Intralexical

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by Intralexical 12d ago
Yeah, this is crazy. It's literally a cliché for most programming languages that it's never the compiler's fault. Granted a lot of the Julia bugs seem to be in the standard/core libraries, but still. Even if the bugs are
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by Intralexical 12d ago
There is no equivalence here. The Julia bugs were real. They were reported, accepted, and fixed. The Python bugs you linked to are fake LLM slop, see my other comment right above/below this one. [0] If anyone really believes the Python
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by Intralexical 12d ago
Most (all?) aren't bugs by any stretch of the imagination, no. Let's go over the first 5. 1. random.choices(['a','b','c'], weights=[-1,5,1], k=10000) Negative weight on 'a' silently
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by Intralexical 12d ago
Corner cases like `prod([Int8(100), Int8(100)]) != prod((Int8(100), Int8(100)))`? Both returned integers, but the left was 10000 while the right was 16. [0] Which, apparently, sat in the standard library for almost four years after it was i
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by Intralexical 12d ago
That reads to me more like a long-winded example of a Julia user refusing to take correctness issues seriously, and instead using an LLM to self-soothe by deflecting onto other projects: > I think there’s also a mindset split, some peopl
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
It's not the exterior facade that people have an issue with.
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
> This was my first exposure to any kind of outdoor plumbing, I'd never touched PVC before. I find it telling that the highest praise for LLMs comes from people using it for something where they admittedly have very little domain kn
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
I've noticed these big tech companies use the word "democratize" when they do something that looks more like commoditizing. Flooding a market with supply consolidates their own power, by suppressing other economic actors&#x27
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
That seems closer to addiction symptoms than joy.
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
The systems used for LLMs are several times more power-hungry than traditional servers. Like, 50-100kW per rack of B200s.
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
...I don't think you can declare that something is a non-issue without having spent at least some resources to determine whether it is?
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
I'd be willing to bet almonds bring more joy to more people in a single year than AI data centres ever will.
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
I agree energy use is the more concerning issue, while water has probably caught more press because it's more tangible. But there's no getting around thermodynamics. That "wasted energy" is dissipated using large amounts
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
The Californian almond industry has had over 100 years to develop. The AI data centre industry has had 4.
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
What a strange fantasy. I suppose everything is okay as long as it's done inside of a building.
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by Intralexical 1mo ago
Nope. It would suggest that new viruses could not spontaneously appear from abiotic matter, because they'd be outcompeted by existing viruses. Which may well be true. We don't know where exactly viruses came from, but one
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
This is concerning to hear. What do Protobufs accomplish, that requires them to be a constantly moving target?
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
> Virt manager drives me crazy because it hides the VM files in its own directory with permissions that aren't yours forcing you to use sudo to manually manage your own fucking vm files. I just checked my `~/.local/share&#
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
> By... plugging and unplugging antenna elements? No. The antenna elements are always plugged in the same way. By sampling/introducing the signal at a different physical position on the lens (or multiple positions simultaneously), y
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
Would capabilities enable granting access to specific programs and not just users? Like using AppArmor profiles. So QEMU, gVisor, Docker etc. can still use KVM for unprivileged users, but malware wouldn't be able to access it directly.
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
Because if /dev/kvm isn't accessible to unprivileged users, then people will start using `sudo` to run anything involving virtualization, which would be much worse for security overall.
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
If you monitored all the inputs simultaneously instead of switching, you could make a low-tech radio-wavelength camera. Presumably with less SNR per "pixel" than you'd get from monitoring just one input though.
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by Intralexical 2mo ago
It does do directional steering. No active array components or physical movement are needed. > If the output ports are connected to individual antennas in an antenna array, this allows shaping the beam in different directions by switchin
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
Plus heat dissipation is a limiting factor, which scales with area.
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
> Literally none of the examples of large companies using it in the comment I replied to are game companies or using it for game debug menus. Literally all of them are using it as part of non-user-facing debug tools for 3D graphics: h
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
Looks like the rendering functions used in the demo are doing antialiasing without font hinting?
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
Additionally the developer of this library is active in the indie game scene, so "twelfth member of the team" is hardly a relevant issue. I find it so unfortunate how many of the criticisms raised here are mooted by simply glancin
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
> Any project that uses Dear Imgui for end-user applications has already made a bad design choice. Note that any project using Dear ImGui will presumably have read the README for it, the second paragraph of which starts: > Dear ImGui
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
> I guess a lot of folks consider games exclusively for folks without those accessibility needs, so maybe that's why something like Dear ImGui can live for years in thousands of projects without anyone complaining about accessibilit
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by Intralexical 3mo ago
> You've cherry picked a very specific example that is designed to run in 3d engines. This post is about a minimal immediate mode library made by a game dev, most suitable for debug menus. It's unreasonable to treat it as a p

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