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by torginus 6mo ago
I would remark that modern CPUs don't use physical registers, so swapping should be just a register rename op, and this kind of bithacking only applies to old machines. The article makes the same point as well at the end: It is the kin
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by torginus 6mo ago
The thing about parsing (and algorithms in general) is that it can be hair raisingly complex for arbitrary grammars, but in practice, people have recently discovered, that making simple, unambiguous grammars, and avoiding problems, like con
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by torginus 6mo ago
Imo BNF (or some other formal notation) is quite useful for defining your syntax, my biggest gripe with BNF in particular is the way it handles operator precedence (through nested recursive expressions), which can get messy quite fast. Pr
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by torginus 6mo ago
What is incredibly disgusting for me, is the idea that there can be only one winner in the stock market, which spits in he face of free market competition. This is not an AI thing, this is a stocks thing, which Ive been complaining about in
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by torginus 6mo ago
Off topic, but I found Sonnet useless. It can't do the simplest tasks, like refactoring a method signature consistently across a project or following instructions accurately about what patterns/libraries should be used to solve a
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by torginus 6mo ago
This sounds like every LLM workflow, which is 'you tell the LLM what you want'. The real distinction is of scale - whether you want a REST endpoint or a fully functional word processor. But real, actual, complex software is at lea
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by torginus 6mo ago
Thing is, panels are so cheap that if you put them on your roof, it very well might cost the same or less as roof tiles per m2. You can also put more panels on than the rated peak of your inverter. As long as you don't surpass voltage
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by torginus 6mo ago
Though if we steer the conversation towards sovereignity, it bears mentioning that all components of solar installs (inverters, panels, and batteries) tend to be made in China, and afaik just recently they revoked some tax breaks that appli
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by torginus 6mo ago
I think the EU is just a bunch of countries in a trenchcoat. The main reason for this is the lack of mobility between countries. Each country has its own language, and more importantly social security, benefits, taxes, and the properties ar
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by torginus 6mo ago
I read the title as 'Rectangular Car Reviews'
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by torginus 6mo ago
I think the issue is that Google deliberately decided to market its closed down app store as a necessity to regulators, in order to 'keep users safe'. Which invites censorship from morality police types.
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by torginus 6mo ago
Isn't RenPy basically a game engine under the hood? So if you have the programming chops, you can make anything with Python.
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by torginus 6mo ago
Sorry, by build script I mean the script that generates the package, not the actual build. That should run on the build server, not the developer's machine.
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by torginus 6mo ago
> An oft brought-up issue is that the code on crates.io and in Git don’t always match. I don't understand why this is the case. Imo it should be a basic expectation, that a given package is built from a frozen, dedicated git commit
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by torginus 6mo ago
Wtf does this even mean - its like saying nobody owes me asbestos-free food. There sure is a demand for it, and certain customers find as mostly not backdoored supply chain good enough, and they wont do business in your ecosystem if you can
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by torginus 6mo ago
The funniest thing about huge enterprises is that they often have processes so convoluted and restrictive for everything, that getting stuff done by the book is basically impossible, so people get creative with the limitations and we often
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by torginus 6mo ago
We didn't have support, and we didn't need it, as the hardware was essentially EOL, probably would've been sold for like 20% of new price. We just chucked Selenium grid on them, locked them in the storage room, and if they di
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by torginus 6mo ago
I would say that's kind of a conspiracy-y explanation. Big companies in Munich either have their campuses on the outskirts of the city so that people can commute and park without flooding the city or they have it in the heart of the ci
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by torginus 6mo ago
I mean the idea has merit in of itself, but I think this should be more of an on-prem thing, just repurposing old laptops junked by IT as servers.
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by torginus 6mo ago
I mean we literally did this in one of my previous places. We took all the old laptops that were to be junked by IT, and used them as a selenium test farm. We saved like $100k per month on the AWS bill at the cost of basically electricity.
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by torginus 6mo ago
I've had the same experience - I was running a cottage-business with my best friend as a teen, writing a DOS GUI app for a single customer - we did this exact sort of pair programming, and I can say with confidence in retrospect, that
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by torginus 6mo ago
>could we make a 2 inch diameter turbine engine reliably I mean, technically yes, but in practical terms, no - turbines run on the Brayton cycle, where the are under curve efficiency is determined by the peak pressures it can withstand.
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by torginus 6mo ago
Considering the many folk tales of giants and dwarves, featuring in all sorts of cartoons, or toy trucks and model trains I played with a kid, it's interesting to think scaling in real life works very poorly - even going beyond such si
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by torginus 7mo ago
The whole concept of the ceasefire is absurd - it's like the joke that to combat the rise of suicides, the government made them punishable by death. There's no enforcement mechanism, only big dog, small dog logic. What happens if
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by torginus 7mo ago
My two cents is LLMs are way stronger in areas where the reward function is well known, such as exploiting - you break the security, you succeed. It's much harder to establish whats a usable and well architected, novel piece of softwar
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by torginus 7mo ago
It's not my credibility I want to measure against Anthropic's. I just said to apply the same logic to biology you would apply for software development. The parallels here are quite remarkable imo, but defer to your own judgement o
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by torginus 7mo ago
Yes that is correct. I would like a large body of experience and consenus to rely on as opposed to the regular 'trust the experts' argument, which has been shown for decades that is a deeply flawed and easy to manipulate argument.
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by torginus 7mo ago
>It's very easy to learn more about this if it's seriously a question you have. No, it's not. It took years of polishing by software engineers, who understand this exact profession to get models where they are now. Despite
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by torginus 7mo ago
This is the exact logic people that was used to claim that GPT4 was a PhD level intelligence.
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by torginus 7mo ago
Thank god, finally someone said it. I don't know the first thing about cybersecurity, but in my experience all these sandbox-break RCEs involve a step of highjacking the control flow. There were attempts to prevent various flavors of t

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