CyLith

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by CyLith 4d ago
I see all these comments here dunking on the article, but I have to say, I basically completely agree with all the points the author is making. I think there are different kinds of software engineers, and the author's point of view res
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by CyLith 6d ago
I use Claude Opus 4.8 almost exclusively. I have had fairly good experiences with it. One time it derived an entirely novel simulation method different than anything in literature by combining its knowledge about how problems in other field
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by CyLith 6d ago
I think I'm probably in the minority here, but for my line of work, the software engineering and coding is only a small part of the work. I write simulation software, so a deep understanding of physics, math, and how they can be applie
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by CyLith 12d ago
I'm having it help design a 68k computer similar in spirit to the original Mac (the spirit being a tightly coupled video subsystem that time-shares the CPU bus), but updated with more modern peripherals, like PS/2 and SD cards. It
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by CyLith 12d ago
Because living longer is a huge drain on resources that could be better spent on other things. End of life care is expensive and rarely results in a "good" life for the the life being extended.
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by CyLith 12d ago
A personal data point: I had Claude Opus 4.8 design a fairly textbook circuit that outputs a monochrome image burned in an EEPROM over standard 640x480 VGA using only 74 series logic and GALs. It designed the circuit and GAL code, and I did
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by CyLith 28d ago
This was the single worst thing about working at Google. Every PhD thinks they're smarter than having to do the actual work. Sometimes you just have to do the fucking work.
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by CyLith 1mo ago
I think what people are taking issue with is that the machine is not accessible to everyone; OpenAI and Anthropic have monetary incentive to not only gatekeep the knowledge acquired, but also to destroy the original copies, or make them imp
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by CyLith 1mo ago
That’s funny, when I first learned about the equivalence principle, my first thought was “of course!” I have always found it to be very intuitive. The great leap is being able to frame it that way.
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by CyLith 1mo ago
I know relatively little about the workings of LLMs, but I keep seeing projects like this that run massive MoE models using very modest amounts of RAM, perhaps excessively so. I wonder, is there a way to make the RAM usage tunable? I have a
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by CyLith 2mo ago
The issue I have with all these formally verified numerical algorithms is that, at the end of the day, I need this implemented using actual floating point. It's great that it's verified, but not for the case that is practically me
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by CyLith 2mo ago
I feel like if the logic in git were just a bit more sophisticated, many of these issues wouldn't even arise. Most of these are because someone foolishly (usually me) merged in the wrong direction for convenience's sake, and now I
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by CyLith 2mo ago
These days, I am leaning heavily on Claude to deal with all the git issues that I never wanted to be bothered with. A rebase that can't just fast-forward? That's a job for Claude. A merge conflict that really shouldn't be a p
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by CyLith 3mo ago
Former Google employee here. This is exactly the kind of shit-for-brains action I'd expect from Google executives. Bravo on further dragging your image through the mud.
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by CyLith 3mo ago
This article captures so much of what I have felt but been unable to put into words about GA. I come from a computational physics background, and when translating theory into numerical algorithms, the dimensional analysis and units are very
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by CyLith 3mo ago
I wouldn't trust any engineers I know of with their "taste". At best it's a highly skewed view of the world. At worst, it's outright opposite to genpop.
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by CyLith 3mo ago
You missed the best part: analyzing what to do around knots. There's a skill and artistry to it. Those who are good at it make it look absolutely effortless: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsIFvStf9Oz99GMitW4vD_g
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by CyLith 3mo ago
DABM writes everything in MS Word.
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by CyLith 3mo ago
Optical engineer here. This is what they don't tell you about continuous/transition/progressive bifocals: optically they don't work. The lens design is an overconstrained optimization problem and the solutions they come
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by CyLith 3mo ago
Does this use integer coordinates or floating point coordinates?
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by CyLith 4mo ago
Add to that that they are (at least perceived to be) supporting AI, which the majority of people do not want, and data centers are physical faceless embodiments of big tech corporations, which people are increasingly against.
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by CyLith 4mo ago
Yes. I see the 6 and I think: pretty tall, just a bit taller than me as a baseline. Then the 3 indicates another bit more. At no point am I adding the quantities to achieve a total. It’s two pieces of information in something akin to a bin
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by CyLith 4mo ago
I strive for a “simple” lifestyle not because I believe it will be enjoyable. Quite the opposite. A simple lifestyle is much more laborious, arduous, and mentally taxing in terms of all the minutiae I need to worry about to achieve even mod
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by CyLith 4mo ago
Because I don't want to deal with a hundred of anything, and I don't want to deal with decimal points. I want everything I measure to be near single digit numbers. Hence, inches for common dimensions like a "2x4". I can
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by CyLith 4mo ago
This is really neat, and I think I can use it in some of my projects as a simple front end to physical simulation tools. One question I have: do you have true 3D bindings? I see there is ImPlot3D, but right now I need to render meshes in Op
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by CyLith 5mo ago
This is the single reason I have not upgraded from OS 12.x. Postscript is key to many of my workflows.
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by CyLith 5mo ago
Yes
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by CyLith 5mo ago
And anyone implementing numerical algorithms is thankful for the tremendous amount of thought put into the fp spec. The complexity is worth it and makes the code much safer.
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by CyLith 6mo ago
Perhaps the solution is to rethink the role of the fridge in the kitchen. It could be designed to be a part of a kitchen island, or have cabinets placed above it. In conventional kitchens, a chest does not make sense. But it could be well i
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by CyLith 7mo ago
My house is plastered, and it is substantially more soundproofed than drywalled houses in the neighborhood. It is not a function of the construction method, since my house is stick framed just like my neighbors.

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