jmalicki

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by jmalicki 5mo ago
They want a less just, more stable society. Allowing others to build wealth just makes society less stable from their point of view. Better to keep the poor poor.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
It benefited them in the past, that allowed them to build up their fortunes. Bill Gates, for example, is now a big holder of farmland. Science allows others to build up fortunes that challenge theirs, and hurts the stasis in which they be
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
> Kind of wild that you have to tell an LLM things like "do it right" and "make the code maintainable" and "don't make mistakes". Shouldn't that be the default? It's not the default, because t
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
That's because it's law, and the IRS doesn't get to decide that, courts do. There are parts of the tax code that mean different things in different parts of the US because of conflicting circuit court decisions that haven&#x2
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
There were a bunch of numbers thrown around there, it wasn't clear which you used.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
The tweet does not make clear what the power cost assumptions are? That is wildly variable and important! For some people it may be, perhaps not for others.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
I'd rather they do something like google X where they can build a company around the idea, rather than getting a bunch of random PHP/React devs told to build VR, then flopping at it.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Data transferred is not what generates load. sendfile() is about the lowest-overhead thing a web server does.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Does a 26MB message actually cause noticeable strain on the server much beyond loading the page? I would think serving a contiguous 26MB chunk would be relatively similar to say 20 normal sized messages.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
It took the desktop computer revolution about two decades to show up in productivity statistics. Itt takes time to adapt. Even within SV there are still luddites who sometimes type out code, in mid 2026!!!
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
This is also the part that AI speeds up the most for me, maybe 100x productivity. I start with something like this prompt: "This is a research project around <vague statement>. What do competitors, like <x>, <y>, &lt
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Even at just the electricity cost openrouter will be both 1) Roughly break-even to a little bit cheaper per token cost 2) Much, much, faster So the cost of the mac barely even matters, it's just an extra cost beyond. Sure, data cente
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Even if you just close it, and it RSTs, and you implement chunked etc. properly, the client can't even necessarily read all of the information already sent to the client. If the client does a read() after the RST gets there, any data i
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
The difference between RST and FIN shows up in read() as an ECONNRESET vs end-of-file reading 0. In some protocols, end-of-file has semantic meaning that all data has been transferred, and TCP is set up such that you should be able to rely
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Hypothetically if this was HTTP without a Content-length (like it used to be in the olden days), you could have a proxy server assume this is the entire file.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
It's the fundamental idiom of how to do atomic file replacement. The sever process had better be doing that over editing a text file in a way that could leave it invalid if the process OOMs mid edit, or another process is reading it w
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
There is a degree to which quick experimentation helps you find the good ideas, at least for the incremental ones.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
The worst part of AI is that the time to produce software has become entirely unpredictable . "If Claude is randomly good at this, and happens to be up today, it will take me about 3 hours. If Claude is randomly bad at this task, or
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Have you seen what annotations cost? It can be on the order of $50/annotation for a reasonable document, some agentic annotations can cost over $1000 each, whereas a model response might cost $0.10, or maybe $20 for an agentic session
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Waiting 2 minutes for unit tests of the relevant module is not very long - using bazel helps to only run the relevant unit tests, not the full suite.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
The driver wants to own the memory is the problem.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
You run your code before running tests? IMO that's bad practice. 1 second, seriously? Even the Linux kernel is based on C, and it doesn't even have compilation times approaching that. I guess I also work on a lot of big data pro
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
If compilation is even more than 10% of the time it takes you to run your tests, you're probably not writing correct code. Compilation times don't even measure.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
In practice, C means you end up with generic data structures with pointers to what they contain, rather than being inline. You do see a lot of macro use to deal with this, but that is just primitive, non-typesafe metaprogramming, and it get
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
A lot of the revolution is just getting within 5-30% of Windows! If you need every last bit of FPS maybe it is lagging, but 5-30% slower is roughly on par at a large sense, it's less than the difference of e.g. one NVidia GPU generatio
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
Oh right, I forgot that even existed, I am used to seeing it as a layer that gets your data to a distributed tsdb
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
This works for extreme needs. But you're probably not doing s ton of metaprogramming all the time like you should be, and would with a language that allows it. The lack of metaprogramming is also why C is so slow compared to C++
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
What is the disk? You've already failed by not running distributed. The problem isn't Prometheus, it's "the cloud is too expensive I'll just run on a single VPS"
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
In the bay area, Santa Clara has city owned power, and residents pay something like a third of what the rest of the bay area does per kilowatt hour. Part of the inspiration for why SF is trying to kick out PGE and have municipal power.
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
I posted them in the GP comment

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