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by bla3 5d ago
This sounds roughly right to me, except for "maintainability". In my experience, agents really don't like deleting code unless you explicitly ask for it. If you're not careful, you end up with new better implementations
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by bla3 17d ago
If you're reading this and you're put off by the "uses an LLM", don't be. This is not a low-effort video, quite the opposite. This is one of the best YouTube videos I have ever seen.
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by bla3 1mo ago
Mirrors my experience: LLMs are really good at optimizing, better than most humans. But also, they tend to not reach absolute peak performance where people made an effort to optimize something. Since most problems see fairly little optimiza
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by bla3 3mo ago
> I built one, by porting Boehm’s engine. > It’s 2026, so I didn’t hand-write the port. I directed Opus 4.8 to translate the source line by line into Swift I wish I could filter out stuff like this. Cool work by Hans Boehm, but what&#
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by bla3 3mo ago
This is the mindset that gives you Java-Style GUIs.
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by bla3 3mo ago
I don't think they trust Gemini as they run that on-device or on-site, on Apple's own servers. See also https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
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by bla3 4mo ago
I love the recently added "In Response to Hacker News" section.
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by bla3 5mo ago
> "can't make 9 babies in a month" It's "9 women can't make a baby in one month".
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by bla3 6mo ago
I like to think everyone came to the conclusion that it would strengthen the piece if most comments on it appear to miss the point and are slightly robotic.
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by bla3 7mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/how-to-downgrade-fro... describes how to downgrade.
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by bla3 8mo ago
Since then, Swift also grew excellent C++ interop, something Rust doesn't have at all.
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by bla3 8mo ago
It's a shame that JpegXL doesn't have a freely available spec.
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by bla3 10mo ago
If they use Rust for new code and C++ changes are all in old code, this could be explained just by older code being more risky to change.
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by bla3 1y ago
There was a ton of backlash when Glass launched. Search for "glassholes" to find articles on that topic from back then.
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by bla3 1y ago
Why do Hunyuan, OpenAI 4o and Gwen get a pass for the octopus test? They don't cover "each tentacle", just some. And midjourney covers 9 of 8 arms with sock puppets.
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by bla3 1y ago
I think that might be true of the language committee, but there's presumably a huge crowd of people with existing c++ code bases that would like to have a different path forward than just hoping that the committee changes priorities.
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by bla3 1y ago
The "Possible routes forward" section in the linked post mentions this suggestion, and why the author doesn't love it.
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by bla3 1y ago
Sounds like they compile rust to wasm, so regular wasm instead of WasmGC is probably enough for them.
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by bla3 1y ago
WebP lossless is close to state of the art and widely available. It's also not widely used. The takeaway seems to be that absolute best performance for lossless compression isn't that important, or at least it won't get you w
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by bla3 1y ago
That's a critique of `async`, not of `using` though, right? This doesn't seem to make functions more colored than they already are as far as I understand.
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by bla3 1y ago
In my experience they're not great with mathy code for example. I had a function that did subdivision of certain splines and had some of the coefficients wrong. I pasted my function into these reasoning models and asked "does this
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by bla3 1y ago
How does this compare to https://jcgt.org/published/0011/03/04/paper.pdf ? It seems superficially pretty similar.
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by bla3 1y ago
The pictures on the wall change too.
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by bla3 1y ago
> The AI Futures Project is a small research group forecasting the future of AI, funded by charitable donations and grants Would be interested who's paying for those grants. I'm guessing it's AI companies.
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by bla3 1y ago
Exactly. New image models are always exciting for two weeks or so. New LLM models are useful until the next,. better model comes out. Which probably is just a small integer multiple of two weeks, but hey!
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by bla3 2y ago
Because it leaks the device type of your messaging partner.
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by bla3 2y ago
Really shows how apple is only into privacy when it's self-serving.
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by bla3 2y ago
Similar to hixie's https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...
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by bla3 2y ago
I wonder if we're starting to see the effects of the mass exodus a while ago.
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by bla3 2y ago
It's possible, but not in a PDF. PDFs support only a turing incomplete subset of PostScript, because PDF's designers thought that having a turing complete language in your document format would have performance implications. (Late

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