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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
The OP is not citing their claims, but their commentary. Do you understand why I find that to be different than citing their findings? We're not talking percentages here.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
At this point GL is an interface, implementations will come and go, but the interface refuses to die. It's still the simplest way to get started, and the browser (WebGL) demands portability for code written against the API.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Don't let the downvotes get you down. They don't know who funds or constitutes METR. If you actually read these papers, you'll find they cite themselves 4-5 times each publication. They also consider "hosting an HTTP ser
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I read the study. The wager is: $0.10 awarded for a correct answer $0.10 deducted for a wrong answer $0.00 (no change for a refusal to answer) There was no detail on whether participants were actually going to be paid, or if t
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
> You're getting downvoted because your argument is cosmetic, egotistical, and useless. Ouch. (sincerely) I hate to think my ego might be so large and detailed that it could be so irritating to someone through such scarce writing. A
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
These are legitimate complaints, and I meant for "if you can afford it" to do a lot of lifting in my first comment.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I'm talking about design flaws, not engineering details. I would appreciate if you would respond in spirit. I do think the list I gave is odd, and it is so because it's kind of a mashup of recent pop-culture things. I'm liter
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I started bowling in my teens and as a programmer have often wondered about how these things work, and have had a few opportunities to peek under the hood of the machines. Incredible stuff. Thank you for this work, I'll point my alleys
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
If you're starting a new project and can afford it, please for the love of the children, use a different systems language. In so many ways Odin, Rust, Zig, whatever are better. There will be growing pains with respect to collective kno
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
> The real problem lies at a more fundamental level. The holdover of borders from the X10 protocol is a mistake. Borders cause complications in the protocol, servers, and clients, but don’t provide enough payback to justify their existen
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I really like this idea. I was reading a post earlier about how Go generics are implemented, and how they're sort of leveraging root GC-types in the "runtime" to avoid the same bloat as monomorphization causes in, say, C++. I
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
What does your application do?
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Yeah, I tried to just tuoch that because it is highly personal. I don't think I entirely understand the post's point about "inherent traits that don't depend on usage." All tools have these traits as well, don&#x2
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Yes, almost all work people share which seeks to measure the capabilities and differences of models needs to get more precise. We are clamoring to say something meaningful about these things.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Tokenizers define the alphabet on which the language model is trained. I don't want people to get the impression it's a module which can be swapped out or modified on its own. Alphabet size is a design consideration related to cor
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I expected a blog on how to write a button using a graphics API and basic OS interface; but instead I completely mistook (what the comments are saying is) sarcasm as advice on how to program for the web. I'm not a web guy, so I'm
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I'm of the opinion that it can be a tool if used as one, but that most people are currently interested in experimenting with various sci-fi visions. I don't ascribe any emotion or judgment to that, either. We should be doing the t
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
So it's a templating language.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
> And it's not because he's cranky or something, he was holding out for something worthy to possibly use instead of C. Good point. > Turned out to be Rust. He was evaluating C++ in the 90's, you make it sound like he re
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Absolutely yes 100, I've been saying this for like a year now! Even things that were good and usable before are getting really weird quirks.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
How you distribute software is a consequence of the user’s relationship with it. If I “take a number” online for the License Office before driving in, that most certainly shouldn’t be an app. Installing is harder than “taking a number.” App
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
It would, but the book has existed for a while now, which is a good thing for anyone looking to learn Odin. The author, Karl, has had time to polish and update the text. He has his own Discord and is also available in the Odin Discord and m
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
We’ve seen several already, just search it.
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Pedantically I’ll say it’s reference counted, and someone else will say that’s still a form of GC and I’ll just save us the mini-thread. Reference counting has deterministic timing, you can run a deconstructor without registering objects fo
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
> What baffles me is that so many people treat that friction—the effort of working around a tool’s limitations—as the “fun” part, and then advertise it as evidence that the tool is great. I'm confused by this because I simultaneousl
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Speaking as someone who has also given courses at university teaching a programming language (Swift,) the students also do not know how fast computers are and that when their brand new super-computer lags and hitches for full seconds while
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
Personally, of that sample I prefer Go and Odin. I find compilers to be terribly fun puzzles, and I love to learn languages inside and out. That's great and all, but I also have to get things done, and I find Go and Odin have a certain
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
> So, is taste another way of saying you still know better? I think that's part of the picture, and that applies to "how to respond to LLM output" but I think people are getting at the stuff that happens before you even re
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by leecommamichael 3mo ago
I see that now, thanks. There's a lot to say here, especially with other approaches to memory management. My overall goal was to give them some context that wasn't their own.

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