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by t43562 11mo ago
It's probably unethical to solve a problem you could do yourself in 5 minutes at the energy cost of a packet of crisps by using.....lets say....a kilogram of coal. Or two kilos or whatever. But you can't see the cost so it seems f
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by t43562 11mo ago
Why is AGI so hungry? Our brains learn on the fly and do amazing things and how much energy do they use? So IMO we certainly haven't hit the "right technology" yet and the attempt to achieve it by spending billions, building
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by t43562 11mo ago
The strawman side of it is that one can pick on some extremist and "beat them up" publicly as if that settled something but it doesn't.
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by t43562 1y ago
The visualisation is incredible - what a lovely thing to see! The accuracy of the recognition is very mixed in my case - it's really good at 2 but likes to pick 5 for 3 and 6 and if I try 1 I get 7 and 7 gets me 1 :-)
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by t43562 1y ago
In the tech age there are new East India Company equivalents.
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by t43562 1y ago
Thank you!
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by t43562 1y ago
I'm having difficulty building it on Artix (an arch derivative). [ 63%] Linking CXX executable ../RelWithDebInfo/tenacity /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/lto-llvm-3894d5.o: (.data.rel.ro._ZTI21ListNavig
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by t43562 1y ago
It seems that there is a history of ways to build packages and the docs probably need to explain now versus then so that you can beware of what other people have written in the past. They also need to be comprehensive enough that you'r
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by t43562 1y ago
I was doing this months ago and have forgotten every twisty road I went down but I wanted to produce a binary package for a particular version of Ubuntu (and or Debian) and put it in a PPA so that people could use my code easily. It seemed
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by t43562 1y ago
When the primary documentation is of no use one looks for anything else that can possibly help and a lot of that is out of date.
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by t43562 1y ago
I've been trying to build a debian package recently. I didn't have any crashes but I couldn't work out how to do it especially with the unbelievably contradictory and confusing documentation. I'm so glad I mainly use ma
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by t43562 1y ago
Why should no-one ever do them? They're useful. :-) FastAPI uses this stuff to make itself easier to use for example. They're things I would have killed for when I was writing C++.
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by t43562 1y ago
I get it, but one can "just use Artix" or Arch or one of the other rolling distros where everything is always new. The only reason for being wedded to Ubuntu IS long term compatibility and that feeling that Ubuntu will fix securit
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by t43562 1y ago
If they were as easy to use as python everyone would do so but they're not because they're not as dynamic and that's the price to pay. https://pypy.org/ is the usual answer if you want speed with python but t
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by t43562 1y ago
I do think some module writers get overexcited about using some dynamic features and it can be hard to understand what's going on. On the other hand.... Dynamic languages let you do a lot of things with meta classes and monkey-patching
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by t43562 1y ago
Feeling special isn't important. What's important is the thought of something getting altered to fit a special usecase which excludes yours ...all because the people doing it don't know what the alternatives are. Fortunately
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by t43562 1y ago
venvs try to economise on space by symlinking to the existing python where possible....but of course there is a way to do a full copy. python -m venv --copies .myvenvdir You can scp this but the destination machine should be using
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by t43562 1y ago
I think this happens because in the ML world particularly, there's an unusually pressured situation. Why are people not using the system python? Perhaps it's too old or not old enough for some library that they have to use. This s
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by t43562 1y ago
It has been repeatedly seen as a scripting language because people saw it as a replacement for perl. Perl was the language of the big hack. It had very little to offer in the way of abstractions and OO. So you were kind of excused from writ
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by t43562 1y ago
There are 5000 programs in my /usr/bin. They take environment settings from the current environment which means you can set a variable on the commandline for that process without finding that is ineffectual because it has been ov
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by t43562 1y ago
PHP and node were not developed as general purpose scripting languages for use at the commandline and are very commonly used for specific purposes so there's no need for them to be like python. I wonder what good you think insults do?
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by t43562 1y ago
C has stood a very great test of time and we don't ascribe virtue to it.
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by t43562 1y ago
Python's just working like a normal unix program. Some people like that because they can reason about it the way they reason about any other utility so it has advantages when using python as a scripting language - which is what it was
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by t43562 1y ago
One could say ... why do people not bother to learn the shell, or how programs get environment settings ...or how to write shell function to run activate for themselves or how to create a tiny makefile which would do all of this for them? S
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by t43562 1y ago
OO is supposed to make life easier but C++ exposes all the complexity of the implementation to you. Its approach to hiding complexity is to shove it partially under a carpet with sharp bits sticking out.
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by t43562 1y ago
I've never used a more hostile language than rust. Some people hate python and I can't understand why but such is life. One mans meat....
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by t43562 1y ago
Try https://www.graalvm.org/python/
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by t43562 1y ago
pypy is probably faster. Lets put effort into that. BUT the dynamic features that make python lovely are always going to limit its performance. If you're using python because you have to then you might not like all that and might see i
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by t43562 1y ago
Now that the big bets have been made, who wants to try to compete with them?
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by t43562 1y ago
If you could find one for the money, if they were happy to teach in the long term. If it wasn't better to have N for the price of 1. In other situations of import substitution I'm pretty sure people try to develop their local tal

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