virtualritz

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by virtualritz 9mo ago
What people do not understand is that this really depends on what language you target. So if I write Rust then you sound like an AI hype booster but if I write TS or Python maybe not so much. From my experience Opus is only good at writing
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by virtualritz 9mo ago
TLDR; Not only is the new choice of font unfortunate at best -- the formatting reveals another level of amateurishness so very unbefitting to the ernestness one might assume the sender of the letter wanting to convey. ;) Basic typography: a
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by virtualritz 10mo ago
I just found out that https://annas-archive.li/ is masked by my German internet provider (SIM.de/Drillisch). I usually use a VPN but I had it switched off temp. to watch Fallout (Prime Video won't let you watch th
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by virtualritz 10mo ago
As someone who has written C and C++ for 35 years and Rust for a decade now, the last five years professionally, I don't see the point. Even when I need what C does "well" from the author's pov I can just wrap my code in
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by virtualritz 10mo ago
> One practical problem I ran into early on is that Google Maps is surprisingly bad at categorising cuisines. A huge share of restaurants are labelled vaguely (“restaurant”, “cafe”, “meal takeaway”) It's not only that; cuisines are
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by virtualritz 10mo ago
Yeah, and because of this for example Claude Code is down too because the auth goes through CF. F*cking marvelus, the decentralized web ...
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by virtualritz 10mo ago
Typing any letter into the search field makes it loose focus. So every letter typed there requires another click first to re-focus.
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
There is is, Spielberg spelled wrong as "Speilberg" four (all) times in the article. Does anyone know why Americans do this regularly, swapping i and e especially in words of German origin?
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
I remember a co-student of mine asking me in, probably some time around 1993, I was studying in Hamburg: Hey, I have a ticket for Björk in Grosse Freiheit this week, I paid 20 bucks, can't go, want it for 15? Me: Who is Björk? Whatever
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
For everyone who is upset about the price tag: this is a wealth-signaling product. Like a Hermès handbag. Apple is not a luxury brand but it's close enough with some of its products that it can get away with a price like this on a prod
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
> [...] I'm using Opus 4.1 which is much better but seems to have much lower usage limits than before Sonnet 4.5 was released [...] Yes, it's down from 40h/week to 3-5h/week on Max plan, effectively. A real bummer. Se
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
Curious that this omits Opus. Opus 4.1 beats Sonnet 4.5 and Codex for me still in any coding tasks. In planning it's slighly behind Codex but only slightly. Caveat: I do almost exclusively Rust (computer graphics).
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
I would really like to understand where that "sometimes" is, nowadays. RGB just means that color is expressed as a triplet of specific wavelengths. But what is red? And what does red = 1.0 mean w/o context (aka primaries &amp
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
RGB is a color model[1], not a color space[2]. Note that the headline gets this wrong but the page linked to gets this right. sRGB or Rec2020 or ACEScg etc. are color spaces with known primaries and a known whitepoint. This is not nit-picky
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by virtualritz 11mo ago
> Surely dithering is good enough to display 10-bit colour on a non-10-bit monitor with good colour. Indeed, but most software does not do this. It's not on people's minds. When people hear dithering they think of palette dithe
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by virtualritz 1y ago
len() is also returning int instead of uint/uint64 in Go. I do not use Go but ran into this when I had to write a Go wrapper for some Rust stuff the other day. I was baffled.
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by virtualritz 1y ago
When you say Claude Code, what model do you refer to? CC with Opus still outperforms Codex (gpt-5-codex) for me for anything I do (Rust, computer graphics-related). However, Anthropic restricted Opus use for Max plan users 10 days or so ago
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by virtualritz 1y ago
Does anyone have a clone of the GH repo shared in the original article? It seems to have disappeared from GH.
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by virtualritz 1y ago
Indeed. In English it is an em-dash. Not brackeded by spaces, although you should bracket by thin spaces to make sure you get some separation, optically. And line breaks in apps that are unaware this is a separator. In many other languages
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by virtualritz 1y ago
These are 'en' dashes. Myself and and other people who care about (micro)typography have been using them since forever. Presumably the author is one of them. Or they simply use a text editing or blogging software that takes care o
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by virtualritz 1y ago
I'm doing computer graphics code, 2D, 3D, all CPU (not GPU) and VFX related. It's a niche topic for sure. Often relate to research papers that come without code. I.e. I can tell from the generated code on this vs. other 'topi
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by virtualritz 1y ago
> Everyone believes their task requires no less than Opus it seems after all. I have solid evidence that it does. I have been using Opus daily, locally and on Terragonlabs for Rust work since June (on Max plan) and now, since a bit more
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by virtualritz 1y ago
I tried both and they're mostly useless for what I do (Rust, computer graphics). But so is Sonnet 4.5. Best "Opus replacement" so far is using Codex for doing the thinking and writing the code which Sonnet 4.5 then goes over
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by virtualritz 1y ago
See also this reddit thread where Anthropic have confirmed this policy change: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1nvnafs/update_on...
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Opus 4.1 12× Reduced on Max Plan, Sonnet 4.5 Considered Lagging(github.com)
8 points by virtualritz 1y ago|3 comments
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by virtualritz 1y ago
So I was using Opus exclusively (Max plan) to write Rust since June. CC switched to Sonnet 4.5 by default yesterday, I'm just very unimpressed. It seems like a considerable regression. Probably this is related to me using it to write R
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by virtualritz 1y ago
> Well, first, this a purposefully contrived example [...] So you are saying that (a) I made this up and (b) intentionally so. How so? I am always flabbergasted when people make such statements. You know nothing of my use of Python. I wo
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by virtualritz 1y ago
There are no truths but your opinion in this case runs counter of what 35 years developing software have taught me. Obviously, I may be an outlier. Some crank who's just smitten by the proposal of spending his time writing code instead
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by virtualritz 1y ago
So in 2025, in Python, if I depend on two packages. A and B, and they both depend on different, API-incompatible or behavior-incompatible (or both) versions of C, that won't be an issue? That's not my experience and e.g. uv hasn&#
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by virtualritz 1y ago
This looks juicy! :) @mindbrix does it blend colors in linear space/are colors linearized internally?

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