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by pxc 1y ago
CI driven development results in so many shitty commits, though, and it's so slow. I find it very miserable. Pre-commit hooks should be much, much faster than most CI jobs; they should collectively run in less than a second if possible
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by pxc 1y ago
There's a fine-tune of Qwen3 4B called "Jan Nano" that I started playing with yesterday, which is basically just fine-tuned to be more inclined to look things up via web searches than to answer them "off the dome".
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by pxc 1y ago
A parallel outcome for LLMs sounds realistic to me.
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by pxc 1y ago
oops, "no need" should be "no notion"
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by pxc 1y ago
Indeed, it doesn't work. LLMs can't count. They have no need of how many words they've used. If you ask an LLM to track how many words or tokens it has used in a conversation, it will roleplay such counting with totally bulls
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by pxc 1y ago
Maybe they're thinking of Riot Games' parent company, Tencent.
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by pxc 1y ago
It depends on the model, probably, but there are multiple layers of censorship, one of which is the post-facto nuking these models will do online, and that goes away "for free" when you download the open weight model. I don't
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by pxc 1y ago
A lot of people do! That's what makes it mainstream. Even though it's not been part of my life for a long time, I would still prefer a world where people can participate in trendy multiplayer games without subjecting themselves to
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by pxc 1y ago
Maybe you skipped over the word "some" in your reading of my comment, or there's other ambiguity in the scope of a subordinate clause that you interpreted uncharitably, but I don't actually assert (or assume) that all or
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by pxc 1y ago
> This was not always the case. I know. :( (Though, unfortunately, the SecuROM fiasco shows that this has sadly been going on a long time.) I say it's amusing, but it's a bitter thing for me, too.
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by pxc 1y ago
Because for capital, shortening the work week is leaving money on the table! Leisure time for the masses does have technological requirements, but actually increasing it across the society is more of a problem of power and politics than of
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by pxc 1y ago
It's kind of amusing to me how some PC gamers act superior to console gamers because PC gamers run their games on a flexible, customizable, general-purpose machine that the user controls rather than an appliance... and then immediately
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by pxc 1y ago
> Certainly iPods were slicker and cooler, but I definitely didn't care. No SD card slot, had to be synced with iTunes, etc. Was not for me. I got an iPod Nano when I was in 8th or 9th grade, and I loved it. I loved it for its slick
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by pxc 1y ago
The other thing that was great about the MuVo music players is that they all had tactile controls. I used to listen with them while riding my bicycle, and I could operate mine in any way I needed to with it still in my pocket: repeating a t
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by pxc 1y ago
Art-as-job is an artifice we've instituted through the invention of copyright, whose purpose is to ensure that we live in a society rich with art. There is not and never has been any reason to believe that this system, though it may se
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by pxc 1y ago
... is this sarcasm?
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by pxc 1y ago
`test` and `[` are Bash builtins just like `[[` is built into bash. But `[[`'s implementation does some things that actual commands can't do because it gets parsed differently than a normal command. When Bash sees it, it treats it
588.
by pxc 1y ago
Why? And can we really say that already? Wasn't the Qwen3 release still very recent?
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by pxc 1y ago
For this page, that setting doesn't seem to work, or gets ignored, at least in my browser (Firefox on macOS). The controls for the video are also hidden, although I can recover them if I use a pop-out view.
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by pxc 1y ago
I've heard good things about how macOS handles memory relative to other operating systems. But Linux and Windows both have memory compression nowadays. So the claim is then not that memory compression makes your RAM twice as effective,
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by pxc 1y ago
These ports are also not usually source ports, so they're not much "more native" than the Proton ports. They often use the same kind of API translation layer, probably also built on WINE. I think as Proton sees more investmen
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by pxc 1y ago
You might not be wrong about percentages, but there are famously some Emacs users who for into it for Org mode or academic writing, including even some who learned to program long to better customize their Emacs setup and eventually became
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by pxc 1y ago
You don't need any of those to write an if statement. I frequently write if statements like this one if ! grep -qF something /etc/some/config/file 2>/dev/null; then do_something fi Th
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by pxc 1y ago
What nuances are there to if statements, exactly? An if statement in, for instance bash, just runs any command and then runs one of two blocks of code based on the exit status of that command. If the exit status is truthy, it runs what foll
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by pxc 1y ago
I like vim a lot, and I use vim-style bindings wherever I can. But before I learned to ride a bike, I used training wheels, and before I learned enough vim to enjoy using vim, I leaned on nano. When someone is first learning to explore GN
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by pxc 1y ago
Isn't the relatively large binary just because it's written in Golang? Go executables each ship their own copy of the Go runtime. That alone accounts for a big chunk of small programs like this. Nano also links against ncurses, wh
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by pxc 1y ago
I used to recommend micro[1] to people like those in the target audience of this editor. I wonder if that should change or not. -- 1: https://micro-editor.github.io/
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by pxc 1y ago
When you solve the dependency management issue for shell scripts, you can also use newer language features because you can ship a newer interpreter the same way you ship whatever external dependencies you have. You don't have to limit
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by pxc 1y ago
I use Nix for this with resholve and I like it a lot.
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by pxc 1y ago
Windows' filesystem performance for tools that expect Unix is abysmal, and it gets drastically worse in most corporate environments because endpoint security software hooks into the filesystem drivers to instrument all file access. Git

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