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by vidarh 3mo ago
You certainly will have a problem rendering ascii fast in lots of terminals if you keep re-rendering things that haven't changed, though, so I hope that's not what they mean by giving FPS numbers
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by vidarh 3mo ago
The Atari fans showing up does bring up the nostalgia of BBS and Usenet flamewars though. The Atari was so unpopular in my parts that was the only exposure I had to the two of them.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I'm still waiting... I know there's a lot of rose tint involved, but things like ARexx, datatypes, screens, and assigns still feel hopelessly missing. Every time I get a file open dialog without a list of assigns I can also use in
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by vidarh 3mo ago
The Mac hit a completely different market. Nobody I knew got a Mac until after the iMac. Lots had Amigas. In the 80's Mac's were expensive machines for professionals, and while the Amiga due to Commodore's persistent sales an
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Boomer is a tricky term now - it's starting to become a generic term for old people. Personally it still felt like a step backwards when I felt I no longer had a choice but to switch to Linux in '97 or so (I'd used a souped u
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I'm still chasing the idea of recapturing some of that. My file manager is custom (and wildly promitive) because almost everyone has abandoned the idea of a spatial file manager (I don't want a "dogmatic" one that insist
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by vidarh 3mo ago
It doesn't get any more funny when you try to explain something that wasn't funny in the first place. Hence, I can't be bothered to read any of this.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
If I saw something I thought resembled a joke I wouldn't have made the comment.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I love Kimi for some things, but K3 to me struggles with things Opus 4.8 breezes through. Admittedly stuff that is on the more complex side (code generation bugs in a compiler) to the point that after two days of struggle I stopped Kimi and
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Redacting? Is that not just the model using the smudge tool it was given.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Opus doesn't have access to an image model, while ChatGPT does (it's not multi-modal, but it can prompt OpenAI's image model). So Opus by default is forced to write code to generate images, or generate SVG's as text. Tha
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Most of the time when I see an LLM abruptly switching languages it usually continues with something directly related to whatever triggered it. I'm sure there are other failure modes where it may change topics too, just like humans also
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by vidarh 3mo ago
This is very much a philosophical question, and the only reason you're calling it silly instead of giving an actual argument is that it doesn't support your views.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Yes. All the prizes except the peace prize are awarded in Sweden. Norway was in a union with Sweden at the time the prizes were set up, but it's not definitely known why he chose the Norwegian parliament (via the Norwegian Nobel Commit
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Not nearly all prompt injections are by any means that absolute unless starting from the exact same state. Many of them will also work only probabilistically unless you turn temperature to 0 for exactly that reason. And at the same time, wh
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by vidarh 3mo ago
You're misrepresenting what I wrote. I specifically pointed out that I switch languages without intent to do so. When you suggest that is a "superficial analogy" after you were the one pointing out LLMs switching language a
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I agree the term is not particularly useful, at least in as much as people are unable or unwilling to define it. In fact, a "favourite" of mine when people downplay AI ability to reason or question whether it should be called inte
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by vidarh 3mo ago
The Searle's Chinese room thought experiment usually reveals more about those who think it rules out a machine intelligence than it does about AI. It rests on a staunch unwillingness to even consider the possibility that a computationa
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by vidarh 3mo ago
How old does a child need to be before you think they have "human like intelligence"?
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by vidarh 3mo ago
If anything a large proportion of stories about AI in sci fi is about AI failing to understand humans in various ways.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I switch languages "randomly" all the time when I think about something in another one of the languages I know. Some word will trigger it and before I know it I will continue in the other language. In fact just the other day I c
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by vidarh 3mo ago
When my dad died, the funeral mattered to me. But the grave does not. Of course to some it does, but it doesn't take long before everyone it mattered to are dead too. I think it's fine to keep graves for those who cares, but tha
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by vidarh 3mo ago
My English is fine, and I did hand-write my MSc thesis in English, but scientific style writing is very tedious. Personally I don't think I'd even consider writing a paper "by hand" if I were to write another one. There
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I've spent some time on genealogy, and really beyond grandparents and maybe great grandparents it's mostly curiosity and for the interesting stories, and I only care about the graves to the extent that it makes solving the puzzles
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by vidarh 3mo ago
The article links to a source describing medicinal use.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
And dentures: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33085031
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Closing future models won't take away our access to the open weight ones.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I had Claude prototype one, but it's not complete or public yet...
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by vidarh 3mo ago
An X11 server is rarely on the hot path for rendering. Most X11 apps does most of the rendering to shared memory buffers themselves.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Yes, you're right. There are other tedious bits too, like all of the details around exactly how to propagate which events, but the protocol encoding is certainly one of the most tedious bits.

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