evilturnip

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by evilturnip 8d ago
This is interesting. He seems to imply that the AI will just provide the solution. He's concerned that the process of getting to that solution is the important bit. But I can see two versions of "process". A.) The actual s
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Can you use postgres as a state store for a distributed application? It seems this article is trending toward that view: If you can maintain transactional consistency along with application workflow state, then would this generalize to main
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Most people don't have an audience they would share it to if we're being honest. If there's a article/site I'd be interested in sharing, it might be to a slack channel or a text message, in which case I just copy&#x
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I do feel like for all their dogfooding of AI coding, their own software/APIs are quite buggy and work against their message. Claude Code is especially buggy in windows terminal. The rendering is quite slow, choppy and lines frequentl
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I suspect being a "better programmer" cannot be said unequivocally at their level. At that percentile of achievement, it depends on the specific dimension you are talking about. It's true of the highest skill in any field.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
It's obvious that those that write the tools/infrastructure are less visible than those that create the end product. I don't know a single name behind the construction of the AI tensor core in Nvidia's chips but it is ef
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I work on the open-sourced Jedi Academy game engine, which is based on id tech 3. It has special logic to specifically adjust the gamma of the physical monitor during launch, then restore it upon exit. This is why when these older games cr
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Ok, stupid question, but what applications is something like tailscale/iroh used for? I've never worked with this type of tech so curious where it is valuable.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Masters of Doom is a great book on the history of id software, which includes the origins of the development of smooth scrolling by Carmack and Romero, which was groundbreaking at the time on PC.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I feel like the very thing that EU is great at: more consumer friendly and anti-corporate legistation, also hamstrings it for innovation. Why would VCs invest in AI there instead of in the US where they don't have to worry about any o
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Ray tracing is one of those problems that is conceptually so simple, yet continues to take so much mindshare because of all the challenges to implementation.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
"Think of the children" used to shoehorn in the police state. Shudder to think where this will be in 100 years.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Yes, growing at average 15% a month will make you a billionaire in so many months. But somewhere along that trajectory you've tipped the balance from "eveyone is benefitting" to "in order to grow larger we need to explo
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
On the other hand, the fact that exif is such a widespread standard has been a great tool for photo archaeology. People who can track down the original exif can recreate when, where and with what equipment the photo was taken. It's be
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I do find the BDFL approach much better for language design. You might disagree with the direction of the language, but there is usually a "philosophy" or "taste" driven by one person that tends to be consistent over ti
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
It's great that we are getting so many open source model releases, but I just feel like SOTA models will always be in the hands of the big players. The hardware requirement to achieve SOTA are just too steep. My alternate universe wou
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Arabic script is a great test to see if your terminal/renderer/UI can handle anything: contexual shaping, cursive connectivity, bidirectional text layout, diacritics and vertical displacement. I went down this rabbit-hole awhile b
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
https://archive.is/YU74a
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I think it’s impressive that an LLM can take you to a local maxima in one-shot. But once you start maintaining it, improving it and fixing bugs, you’ll eventually need to rip it apart and put it back together again while understanding how i
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Of course the tired follow-up: “But if the government was functioning properly it would only do the things I want”.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
This whole thing is comedy. Anthropic pretending Mythos 5 is so capable it's going to destroy everything, but will release it anyway with "safeguards" (when does this ever work?). US Gov't using this fake hype as an excu
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I always wondered: If Fable 5 uses less tokens, would that be enough to offset the increased compute cost? The reasoning for pulling Fable is that they wouldn't be able to handle the compute demand. Even if not, I wouldn't mind w
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
"Having an agent spit out generic software architecture is probably better than what they were producing before." If they were a poor programmer/architect, I don't think the AI would make the end result any better. It w
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
This is more or less what I do. Then again, I work on a small parts of the codebase at a time, so maybe the autonomous agent works better when you're doing larger refactors over large codebases. Even in that situation, I think I would
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Working with AI is trying to reduce the probability it'll pick undesirable paths. It's an exercise in trying to avoid what you DON'T want. I suppose it's the same as asking someone else to take care of a feature and hop
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I get exactly what you mean. After getting frustrated with how slow Claude was on my personal projects, I switched to Google Antigravity with Flash models and the speed difference is huge. I feel more in the flow and just more focused on
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
I also ask it to explain the system back to me. Obviously it should understand the system just by reading the code. But somehow, explaining the system back to me seems to make it more effective. Then I'll ask it questions about how
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Probably thinks you were talking about two-stage ICBMs.
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by evilturnip 3mo ago
Vulkan is horrendous, LLMs largely eased the frustration of working with it for me. We talk about AI slop, but what about the human slop...
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by evilturnip 6mo ago
nowgrep is supposedly even faster than ripgrep: https://x.com/CharlieMQV/status/1972647630653227054

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