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by turtletontine 1y ago
Sounds like the argument is while it’s technically open source, trickiness with the licenses makes it basically impossible to legally fork it into a usable software. That sounds plausible to me, I’m no lawyer. But isn’t Cursor a wildly su
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by turtletontine 1y ago
What specifically about VS Code? I personally don’t use it, pretty much just cause I’m comfortable with my current development environment, and nothing has spurred me to migrate in a while. I’ve been vaguely suspicious to see Microsoft rapi
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by turtletontine 1y ago
The quote I heard was “You hear him described as a quiet, humble man. That’s perhaps how he survived growing up on the south side while being a cubs fan”
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by turtletontine 1y ago
Having been on the other side of this (teaching undergrads), I do get why courses would be structured like this. If you actually try explaining multiple things, lots of students freeze up and absorb nothing. Certainly there’s a few motivate
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by turtletontine 2y ago
| This should be impossible, because there are laws against it. That’s what so remarkable: we have a robust system of antitrust laws in this country, they just haven’t been enforced in decades. Thank god the Biden admin started trying to us
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by turtletontine 2y ago
You’ve nailed the first two stages of enshittification in your story there. Stage 1: bring in users with a genuinely good product they like! Stage 2: once users are locked in, prioritize your business customers (in this case, advertisers) a
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by turtletontine 2y ago
Um, no, the market is obviously not defined as “google ads.” You could bother to do one single search (maybe even with google!) before spewing nonsense. Specifically, part of the case found google liable for “unlawfully [tying] its publishe
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by turtletontine 2y ago
Bingo. So many decisions made perfect sense once I realized Apple is basically a lifestyle brand that makes electronics, and Microsoft is a massive bureaucratic B2B conglomerate. Totally explained Microsoft’s ineptitude with consumer facing
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by turtletontine 2y ago
I literally got this problem earlier today on ChatGPT, which claims to be based on o4-mini. So no, does not sound like it's just a problem with Claude or older GPTs. And on "prompting", I think this is a point of friction bet
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by turtletontine 2y ago
So the main advantage is that LLMs can type faster than you?
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by turtletontine 2y ago
That makes sense, and from what I’ve heard this sort of simple quick prototyping is where LLM coding works well. The problem with my case was I’m working with multiple large code bases, and couldn’t pinpoint the problem to a specific line,
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by turtletontine 2y ago
I literally had a developer of an open source package I’m working with tell me “yeah that’s a known problem, I gave up on trying to fix it. You should just ask ChatGPT to fix it, I bet it will immediately know the answer.” Annoying response
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by turtletontine 2y ago
Your wish sounds to me a lot like Larrabee/Xeon Phi or manycore CPUs. Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but it sounds like a good idea to me and I don’t totally see why it inherently can’t compete with GPUs.
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by turtletontine 2y ago
Could you elaborate on this? How does many-small-CPUs make for a weirder programming model than a GPU? Im no expert, but I’ve done my fair share of parallel HPC stuff using MPI, and a little bit of Cuda. And to me the GPU programming model
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by turtletontine 2y ago
The biggest motivation IMO is just punishing universities. The first move cutting overhead costs made this pretty clear to me. It was a shrewd move: if you squint, and use no critical thinking, you could be convinced they’ll still fund scie
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by turtletontine 2y ago
This is how I live, and I cannot comprehend how people live otherwise. I have no work email or slack on my phone. The only notifications that appear on my lock screen are texts, calls, and when there’s a new crossword available. Seeing othe
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by turtletontine 2y ago
Far better justification for a rewrite like this is if it eases maintenance, or simplifies building/testing/distribution. Taking an experienced and committed team of C developers with a mature code base, and retraining them to rew
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by turtletontine 2y ago
The galactic and extragalactic science cases (meaning, “stuff in the Milky Way” vs “everything inside the Milky Way”) are actually pretty unrelated here. We actually have quite a good idea about the history of the Milky Way and all the smal
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by turtletontine 2y ago
(Jumping to assume what the original commenter meant:) China is pushing RISC V aggressively, and might be a lot more likely to succeed in making competitively powerful cores than €240M pounds spent in Europe, where money won’t go nearly as
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by turtletontine 2y ago
ARM Holdings is British. Anyone making ARM cores (Apple, Qualcomm, Amazon’s Graviton…) is paying licensing fees to a British company. Arm even tried to cancel Qualcomm’s licensing agreement back in the fall. Using RISC V entirely circumvent
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by turtletontine 2y ago
Not an expert but I’ve heard this too. However - if this IS true, it’s definitely only true for the biggest drives, operating in huge arrays. I’ve been running a btrfs raid10 array of 4TB drives as a personal media and backup server for ove
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by turtletontine 3y ago
I think that’s exactly the problem, the “relatively” natural is still pretty darn awkward and freaky. With gaming VR, you’re not expected to be interacting with people who are co-present at the same time, it makes sense to spend an hour or
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by turtletontine 4y ago
In fairness, the need for 128-bit addressable systems will be when 64 address bits is not enough. That will be long before people are using 2^128 bytes on one system. So doing the calculation with 2^65 bytes would be a more even handed es
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by turtletontine 5y ago
Hmm I doubt it would look like a fisheye. The edges would appear darkened and soft, and there would maybe be extra barrel or pincushion distortion.
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by turtletontine 5y ago
There's a pretty simple reason for this: ef-s lenses are designed for a smaller sensor, so they only need to be sharp for a much smaller area. So you can make lighter and cheaper lenses. Canon doesn't want people putting ef-s lens
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I don't know if this is a breakthrough but... Frankly this looks awful. I think I could handle unrealistic colors but the way they flicker so much frame to frame is really jarring. It's interesting that the algorithm seems to gene
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by turtletontine 5y ago
> Time to retire the CSV? no ♥
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by turtletontine 5y ago
FWIW this: > In education, Google has no infrastructure – and where it does make an impact via Chromebooks, they are dedicated to the student as a student, not home/life chimeras. ... is not true at all in my experience (American Un
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by turtletontine 5y ago
Firefox is not a problem for me, I find the account useful for sending links and syncing the few extensions and settings I use between devices. Pocket is annoying but they do not push it very hard, I changed my default homepage to be clean
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by turtletontine 5y ago
The idea that the debate actually does a disservice to copyleft by relying on the strictest interpretations of copyright is an interesting perspective to me, but the rest of this seems pretty weak. (Caveat that I'm no lawyer.) Copilot

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