smokel

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by smokel 4mo ago
18446744073709551616 possible values and you can't spare 1 for null? :) TIL that Rust has NonZeroU64 which you can combine with Optional to get the required behaviour with only 64 bits per entry. [1] [1] https://doc.rust-lan
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by smokel 4mo ago
If humans did actual reasoning, then why is this particular discussion failing so hard?
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by smokel 4mo ago
I don't think that is what the parent said, but I'm afraid my comment was too snarky (apologies), and the audience in this thread is not eager to be changed in their beliefs. Thanks for taking the time to reply though. LLMs are f
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by smokel 4mo ago
What would happen if you also feed it a book or two on logic, and some books on mathematics and physics?
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by smokel 4mo ago
> The path to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) must never be enclosed by high walls. We have always believed that AGI should be the cornerstone for all of humanity to collaboratively explore the boundaries of intelligence and solve
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by smokel 4mo ago
For those too lazy to watch someone talk on video for ages to make a point: The link is to a famous YouTuber called PewDiePie and he uses a local LLM to parse his email, to save time with that. They have an autoreply system and get notifie
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by smokel 4mo ago
Most kids that grew up during the timeline you described had no interest in computer architecture. The small minority that did care is probably the same size now. The other 99% who were into yoyo-ing back then are now into TikTok, that&#
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by smokel 4mo ago
Do you swap SIM cards all the time? This seems to be the biggest blocking issue for me. I tried switching phones once a week, which was heavenly. Might try that again, it requires some discipline.
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by smokel 4mo ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I scanned the paper and found that in their main experiments, they use a shared GPU resource and do not copy LLMs to target machines. Apparently they did other experiments in the ablation study where they d
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by smokel 4mo ago
The academic paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811 It's not fully described how things work exactly, but apparently it does not transfer entire LLMs as part of the worm. Now that would be interesting
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by smokel 5mo ago
Well, people used MS-DOS which had basically no security model at all for at least 10 years. Most viruses were benign, but it was almost trivial to simply wipe the entire hard disk. People generally didn't care, and made backups. T
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by smokel 5mo ago
Looks really nice. Do you plan to support this in the future? Are you planning to foster a community of developers around it, or are you thinking about hosting it as a service? Asking for a friend, who also enjoys building projects with L
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by smokel 5mo ago
AutoCAD is $175 per user per month [1]. [1] https://www.autodesk.com/products/autocad/buy
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by smokel 5mo ago
Does this analysis factor in potential caching of tokens on the server side? It seems that if they organize things well (as a model provider), they can save quite a lot on that. Looking at my Cursor statistics makes it clear that the toke
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by smokel 5mo ago
For coding assistance, I have tried OpenCode with several large open models through OpenRouter. All were fairly bad compared to Claude Opus. Could you provide some hints on how I should be holding these open models so that I might get more
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by smokel 5mo ago
In order to find out how real humans reply: Please guess a number between 1 and 100.
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by smokel 5mo ago
There are only 2^128 of such demos. How much of those are valid DOS programs? If we narrow it down to ones that generate both video and sound, I guess there are much less, which should motivate more people to try and find one :)
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by smokel 5mo ago
I hoped this would help me solve some more Project Euler [1] problems. Unfortunately, the algorithms given are not explained in detail, so the learning experience is somewhat mediocre. Then again, I have ChatGPT to elucidate them for me.
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by smokel 5mo ago
Not the one you're replying to, but "my" system is an Angular application that makes heavy use of CodeMirror. One instance for the base editor, and one instance for the currently active cell. The other cells are rendered to
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by smokel 5mo ago
Interesting. I recently "vibe-coded" my personal Obsidian clone, because I want proper Emacs keybindings, and Obsidian does not support those, not even through extensions. I do not know what to do with my pet project. I'm u
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by smokel 5mo ago
ChatGPT 5.5 responds: > What data should I retrieve, and where should I get it from? Please specify at least: ... And it then goes on to ask just exactly what is necessary, being all constructive about it.
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by smokel 5mo ago
There were early multitasking operating systems starting with the 286, but for demos you'd typically use the entire CPU. Part of the magic was that video routines would run at an extremely constant 50 (or 60) Hz, perfectly in sync wit
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by smokel 5mo ago
Did it find Girav [1]? [1] https://www.girav.com/
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by smokel 5mo ago
People will not flock somewhere unless they sense some potential return on investment. If a website looks like it will disappear in a few months, it does not make sense for a user to invest time and effort into it. You have to either inves
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by smokel 5mo ago
Multiple times have I blamed compilers, cosmic rays, quantum effects, or at the very least an obscure kernel bug, before realizing that I was the source of a bug. A collision at 15,000 records is so unlikely that I would first suspect somet
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by smokel 5mo ago
Actually, asking this multiple times to ChatGPT gives me different UUIDs every time, and it checked with a web search that they are not found in public data.
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by smokel 5mo ago
This essay seems to be related to the paper "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning" [1] which was discussed here recently [2]. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.21691 [2] https://news.yco
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by smokel 5mo ago
The preferred solution actually moves my arm around a bit so that it works in a physical office. For remote work, there are so called "mouse jigglers" [1], but those do not require sunglasses to work. [1] https://en.wi
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by smokel 5mo ago
It would be nice if someone invented a mouse with a tiny motor inside, so I could put on sunglasses, rest my hand on the mouse, doze off, and still look like I'm working hard.
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by smokel 5mo ago
Quite some people here dismiss requirements engineering as something non-agile and ancient. If you are in this camp, consider educating yourself a bit on the V-model [1] and notice that this is not only used in the waterfall model, but that

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