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by pornel 2mo ago
Another example is encrypted data. Statistically, encrypted data is indistinguishable from random. Truly random data is impossible to compress losslessly. But if you had a predictor so smart that it could crack the encryption key, it could
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by pornel 2mo ago
You're just assuming a flawed implementation of a predictor and complain that it's flawed. That doesn't invalidate the general premise that predictors are compressors. Predictors don't have to give you some corpus-averag
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by pornel 2mo ago
Technical solutions may be seen as kindly as handcuffing yourself to something when told to leave. "I can't, I've made it impossible for myself to obey the law". They might not be able to break your private keys, but the
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by pornel 2mo ago
Induction is the good one - it has instant response like gas. Resistive electric stoves suck and deserve their reputation, but induction is the best of both worlds: high power, accurate control, and you don't waste half of the energy d
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by pornel 2mo ago
I have some wind turbines near my town. I can walk right up to the pole, and I can't hear any noise from the turbine. Light car traffic is ~50dB.
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by pornel 2mo ago
They're silent. I don't know where Trump got the idea from. Perhaps he thinks they work like fans?
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by pornel 2mo ago
I'm not happy about the drop in quality either, and I'm not advocating for just making software shittier. However, look at history of DSLR cameras vs mobile phone cameras. Mobile phones were always worse than large format cameras,
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by pornel 2mo ago
They're here, because even "bad" code has uses. We can have quantity over quality. We can generate throw-away programs (where the lack of maintainability doesn't matter). We can solve some problems by brute force (keep t
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by pornel 2mo ago
This is the hard-won load-bearing quote.
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by pornel 2mo ago
I'm enjoying the maximal version: https://omp.sh
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by pornel 2mo ago
I don't think so. A basic consumer-oriented harness is a commodity (zero moat: you can ask one harness to write you another). State-of-the-art models have more of the workflow sensibilities built in, and don't need as much help fr
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by pornel 2mo ago
Before LLMs the barrier to modifying software was much higher - in skill and time investment required. Now we're getting to the point where any user can say "Claude, I don't like that . Please fix" and have it fixed. Co
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by pornel 2mo ago
CVEs sucked even before LLMs. CVSS is an ass-covering exercise, not an importance signal. Everything is "critical" all the time.
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by pornel 2mo ago
Things you'd expect to work already. It doesn't really add anything new and flashy, but removes some annoying warts. Sync code has scoped threads that enable multi-threaded execution within a function, without having to ensure the
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by pornel 3mo ago
omp.sh lets you enable "advisor" model that watches the session. Works very well for keeping DS on track.
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by pornel 3mo ago
yes
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by pornel 3mo ago
This mitigates problems with LLMs' low quality code. For a single user, the bar is much lower. The app doesn't have to have all the features that work for everyone's edge cases, implemented in a way that other devs can mainta
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by pornel 3mo ago
App Store will be the place to download apps you can't avoid, like your bank's client. For personal apps, the locked down stores are making themselves irrelevant. When you have software for one person, you don't want to publi
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by pornel 3mo ago
"we"? Looking at electricitymaps, everyone except maybe Nebraska and Mongolia is making progress. The supply chain already exists, available worldwide as long as you don't bomb your suppliers.
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by pornel 3mo ago
I agree that removing human from the loop is the next stage, but we're not there yet beyond small programs. Agents left alone tend to create so much tech debt, that once the program becomes so messy that they can't fix one bug wit
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by pornel 3mo ago
The intelligence scores are absolute, not per $. DeepSeek Pro is more capable than Luna regardless of the cost.
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by pornel 3mo ago
We've ran out of time. Even if political will shifted immediately, getting new nuclear plants on the grid is going to take a decade or more. In the meantime batteries + solar or wind can be built quickly and hooked up pretty much anywh
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by pornel 3mo ago
which is why they charge extra for an option to hold >256K tokens. The cost may be smoothly variable, but likely there's a bimodal distribution of users who barely use any context and users who push it to the max. Average price acro
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by pornel 3mo ago
I've successfully emulated remotes with ESPHome + xiao seeed + basic IR diode. Dozen lines of YAML can turn it into a thermostat in Home Assistant. Flipper Zero can record IR remotes.
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by pornel 3mo ago
RAM needed for keeping KV cache around may be the more expensive factor.
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by pornel 3mo ago
IANAMLE, but there is "grokking" that makes models learn to actually generalize, even after you give them enough parameters that would let them memorize the dataset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokking_(mac
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by pornel 3mo ago
And it's not even a matter of supporting a build system. Each build script for each build system is its own snowflake with its own custom method of finding or building its dependencies, its own method of configuring optional features,
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by pornel 3mo ago
It's just a marketing stunt. They've got the ad for Claude-powered code rewrites, and that worked beautifully. Everyone got the message: spend big bucks with Anthropic to get rid of whatever codebase bugs you - please, think of th
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by pornel 3mo ago
Chromium is 17-20 (excluding some features they think are footguns) and even has its own MiraclePtr. There's no True Scotsman C++. All C++ codebases would be perfectly safe, except the ones that people actually wrote. Note that Rust h
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by pornel 3mo ago
Heck yes! I don't get why USA wants to keep losing money on sustaining failed uncompetitive zombie companies. The companies that decided to lose long term competence for short-term gains need to go bankrupt (you've had EV-1, but d

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