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by troupo 9mo ago
> It's so trivial, can't you ask your fancy LLM to do it for you? They did. And the result was a React render loop that takes 16ms to output a hundred characters to screen and tells them it will take a year to rewrite: https:&
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by troupo 9mo ago
> because many terminals are quite slow, it is hard to render a large amount of output at once without causing tearing/stutter. Only if you use React as your terminal renderer. You're not rendering 10k objects on screen in a fe
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by troupo 9mo ago
> Opus 4.6 1-shots much of my code, often running for minutes, hours, and days at a time. This is verifiable bullshit. Unless you explicitly explain how it "runs for days" since Opus's context window is incapable of handli
814.
by troupo 9mo ago
> scaling up to take in the migrants, acquire network effects, collect roughly same subscription revenue, but run on just, like, 10 people?" That's how discord started, too. And then they scaled up. You probably need 10 people
815.
by troupo 9mo ago
To be an alternative it had to be an alternative . Not "we had a great community with image uploads, voice chats, client parity across all platforms, miltiple servers set up in one click, songle login, game integrations etc., so now w
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by troupo 9mo ago
That's how politicians and passive-aggressive people hide their rudeness/impoliteness: under a veneer of polite-sounding phrases. But I guess we could've used a few other synonyms: https://www.merriam-webster.com&#
817.
by troupo 9mo ago
> Modern society has an insane demand for transportation. Roads – the medium on which we transport things – are the fabric on which cities are built. Not just inside the cities, but the vast network of roads outside the city, that feed
818.
by troupo 9mo ago
Yup, we've become reverse centaurs :) https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-11...
819.
by troupo 9mo ago
> but I cannot see any impoliteness here whatsoever. Ah yes. "It's AI I don't care" and "AI has very deep reasoning about code, prove me wrong" are the height of politeness.
820.
by troupo 9mo ago
"It's just another Markdown file, bro". LLMs do not learn. So every new session for them will be rebuilding the world from scratch. Bloated Markdown files quickly exhaust context windows, and agents routinely ignore large par
821.
by troupo 9mo ago
Ah yes. I really enjoy watching Dune (or Openheimer, or even less bombastic movies) on my 65" TV with two rather tiny speakers [1]. Streaming killed theaters because movie advertisement basically stopped (the lesser problem), and movie
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by troupo 9mo ago
> Are you implying that movie theaters are a better experience than home theaters? I don't have an IMAX screen at home. I don't even have the smallest theater screen at home. Oh, and that "home theater"? Good luck get
823.
by troupo 9mo ago
There's no space left for actual hits. Movies aren't even given proper theatrical releases. One week at the theater then straight to streaming, or even simultaneous theater and streaming releases.
824.
by troupo 9mo ago
> I don't know about fictional compilers, but gcc and clang will produce programs that behave differently from compile to compile where __DATE__ or __TIME__ is used That's not non-determinism, is it? > Where for a stable inp
825.
by troupo 9mo ago
And those fictional compilers are? Like what fictional compilers when you run them on source code produce a program that may or may not run, may or may not produce desired result etc.? Strange how literally no one is talking about this fict
826.
by troupo 9mo ago
> no one makes their compilers deterministic I was typing too fast. "No one makes their compilers non deterministic. > Even the most widely recognized and used compilers, like gcc, clang, even rustc, are non-deterministic by def
827.
by troupo 9mo ago
> But any compiler can be made nondeterministic if you ask for it. That's not something unique to LLMs. Not unique as in: no one makes their compilers deterministic, and you have to work to make a non-deterministic one. LLMs are non
828.
by troupo 9mo ago
If you ask the compiler to compile the same input, it will produce the same output. With LLMs the output depends on the phases of the moon.
829.
by troupo 9mo ago
with temperature=0 and no context. That is, a clean run with t=0, pk=0 etc. etc. will produce the same output for the same question. However if you ask the same question in the same session, output will be different. To say the least, this
830.
by troupo 9mo ago
> Otherwise it just seems like the EU waits for years and years until a company is a big enough player and then retroactively decides they’ve been breaking the law for years. Lol. It's never like this. These companies are given plen
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by troupo 9mo ago
Elixir/Erlang. It's table stakes for them.
832.
by troupo 9mo ago
Because they are not good engineers [1] Also, because they are stuck in a language and an ecosystem that cannot reliably build supervisors, hierarchies of processes etc. You need Erlang/Elixir for that. Or similar implementations like
833.
by troupo 9mo ago
HTML 5 offers nothing to match Flash capabilities. Perhaps you could render to Canvas/WebGL/WebGPU, but you still need to reproduce the entire engine there.
834.
by troupo 9mo ago
We have to learn that a lot of software can be just that: done, without requiring a continuous of new superfluous features
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by troupo 9mo ago
> The announcement surfaced new information for them, they probably reframed their own analytics and saw insights That's such corporate-speak. It means they don't know their customers at all and/or couldn't care less.
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by troupo 9mo ago
They only "changed" them because it materially affected them. "We're going to provide support and security patches" means "in a year we'll quietly stop any work on it anyway"
837.
by troupo 9mo ago
They will not get that fine for a looooooooong time
838.
by troupo 9mo ago
Because "skills" are just .md files that the lossy compressing statistical output machine may or may not find and that may or may not be retained in the tiny context window
839.
by troupo 9mo ago
> mountains of ceremonial code and unavoidably ugly syntax. you... just described Swift, really :) Also, all those features exist even if you don't use them all. Which makes the language complex, cumbersome, and makes its compiler s
840.
by troupo 9mo ago
> - Modern Ergonomics What does this even mean? Modern Swift looks like a haphazard mishmash of conflicting features where every problem is solved by "just one more keyword bro". In 2024 it had 217 keywords : https:/&#x2

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