drbig

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by drbig 10d ago
Strikes a practical chord or two: 1. "You need to have taste (so: experience) to do DRY right". Same chunk of code more than once, so natural/expected behavior is to export to a helper... Aaaand the now introduced coupling is
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by drbig 10d ago
> This time last year, it was still unclear if AI could develop their own free will or even have true fluid intelligence. Both of these questions are now clearly answered. Answered how? -> Do you, as a person, can tell me when your &q
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by drbig 4mo ago
Thank you for sharing! This is inspiring. Cooking is this sort of an activity that is simple enough to not be overwhelming but also complex enough to be very interesting. Both in practice and in modelling :-)
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by drbig 4mo ago
And in case you are elsewhere... In Poland it's on the 26th, so hey buy some appropriate flowers or other gift while you have the time!
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by drbig 5mo ago
Great through-history write-up! Thank you. > That is one of the great ironies of modern Open Source. The distributed version control system won, and then the world standardized on one enormous centralized service for hosting it. Cycles e
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by drbig 5mo ago
> The example is supposed to illuminate the limits of ppp or gdp adjustment. ... Yes, but that's like exemplifying the value of an actual slice of bread vs bitcoin to someone who is hungry. Macroeconomic numbers may have an impact o
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by drbig 5mo ago
As much as the notion of "Purchasing Power" is <macro>economic, thus perhaps having a greater chance of being related to reality, I've been wondering if - and how - could these long-term measures account for greater div
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by drbig 6mo ago
The most interesting is the realization that if the LLM's input is only the output of a professional (human), then by definition the LLM cannot mimic the process the (human) professional applied to get from whatever input they had to p
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by drbig 7mo ago
Pro-tip I only realized later when making much bigger ones: it's worth to pay attention to the "grain", that is the orientation of the corrugations. Find it hard to describe, but they should go "perpendicular to the axis
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by drbig 7mo ago
I do a lot of free-standing "holders" from industrial (5 ply) cardboard and hot glue. Surprisingly sturdy! Made a video about this too: https://youtu.be/s-aNW3h15K0 - all of these are still in use and I made more
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by drbig 8mo ago
Thanks for the nightmare fuel! ... These things should have a warning label.
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by drbig 8mo ago
Yes. In fact I even made a video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdbfPa1L6JQ (shameless self-plug, yes).
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by drbig 8mo ago
An approach very close to one I've been thinking about lately. My three cents: compact the journal when its size exceeds the actual data size. With thresholds or other knobs; with the point being the initial load time should be directl
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by drbig 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/xeAWu
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by drbig 8mo ago
As a sysadmin I'm very familiar with `makepkg`, its config file and the fact that sooner or later one will need both `clang` and `gcc`, because they're equivalent only in theory ;-) But as I maintain only a library of pre-build(-o
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by drbig 8mo ago
> The ALPM project arose from the need for more clearly specifying the interfaces, as well as providing bindings and tools in a memory-safe programming language. Whose need? As an admin and a user I kindly ask: why? what for? `pacman` wh
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by drbig 8mo ago
Because doing all the driving, decoding and serial comms pretty much required a computer anyway, so the most sensible approach was to use what they already had in supply. Also, find it very difficult to find this newsworthy - sorta like bei
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by drbig 9mo ago
As someone who grew up with Amiga... I find it amazing these boards still keep coming (X1000, X5000... anyone?) - they have always been insanely expensive for specs that are decade(s) old, all in the name of... really no idea what beyond &q
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by drbig 9mo ago
Lers of Spoil: this is about a NES game ;-) Pretty cool still, especially if one's into reverse engineering.
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by drbig 11mo ago
The point is that we should acknowledged those "cheats" came with their reasons and that they did improve performance etc. But, they also did come with a cost (Meltdown, Spectre anyone?) and fundamentally introduced _complexities_
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by drbig 11mo ago
Instruction pipelining and this is exactly why I wish we still have the time to go back to "it is exactly as it is", think the 6502 or any architecture that does not pretend/map/table/proxy/ringaway anything. T
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by drbig 11mo ago
False alarm.
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by drbig 1y ago
Very clever, and playable! Thanks.
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by drbig 1y ago
Thanks for the replies! Will note the UE5 specificity.
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by drbig 1y ago
> It's no wonder UE5 games have the reputation of being poorly optimized Care to exemplify? I find UE games to be not only the most optimized, but also capable of running everywhere. Take X-COM, which I can play on my 14 year old li
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by drbig 1y ago
This being the UK... Perhaps better to establish The Office of Permission, then ban everything except requesting a permission form the new office... And thus create a whole permission economy, putting the `Great` back in Great Britain... &#
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by drbig 1y ago
> No amount of expressive design will beat basic functionality. ...I am very afraid this will sacrifice a lot of (basic) functionality in the name of looking different. May only hope there will be options to "tame it down".
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by drbig 1y ago
> If I understand correctly, the critique here is that is that LLMs cannot generate new knowledge, and/or that they cannot remember it. > The former is false, and the latter is kind of true -- the network does not update itself y
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by drbig 1y ago
...In due time he decomposes, leaving the skeleton which will last much much longer. Just like everybody else. I think Jorge would appreciate that. As a skeptic of the "organized" part of any "organized religion" I had a
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by drbig 1y ago
I remember coming across Pike about two decades ago (or more), as a young amateur developer... I couldn't understand why anyone would choose Pike. And today I still can't. Legacy projects?

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