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by zephen 5mo ago
There's portability between systems, which as you note, has ever-diminishing returns. Then there's portability between compilers, which, as the article notes, glibc is also completely hostile to (except for anointed compilers)
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by zephen 5mo ago
The problem with FPGA builds is that the search space is ginormous, and repeated optimizations are tried in order to, e.g. make it meet the circuit timing requirements. So, depending on exactly what you are doing it might take many hours
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by zephen 5mo ago
Speculation: 1) This could actually be an attempt to gain more revenue from big customers that have users who use the free version to test that code can synthesize and run unit tests (by pretending to use smaller parts), and then only use t
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by zephen 5mo ago
My choice of wording was not an accident.
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by zephen 5mo ago
So many do, starting with the supreme court lately.
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by zephen 5mo ago
I'm not OP, but Matthew Kacsmaryk is definitely an activist judge, no matter what the fuck Fox news thinks of him.
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by zephen 5mo ago
"Don't roll your own" is perfectly sane advice... For those not trying to implement the dark patterns that enshittify the web. If you don't roll your own back button behavior, you've missed the opportunity to show a
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by zephen 5mo ago
Anybody paying attention would know that there are several activist judges in Texas, feeding into the activist 5th circuit -- the only appeals court that has been very often overturned by the current supreme court for being too conservative
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by zephen 5mo ago
"I'm going to hassle you because my brethren have hassled you before." Yup, sounds about right.
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by zephen 5mo ago
New improved LMGTFY with radio buttons to allow selection of "Let me gemini that for you" coming in 3... 2... 1...
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by zephen 5mo ago
Humans. Can't live with 'em, can't serve 'em with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
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by zephen 5mo ago
> What a huge trap if you expect it to correct you with a semblence of objective reality. Yes, as a few cases have shown, people can go off the deep end, and the LLM goes right there along with them. The LLM has no understanding of objec
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by zephen 5mo ago
> it cheats at verification. Even with specific instructions how to verify, it still cheats. As I responded to another commenter, as a prediction engine, the LLM is trying to predict what you want. It, at one level, correctly predicts t
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by zephen 5mo ago
It is a well-known trope that LLMs are prediction engines. But, to get the best out of them, you really have to consider what that means in the small. They are predicting, to a first order of approximation, what you want or expect them to
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by zephen 5mo ago
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that might lead one to believe that suspicions of malfeasance are never warranted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
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by zephen 5mo ago
My takeaway from the article is to stay away from wasm, because the official testsuite is dogshit that doesn't even make sure that you popped the same number of parameters that were pushed.
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by zephen 5mo ago
It's always been passive-aggressive. But, if done properly (e.g. vetting that the top link is actually useful, after basically using the same words in the query that you were being asked), it's a genuine reminder that google exist
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by zephen 5mo ago
There are multiple possibilities for why someone might take quotes completely out of context. The most charitable of those, in terms of evaluation of the capacity of someone to learn to stop doing that, involves bad faith. Most of the res
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by zephen 5mo ago
Yeah, like yesterday, maybe?
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by zephen 5mo ago
Not at all. A lmgtfy link can be useful , even if rude. It's teaching someone to fish. Sharing an LLM output is simultaneously pretentious and unhelpful. To the OP's point, some might not consider it rude, but I'd rather so
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by zephen 5mo ago
And yet, here you are, predictably defending your interpretation. Why? Go forth and do something improbable!
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by zephen 5mo ago
That which is not prohibited is mandatory. Hop to it!
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by zephen 5mo ago
Right. He founded that magazine that gave you a literal physical headache when you tried to read the paper version.
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by zephen 5mo ago
> This is a good point. No, it's not. > It does not work to criticize someone's authority... The article is patronizingly prescriptive. The comment is a warning that the article is patronizingly prescriptive. > The parent
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by zephen 5mo ago
Death is a certainty, not an alternative.
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by zephen 5mo ago
This is rich. "Assume good faith" and "Please not preach violence" in the same comment, when I was doing nothing of the sort.
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by zephen 5mo ago
> Have LLMs ruined our ability to think abstractly? No. Well, maybe. You'd have to ask someone who uses them. > It's practically a trope that taking the common, average path in life is not for everyone. Exactly. It's
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by zephen 5mo ago
> Sadly people are fulfilling the very probable nerd stereotype of aggressively misunderstanding philosophy and then trashing on it. Sadly people are fulfilling the very probable dilettante stereotype of acting like pretentious crap actu
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by zephen 5mo ago
> The post in effect is about a choice of one's career... You do a huge disservice to the author. He mentions much more than that, just in that one sentence. Again: > Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unli
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by zephen 5mo ago
Well, let's start with the second sentence: > Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make. Now, I ask you, is that really what I want from my kid

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