Amadiro

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by Amadiro 10mo ago
That's a quite different thing, OpenAI has billions of USD/year cash flow, and when you have that there's many many potential way to achieve profitability on different time horizons. It's not a situation of chance but a
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by Amadiro 11mo ago
It's also because around 20 years ago there was a "reset" when we switched from x86 to x86_64. When AMD introduced x86_64, it made a bunch of the previously optional extension (SSE up to a certain version etc) a mandatory par
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by Amadiro 1y ago
In my experiments claude4 opus generated by far the best code (for my taste and purposes) but it's also a pretty expensive model. I think I used up $40 in one evening of frantic vibe-coding.
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by Amadiro 1y ago
It's even worse than that, because the way they extract the causal link is just a regex, so "vaccines > autism" because "Even though the article was fraudulent and was retracted, 1 in 4 parents still believe vaccines
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by Amadiro 1y ago
Also when you visit most japanese websites you can see this phenomenon. I've read an explanation once that this is because culturally, japanese people perceive a wealth of information and choice as being re-assuring and trustworthy, wh
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by Amadiro 1y ago
In my view, there is a major flaw in his argument is his distinction into pure engineering and science: > We can make a rough distinction between pure engineering and science. There is no sharp boundary, but it’s a useful first approxima
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by Amadiro 1y ago
Is there any strong reason to use GeoParquet instead of straight up parquet if all I'm interested in is storing and operating on lat/lons? I'm curious if it compresses them better or something like that. I see lots of people
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by Amadiro 1y ago
Sure but all pre-made, battle-tested tree datastructures you'd use in production in all languages already come with some form of iterator that you can just for-loop over, so the original articles point is still moot.
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by Amadiro 2y ago
I think figuring out the fastest version of a shader at runtime is very non-trivial, I'm not aware of any game or engine that can do this. I think it'd be possible in principle, because most APIs (D3D, GL, Vulkan etc) expose perfo
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by Amadiro 8y ago
No need to scrape anything when you can just subpoena. That is the business palantir is in.
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by Amadiro 12y ago
It looks more like Desktop GL might move to mobile devices soon. nvidia seems to be pushing really hard in that direction. But it'll remain to be seen where things go.
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Eh, a lot of the recent articles on hackernews about GL have been fairly low-quality and were badly researched (like the guy who complained about timer queries blocking, because he blatantly didn't understand how CPU/GPU communica
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by Amadiro 12y ago
No, that would make no sense whatsoever. You seem to be somewhat misinformed about GL... * OpenGL core profile is quite clean and lean. Both apple and intel have already decided not to implement OpenGL compatibility (where all the cruft sit
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by Amadiro 12y ago
I use chromium with a 5760*1080 resolution, and I frequently have > 150 tabs open across 3 browser windows, and I really have no complaints. I also occasionally peruse or develop WebGL/ASM.js/emscripten applications, so I suppo
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by Amadiro 12y ago
It's a matter of perspective -- to someone who has taken a university class on lambda calculus/on logic that had a chapter on lambda calculus (e.g. as part of a M.Sc. in mathematical logic or CS), anything in RWH would probably se
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Yeah, I'm aware that some projects that apply computer science to pure mathematics (in various forms like Kenzo/CAT, PLEX (not CPLEX, that's for applied mathematics/finance/etc), agda, coq, GAP, ...) exist, but I do
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by Amadiro 12y ago
AFAIK dynamic languages have gone away from compiling to native code because there is almost no benefit to it, if all you're doing is basically unrolling your interpreter into a unnecessarily huge binary. Methods like tracing JITs are
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Category theory is pretty popular IME, I've seen lots of mathematician talk about it. It seems fairly popular especially with algebraic geometrists and algebraic topologists. OTOH I've never seen any mathematician use (perhaps w
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by Amadiro 12y ago
When I visited the university of Göttingen, it was everywhere. Students also seem to have it adopted as the drink of choice.
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by Amadiro 12y ago
A isn't really very low-hanging though, rewriting the build-system for something as complex as the kernel would be quite the undertaking even just from a technical standpoint, let alone that you now have to change thousands of people
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Your anecdote may tell us something about the "typical grandma end-user" situation, but it is totally irrelevant for situations that arise in large "enterprise" IT facilities, where the admins set everything up for you (
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by Amadiro 12y ago
> Chrome is not immune to bad JS and will also slow down your system until the single tab is killed/crashes. That's true, but with like 8-or-so cores I don't really care or even notice that much (if I notice some tab is ea
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by Amadiro 12y ago
They use them less because they are less practical and due to their purity are unable to fulfill peoples (real, rather than theoretical) requirements. Measuring LOC required to implement a task is meaningless. If you implement a task in pyt
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Developing USB drivers is actually totally fantastically easy nowadays with libusb(x). You can more-or-less just pretend your USB device is a server you talk to through a socket. No need to even write a single line of kernel-code, you can d
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by Amadiro 12y ago
And just what makes you think making a purely functional language 'lambdacious' will not a few years later result in a book 'Industrial strength lambdacious'? You're falling for the trap of thinking that pursuing a
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Check if your iMac defaults to software rendering for some reason.
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by Amadiro 12y ago
Absolutely not, with where the SDK is currently at. I've tried quite a few games and demos with the current SDK (the one that is publicly available,) and several of them included text in menus et cetera. It was always an absolute eyest
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by Amadiro 14y ago
It still hurts everybody, because it bloats your files with unnecessary opcodes and forces the JIT to sift through it and optimize it away, instead of spending its time to do useful optimizations. It might only seem like a little turd on th
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by Amadiro 14y ago
If the hardware isn't the bottleneck, you can simply make your compression/encoding algorithms more complex, because 10% saved traffic is probably much more valuable than 10% saved CPU cycles (remember on phones traffic means a lot of energ
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by Amadiro 14y ago
You need to write lots and lots of code to write a successful application in any language, really...

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