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by billisonline 5mo ago
> If tpu's actually breakout as a viable alternative over the next few years Why haven't they broken out yet, I wonder, if they're more efficient for inference and LLM costs are now weighted towards inference over training
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by billisonline 8mo ago
I assumed that too and wrote him off. I’ve since changed my opinion, especially in light of this blog post: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/18/how-...
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by billisonline 9mo ago
"Tons of power generation?" Perhaps we will go in that direction (as OpenAI projects), but it assumes the juice will be worth the squeeze, i.e., that scaling laws requiring much more power for LLM training and/or inference wi
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by billisonline 9mo ago
An engine performs a simple mechanical operation. Chess is a closed domain. An AI that could fully automate the job of these new hires, rather than doing RAG over a knowledge base to help onboard them, would have to be far more general than
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by billisonline 1y ago
I would argue an "AI doomer" is a negatively charged type of evangelist. What the doomer and the positive evangelist have in common is a massive overestimation of (current-gen) AI's capabilities.
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by billisonline 2y ago
“More specifically, from JetBrains, the makers of the world-famous IntelliJ IDEA IDE, whose primary claim to fame is its lovely orange, green, purple and black 'Darcula' theme” This must be a bad attempt at a joke, right? Darcula
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by billisonline 2y ago
Cf. the "Minus World" in Super Mario Bros. for the NES. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus_World
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by billisonline 2y ago
> Ever seen an engineer do a loop and make n+1 REST calls for resources? It happens more often then you think because they don't want to have to create a backend ticket to add related resources to a call. > With internal REST for
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by billisonline 5y ago
> we accidentally created an infinite event loop between two Lambdas. Racked up a several-hundred-thousand dollar bill in a couple of hours May I ask how you dealt with this? Were you able to explain it to Amazon support and get some of
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by billisonline 5y ago
> If using the language's standard libraries is "absolutely doing it wrong" You are being deliberately obtuse. Other comments in this thread offer correct examples of using PDO to avoid SQL injection. I didn’t mean it was
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by billisonline 5y ago
I'm shocked no one else gave this answer earlier in the thread. If you're using PDO directly in 2021, you're absolutely doing it wrong. You don't need to use all of Laravel, or even all of Eloquent for that matter. If yo
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by billisonline 6y ago
I would put Laravel/PHP against anything else out there right now. Based on my (albeit limited) experiences with Node.js and Java/SpringBoot, I would choose Laravel for the vast majority of applications.
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Ray Desktop Debugging for PHP(laravel-news.com)
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by billisonline 6y ago
> TypeScript support for Vue was not ideal I was surprised to hear this. Is this still true for Vue 3?
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by billisonline 6y ago
Yeah, the $ sigil for variables is a historical curiosity, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere. It would be an unacceptable BC break for codebases that have implicitly relied on this “two namespaces” behavior
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by billisonline 6y ago
PHP’s type system has improved (and continues to improve) by leaps and bounds. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24607891 Also the Laravel framework for PHP has the most Github stars of any server-si
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by billisonline 6y ago
> Should it be expected that all programmers use these text editors and have access to these tools? If they don't have access, then the tools ought to be standardized to the point where they can be integrated into any editor. The La
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by billisonline 6y ago
Don't forget, much of that effort has now trickled down into the PHP language itself. We've long had scalar types for function parameters and return values, but with 7.4 and 8.0 we've added union types[1], nullable types[2],
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by billisonline 6y ago
> Types are meant to document code. Without the annotations, you can't look at code and know what is going on With the rise of VSCode IntelliSense/JetBrains code inspection, do you believe this is still true today? The programm
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by billisonline 6y ago
"I've yet to see [React] used seriously at a BigCo" you realize Facebook a) sponsors its development and b) just rewrote their core product in it?
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by billisonline 6y ago
You don't need OOP to do anything! But in the state machine example, it provides a coherent and readily understandable metaphor (object modifies its own private state; callers can tell it what to do but not how ) for the task at han
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by billisonline 6y ago
Can PHP running in WASM access the DOM? I know there’s a .NET project that does something similar