just as much trying to understand what the hell is going on with it. I imagine it like if you were trying to clear
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by jchw 3mo ago
It's not detective work, it is literally blatantly obvious and impossible to ignore. And no we can't get over it either. But I already have talked about that before and said roughly all I have to say on that front, so I'm jus
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by jchw 3mo ago
I just don't subscribe to the belief that knowledge itself is dangerous. Well, that's a bit of a cop-out; a lot of things aren't inherently dangerous but that doesn't mean they must never ever be regulated, but regulatin
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by jchw 3mo ago
That's a bit literal of an interpretation. Even acknowledging freedom as a spectrum that can never truly be absolute, there's gotta be a threshold you cross where you'd say "OK, we no longer have basic freedoms." An
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by jchw 3mo ago
I'm not even exaggerating when I say that feels utterly benign these days. Merely just choosing to not police it is certainly a choice, but it's still a far cry from the more active participation in basically exploiting people tha
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by jchw 3mo ago
Even Valve has its sins with questionable monetization, alleged anti-competitive practices, and of course DRM, it's just, for their size it's challenging to find companies that aren't much worse for these bullet points. Still
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by jchw 3mo ago
We need to stomp out this immediately: yes the style and patterns of your writing matter, not just the content. That would be true even if we weren't drowning in a flood of low effort crap, which we are. Writing is not just a set of fa
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by jchw 3mo ago
I have noticed that sometimes in lists I have had the "The ... Solution: ..." sort of repetition. It is probably pre-existing but now that LLMs overuse it I actually am trying to adapt my speech patterns to not , because patterns

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