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by runeks 1y ago
> LLMs can write a large fraction of all the tedious code you’ll ever need to write. And most code on most projects is tedious. You still need to read this tedious code to verify that it actually does what you want it to do. Given this,
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by runeks 1y ago
Keynes also convinced us that high unemployment and high inflation couldn't happen at the same time. This was proven wrong in the early 1970s.
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by runeks 1y ago
> Sure, the AI might require handholding and prompting too, but the AI is either cheaper or actually "smarter" than the young person. The AI will definitely require handholding. And that hand-holder will be an intern or a recen
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by runeks 1y ago
> The "CC Terminal" is a device that given the inputs (timestamp+value_of_transaction+password), asks the "CC HSM" to generate the signature of said values. Which makes a hacked terminal problematic since it can displ
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by runeks 1y ago
> [...] than to compromise a bunch of people's private keys. No reason to target many people's private keys. Just find a few insecure exchanges — maybe a single exchange is enough, even — that together hold a majority of stake.
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by runeks 1y ago
> Instead, it can be attacked simply by purchasing a lot of compute. Firstly, no one is offering for sale enough compute to attack e.g. Bitcoin. Secondly, and more importantly, this would be a temporary attack, during which the blockchai
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by runeks 1y ago
With proof-of-stake, an attacker compromising a majority of private keys results in the attacker taking control of the blockchain. The attacker could publish only empty blocks using this stake majority, and there'd be no way to disting
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Introduction to Tagless Final (2018)(serokell.io)
2 points by runeks 1y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 1y ago
> With all due respect to folks working on web and phone apps, I keep getting the feeling that AI is great for high level, routine sorts of problems and still mostly useless for systems programming. I agree. AI is great for stuff that&#x
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The Machine Intelligence Behind Gboard (2017)(research.google)
1 points by runeks 1y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 1y ago
> There should be less incentives and tax breaks for "holding an asset" and more incentives for making things that improve human lives. I think you're overlooking that, say, giving out a 10-year loan for a small business i
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by runeks 1y ago
No one country can. ASML imports parts from all over the world.
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by runeks 1y ago
> E.g. the CHIPS act is a strategic thing in case TSMC is disrupted for some reason. How valuable is insurance? What do you think the odds are that the CHIPS act will make the US capable of building TSMC-level chips? Calculating the valu
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by runeks 1y ago
> The author keeps calling it "pipelining", but I think the right term is "method chaining". Allow me, too, to disagree. I think the right term is "function composition". Instead of writing h(g(f(x)))
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by runeks 1y ago
Useful documentation explains why the code does what it does. Ie. why is this code there? An LLM can't magically figure out your motivation behind doing something a certain way.
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Snapdragon X Gen2 PC chips may boost performance up to 22%(tomshardware.com)
2 points by runeks 2y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 2y ago
> How can I verify that? Good question. I was speaking from memory, and all I can find when googling is this: https://docs.getutm.app/settings-apple/virtualization/#ballo... EDIT: I recall vaguely something ab
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Experiments with Writing Haskell with Aider(michaelpj.com)
6 points by runeks 2y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 2y ago
I hate most things about Parallels. I spun up a Windows VM using Parallels for work purposes, and it decided to change from using native Chrome to open html files to using Edge in the Windows VM. So double-clicking a html file would first s
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by runeks 2y ago
An x86 Linux VM on an ARM Mac is roughly native speed because it can utilize Rosetta 2: https://docs.getutm.app/advanced/rosetta/
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by runeks 2y ago
> The issue is that of course Apple computers that are large enough to run VMs are… expensive. Expensive compared to what? UTM uses Apple Virtualization Framework, which lets the guest VM only occupy as much memory as it's actually
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by runeks 2y ago
I fear that in another life I will be a JavaScript programmer
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by runeks 2y ago
> Why did Google published the Transformer architecture instead of keeping it to themselves? Because they make their money from advertisements. Not their AI models. Same for Meta. Compare that to e.g. OpenAI who's trying to make mon
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by runeks 2y ago
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I believe HTTP streaming is for chunking large blobs. You are wrong in the case of Chrome and Firefox. I have tried it and streaming e.g. unordered list elements are displayed instantly. But for Safari, &quo
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by runeks 2y ago
https://archive.ph/ZrTah
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Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president(economist.com)
4 points by runeks 2y ago|4 comments
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by runeks 2y ago
> Inventory cost doubles, perhaps now they have to take out higher interest debt to finance that. I'm pretty sure Footlocker doesn't borrow money to pay Nike up front for inventory. Nike is smart enough to know that there'
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by runeks 2y ago
Yes, I believe that is the goal: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/instant_pa... But I think adoption is slow because everyone in the EU already has credit cards and fees are not paid by consu
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by runeks 2y ago
> These tariffs are highly focussed on hurting red states. If I, as a consumer, were interested in "hurting red states" I could just not buy anything from them. No need for the EU (or my country's government) to impose thi
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by runeks 2y ago
> [...] why should we be impacted by lower exports due to American tariffs while still letting their products access our market without repercussions? You'll be impacted by lower exports regardless. Reciprocal tariffs do not change

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