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by turtletontine 1y ago
There’s no mutating happening here, for example: if cond: X = “yes” else: X = “no” X is only ever assigned once, it’s actually still purely functional. And in Rust or Lisp or other expression languages, you can do stuff
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Search definitely doesn’t work as well as it used to. Unfortunately “AI” slop is a big reason for that!
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Wow… this is an excellent article. I’ve always been fascinated by GCs (well, as long as I’ve known what they are), and I just love seeing this kind of technical but accessible explanation of how they work, their bottlenecks, and a great new
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Time dilation is 1/sqrt(1 - (v/c)^2). So at 0.1c that’s 0.5%. Certainly much higher than any human has ever experienced! But not exactly gonna change 100y to 100,000,000y.
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by turtletontine 1y ago
The point (which they make quite explicitly) is that an individual or small organization can only run open source models locally, and those open source models are less sophisticated than the “frontier” models. Obviously we can’t run GPT-5 o
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I think this article has already made the rounds here, but I still think about it. I love using em dashes! It really makes me sad that I need to avoid them now to sound human https://bassi.li/articles/i-miss-using-em-da
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by turtletontine 1y ago
It helps that they’re not a publicly traded company [A]. If you’re beholden to stockholders, you’re beholden to a market demanding growth at all costs. Even if the leadership at the moment wants this stable strategy, all investor pressure t
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by turtletontine 1y ago
For the median Windows user who wants to try something new, running native Windows apps really truly needs to be no fuss and “just work.” This has been, erm, not exactly my experience with Wine. I don’t mean that as a dig at Wine, I know it
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Thanks for this, I fully agree. One frustration I have with the modern moment is the tendency to view anything more than five years old with disdain, as utterly irrelevant and obsolete. Maybe I’m just going old, but I like my technology dep
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I think the bet is that kids are quite good at begging and pestering their parents to spend money on things, and kids will want to talk to Santa for more than 60 minutes. Just my guess
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by turtletontine 1y ago
This part of the README answers the “why” pretty well: > Both software and hardware implementations of Wireguard already exist. However, the software performance is far below the speed of wire. > Existing hardware approaches are both
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by turtletontine 1y ago
All I want to know is, is the bubble going to pop next week, next month, or two years from now? Welcome to the casino! Please enjoy your stay, and remember: the house always wins ;)
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by turtletontine 1y ago
You may have seen headlines about this paper, which found that while most devs (apparently) feel like AI makes them 20% faster, they’re actually 20% SLOWER with it: https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experie
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I think their point is clear if you read the rest of the sentence: “… given the number of compelling works and the limited time available to us”. Yes, it’s the OP’s choice, it’s their information diet. You COULD read the good stuff over and
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by turtletontine 1y ago
This is a silly comparison. The article itself does not contain any phrase like "Clearest Sign Yet of Ancient Life on Mars", it was someone else's decision to give it the clickbait title here. I'm not an expert on the to
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I think the idea is the minimal implementation will be unstable and unreliable. I don’t know the details, but there’s much work and thought on quantum error correcting qubits - where you hook up N qubits in a clever way to function as one v
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I’ve been running btrfs on a little home Debian NAS for over a year now. I have no complaints - it’s been working smoothly, doing exactly what I want. I have a heterogeneous set of probably 6 discs, >20TB total, no problems. *caveat: I’m
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Even if the images aren’t the kind of sexualized (or downright pornographic) content this implies… having cutesy anime girls pop up when a user loads your site is, at best, wildly unprofessional. (Dare I say “cringe”?) For something as seri
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I’ve seen a lot of articles like this on the HN page recently… stuff that has one or two interesting tidbits, but is clearly just a conversation someone had with an AI and dumped into an article. Don’t make me wade through all the AI word b
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Just read Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep, I’d highly recommend it. It’s quite different than Blade Runner. It leans much heavier into these kinds of themes, there’s a whole sort of religion about caring for animals and cultivating huma
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by turtletontine 1y ago
AI for billing or other administrative tasks could be a big cost saver… You’d hope so, but doubtful. More likely it’ll be health care providers using “AI”s to scheme how to charge as much as possible, and insurers using “AI” to deny
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by turtletontine 1y ago
For example, I recall being in lot of arguments that are purely "semantical" in nature. I believe this is what Wittgenstein called “language games”
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by turtletontine 1y ago
The future of Google as Chrome’s owner is genuinely in question now due to Google’s antitrust losses, in case you weren’t aware. There’s a few different cases, one recent one Google has lost and is now in the “remedy” phase. Meaning the cou
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by turtletontine 1y ago
The first link confirms exactly what I said above. They’re not preventing Google from removing third party cookies, they’re preventing Google from implementing ALTERNATIVES to third party cookies. The only reason Google is unwilling to stra
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Google gets no competitive advantage from removing third party cookies from chrome. The anticompetitive monopolistic tactic was the plan to replace third party cookies with FLoC/Privacy Sandbox/Topics AI, and THAT is what they wer
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Well. In an ideal world, LLMs would be used this way, as a tool to help automate the bullshit and let the person driving worry about other stuff. But I never see them actually used this way. At the big institution end, companies and univers
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I’m similarly worried about businesses all making “rational” decisions to replace their employees with “AI”, wherever they think they can get away with it. (Note that’s not the same thing as wherever “AI” can do the job well!) But I think o
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Pretty sure Numpy’s einsum[1] function allows all of this reasoning in vanilla numpy (albeit with a different interface that I assume this author likes less than theirs). Quite sure that first example of how annoying numpy can be could be w
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I’ve been running Linux distros on my primary machines for over a decade now, and there’s no way I’m going back. Even a few years ago I figured “when I finish grad school, I’ll probably get a Mac just for a smoother experience working with
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by turtletontine 1y ago
I’ve realized how huge a problem this is by spending time with older relatives recently. Many of them have >5 year old phones (why upgrade?), that current websites and apps often just don’t run on. They SHOULD be able to run - they just

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