torginus

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by torginus 8mo ago
I want to believe I'm reading an insightful comment from an actual human deeply familiar with both human congnition and how LLMs work, but this post is chock full of LLMisms
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by torginus 8mo ago
If you typed your comment by reading all the others' in the chain, then you responded by typing your response in one go, then you 'just' did next-token prediction based on textual input. I would still argue that does not prev
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by torginus 8mo ago
I think languages with strong support for IDE type hints as well as tooling that takes advantage of it are a fairly recent phenomenon, except for maybe Java and C# which I think are regarded by the wider hacker community as uncool. C++&#x2F
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by torginus 8mo ago
Well, if the words were 100% hand-written, I assume he'd have said that.
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by torginus 8mo ago
I feel like I have heard about this in a million different management anecdotes in my corporate trainings about management stuff/QA.
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by torginus 8mo ago
This feels like the time when 2 people in my friend group broke up, and both they kept writing me essays to explain why they were the ones in the right, sharing incredibly intimate details about who is in the right hoping I would act as som
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by torginus 8mo ago
Tbf when Big Sur was released, it was leaking like crazy. It was a daily ritual for me to kill Dock and Finder after they've eaten all my RAM.
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by torginus 8mo ago
Honestly, while I'd like to believe you, there's always a post about how $MODEL+1 delivered powerful insights about the very nature of the universe in precise Hegelian dialectic, while $MODEL's output was indistinguishable fr
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by torginus 8mo ago
> have design and R&D offices in Europe, and source parts from suppliers all over the world. Nio uses Nvidia Orin chips, Qualcomm SoCs, Brembo brakes, Bosch controllers, ZF suspension systems, Continental/Pirelli tires, and Clea
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by torginus 8mo ago
I don't disagree with the general utility of humanoid (or other multipurpose) robots, just not in a factory setting. I think automating stuff in the factory makes zero sense - its a controlled environment with purpose designed tooling
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by torginus 8mo ago
I think this is a myth - Chinese factories don't seem to be automated to a higher degree than European ones, and in any case are still full of Kuka, Fanuc and ABB robots. I think there's a domestic brand or two that's gaining
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by torginus 8mo ago
My prediction is that by the time humanoid robots actually make it to the factory floor, they'll be pretty un-humanoid. 90% of car manufacturing is done by oldschool industrial robots, and I've had people point out that heavy use
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by torginus 8mo ago
I think despite how much tech keeps getting hyped, the average person didn't have a 'technology' watershed moment in the past decade or more, so they're taking what they can get.
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by torginus 8mo ago
Since these things are almost certainly digital devices, just having a switch that cuts power to them could work.
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by torginus 8mo ago
I thought all iterations of ARM are little endian, even going back as far to ARM7. same as x86? The only big-endian popular arch in recent memory is PPC
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by torginus 8mo ago
I think the idea of 'junior' needs to be refined a bit. By the time I got my first job I've been coding for years, and have built rather substantial things. In fact, in terms of pure coding ability, I was probably past the i
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by torginus 8mo ago
'Power is the perception of power'
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by torginus 8mo ago
Even the statement that (100% safe) Rust does not have memory bugs/mutable aliasing is not always true. It's well known that Rust has difficulty representing graph-like memory structures, and people have taken to using arrays of `
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by torginus 8mo ago
The weird thing about this is many core Rust people agree that Rust is not the best language that could possibly ever be, even evaluated by the core principles of Rust (that is: no UB, no mutable aliasing, no memory bugs). And if we move ou
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by torginus 8mo ago
I'm sure after you've had Claude build it, you learned a ton of how to build such a thing (I certainly did for my projects). Basically, the data model is dead simple, you just spin up a SQLite db, create a React frontend, grabbin
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by torginus 8mo ago
Sorry by, JWT, I meant the middleware that integrates the crypto nto my web server (pretty sure even Claude doesn't attempt to do hand-rolled crypto, thankfully). That express middleware library has a ton of config options that were qu
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by torginus 8mo ago
What coding with LLMs have taught me, particularly in a domain that's not super comfortable for me (web tech), is that how many npm packages (like jwt auth, or build plugins) can be replaced by a dozen lines of code. And you can actual
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by torginus 8mo ago
Considering half of the memes are still rage comics drawn with MSPaint i'm kind of skeptical of this statement.
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by torginus 8mo ago
Don't they get tax breaks and more lax operating requirements? I don't think this is just an image thing.
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by torginus 8mo ago
I think a very serious issue with GC is that: - The number of edges in a graph tend to scale superlinearly with heap size, as the number of edges possible in a graph are quadratic wrt no of objects. - Memory bandwidth hasn't been scali
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by torginus 8mo ago
Afaik a lot of AI generated models aren't really 'AI generated' in the sense that you have an network that outputs vertices and topologies and UV maps. 3D AI models are usually made by a grab bag of techniques, for example yo
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by torginus 8mo ago
I think defaultism plays a huge role. If your wife's next smartphone or TV or whatever comes with AI made by a different company, I think she won't really care and use that if it's good. By the way this is a perfectly rationa
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by torginus 8mo ago
I have like 3 Microsoft shares, and it would have made me happy :(
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by torginus 8mo ago
Isn't this entirely theather? I'm sure Musk's XAI would have no qualms about working with the Department That Used To Be Called Department Of Defense. Hell, there's a significant sharing of people between them and SpaceX
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by torginus 8mo ago
Obviously not. They introduced their app store (13 years ago!, fuck time goes by), probably trying to do this. They got to like step 3 of their 10 step master plan and gave up and have been lingering there. Microsoft has been a walking husk

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