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by kgeist 2y ago
The article uses the word "invention" several times, and makes it look like the alphabet was created to make Slavs independent from the West, the Byzantine empire, to create division etc. It fails to mention the fact that, if you
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by kgeist 2y ago
'Toss' sounds like an interesting language construct: it walks the stack to find an exception handler and then walks back to where it was to resume execution as if nothing happened. It looks like you can inject additional behavior
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by kgeist 2y ago
>Is finetuning still worth it as models advance so fast? Any real-world use cases? Internal corporate data GPT4 was never exposed to?
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by kgeist 2y ago
We use a microservice architecture at the company and like every second incident is a cascade failure which is actually harder to monitor and manage... And having microservices doesn't help. Things like, someone forgot to batch the eve
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by kgeist 2y ago
>Devs will monkey patch and reach into other module's internals without a second thought. I can't imagine the monstrosity that would exist if the network boundary wasn't there to stop them ... We have a tool in our modular
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by kgeist 2y ago
>It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output. The author ignores the USSR completely in their article, except for a brief mention in the graphs (where it's #2). 157k planes is
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by kgeist 2y ago
It has more business logic, true, but the average request is just the usual "retrieve an object from the DB, modify a few columns, and save back". Just like in my project. They have a higher LoC because they have more use cases, b
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by kgeist 2y ago
Another team's product at our company runs inside a Kubernetes cluster which consists of lots of microservices. CPU's are at 80% all the time. Redis, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Elastic Search etc. There's no number crunching, mostly CR
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by kgeist 2y ago
It lists Sputnik as one of the supported browsers but it's a dead project once developed by the Russian government, and now it seems to be abandoned (last updates in 2021). I'd just delete any mentions of it.
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-nik is a suffix which exists in all Slavic languages, including Ukrainian. Nothing specifically Russian about it.
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According to the etymological dictionary: >From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from claudō (“I shut, close; I imprison, confine”) + -phobia. First attested in the British Medical Journal So it's not a corruption. It's a n
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by kgeist 2y ago
>LLMs can’t even count the number of letters in a sentence. It's a consequence of tokenization. They "see" the world through tokens, and tokenization rules depend on the specific middleware you're using. It's lik
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I wonder how it works when you use virtual threads. In Go, goroutines have resizable stacks which notoriously complicates FFI because C has no idea about resizable stacks (IIRC they have to temporarily switch to a separate, special C stack)
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by kgeist 3y ago
I confirm that the the link doesn't open from Russia.
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by kgeist 3y ago
>For instance, (The) might be a token, as might (cast) and (ing), so an LLM might read "The casting" as "(The)( )(cast)(ing) Also, tokens are just numbers internally after tokenization. So LLM sees the question as "ho
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by kgeist 3y ago
Reminded me of a game engine of mine. Years ago I was experimenting with a time travel game concept. It had a virtual machine with green threads whose state could be suspended and serialized into a single binary blob at any time. I basicall
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by kgeist 3y ago
At the company, I mentioned Valkey, and no one had any clue what I was taking about (we use Redis).
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by kgeist 3y ago
Just a few weeks ago we released a feature where one of the most prominent buttons had a misaligned icon. The feature was reviewed by the QA engineers, the product owner reviewed it etc. I was the first person to notice it. After I pointed
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by kgeist 3y ago
When trying HTMX, I decided to use Tailwind for layout. Tailwind requires npm and Node to work. It was my first experience with Node. I already had some Node version installed on my machine. Running Tailwind gave some vague "Unexpected
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by kgeist 3y ago
Serfdom became the dominant form of relation between Russian peasants and nobility in 1649, and was abolished in 1861. Ivan IV became the first Tsar in 1547. Kievan Rus ceased to exist in ~1240. >nothing has meaningfully changed Khrusche
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by kgeist 3y ago
If it was possible to hook into token selection process (kind of like JSON restricted grammar but using custom scripts), then it would be possible to detect that GPT-4 is about to add "# impement code here" and then we could force
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by kgeist 3y ago
Raymond Chen mentioned that some programs peek into the internals of old dialogs (a sort of automation) and so they left a lot of old stuff intact to avoid breaking such programs.
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Wow, we had the exact same situation. We had a 15 year old CRM/ERP developed in-house, full of very specific and complex business processes/rules/entities tailored to how our business works. At some point, someone decided to
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by kgeist 3y ago
When I started my job as an intern, I was surprised to learn that before each release, the techlead of our team would always manually verify every commit in the release branch to make sure that the issues in the issue tracker that correspon
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by kgeist 3y ago
According to LWN [0], Redis was already maintained by big corporations/cloud providers: Tencent - 24.8% Redis Labs - 19.5% Alibaba- 6.7% Huawei - 5.2% Amazon.com - 5.2% Bytedance - 2.0% NetEase - 1.3% [0] https:&#x2
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You can quite easily generate a realistic photo, bio, even entire personal blogs and GitHub projects, using generative AI, to make it look like it's a real person.
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What if something breaks in production and it's not clear what's happening because it's hidden somewhere in the application code behind layers of magic
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by kgeist 3y ago
OK, from what I understand, it's similar to what we do as well, except Dispatch adds magic while we do it all manually. We have an event-based system: instead of await points, we fire events which are stored inside an AMQP broker. The
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by kgeist 3y ago
>We only capture the local scope of the call stack, so the amount of data that we need to record is pretty small and stays in the order of magnitude of the data being processed What if the local stack references a deep object hierarchy?
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>Probably, but not taking advantage of idle cores on another machine might be more expensive (in terms of time needed to finish the computation). If there are idle cores on another machine, why not just point the load balancer to schedul

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