serbuvlad

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by serbuvlad 1mo ago
What's the performance delta? I'm waiting on a SM reservation but I wouldn't mind saving $500+ :) Is there any "jank" during active use or is this mostly a set up thing?
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by serbuvlad 1mo ago
To me all this makes the label of AGI completely meaningless. What AGI has always meant (eg. in 2019) is Artifical General Intelligence. Artificial -- something made by humans instead of occurring naturally General -- not confined by specia
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by serbuvlad 1mo ago
Obviously some variation of this will happen again, it will kill someone* and then LLMs will become massively regulated. Just like every technology ever in our history. It does seem like AI is perfectly controllable given how much it is use
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
You can certainly nudge it directionally, but it has its own style. And verbal tics etc. So it simply cannot keep documentation or a codebase in the same style, and it cannot write <information> in <style>. With 3.5 Turbo I us
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
I remember the most interesting things to do with 3.5 Turbo was to ask it to rewrite paragraphs in different styles. Why can modern LLMs basically not do that anymore? They each have their own very particular writing style? It it all just b
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
I have resigned to the fact that there be dragons. I can tell you how things are with Sol. With Sol you need to know what you're doing and roughly how you'd implement it by hand yourself in order to use Sol effectively. With Sol y
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
To be fair LLMs are very good at information synthesis jobs, such as finding bugs.
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
* it's artsy, which fits Apple's PR image * it's critically acclaimed (86 metacritic, 10/10 IGN) * whatever person decided this likely knows nothing about video games * most importantly it's a modern game in UE5 tha
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
No why would I do that? :)
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
I find this very interesting in 2026. I use my gmail address for everything and I don't really get spam (except from services I've subscribed to legitimately but haven't bothered to configure to not send promotional mail). I
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Yes but as a dev you are shaped by the projects you work on.
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
I am talking from the perspective of the individual developer. You don't need your impressive product to succeed to land a good career. If Alice is doing LLM-from-scratch work today, and Bob is doing agent harness work today, Bob'
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Sure, but I'm sure most of their lead devs are well paid now. In general C++ work and similar, if not in Chrome development.
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
If you learnt to build a browser in 2000 you're probably doing well for yourself lol. Not a lot of demand, but also probably not a lot of supply.
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Asking for free inference is like asking for free gold in today's economy. :)
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Personhood is poorly defined.
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
It's all so tiring. Everyone decides what to think on this issue, then finds out facts to support their idea. As it stands they are massively useful tools, but for generating usable products they require either A) a lot of expert steer
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Basically what you want is a custom PCIe device that can P2P DMA the DRM-encrypted frame data to GPU DRM-protected memory directly, more corrupted each time. Can still be replayed, but would likely require special hardware to do so.
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Of course, but many languages do many of these things, and have for decades. C is an outlier for not having them, and many big apps use C++ over C for this reason. Rust's contribution is static resource-use-correctness. Of course, it a
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
> Any new language that works with the dev on writing correct code or outright refuses to compile with incorrect code (hinting at Rust here) I've started writing Rust in the past year and... honestly... I LOVE it. But what kept me a
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond to all my points! Unfortunately, I find this confirms all my fears. Whether or not ripgrep, fd, sd, et al. have some bugs left in them or not, the fact remains, when they do work (which is 99%+ of the t
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
> in the right frame of mind and, importantly, _interested in it_ Very much so! I'm not saying the way school approaches books is good, I'd wish there would have been be a lot more time dedicated to reading the darn things. :)
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Because the book tells you? To my shame I've never read Dickens, but I did read the Romanian canonical authors (I am Romanian), and a lot of them, the ones I liked, gave you a very real sense of the life of the people at the time. Ion,
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by serbuvlad 2mo ago
Hi, co-maintainer of GNU coreutils! Is there any effort from the GNU organization to solve long-standing issues and pain points such as locales? As it stands I am generally averse to using GNU tools because my feeling is that they will be s
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by serbuvlad 9mo ago
Somewhat unrelated but as a Pixel Watch user (since I'm in that ecosystem), I envy the Apple Watch just for the square display. It is just the fundamentally correct design for text imo (which is a large part of what is going to appear)
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by serbuvlad 11mo ago
Given the analogy, I assume the provider can refuse to disclose information except under a warrant. And that the client and provider can sign a contract forbidding the provider to disclose the information except under a warrant.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
ChatGPT gets about 2-3x as smart the second you turn off memories.
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
I have never bought an Arduino. I have bought a few Picos, a few ESP32s, and a couple Picos. And a clone of an Arduino Nano integrated in a system with a Pico for 5V logic, specifically, to implement a PS/2 controller. I don't see
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
While that is true, if Espressif and the Raspberry Pi Foundation can build their SDKs and still offer cheap chips/boards, so could Arduino. I'm not expecting a $0 markup, but Arduino prices are simply unreasonable for what they of
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by serbuvlad 1y ago
While that is true, both Espressif and the Pico have their own SDKs, and they're really well written too. The Arduino SDK is the simplest to use, sure, but the Pico framework (I don't have experience with the Espressif one) is ext

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