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by krupan 6mo ago
If you have worked in Silicon Valley you know that Bangalore and Shenzhen came here ;) In all seriousness, the silicon is still designed in Silicon Valley but maybe you don't hear about that as much? Broadcom, Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung,
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by krupan 6mo ago
And they aren't the only ones! The bubble might be reaching it's size limits
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Lol, yep! That actually goes way back before 2010. It probably started in the early 90's, at least
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by krupan 6mo ago
They went from demonizing open source software to buying GitHub, releasing their own open source software (including VSCode), and hosting Linux on Azure. Huge changes! But of course it ends up being another Embrace and Extend move by the m
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by krupan 6mo ago
How do we help you (and anyone else who thinks this is reasonable) to understand that it's absolutely not. Sure, it could be worse, but it also could be much better.
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The way this has apparently been handled saddens me. I worked for Cruise, a Waymo competitor. A Cruise vehicle famously had a very unfortunate accident and Cruise government relations employees famously tried to cover up the worst details
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emacs calc. It's RPN by default, inspired by HP RPN calculators. Also allows algebraic input. Or often just a python repl
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by krupan 6mo ago
I was in the not-TI-85 club for a while. I think I had the TI-84? You could still write programs but your variable names could only be one letter. When I upgraded to a TI-85 and got Tetris a friend who had the not-TI-85 asked if his coul
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by krupan 6mo ago
To me it sounds like you did all the actual hard work of the inventing. If an LLM brainstormed some ideas and you validated which ones worked and implemented the idea and fully grokked the code then the zig developers probably wouldn'
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by krupan 6mo ago
No, and sorry if that's what I implied, but most of the work that needs to be done on cutting edge software like zig, most of the little tasks, are things LLMs have never been trained on. They will struggle to do even small tasks corr
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by krupan 6mo ago
Nope. Power corrupts. Or as Frank Herbert said it, power attracts the corruptible. The solution is to not give anyone that much power over you!
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That was a lot of words to agree with me that LLMs don't invent new things
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by krupan 6mo ago
That sounds like the AI did some brainstorming, so to speak, and you did the hard work. If I understand what you are saying
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by krupan 6mo ago
This is the great disconnect in thinking around LLMs right now. You have people saying they are so amazing, why wouldn't you use them? But if they are so amazing, why are you mad when someone won't accept the code they produce?
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I still can't understand why people believe that this is the future. Especially for green field work like new compilers. LLMs do not invent new things. They cannot produce anything smarter/better than what they have been traine
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If it's possible to be that good of a contributor while using LLM coding tools then people won't notice you are using an LLM
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by krupan 6mo ago
I'm guessing at least some of these cases are where the glasses are sitting on a nightstand and still recording
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That's all pretty cool, but unfortunately the trade-offs do not justify it
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by krupan 6mo ago
This. LLMs are no good at stuff they haven't seen a lot of training data for (saying this as a SystemVerilog programmer who also does some C-coding for interfacing with SystemVerilog, neither of which has a lot of open source code to
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by krupan 6mo ago
What powers your AI? Does it have any waste products? Does any of the hardware need to go down for maintenance ever?
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by krupan 6mo ago
Well that's a totally different problem from restricting which apps you are allowed to install
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Have you heard of Android? Graphene OS? You do have freedom of choice here
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I once read that if acetaminophen were introduced today it 100% would require a prescription because of how dangerous an overdose is. Unrelated, but it feels like an oversight that this article said nothing about how both acetaminophen and
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by krupan 6mo ago
I reluctantly stopped using mercurial 10 or so years ago, and reading this brings a little tear to my eye. Mercurial was just about where jj seems to be now. It had revsets. It had just gotten the concept of mutable and immutable commits
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by krupan 6mo ago
To be clear, I'm in favor of nuclear, but people attack it saying it does change the local ecosystem (heating up water for cooling and pumping the warm water into rivers, and of course the nuclear waste). Here we just had someone say t
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by krupan 6mo ago
I think you are talking about a different sort of decentralization than libertarians talk about, maybe? Libertarians want decentralized political/coercive power. When the government is paying for power generation in smaller amounts at
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by krupan 6mo ago
Hi! How is it decentralization if it's subsidized by the government? And which libertarians are in favor of oil subsidies? I'd like to have a talk with them
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Nuclear waste is not a huge problem. It's mass is tiny, and it can be contained safely in very small areas
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by krupan 6mo ago
We can make oil from biomass by heating it up in a kiln, and we can do it quickly. Oil is totally renewable. It's weird to me that we are fixating on renewable when the problem is carbon gas, isn't it?
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by krupan 6mo ago
And wood, coal, and oil are renewable. It's funny that we have fixated on "renewable" when carbon in the atmosphere is the problem, isn't it?

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