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by re-thc 4mo ago
> I have a theory that swearing actually results is less comprehension of instructions by the model due to lack of training data over more conventional MUST. How so? Plenty of swearing in lots of training data, especially older code, e.g
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> if spacex is doing datacenters on earth successfully what's wrong with that? They rented cloud infra to a #2 or #3 provider in the world after < 2 years in business. It's a success, no? If you get hired as a staff engineer
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> Take a look at China for example - they have no access to NVIDIA Not true. Stop following US media spam if needed. 1. Very recently, the US did close a loophole on sanctions that allowed Chinese companies to use NVIDIA hardware outside
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> while us labs raise the price , that's a sign of confidence Regardless of what others are doing, US labs here are just rushing to IPO. It's NOT a sign of confidence. It's the equivalent of saying you have confidence in S
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> People are sleeping on Qualcomm. Technically speaking, Qualcomm acquired Nuvia, which is where this came from and that company came from ex-Apple engineers wanting to do what Apple said no for their chips. So it's almost same CPU
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> Qualcomm are trying harder now it seems. Not really, the 1st. iteration got stuck in legal land and other delays.
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by re-thc 4mo ago
On-device, e.g. Android.
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> but to people working on code that either doesn't impact the overall program's performance much or it does but not due to layout And that's the problem. Who decides that? How do you know and that's my problem with i
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by re-thc 4mo ago
Consider the cost of every field, of every action. Understand the language, the memory model, etc. Don't do "it works on my machine". Understand the architecture, layout, implications etc. E.g. if you need an int and not a lo
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> I'm saying that most developers aren't writing code where layout is a primary contributor to the program's performance. I've heard this theory before. This isn't just about performance and I don't buy it.
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> Most developers, in Java and in most other languages, do not consider the cost of every field Are you saying most developers are bad? It’s the equivalent of most employees don’t consider the cost of every action to the employer and is
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by re-thc 4mo ago
Not true. Lots of large Java deployments with millions to billions in cloud spend. The Java part of it isn’t 0. Memory isn’t free. CPU isn’t free.
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> For example, AWS is still not part of the Bandwidth Alliance Why would they be. That list hasn't really been growing. It's not too useful and gets tied to Cloudflare. Names like Azure and Google you see there don't reall
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> It's more around how can we can push the boundaries. Is it the right boundaries though? Person A hates AI but is the fastest developer. Person B loves AI uses the tools but isn't as good. Both develop as fast. A might have so
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by re-thc 4mo ago
Why would you? That's the whole problem. Do you hire people to do work or pretend to do work? Give them the tools. Measure normally i.e. did they work faster with new tools? If things are good and there's support people will use i
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by re-thc 4mo ago
Yes, whatever you like
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> Kimi 2.6 is a 1 trillion total / 32B active parameter model that's something comparable to Sonnet. No it's not. On some rigged paper maybe. Some such benchmarks say all models group together, which they clearly do not. &
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> How would you as a leader would announce this in a way that better reduces bad feelings? Step 1, stop using AI as an excuse?
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> Also, does that mean that once the AI bubble pops, Nvidia come come to the consumer market with a powerful ARM gaming SoC? Are we rewriting history? Nvidia had consumer ARM SoCs long ago before Qualcomm pushed them out with patents, mo
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by re-thc 4mo ago
> built in green/agricultural areas So they want them in other areas instead? Like next to residential area? I'm not sure they understand the implications...
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by re-thc 5mo ago
> just don't talk about it No, that's just the headline / reporting misquoting. He didn't say that. Jensen specifically said it was a cop out (not a direct quote word for word either).
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by re-thc 5mo ago
> I never mentioned anything about status pages. For context, the parent comment you replied to started with status page. Then are you talking about internal leaks or just guessing? Otherwise besides what's public how do you know th
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by re-thc 5mo ago
> But effective monitoring is harder than people assume. Who says public status page equals internal monitoring. They likely know faster than you. Whether they post it publicly is a different issue (hint: SLA penalties, news impacting st
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by re-thc 5mo ago
> For a service we're paying thousands of $ per year for even though we host runners ourselves... Wait until you charge you for self-hosting runners. Oh wait. They already tried.
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by re-thc 5mo ago
> It's weird how I always find out that GitHub is down before GitHub does No, it's not. Official updates = potential SLA penalties. Always requires approval.
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by re-thc 5mo ago
Why does it have to be OR? Could be both.
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by re-thc 5mo ago
Next: C++ has issues and Zig is a better choice?
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by re-thc 5mo ago
Which companies are cutting headcount for AI though? You mean companies blaming AI or using it as an excuse? The real answer is stop reading the headlines or the fake news.
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by re-thc 5mo ago
> Unlimited PTO is a scam Well, no. It's just the target beneficiary is not you (the employees) but the employer. Unlimited PTO resolves the employer from paying out PTO when they make you "redundant".
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by re-thc 5mo ago
The Railway accusation focuses on 1 side of the story. No real details on if Railway did anything and if the suspension was warranted. Google may not be wrong. Who knows. Easy to blame the larger company.

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