jmalicki

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by jmalicki 8mo ago
It isn't crazy uncommon to see i686 be faster - usually it means you're memory bandwidth bound. But yeah, it may mean the benchmark is not representative.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Japan debt/GDP is more than twice the US's. https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/11792/what-lev... Not to say that it's okay , and Japan's economy certainly has issues with stagnation
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Efficient markets barely exist anywhere, especially in tech, it's all monopolistic competition that's bad for the consumer and increases inequality.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
"One thing is for sure LLMs will bring down down the cost of software per some unit and increase the volume. But..cost = revenue." That is Karl Marx's Labor theory of value that has been completely disproven. You don't c
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Linus was a little liberal about the restrictions of software freedom (boy is that an awkward phrase) even early on - e.g. his general acceptance of "binary blobs" in the kernel and such for things like NVidia kernel drivers, to t
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
The Mac silicon is nice in that it has partial x86 emulation in that it can work in x86 memory store mode. Since they had control over the hardware, they could punt on one of the hard parts of Rosetta and bake it into Silicon. Understandi
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Who are you talking about? I can't find reference to this person.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
GP is wrong though, vault cash is the incorrect time series for that. GP should have used Monetary Base if they wanted to consider purely electronic cash (that is not a result of any fractional reserve stuff at all), which is over $5T dispr
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Vault cash are actual bills in vaults. It doesn't even include the bills in your wallet or under your mattress. It's small because few people go to the bank to withdraw a suitcase of $100 bills, it's a weird time series to p
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
There is DRAM which is mildly defective but got past QC. There are power suppliers that are mildly defective but got past QC. There are server designs where the memory is exposed to EMI and voltage differences that push it to violate ever m
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Neutrinos weight far less than electrons (but while NAND flash involves super weird physics it's not that weird)
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I as a human have typos too - and sometimes they're the hardest thing to catch in code review because you know what you meant. Hopefully there is some of lint process to catch my human hallucinations and typos.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Glancing at what it's doing is part of your multitasking rounds. Also instead of just prompting, having it write a quick summary of exactly what it will do where the AI writes a plan including class names branch names file locations sp
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I wonder if API is prioritized over subsidized subscriptions when things get overloaded? This seems to be a common pattern I've seen.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Disk utility lets you delete them.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
In early experiments with the Claude Chrome extension Google sites detected Claude and blocked it too. Shrug
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I wonder if they will improve in a specific direction - frameworks and libraries built to be easier for LLMs to use. This could even happen through accidental evolution - a framework that is easier on an LLMs context window results in more
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I know multiple people who went to CMU who dropped out of CS to CE because they couldn't handle the rigor of the OS fundamentals course required for the CS major, as the OS course where you had to implement large parts of a kernel was
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
They're spending money on producing software, not lines of code - for now that's a distinction
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I came into a CS and math background without CE or EE, and took two dedicated optimization courses (one happened to be in a EE department, but had no EE prereqs), as well as the optimization introduced in machine learning classes. To be ho
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I doubt it explains any reasonable fraction of this, but github moving from early adopter techies to general population "normies" would be a reason for the shift. I would expect it explains at least some increase in the use of em
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Salt and Straw used to have a savory chicken liver and pigs blood ice cream during Halloween season. Was tasty.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Do you encounter things where fixed point isn't good enough? (I.e. always store cents or millis etc?) Or is the flexibility of not having to choose an advantage?
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Both electron is too heavy for you, and the other non-Electron overhead of Claude is fine.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Depending on how it's nested, you could denormalize, think of how you could denormalize a one-to-many SQL relationship So if you have a user that has many automobiles, maybe instead of Autos: [...] you could do Auto1Make Auto2Make etc.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
There is the pre-training, where you passively read stuff from the web. From there you go to RL training, where humans are grading model responses, or the AI is writing code to try to pass tests and learning how to get the tests to pass, et
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
One trick I learned for this was to use csv for LLM I/I and translate json <-> csv at the boundary layer
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
That's exactly why I like Diesel, it's probably the closest thing out there to EF core outside of .NET
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Upon reflection, my comfort with sqlalchemy, diesel, C++ STL, and vibe coding all share one thing in common - I am pretty comfortable liking to code at a high level that is productive, while at the same time going deep to know what the abst
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
> batteries-included Rust tends to have more of the model of small packages that do one thing rather than monolithic frameworks. e.g. as in the sibling comment, if you want openAPI you install axum-openapi, rather than being included in

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