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by nnevatie 5mo ago
Reads like something that came out of an LLM.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
I noticed the slop immediately and ejected it from by brain.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
Yes, to a degree. For example, if you look into Eigen, the math library, you'll notice that it's mostly header-only and heavily templated. Writing all that by hand in C would be possible, but incredibly time-consuming unless you&#
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
> WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO??? For me, this doesn't require using an AI agent/model, even. Just using Windows and watching it freeze its File Explorer for the nth time does it for me. How did we end up here were the software&#x2
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
Yes, this must be it. There's no experience like driving a manual with a two-plus ton vehicle.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
> It creates an entirely new torque language controlled by the driver Oh wow, sounds like some corporation BS if I ever read some. My EV works by pressing the gas pedal and the torque is right there - not sure what revolutionary new inv
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
swoosh swoosh - that's the sound of things traversing backward in time.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
The link doesn't work - could you link it again? I might be basing my above comment on and older version of Highway.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
Yes, technically it is of course fine, just as a design I find use of thread_local is more of an afterthought than something I'd prefer.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
In my view, thread_local is a bit of a code/design red flag. I didn't read the entire code in this case to see whether the thread_local use is warranted or not, though.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
> final method A pedantic Pete would mention C++ has member functions.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
Runtime dispatch is still a PITA in Highway, especially compared to ISPC. A simple algorithm or kernel becomes a multi-file macro-hell, basically.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
To do what? If you need the highest performance GPU kernel performance on NVidia HW, using CUDA is the way to go.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
Sloppy McSlopface.
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by nnevatie 5mo ago
My a7CR seems to be supported - will try this out later.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
... and exactly three fingers, and not six, for example.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
You don't understand. In the modern AI-infested World, it is more important to make grandioese claims with em-dashes or periods working as hype-catalyst, than it is to be correct.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Indeed. > As one engineer put it, “This isn’t engineering, it’s hoping.” As one LLM put it, rather.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
> Namely setting temperature to zero, and turning off all history That's not nearly enough, though. The multi-node/GPU inference and specifically batching (and ordering in batching) have non-deterministic consequences for the c
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
The FP math is deterministic. However, the environments in which inference is run and specifically batching make current LLM services practically non-deterministic.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
"Wave function collapse" - such a fancy name for a relatively simple algorithm without any connection to actual wave functions.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
I would rather have some meaningful progress on the Windows scheduler, for example.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Ahh, a Windows problem surfaces - so does a registry hack allegedly fixing the problem. That's basically the (sad) story of Windows today.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Usually a new language is facing the ecosystem mass issue - the previously used language, e.g., C++ has already the critical mass with available libraries and frameworks. Getting to the same level of ecosystem maturity with a new language w
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Only an em dash missing in between to be chefs-kiss-perfect.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Why is it called "ROCm” (with the strange capitalization) in the first place? This may sound silly, but in order to compete, every detail matters, including the name.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
It almost reads as you were not a fan.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Completely agreed. However, typically a new tool needs to be significantly better for that to happen. In many ways, I see Meson already being that but it hasn't really gained traction at scale.
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
Considering that Claude sometimes confuses the identities of itself and the user, this might as well cite the user - "you just said X".
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by nnevatie 6mo ago
People using CMake might want to build the same code on multiple platforms - this is trivially achievable, unlike with Make.

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