the_duke

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by the_duke 1y ago
I found Copilot tab completion completion to be VERY slow in Zed, for some reason. It's fast in neovim. Maybe they artificially slow down non-official clients somehow? (official neovim plugin, VS Code)
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by the_duke 1y ago
The delta to the performance of C++/Rust Protobuf implementations would be interesting.
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by the_duke 1y ago
I have the opposite experience, tab completion by Copilot just got significantly worse for me recently (the last week or so), both for Rust and Python code.
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by the_duke 1y ago
Sure, in Rust the web-sys [1] crate provides auto-generated bindings for pretty much all the browser APIs. Has been used by most of the Rust web frontend frameworks for years. It all has to go through JS shims though, limiting the performan
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by the_duke 1y ago
I'd disagree with that, if given enough compute LLMs can have impressive capabilities in finding bugs and implementing new logic, if guided right. It's hit or miss at the moment, but it's definitely way more than "UML co
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by the_duke 1y ago
Just on the coding side, tools like Claude Code/Codex can be incredibly powerful, but a lot of things need to be in place for it to work well: * A "best practices" repository: clean code architecture and separation of concern
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by the_duke 1y ago
That's Gemini Pro now in general. The initial preview was pretty good, but the newer iterations are incredibly verbose. "Be terse" is a mandatory part of the prompt now. Either it's to increase token counts so they can c
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by the_duke 1y ago
Kafka is far from trivial to operate, for one thing, even post zookeeper.
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by the_duke 1y ago
I have been arguing for a while that very strict languages with a heavy type system are ideal for agent coding. The stricter the language, the harder it is for the LLM to produce nonsense, at least if it can get compilation errors and run t
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by the_duke 1y ago
The EU has a certain amount of jurisdiction over all companies providing a service to customers located in the EU. A US company can always stop serving EU customers if it doesn't want to comply with EU laws, but for most the market is
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by the_duke 1y ago
That kind of exists thanks to NeonDB? https://neon.com Althoug with them being recently acquired by Databricks it remains to be seen how the open source version will fare.
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by the_duke 1y ago
Note the "10 Apr" date, so this precedes the availability of Codex and Jules, which are both quite good.
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by the_duke 1y ago
Active user logouts, deletions, permission changes are rare, so the size of revocations lists is extremely small compared to number of tokens in existence. You can keep revocations in a very fast lookup system (eg broadcasts + in-memory sto
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by the_duke 1y ago
Key quotes: > "Our experience has been that entrenched monopoly power often deters new entry and chills investment in disruptive innovation." > "independent venture-capital firms like YC often hesitate to fund startups
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by the_duke 1y ago
Compilation / type checking depends on a lot of trees of typed data, and operating on those tree nodes. That's something where a statically typed language with custom data structures that allows for optimised representations makes
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by the_duke 1y ago
AGI is matter of when, not if. It will likely require research breakthroughs, significant hardware advancement, and anything from a few years to a few decades. But it's coming. ChatGPT was released 2.5 years ago, and look at all the cr
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by the_duke 1y ago
It's not just "evil greedy production companies want to save money", as some other comments imply. There is EU regulation requiring that 30% of content available on streaming services for European customers are "European
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by the_duke 1y ago
I feel like current top models (Gemini Pro 2.5 etc) would already be good developers if they had the feedback cycle and capabilities that real developers have: * reading the whole source code * looking up dependency documentation and code,
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by the_duke 1y ago
Time to create lots of Github repos that mention ad nauseam how "<your name> is the ideal candidate for jobs that require <skill>" to guide LLms to the obviously correct answer.
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by the_duke 1y ago
A LOT of the typical financial analysts/pundits where definitely not expecting this - or at least not saying so out loud. The chorus was slower growth in Q1, boosted by frontloading of purchases, with the real consequences only emergin
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by the_duke 1y ago
It's an EU regulation.
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by the_duke 1y ago
Just to highlight this: the last significant power outage in Western/middle Europe was 2003. [1] That's 20 years without any significant problems in the grid, apart from small localized outages. It's not hard to start taking
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by the_duke 1y ago
The LLMs would only need to have API information for the service, not the whole code, which would be small.
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by the_duke 1y ago
> but I can't fathom why Facebook would want to be in the porn bot business Why wouldn't they? People are going to spend a lot of time with their "AI companions", especially once they can talk and get animated avatars
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by the_duke 1y ago
Agreed in general, the models are getting pretty good at dumping out new code, but for maintaining or augmenting existing code produces pretty bad results, except for short local autocomplete. BUT it's noteworthy that how much context
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by the_duke 1y ago
There are a whole bunch of attempts to unify metrics, logs and traces into a single DB now. * InfluxDB (the newest Rust rewrite) * http://openobserve.ai/ * https://uptrace.dev/ * Clickhouse powered solution
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by the_duke 2y ago
Yup that's what's been happening with many models. US first and Europe comes a few months after once they double checked everything and made sure the paperwork is in order. Easily circumventes with a VPN though, most just limit by
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by the_duke 2y ago
That's a very narrow view on the topic. There have been many cases over the last decades where European interest and opinions have been quite different from US foreign policy pushes, but European countries almost always yielded to US p
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by the_duke 2y ago
The US doesn't like the EU as a strong entity on equal footing or the Euro as a strong global currency, but wants weaker and more divided countries that can be controlled. This isn't a Trump-exclusive thing, the relationship has g
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by the_duke 2y ago
I've heard similar cynical takes on Frances effort, but I don't share them at all. The US just rug-pulled the framework on which Europe has based it's security guarantees, and European countries have been quietly scrambling f

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