quietbritishjim

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by quietbritishjim 5d ago
They are definitely doing more than parroting. When learning mathematics, it's not uncommon to have some little misunderstanding that just isn't covered by a written explanation because it's "obvious" unless you hap
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by quietbritishjim 5d ago
From his Wikipedia page: > Po-Shen Loh (Chinese: 罗博深; pinyin: Luó Bóshēn; born June 18, 1982) is an American mathematician specializing in combinatorics. Loh teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2014 to 2023 served as the nati
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by quietbritishjim 8d ago
The layout documentation is a real weak point in Flet. I believe it's essentially as powerful as Flutter, which is also really hard to figure out but at least there's a million blog posts about it and AI understands it. Flet repac
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by quietbritishjim 8d ago
Do I just like to do apps? No. I've built serious business application with a graphically complex client area and a bunch of supporting chrome around it and dialogue boxes on top, using Flet. It's nothing like a to do app. But if
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by quietbritishjim 8d ago
OK, I think your main objection is really that you don't like the idea of a cross platform UI toolkit. I don't share that view, but fair enough. But your first comment, complaining about a to-do list example, is a very confusing
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by quietbritishjim 8d ago
I genuinely have no idea what this comment is about. Why is a to do list a bad example? It's common precisely because it's ideal: it shows a few different basic widgets, and it shows how to update state in a way that keeps them in
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by quietbritishjim 8d ago
Wow there's a surprising amount of negativity here. I've used this for a fairly complex app at work and it's great. (It's certainly not vibe coded as one commenter suggested.) It's a Python layer on top of Flutter,
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by quietbritishjim 9d ago
This will probably seem to obvious to mention to many, but it took me a few years to realise that you could replicate the "BREAK XYZ" from languages of yesteryear: FOR I = 1 TO 10 FOR J = 1 TO 10 FOR K = 1 T
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by quietbritishjim 9d ago
Firefox on Windows user here, and it loads the blog fine. I don't have Chrome installed but Edge (which is Chromium engine based) doesn't load it.
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by quietbritishjim 11d ago
The longer of the two quotes is from the article, not the comment they're replying to. The point is that OP did miss that context. They claimed that the article isn't right but, if you look closely, the claim in the article is t
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by quietbritishjim 12d ago
I think they want the correct answer to be "your question doesn't really make sense, so I'm not going to answer it". (But I also think Opus's answer is better.)
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by quietbritishjim 18d ago
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".
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by quietbritishjim 20d ago
I don't think I've ever seen someone on HN say that. Many people would say that AI makes them more productive at coding, not that the output is nice to read.
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by quietbritishjim 23d ago
Putting aside the way you're saying it, your comment has a valid and common misunderstanding of LLMs. LLMs don't just naturally output a single suggested word (or token) each iteration. Instead, they output a value (roughly, a pro
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by quietbritishjim 24d ago
Your second startup dedicated to feature flags ? Aren't these just some booleans with optional support to toggle them at runtime? Maybe I've just not been in the right domain, but I would have thought that if someone's use o
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by quietbritishjim 28d ago
That is still not what I'd call a "document".
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
I agree with a lot of what you're saying but on this point: > i remember within the first like minute disney dropped the latest tron trailer on youtube, it was absolutely flooded with "i'm not ready" "omggggg&quo
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
That fragment doesn't mean much in isolation. You've just said that they didn't modify str.lower (because "that would be bonkers") but you've posted a fragment which, for all we know, is part of the str.lower i
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
I think you really did just get lucky. It does pick a word up front at the start.
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
You were right that fuses were involved, just on a different model. See my edited comment.
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
And Pierre et le Loup seems to be Peter and the Wolf which is a Russian story / piece of music.
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
The Wikipedia article the previous commenter linked doesn't mention this, and I've looked at a few sources linked from it and they don't mention it either. They mention that previous Therac machines had "hardware inter
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
I didn't think that was about too many alarms going off and so that a real one was being ignored, and re-reading the article doesn't give that impression either. It was more to do with a bug in the user interface (it appeared that
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
I was sure this story was going to end with your script causing chaos by calling finger in a busy loop. But every 2 minutes! Even in the 90s, that's a pretty mild amount of network traffic.
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by quietbritishjim 1mo ago
The problem with this analogy (actually one of many) is that most people can make do with a cabinet that is literally identical to everyone else's. IKEA is great for that. If you want software that is literally identical to what someon
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by quietbritishjim 2mo ago
I don't care for Go myself (especially its concurrency model, which is a total dinosaur in a world where we have structured concurrency) so I'm not saying this to support my favourite language, but: That is literally what the comm
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by quietbritishjim 2mo ago
Right. The original commenter already seemed to understand that. It's a new issue because the reference count needs locking, whereas previously it didn't because it was implicitly synchronised due to the GIL being locked. But the
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by quietbritishjim 2mo ago
Wow, you typed out their question first try ? What skill! I doubt their attempt failed because they wrote the question poorly. It was probably just the service being flaky.
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by quietbritishjim 2mo ago
You're talking about the same thing as the article: why were things not as fast as they could be in free threaded mode? But this comment thread is more of a meta discussion: why would lock contention issues only show up now, in free th
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by quietbritishjim 2mo ago
Yes, numpy does release the GIL. But the code in question has multiple numpy calls, called in a loop: sum((np.sin(np.cos(np.sin(np.cos(x + i)))).sum() for i in range(n_loop))) This is not like: release GIL # i = 0

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