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by tgma 1y ago
You're bringing up exceptions rather than a rule. Sure you can find things they mess up. The whole premise of a lot of the "AI" stuff is approximately solving hard problems rather than precisely solving easy ones.
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by tgma 1y ago
I don't know which models you are using, but in my experience they have been way more than fancy autocomplete today. I have had thousand line programs written and refined with just a few prompts. On the analysis and code review side, t
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by tgma 1y ago
Didn't Mono implement something like this ages ago? And I mean ages ago, before C# even had standardized code outside "static void Main" in the language spec, IIRC they had an interpreter that probably used Reflection.Emit
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by tgma 1y ago
> I have never understood why people want to use LLMs for programming outside of learning "I have never understood why people want to use C for programming outside of learning m. I have written PDP11, Motorola 6800, 8086 assembly pr
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by tgma 1y ago
I suspect the particular use-case of parsing/compiling is pathologically bad for JavaScript runtimes. That said, they are still leaps faster than reference Python and Ruby interpreters.
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by tgma 1y ago
Not that much different than a type checker in any language (arguably it is the same thing). I have been using various LLMs extensively with Rust. It's not just borrow checker. The dependencies are ever-changing too. Go and Python seem
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by tgma 1y ago
In my experience, Go is one of the best LLM targets due to simplicity of the language (no complex reasoning in the type system or borrow checker), a high quality, unified, and language-integrated dependency ecosystem[1] for which source is
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by tgma 1y ago
As I see it, the article describes something in that vein, but then immediately flips and reasserts the title, which suggests integer DH is a special case of ECDH, which does not seem a convincing characterization to me (it could be my misu
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by tgma 1y ago
I believe you are mixing up NIST ECC curves with Dual_EC_DRBG [1] which is a random number generator based on elliptic curves which is widely considered to be backdoored and they revoked its recommendation (there are much better ways to
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by tgma 1y ago
I believe the patent issue was by far the dominant friction for adoption in 2000s. On the NIST curve problem, well, maybe FUD, but evidently, they indeed backdoored the elliptic curve-based random number generator, so I would say some distr
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by tgma 1y ago
Not a cryptographer, but my expectation of the admitted-to-be-clickbait title would be to see a proof or some claim of that sort that characterizes traditional finite-field integer DH as a special case of ECDH. However, --and please correct
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by tgma 1y ago
Apple Silicon uses a standard arm64 target, not some esoteric thing. Not sure which Raspberry uses what, but it is the same thing as Amazon and Google cloud servers. You can run the Debian or Fedora arm64 images as guest OS without modifica
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by tgma 1y ago
There's no "emulation" unless you specifically need to run x86 code. If your baseline is VirtualBox x86 on x86, the direct comparison, arm64 virtualized Linux experience on M1, is better than VirtualBox for sure.
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by tgma 1y ago
Even better is a Mac laptop with a desktop/cloud machine under your desk you can SSH into, which is what I personally do personally. Fast fiber connection with IPv6 and/or Wireguard helps. If you're using VSCode and Zed both
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by tgma 1y ago
"Still" == as of the conversion date. We don't know as of today since have been additional capital raises and acquisitions.
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by tgma 1y ago
Gosh, that was a very hard article to decipher for me, initially consisting of the author's own view on what should've been, old conversion plans that did not happen, and in the end alluding to what actually happened, except he al
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by tgma 1y ago
I don't interpret that paragraph as non-dilutive. It's to say that the parent is just a regular shareholder currently holding the majority and then weasels away with "more resources as valuation growth" which is true in
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by tgma 1y ago
This is news to me. Do you have any reference for this? FWIW they did a restructuring that got rid of the capped-profit regime very recently.
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by tgma 1y ago
It's interesting I posted exactly this hypothesis an hour or so ago and immediately got flagged despite not being manifestly offensive or anything. Very suspicious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054452
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by tgma 1y ago
Acquire as many companies to quickly dilute the OpenAI non-profit ownership.
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by tgma 1y ago
The point I am making is it does not matter if you are cutting 3%. Sure you might end up taking out a third of the bottom 0-10% instead of 0-3% but what difference does it make? It won't be a material political concern for your 50+ pe
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by tgma 1y ago
I'm sure you can make apt work in a multilib world, but the mainstream way it generally works well is you stick to distro's arm64 packages (pretty comprehensive; arm64 is not some esoteric arch) for the most part and they work jus
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by tgma 1y ago
Almost all relevant x86 distros have arm64 builds these days as well and once you enable Rosetta 2 you will be able to run x86 binaries/docker containers on them, but the Linux kernel remains arm64. Otherwise, it is just using qemu int
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by tgma 1y ago
Two things: First, that's not the discussion at all. The question is does WSL have valid use cases and benefits over bare metal Linux. The answer is absolutely yes. For whatever reason you have the computer in front of you and you have
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by tgma 1y ago
I don't know why your experience was poor. At least under Apple Virtualization for ARM64 Linux, the performance has been great. Perhaps as the other commenter suspects you might be running x86 Linux under software emulation? In any cas
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by tgma 1y ago
I've been installing Linux almost universally on "Windows computers" [sic] for the past two decades or more, per your characterization. Sometimes great, sometimes meh. Your point? I am simply illustrating there's a value
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by tgma 1y ago
Install Pop_OS! for better OOTB NVIDIA support.
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by tgma 1y ago
https://mac.getutm.app/
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by tgma 1y ago
You can’t? Just install UTM for a full VM one-click install (easier than wsl /install and two reboots) or any number of docker thingies that people build for the Mac.
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by tgma 1y ago
While I mostly agree with this sentiment, sidestepping the power management and sleep issues as well as better driver support and touchpad handling on some laptops makes it quite a bit better.

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