titzer

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by titzer 2mo ago
> I am tired of our* culture. The way I justify it in my mind is that, by all accounts, there's never been a global civilization of any kind on this planet before. Especially not one with sentient primates connected by instant telec
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by titzer 2mo ago
Is it really so hard to put a small fence around it to hide the ugly?
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by titzer 2mo ago
I don't use Windows, but I have to say that TextEdit on the Mac is absolute crap. Literally every default is wrong. Text is too small, looks like crap, cut-and-paste always brings absolutely crappy styling with it, its autocomplete and
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by titzer 2mo ago
I dunno, Ubuntu got bloated. I tried to put 24 on an old Chromebook at it was atrocious. Going back to MX Linux made the UI relatively snappy.
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by titzer 2mo ago
> to show mastery of a topic How do you show mastery of a topic where you neither understand fundamentals nor have skills to do a task without help? Mastery is about demonstrating skills . Skills take practice, hands down. AI can help u
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by titzer 2mo ago
Like all things, Google will eventually realize they cannot make significant ad revenue and they will eventually give up and discontinue serving this, though I doubt it's more than a scratch in terms of disk space. It's great they
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by titzer 2mo ago
> A substantial portion of the initial manuscript was generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence. The author provided the underlying concept and creative direction and worked extensively with AI tools throughout the develop
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by titzer 2mo ago
If you look at the implementation of sqrt for a computer, it's usually implemented with Newton's algorithm, which is an iterative numerical method with high speed convergence. It is computationally efficient and looks approximatel
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by titzer 2mo ago
> all these entrepreneurs are making explicit decisions to abuse their fellow human beings to smaller or greater degree, and everyone seems fine with it. Local incentives. Every single person and entity is just maximizing their gain agai
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by titzer 2mo ago
Yes, you are right in that programs are not supposed to point outside of allocated blocks into other regions, that's UB. As in, pointer arithmetic that computes pointers outside of (but not even accessing!) an allocated block is UB. An
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by titzer 2mo ago
> Finally fixed the problem by deleting my Instagram account. The real fix!
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by titzer 2mo ago
I think my brain developed that as a defense mechanism. The web cultivated a certain kind of blindness where I literally don't look at certain parts of pages because my brain has learned that there is never anything useful there. Somet
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by titzer 2mo ago
> repeat "impressions" build implicit trust just through exposure. This is exactly why I don't want to see their shit, ever. It just doubles my resolve to not see it. They are targeting my underbrain, my subconscious, and
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by titzer 2mo ago
It has pointers and pointer arithmetic. Pointing into the stack, allocating buffers on the stack (and the resulting decades of stack smashing attacks that came with it). Most languages don't have an underlying model of a flat memory th
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by titzer 2mo ago
It's not normal in any other language that constant-folding in the compiler has different behavior than running an expression on the machine. C exists in a nether world of being neither assembly nor high-level language. People only cal
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by titzer 2mo ago
The people running the government literally do not care. They only care about evading responsibility for decades of crimes by smashing all accountability mechanisms, disabling all oversight so they can loot the government, increasing dysfun
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by titzer 2mo ago
Ohhh look, value prediction. Exactly the kind of thing that led to Spectre. There will be a cottage industry of information leaks and mitigations for a decade.
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by titzer 2mo ago
It's actually refreshing when a model is sure about something because it actually tested it and has the receipts. Opus 5 seems really good about testing its own knowledge with experiments. Scientific method ftw.
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by titzer 2mo ago
The fact that Claude knows I wrote the Virgil compiler makes it be on its best behavior when working on it. I force it to not write too much code, and to write more tests. I push back on slop and just adding another special case. It has a s
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by titzer 2mo ago
> How can someone serious even think that’s ok. Because no one is serious anymore. I hate to say it, but anyone this lazy is absolutely asking to be replaced by AI.
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by titzer 2mo ago
Google's problem is that, fundamentally, they hate end users. They do not want to hear feedback from them, they don't want to fix their bugs. They don't want to hear your thoughts and they actually don't value feedback.
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by titzer 2mo ago
Why anyone trusts any streaming music service is absolutely beyond me. It will always get enshittified. I have 65GiB of mp3s I've accumulated from ripping CDs over the years and it used to be a burden to transfer around between machine
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by titzer 2mo ago
Wait, what? Virgil targeting the JVM does rely on that to represent vacuous arrays like `Array<void>`. That's annoying.
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by titzer 2mo ago
Google has never been good at supporting developers, and it absolutely loathes end users. Support for everything that is not their ad ecosystem is miserable. There's never any long term plan, everything gets deprecated and bitrots.
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by titzer 3mo ago
Let me explore the codebase to get the full picture before diving in.
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by titzer 3mo ago
It's amazing 3D going on, and then 80% of the visual space is popups that completely block it. It'd be have a nice prominent ways of reducing the noise, and that pops were partially transparent.
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by titzer 3mo ago
I think that is pretty ungenerous. Before ARM, ISAs were not a commodity, and there were only closed, proprietary implementations of them (usually from a single vendor). Arm licensing its IP and actual designs was hugely beneficial for the
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by titzer 3mo ago
The wild thing is that this SoC is a heterogenous compute device. It has three different kinds of cores: a pretty beefy arm64 core and two different RISC-V cores: a 1Ghz one for running Linux and a 700Mhz one dedicated to running a real-tim
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by titzer 3mo ago
I want to run music models on the Milk-V and have them jam in realtime with me.
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by titzer 3mo ago
It's crazy what $5 can buy you in a microcontroller these days. Have a look at these Milk-V boards: https://milkv.io The duo has up to 256MB of memory, and a 1TOPS@INT8 TPU. They run Linux and are $5. I bought 5!

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