rtpg

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by rtpg 5d ago
The same major memory makers got prosecuted for cartel behavior by the DoJ a little over 20 years ago[0]. One might say "well what specific law have they broken" and I don't know and I don't know if they have, but at the
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by rtpg 5d ago
This article linked back to the intercept's snowden archive articles [0], and while this article paints the Intercept in a bad light it lead me to reading a couple of these. While I heard many of the headlines the reporting is very in
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by rtpg 5d ago
I didn't say they were wrong, I said they were not high-quality. Every company works in their own way, but I highly doubt the original source would have a big paragraph at the top instead of a more "structured" comment. Or ma
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by rtpg 6d ago
the comments are really not high-quality. There's a lot of words in places where only a few would be much clearer. This isn't to say it's impossible to guide good context-aware commenting style from.an AI, but there would be
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by rtpg 6d ago
I don't think they just used it for styling unfortunately, the entire thing felt like this. Why can't people just write shorter bullet pointed lists of things and post that? Just post what you put into the AI!
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by rtpg 6d ago
Experimentally, at least one major programming language (Rust) places mutability into the type system. Whether or not something belongs into a type system is ultimately determined by the type system. We can choose whether or not mutability
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by rtpg 8d ago
This stuff reminds me of people who are full into XP and pair programming, where you end up agreeing to pull in more or less any work done by two people together. Not the worst model in the world. I am disappointed by the "agent chat&q
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by rtpg 8d ago
People rushing to throw a thing out into the world, rushing so much that they don't even bother to use it or look at it themselves. The same people who are likely seeing tens of the same sort of pages and immediately closing them becau
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by rtpg 9d ago
Book covers, seeing what kinda stuff is being talked about, the general vibe of the space itself. Lots of fun to be had wandering about, and unless you're looking at a thing where the script is really indecipherable you can kinda figur
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by rtpg 10d ago
I feel like this is close to a good idea. What I would want to see is a version of this that lets me write an app that can write to the DB through an API, and then have a google drive-esque "host this for me" thing. A focus on loc
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by rtpg 11d ago
have there been any "here's a nicer wrapper API" services out there? Or is the complexity somewhat upstream of "real" complexity/differences in reporting.
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by rtpg 12d ago
> Faster GC by skipping image objects during marking This one in particular I feel like we are inching towards in Python land. I had some really interesting convos from people who really want forking to "just work" and get actu
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by rtpg 13d ago
Right now the "subsidies" etc I think make the calculus really tough, but for general compute.... for example running CI just on a Mac Mini can get you real cost effective throughput compared to running CI on GH runners and whatno
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by rtpg 13d ago
DGX Spark is a biiiiit costly but neat to hear! Do you know what kinda throughput you’re getting on that kinda setup? (I have a secondary problem of being “locked into” Claude Code by it being good enough for me, I’d probably need to invest
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by rtpg 13d ago
I'll take the opposite here. If someone put in frontier AI models from like .... last june I guess? in a box and let me run it with "decent" token throughput I would be happy. I think it's worth acknowledging that the po
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by rtpg 15d ago
> GTA 5 in its credits had 150 software engineers. Surprising even to me who has had many an experience of being in a bloated FAANG team, this 150 includes GTA Online! Just so it is said: my understanding is it's really easy to not
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by rtpg 16d ago
Sony's WF-C510s are $70. The APPs are one thing but the base airpods I never really found to be that amazing quality-wise. The linkbud S's are comparable in pricing tho
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by rtpg 17d ago
Is there a good forum stack that is as moddable as phpbb was back in the day? Every Discourse instance I see seems _very_ similar so I've assumed there's not much of an interesting plugin ecosystem
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by rtpg 18d ago
Reading through the paper and... This seems to be a bit of "we're throwing a _bunch_ of inputs into this machine learning set and then pulling out outputs". The cyclone prediction thing is very interesting to me in particular
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by rtpg 18d ago
This isn't a super serious comment (and an opportunity for someone to speak up on this) but... I've heard some commentary in the past that 5G interferes with data measurements heavily used for weather forecasts (something about sa
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by rtpg 19d ago
Maybe a decade ago there was chatter in the Purescript land about FRP in an applicative context. There's ways you can write your code such that you _know_ that certain blocks of code are going to be unaffected by input changes, and you
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by rtpg 19d ago
> Classical music has been institutionalized, sent to the conservatory as a relic. A small segment of society has decided the ability to perform it is worth preserving, and devotes a sliver of capital to that end: training young people,
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by rtpg 20d ago
project literally launched yesterday... come on
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by rtpg 21d ago
Yep it's not clear, and a bit of a case-by-case thing. Fortunately most codebases only need to do this in a handful of spots so you can really "just" look at a package and find a file that probably is safe. For example, numba
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by rtpg 21d ago
That's only part of the puzzle. Your program needs to branch on whether the dependency is installed or not! "Oh you don't have optional dependency? Then do X" needs to happen at runtime right?
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by rtpg 22d ago
I think this import flow tends to be the canonical one. I might recommend doing something like importing from something like `numpy.version` (or some other "random" very small utils package) so that the work done on file load is s
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by rtpg 23d ago
I think this is a legit read about the utility. > why should predictors be so coddled by their observers? I suppose that in the RIM example the predictor correctly identified causes and concerns. The timelines are off. But highlighting t
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by rtpg 24d ago
My glib assumption is you do that, you spend a bunch of tokens, and you end up with the same sort of mess you had the first time around. The sort of "eternal addition" glomming of code that leads to tears on older codebases... I d
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by rtpg 24d ago
> OpenAI’s frontier-model API price fell from $30/$60 per million input/output tokens for GPT-4 to $4/$20 for GPT-5.6 Sol, alongside major capability gains. on this specific point: tokens aren't fungible between model
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by rtpg 24d ago
Here's two possible set of predictions: - a list of predictions that are entirely wrong, from A-to-Z, and are not even resembling what ends up happening - a list of predictions that are wrong, but where the underlying points are in fac

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