MontagFTB

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Tell HN: NVIDIA's Acquisition of HuggingFace was for $HuggingFace
43 points by MontagFTB 13d ago|4 comments
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by MontagFTB 1mo ago
Their infrastructure is buckling under increased demand from AI generated code. Imagine the software development lifecycle is a river blocked by several dams- necessary processes that also slow the water’s volume and speed. Writing the code
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by MontagFTB 1mo ago
I think I’ve seen that movie.
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by MontagFTB 1mo ago
> it just reads as more evidence that LLMs are better at replacing leadership than anybody else. I believe this counts as having “more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of colleagues”
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by MontagFTB 2mo ago
In a 30M+ LOC repo we blew out Qwen3.6’s context thinking about a code review. This was via direct call to model. Do harnesses facilitate better context management, or is there something else to accommodate its smaller context window?
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by MontagFTB 2mo ago
I have heard of some high school classes reverting to typewriters. So your suggestion holds some weight.
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by MontagFTB 2mo ago
TLDR proof of care from the article: a low bandwidth process (e.g., from handwriting to tattooing it on your body) that you voluntarily put your words through to convey their level of personal importance. Some of his examples were tongue in
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by MontagFTB 2mo ago
This article was tremendous. My dad and I rebuilt an old GPW as my car in high school. His brother bought it as his car for high school a generation earlier. This article and the video are a love letter to that old car- a quirky, heavy, und
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by MontagFTB 3mo ago
Do you have links to what you found? That solution sounds plausible in this case.
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by MontagFTB 3mo ago
iPhone Dynamic Crease (tm)
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
Yes, that’s a great video. The Mythbusters used the same model to understand Bay Area current flows during their Alcatraz escape attempt episode.
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
Multiple articles mention a vaccine for the Zaire strain but not this one. Is it possible to use one for the other? Does the existence of one make it easier to develop another?
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
These changes were part of the Beta program. As far as I am aware the response there was not on the same level as this blog post.
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
Thank you. Differing opinions of Adobe aside, you sound like the kind of engineer I'd enjoy a beer with.
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
Thank you for the constructive feedback. I agree power users are a "keystone species" and improving their workflows will benefit everyone. Improving existing workflows without disrupting them is extremely hard to do, and often &qu
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
There is a lot of effort put in to making the application usable, no question. At the same time, we have added a litany of new features and tools since Photoshop 4, many of which I would describe as extremely technically challenging.
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
Well it depends on how you define it. We have done several re-skinnings. This migration is a transition from one framework to another, which we’ve never done before. The reasons to leave the old framework lie on several axes (eng, design, p
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
In a word: they were. We do use Photoshop (though not to the level or extent of most users) and noticed the regressions. Shipping software is in perennial tension between getting it perfect and getting it out the door. Going forward, we wou
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by MontagFTB 4mo ago
Hey all- I am Foster Brereton and Principal Scientist for this UI effort. Suffice it to say, the article and this thread have had their impact on the people behind the software. We are aware we got a lot of things wrong. As the primary tech
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by MontagFTB 5mo ago
Visually the results are very compelling! It also gives an at-a-glance intuition about the image that the bar-style options fail to convey. I am a fan.
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by MontagFTB 6mo ago
Could it be a symptom of high altitude oxygen deprivation?
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by MontagFTB 6mo ago
Putting code with side effects into an assert is asking for trouble. Compile with NDEBUG set and the effects mysteriously disappear! Anything beyond an equality expression or straight boolean should be avoided.
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by MontagFTB 7mo ago
It is entirely possible a Rust port could have caught previously unknown memory safety issues. Furthermore, a Rust port that looks and feels like C++ may be peppered with unsafe calls to the point where the ROI on the port is greatly reduce
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by MontagFTB 7mo ago
Before preaching it to others, the writing of a homily or sermon first needs to affect the heart of the one delivering it. Such heart-work is exceedingly difficult if not impossible with AI.
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by MontagFTB 7mo ago
Any word on how much more memory safe the implementation is? If passing a previous test suite is the criteria for success, what has changed, really? Are there previous memory safety tests that went from failing to passing? I am very interes
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by MontagFTB 8mo ago
> We do [cubic curve fitting] all the time in image processing, and it works very well. It would probably work well for audio as well, although it's not used -- not in the same form, anyway -- in these applications. Is there a reaso
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by MontagFTB 9mo ago
We saw these is Ravenna
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by MontagFTB 9mo ago
What, no Doom running on Voyager 2?
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by MontagFTB 10mo ago
C++’s name mangling scheme handles some things like namespaces and overloading, but it does not account for other settings that can affect the ABI layer of the routine, like compile time switches or optimization level.
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by MontagFTB 10mo ago
If the Standard has anything to say about compatibility between different language versions, I doubt many developers know those details. This is breeding ground for ODR violations, as you’re likely using compilers with different output (as

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