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by jerf 5mo ago
Funny, I was just sort of spec'ing this out to myself yesterday. I'd consider building the system out as an MCP server rather than trying to bundle the agent with it. I had an AI build something out that is just a tasklist that wo
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A do nothing C program (int main() { return; }): $ time ./a.out real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.002s A do-nothing Go program: $ time ./tmp real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sy
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by jerf 5mo ago
I run Steam on Ubuntu with a "GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER" (according to lspci), and while it generally works it has some weird issues with gaming in Linux. Some games end up with what feels like ~200ms latency for no apparent reason,
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by jerf 5mo ago
The initial release of dnsmasq was in 2001. The list of viable languages for a high-performance network server at the time was still not all that long. Erlang wasn't on it. Too big a performance hit, too much opaque runtime that may no
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by jerf 5mo ago
OK, I've checked that claim more carefully and confirmed it to my satisfaction. Comments retracted. Left my links up in the GP comment for context for yours.
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October 2021, Mastercard unilaterally imposes additional constraints on adult sites: https://www.commercegate.com/mastercard-issued-an-updated-se... August 2021: OnlyFans CEO Blames Porn Ban on 'Unfair Actions' of
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[retracted]
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Context: I grew up with a Commodore 64. So I wasn't around "since the beginning" of BASIC but I've clocked some real time with it. Looking back on it, I don't think there was anything special about BASIC, from a mod
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If eBay thought having storefronts would be advantageous, they would have them. It doesn't make a lot of sense for eBay to merge with Gamestop only for the combined entity to decide that the most sensible first thing to do is close all
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An incorrect "reply" link, I think?
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I think of it this way. Software architecture can not be taught. (This is not particularly uncommon, and so not a claim to being particularly special.) But you can sensitize people to the problems they will encounter and solutions they shou
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by jerf 5mo ago
Mythos hasn't been released yet, but there seems to be some evidence that GPT-5.5, which has been released, is already a touch better anyhow in some dimensions: https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/gpt-5-5-vs-claude-myth
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I remember the distinctly mixed feelings I got in the late 90s to early 2000s watching a search of my real name go from nothing but me, to mostly me, to "hey I'm still in the top 10", to not even on the front page depending o
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by jerf 5mo ago
Of course it does. It ignores a lot of things. Mostly I just want to present the view that things aren't entirely hopeless and the entire industry is doomed to contract by 90% because of AI. Your legal system point also fits in precise
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In 2020, there are two companies that are competitors with each other. They each employ 100 programmers to do their job, and we all know how those organizations operated; perpetually behind, each feature added generating yet more possible f
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by jerf 5mo ago
That just leads to bigger fools. I don't just mean that as clever wordplay, but as a serious point. No matter how sloppy you make your API someone else will use it even more sloppily. Now you've got an enormous sloppy surface you
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by jerf 5mo ago
Yes, this is what you'd want. It doesn't have to be a complicated as the HTML5 algorithm either. That's complicated because it was a harmonization of at least 3 browser's multi-decade heuristics and untold terabytes of e
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by jerf 5mo ago
This is why I frequently refer to "next generation AIs" that aren't just LLMs. LLMs are pretty cool and I expect that even if we see no further foundational advancement in AIs that we're going to continue to see them exp
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A specialty shop can probably survive Costco much more easily than they can survive Walmart or any other conventional (American) grocery store. The grocery store carries 20 or 30 different olive oils, to select one example. Odds are all the
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Ah, the terrible agony of realizing the hoi polloi aren't entirely wrong about everything after all.
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Some sort of memories-style file for topics so it can generate even more cross-references and a sort of shared world. Not for total coherence; the natural contradictions the LLM is going to generate anyhow is just part of the charm. But sti
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"But I suspect that the ProgramBench authors are either under-eliciting the AIs, or their tasks are unfair/impossible given the constraints, or both." I'd go with "impossible": "Given a gold (reference) ex
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I recall in the late 1990s that physical synthesis was thought to possibly be the next big thing, that it might take over synthesis of musical instruments entirely from the options of wavetables and FM synth at the time. It didn't, but
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For myself, I've curated my recommendation algorithm down to the point that I don't mind the shorts I get recommended, they're generally from content creators I like anyhow, or content creators that use shorts as their primar
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Probably CGNAT, "Carrier-Grade NAT": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT Huge, huge numbers of machines behind a single external IP mean that your internet access carries all their reputation by p
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https://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?replies=1;node_id=437032;... As befits a history of perl, it is full of random quotes and rambling discourses about history, but it has a lot of info in it.
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We change how we value code: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2026/what_value_code_in_ai_era/ Short-short version, code will still be accruing value in proportion to how much of the real world it has encountere
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So much ripe fruit just sitting there that the decision to wander away and do their own thing would still have been objectively crazy even if they had fully succeeded. It just would have been an objectively crazy decision that they managed
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I still think even now they could print money if they'd just do an honest adaptation of the Thrawn trilogy. Even with all the damage they've done to the brand. It's what they probably should have done from day one. I'm n
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My understanding, which may be incorrect, is that the major reason that lawfulness matters in Haskell is the laziness makes it so that unlawful monads won't just do "something that violates the laws", an abstract, mathematica

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