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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
The past is 186,000 miles per second away.
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
Why not Goliath when he lost to David's new-fangled technology? Wikipedia[1] says Deep Blue had 30x 120Mhz CPUs and 480 custom VLSI chess chips, and could do 11 GFLOPS. HN[2] says that's roughly an iPhone 5s. Wikipedia[2] says 11
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
" Time passed, and they resented the defects no longer. The defects had not been remedied, but the human tissues in that latter day had become so subservient, that they readily adapted themselves to every caprice of the Machine. The si
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
I guess even without the physical buttons you had to just learn that "play" means "engage the appropriate technical machinery". > " [play] The meaning "to cause (a recording) to reproduce what is on it"
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
Look how many programs and features exist on Earth. Project this forward to the worlds of 2050, 2076, 2126. Your "understanding of what options are available at all" becomes moot when every program has so many options that you cou
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
We know what it means for a GUI to be keyboard driven now: Edit with Copilot[1] Press the Copilot key on your keyboard[2] and type the thing you want to happen on your keyboard in English without leaving the home row. Forget the keyboard sh
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
I'd try to avoid posting this on HN these days, but since the guidelines contain a fiat doctrine that "HN isn't turning into Reddit", Claude-to-buttisms: - "Users can now message My Butt a task from a phone" -
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
20 years ago idlewords wrote[1] "Despite - or perhaps because of - sucks" and coined the term "linguistic kudzu" for annoying idioms spreading and spreading. I suggest it as a good term for LLM-isms despite, or perhaps b
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
"Huffing their own farts" comes to mind. Instead of building Artificial Intelligence, they were building Artificial Human Centipede. I'd never considered that the 'Gray Goo' scenario[1] or the Paperclip Maximizer, m
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
Cloud-to-butt extension but for Claudisms? https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=cloud+to+butt&ia=images&iax...
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
"Few" says Duck.ai > " The name Elvis was not among the top 1,000 US baby names in 2010, the first year it had not made the list since 1954, the US government said. " - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
> " I have yet to see anything more useful in terms of code generation " Recently my employer hooked Claude into a bunch of SaaS services like a ticketing system and an asset inventory system, and I feel a big productivity boos
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
And yet when Prof. Donald Knuth wrote that in 1974 paper[1] it was in this context: > " The improvement in speed from Example 2 to Example 2a is only about 12%, and many people would pronounce that insignificant. The conventional wi
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
The video is exactly about design and architecture and not even slightly about microoptimization. How do you have it completely inverted?
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
Another small objection that I just remembered, Casey has an interview with Rico Mariani[1] who worked on performance at Microsoft for two decades, from their first C++ compiler, to .NET, to web browsers. He coined the phrase "pit of s
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
> " you have plenty networking latency that can hide your CPU latency " Does this excuse making 75 network calls instead of 5? Or knowing that you make a lot of network calls but designing the code as if they were instant and h
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
I object on a few fronts. One is that the rewrite has 'mechanical sympathy' with the machine e.g. arrays without pointer chasing can fit more data in CPU cache with fewer stalls while it reads over the main memory bus and waits af
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
> " the software has become bloated " Casey Muratori has a 20 minute talk on YouTube called "Clean code, horrible performance"[1]. Using an oft-repeated example in C++ he rewrites it uncleanly and then benchmarks. Rem
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by jodrellblank 1mo ago
LANs effectively don’t exist. If you want to sell a speaker system useful to the general public, you’re going to have to deal with: - Access points that don’t let WiFi devices talk to wired devices. - Office networks that don’t repeat broad
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
It's hard to separate out the hype from the results, but if you think none of that's being tried or worked on then you're the Ostrich with your head in the sand. Mayo Clinic says AI models help detect pancreatic cancer on CT
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
"Why is a conversation needed?" he conversed, obliviously
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
I dunno why this gets instantly under my skin, but it's like a cross between those Youtube clickbaits "She walked into the meeting and they all laughed at her, then she revealed she was the new CEO" and "forwards from gr
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
https://github.com/rust-lang/libs-team/issues/820 ?
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
In 1934 the airship USS Macon could carry five Sparrowhawk biplanes, and its commander wanted to convince the navy that it was a capable search and scouting vehicle because it had so much longer flying range than any aircraft of the time, i
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
He is a pre-internet guy, used to live in a cabin he built in the mountains, which he ran a long electricity cable to, and kept his backup floppy disks in a fireproof cannister as a guard against forest fires, in the early Apple days when h
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Including the bit where he built his own boat in India with his brother to sail back to the UK, his brother didn't go, so he sailed it alone. Then he tried to get a company to sponsor a new boat for the round-the-world race and nobody
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
> " researchers know that they need to control for confounding variables " 'Why ‟controlling for a variable” doesn't (usually) work' - https://dynomight.net/control/ Other things that don&#x
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
But why do you all think we should spend our time reading your empty whining about it? This is like clicking Google reviews on an eatery and reading “1 star we went there and it was closed!!!” “1 star they don’t let dogs in so we’re never g
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by jodrellblank 2mo ago
Why not say “app now has no tarot function” which can be read as implying that it used to but doesn’t actually say that.

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