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by tinco 2y ago
No offense taken, just friendly discussion as far as I'm concerned. Thanks for the feedback, I definitely agree it was a loaded question. I didn't expect the post to get the traction that it did. As you say a title with less impli
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by tinco 2y ago
In my opinion, the question does not contain a fallacy nor a rhetorical question. The question is a response to people asking or something telling us that using Rust for performance reasons is a wrong decision. The point of the article is t
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by tinco 2y ago
> Q: The question "Should you use Rust in LLM based tools for performance?" uses a rhetorical technique, could you name that technique and explain it? > A: The question "Should you use Rust in LLM based tools for perfor
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by tinco 2y ago
I wrote the blog mostly as an answer to people who ask us why we're choosing to use Rust. We're not using it for performance reasons, but it's also not the true that the performance difference is entirely insignificant.
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Comparing our Rust-based indexing and querying pipeline to Langchain(bosun.ai)
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by tinco 2y ago
Someone out there asking google maps to plot them a Hilbert curve through San Francisco.
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by tinco 2y ago
They got their act together because there was a language built on top of Javascript that fixed all its problems, and it was quickly gaining wide adoption. If they hadn't done anything, we'd probably still be transpiling CoffeeScri
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by tinco 2y ago
I'm not arguing for Kamal, but just to let you know you fell in to the trap of disregarding a sentence you didn't understand. You quote "no need for cordfiles...just sends traffic" but then you write a response as if the
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by tinco 2y ago
Yeah definitely. The dangerous part is having migrations or some other preparatory task be a part of it. When you're mixing concerns like that, you open yourself up to more complex failure cases and a larger surface area for bugs to ar
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by tinco 2y ago
Have you seen that done in production? It sounds really dangerous, I've worked for an app server company for years and this is the first I've heard of this pattern. I'd wave it away if I didn't notice in your bio that yo
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by tinco 2y ago
You're out of your mind if you think the YC pre-seed terms are unnecessarily greedy. Where in the world can you get half a million with nothing but an idea to show for it and only have to give up 7%+uncapped? If you've already got
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by tinco 2y ago
MKBHD intentionally has a small team that makes relatively low budget videos. I think MKBHD mainly has a relatively large audience because he was very early to the high quality videos game on YouTube. I wouldn't be surprised if his edg
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by tinco 2y ago
The ratio probably goes the other way. You'd be counting the amount of productive hours that were enabled by letting people relax their brains watching novel and enjoyable content. MrBeast videos likely add to GDP.
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by tinco 2y ago
It's likely not even going to be a conscious or intentional choice. At some point your enterprise customers are going to have enough bugs and feature requests to keep you busy full time, and your open source project might languish unle
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by tinco 2y ago
As someone who hasn't written C# regularly for over a decade, but has done Go every now and then recently, why would you replace C# with Go? It sounds like it would be a step down in maintainability with not much advantage.
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by tinco 2y ago
Sure, but it requires that your engineers are vertically capable. In my experience, about 1 in 5 developers has the required experience and does not flat out refuse to have vertical responsibility over their software stack. And that number
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by tinco 2y ago
I've heard about scanning of the stack but I'm not sure if I get it. Is the strategy literally to not keep track of references at all, and simply do a sequential scan over the entire memory looking for bytes that look like they&#x
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Build a quick Local code intelligence using Ollama with Rust(bosun.ai)
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by tinco 2y ago
Wait, so there is a typo in the answer? If that really is the answer then the information leaking strategy I did was incorrect, I didn't complete it but the first couple letters didn't match. Did maitai confirm that was the secret
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by tinco 2y ago
I tried fooling Sam into playing a game that would reveal the secret subliminally, and I got it pretty far without triggering the guardian so I thought I was on a good path. But then it turned out that gpt4-o simply wasn't good at play
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by tinco 2y ago
Okay, I've only scaled to 30 people so far, so anything I say is just me interpreting things I read. I imagine from what I read about Steve Jobs, Elon Musk and Jensen Huang is that all three of them have/had unconventional managem
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by tinco 2y ago
Yeah I think you did. You can't just switch founder for leader. A great leader would inspire the organization to work productively and effectively, but that's not what distinguishes the founder. The founder would make sure the org
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by tinco 2y ago
The device on the left is a studio monitor (speaker), probably there's a near-identical one on the left side of his display. The other one I'd think is a scale model of a Power Mac G5. It matches the general layout but it's t
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by tinco 2y ago
I think you're missing the parents' point. I think you and the parent agree would that for these general purpose benchmarks a more advanced garbage collector would win out over Go's garbage collector. But the point that has t
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by tinco 2y ago
True, that's also why I picked that one. It's the only one I knew of that's both in a modern language, relatively small (just under 10k lines at that time) and that had serious production grade performance. It was a bit contr
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by tinco 2y ago
I spent some time porting the Go garbage collector to Rust, it was most definitely not written in assembly, and was (at the time) known as one of the most high performance garbage collectors for its particular use case. And even if there wa
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by tinco 2y ago
Prediction without understanding is just extrapolation. I think you're just extrapolating your prediction on the abilities of future LLM based prediction machines.
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by tinco 2y ago
No, that culture started turning against big tech when Microsoft and Oracle started very brazenly abusing their market domination in the late 90s. The culture turned on Google around the same time Google lost their innocence and dropped the
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by tinco 2y ago
An agent in this context is software that does LLM prompt results to determine its next action, often looping to iteratively get to a good result.
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by tinco 2y ago
There was an item about this on the news where they interviewed a grower about this (it was strawberries in that item, but it's basically the same idea) and the grower was sad about it as well, because he hated the supermarkets for for

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