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by torginus 3mo ago
Devil's advocate - this is for the backend. You get to control your dependencies there, and I'd say Vercel controls its own stack, so they can replace deps as they go by submitting patches/slopforking projects to remove incom
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by torginus 3mo ago
I am not quite the right age for hypercard as well, but I did have my chances to interact with a variety of game making tools aimed at kids that were amazing for creating event-driven logic. Likewise in the professional world, tools aimed a
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by torginus 3mo ago
Collision detection is such a fascinating subfield with so many approaches based on what representation you end up going with, and what sort of domain you are working in. > It would be interesting to look at some of the newer algorithms
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by torginus 3mo ago
I think the results might be underwhelming - AI providers need to turn a profit and can't subsidize, and they're working off of the commodity hardware everyone does. I wouldn't be surprised if they started offering potentiall
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by torginus 3mo ago
I also have to add, that I think that WASM is the wrong approach - basically I get what they were going for but they should've either merged the JS and WASM 'worlds' so that these 2 pieces of code can interact without any fri
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by torginus 3mo ago
My car rolls up the windows after a while if I leave it and lock it. I though pretty much all cards did.
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by torginus 3mo ago
Well for one, since one person can do more, less communication is needed, so you can cut out the inefficient part.
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by torginus 3mo ago
Wonder if that means if I knock out an app using a Claude Code sub in an afternoon, that would've taken me a week previously, and the result is better than what I could've done, does that mean that gross productivity went down? -
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by torginus 3mo ago
> Were you involved in some way? Only as a developer using the technology, as part of a failed commercial venture. > If so, I'm curious to know why you think NaCL did not achieve broad adoption? NaCl had 2 limitations compared to
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by torginus 3mo ago
GJK is a cool algorithm but: - Collision using simple shapes is very optimized and fast - GJK's complexity scales linearly with the complexity of the support function, while checking pairs scales quadratically, which is a big advantage
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by torginus 3mo ago
I wonder if it would be viable for the Chinese to pursue a huge buildout of less sophisticated logic fabs. My experience with GPGPU is that it seems to intensely skew towards memory bandwidth, and has a much lower compute intensity than gra
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by torginus 3mo ago
I am not much of a math person, but if we look at the how the brain is wired, we see that the dendrites (the inputs) of a neuron are hundreds of micrometers in length, and the axons (the outputs) are millimeters, and very rarely can stretch
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by torginus 3mo ago
People often bring up Palmer Luckey's (CEO of Anduril) old tweets about anime. Respect to the guy, he still hasn't deleted them.
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by torginus 3mo ago
The original premise of the argument was about WASM bytecode vs native assembly - bytecode is no more open or closer to the source code than x86 asm. Your questions are completely orthogonal to the argument, so please bring up relevant poi
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by torginus 3mo ago
Linux distros are shipped as binaries yet you can still build them from source, and are certainly not controlled by one company, I don't see why that would be the case here.
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by torginus 3mo ago
Portability isn't worth as much as it was advertised. There are a grand total of 2 relevant CPU architectures for consumers, ARM64 and x86_64. Shipping 2 binaries is just running the compiler twice. On the client side, there's jus
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by torginus 3mo ago
NaCL was further along in every meaningful dimension (the ability to run native software at native speeds) after a year or two of development, than WASM is today after a decade (and I think this will be true a decade from now). So the upsid
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by torginus 3mo ago
Just checked and out of the 3 major non-JS GC languages, Go and .NET aren't planning to support WASM GC due to non-matching semantics. There's an implementation for Java - TeaVM, which is an AOT Java compiler, that does have produ
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by torginus 3mo ago
Yeah, WASM has been a disappointment, and I guess there's a good reason for that. If WASM would've worked as advertised, allowing fully fledged apps to run easily and natively in the browser with no fuss and 90% native perf, then
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by torginus 3mo ago
The product strategy of 'consumer-grade' AI making deliberately insecure software, and then selling you limited access to the model that can fix it (if they think you deserve to pay them) is just diabolical. (Grade 3 AI which can
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by torginus 3mo ago
OpenRouter sprang up overnight. I might need to replace some urls and access tokens should they decide to try and screw me.
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by torginus 3mo ago
I have noticed the exact behavior change on myself that you describe. But, thanks to the magic of keeping track of time and tasks, I have discovered: - I am not all that faster when project timelines are concerned - I've often built th
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by torginus 3mo ago
> Ooh, one of them likes lesbian fanfic Oddly. specific. Sorry, I don't get the reference, could you please tell me what/who does that refer to (which fanfic and person, and why said person and fact is relevant to this question
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by torginus 3mo ago
The gotcha is that this is a 90s C pattern, and software that actually needed this has been written for 3 decades by now
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by torginus 3mo ago
The problem with this argument is that sharing model weights only has downsides for said foreign actor compared to providing a cloud service. Since the suspicion exists, security companies are going to comb over the weights and discover eve
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by torginus 3mo ago
> A malicious dataset abused two code-execution paths in our dataset processing (a remote-code dataset loader and a template-injection in a dataset configuration) to run code on a processing worker. Did huggingface get pickled?
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by torginus 3mo ago
And the sad thing is, most things that are on the internet, but really shouldn't be are there for some really banal and sad reason. Like a random startup pushing 'big data is the future' narrative a decade-ish ago (the benefi
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by torginus 3mo ago
> The only argument they have here is that they use GB300 GPU's I don't follow events closely, but the US has constantly flipflopped on what sort of GPUs the Chinese are allowed to have, not in small part because much of the AI
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by torginus 3mo ago
> But our VMs start fast, so fast that even if we created the DNS entries before creating the VM, our users still had to sit around waiting for DNS to propagate, which occasionally took minutes, not seconds. To my (limited) understanding
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by torginus 3mo ago
I've always found it weird how ludicrously poweful personal hardware has gotten. The fact that you can't buy a midrange CPU with less than 16 cores, or that a high-end gaming GPU is 100+ TFLOPS just blows my mind. The fastest supe

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