mikepurvis

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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Yeah, I've played with some similar stuff on my 9070xt. But ultimately all the ceremony on top is cloaking that it's still just two or more models taking turns prompting each other to give the illusion of continuous thought. It&#x
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I think that just reflects that the typical usage for a capacitor is smoothing out some very spiky load that runs at a high frequency, say a microcontroller running at 100MHz. The average power needs of the MCU are low, but it's draw
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
aka a lightning bolt
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Is there anyone exploring or writing about this in public? I've felt for a while that the turn-based model was not quite right, but also felt too stupid and ill-informed to have much of an opinion about what else it could be.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I am not a chip designer, doesn't area matter way more than volume? Vertical space is basically free; it's horizontal space that is at a huge premium.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
That's fair. My intent was not to shame the "bottom 80%" which is of course most people, but rather to make a call for accountability. Like specifically the execs should have to answer to their board not just for the wasted t
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
> fixes a bug Few changes are as cut and dried as fixing a bug with zero side effects or change in behaviour or need to consider future support or architectural plans. As a maintainer, I'm always happy to quickly merge something tha
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Presumably they're also out the top 10-20% of talent which immediately found jobs elsewhere and would have little interest in returning to Ford to work under such incompetent management.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
It makes sense, similar to how blob storage is a natural fit for a nix cache, where you have a giant flat space of many hash-address immutable directories/archives. I think most of the pain documented in the article is just that git-th
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
As elsewhere in the thread, I drive a V60, and r/sportwagons host regular threads bemoaning the lack of good wagon options stateside. With the death of the focus and golf wagons, it's basically just luxury cars left, and not every
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I agree. I think the comparison made elsewhere in the thread to Yegge's recent AI delusions/projects is especially unfair. Armin is actively grappling with the implications of AI-produced code on the software engineering craft, an
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I don't think the cargo capacity argument really holds water. I drive a Volvo V60 wagon which has trunk space of 23.2 cubic feet. When it was in the shop, I had a loaner XC60, and I could noticeably feel that the trunk space was about
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
But families towed tent trailers back in the 80s behind their sedans and station wagons, too. Maybe there's a bit of circular reasoning going on here where people bought giant vehicles because they liked the aesthetics and internal roo
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Sounds like a further disadvantage of going that route, like maybe you get a swappable GPU and RAM, but your motherboard and power supply are custom to the case it came in or something.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
And there's a valid market there, but as someone who just spent half my Saturday morning debugging a CPU throttling issue on my kid's 2020-vintage Lenovo Legion laptop, I feel like a pre-built is in some ways the worst of both wor
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Surely it's obvious, but authority matters. If I do a google search and then scan over a SERP and click through and read the answer I'm looking for, there are a hundred and one signals about where it's coming from. Is it a ne
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Fair, but it depends how uniform the culture is around a particular project. Is it haskell and everyone is using emacs? Sure, include those. But trying to chase the requirements of half a dozen different editors is silly.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
In fairness, they've been operating with a lot of built up cynicism from major breakthroughs that have been 3-5 years away for the past five decades.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
> control/configuration/debugging This is one of several major arguments made against unikernels in that famous Triton rant from a decade ago: https://tritondatacenter.com/blog/unikernels-are-unfit-for-p...
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Well that's terrifying, TIL.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Right, but that's within a single host isn't it? Like patient A gets that mutation and succumbs, that sucks, but the stronger cancer cells don't them jump to patient B the way antibiotic-resistant bacteria do. (barring the tr
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Indeed, there's no "be a better/stronger cancer and spread more effectively to more hosts" the way there is with bacteria or a virus. It's not like the flu where we need a new shot every winter because every winter
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
One of the frustrating limits historically with some of these is that when you're already an unprivileged user it's been difficult or impossible to get to a sandboxed environment to perform hermetic or untrusted builds. So like wi
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
So I was a Mac user for years and accepted and adapted to natural scrolling after it appeared as the default in 2011. When I switched back to a Windows laptop for work around 2018, I kept it on natural mode. But then two years ago I got a d
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Sounds like a lot of the same choices/compromises that are in wsl2.
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
I've long been surprised there isn't more multiversion stuff built right into every language compiler; I would have thought Intel would be very motivated to get more binaries lighting up the features they add to their expensive to
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Are current datacenter deployments structured in such a way that the memory can later be moved to newer GPU dies? Or is it all packaged together as on consumer graphics cards? I assumed the latter and therefore that the memory is depreciati
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Absolutely. Coding agents as a research companion to the curious are phenomenal, but they also amplify all the worst tendencies of "when all you have is a hammer".
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
It's always been a discussion in packaging, around build/install/configure time, think like setup.py, Debian's postinst, etc. The rise of editors that will own your system just by browsing to the wrong folder without ope
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by mikepurvis 4mo ago
Rather than having the LLM and human devs all guessing from verbose variable names, can't they both use a language server that observes the code and can surface that kind of structure info cheaply? Part of the point of types is enforci

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