geophile

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by geophile 2mo ago
But aren’t the frontier models heavily subsidized? That’s not sustainable.
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by geophile 2mo ago
Exactly. Even putting aside “better”, brains show that orders of magnitude greater efficiency are possible, for training and operation.
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by geophile 2mo ago
But different huge companies have different incentives. It is very much in Nvidia’s interest to have me running a powerful open source model on a $4k machine that they sell me.
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by geophile 2mo ago
The lesson of the last 50 years of the computer and software marketplace is that free and low-end eventually wins. - PCs destroyed minicomputers. Mainframes survive, but serving a much tinier portion of the market than they used to. - PC of
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by geophile 2mo ago
No it was Java. Sorry, it was late 90s.
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by geophile 2mo ago
I used to love ORMs so much that I built one for Java, in the early 90s, and it was one of the main offerings of a startup that I joined. I have come around 180 degrees. My rethink started when a developer at a Wall Street bank said: having
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by geophile 3mo ago
That's exactly what I'm doing -- Mini M4 Pro 64GB, qwen3.6. My hearing is not great, but I think I would have noticed the fan, and I have never heard it. In fact, I had to google to find out if it even has a fan.
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by geophile 3mo ago
Bad managers, in general, grab a metric and then unthinkingly optimize it. I’ve never worked for FAANG, but I’d be surprised if they didn’t have bad managers too.
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by geophile 3mo ago
My experience is almost identical. I have found that I need to be very careful with planning, breaking things down into small isolated steps (I can have qwen do this); and also (me) writing a very clear design. Relying on qwen to fill in a
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by geophile 5mo ago
Oh spare me the cult of Larry Wall. His language was crap, and his pontification was unbearable. That said, he's not wrong about laziness. I'd state it less cutely: Good software takes time, so be patient. The same can be said of
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by geophile 5mo ago
From perusing reddit, I see some Windows users tempted to consider Linux, often because of Windows 11. But then, many of them won't move because: it doesn't work just like Windows; there is some Windows application they must have,
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by geophile 5mo ago
Can someone write a tl:dr; about what’s going on? I am a very satisfied user of LibreOffice, and some of the comments here, suggesting we will need an alternative, are troubling.
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by geophile 6mo ago
On the Linux subreddits recent, I have seen a great increase in two kinds of posts: 1) That’s it, I’ve had it, windows is dead to me, I have moved/will move to Linux. Help me pick a distro. 2) I’d love to get off window and move to Lin
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by geophile 6mo ago
I stated no conclusions. I have not tried COSMIC, and I said that it’s COSMIC and Wayland seem to be problematic for people who have tried Pop_OS 24.04. (The one fact I do know is that Synergy, which I rely on, is still working on Wayland s
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by geophile 6mo ago
Yes, I believe I said exactly that.
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by geophile 6mo ago
I have been using Pop_OS for many years, and I’m still on 22.04, which uses X11. I don’t understand the pros and cons of X11 vs. Wayland, I just want a working desktop. 24.04 uses Wayland, and while some people have had no problems migratin
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by geophile 6mo ago
All good points. But what would be really useful and easy is allowing the iPhone to be used as a full-fledged computer on a file system completely distinct from that used to run the phone. Then my laptop is just peripherals connected to my
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by geophile 7mo ago
I think it’s a pretty strong statement. It is unfortunately weakened by going along with the “Department of War” propaganda. I believe that the name is “Department of Defense” until Congress says otherwise, no matter what the Felon in Chief
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Experiential Reinforcement Learning(arxiv.org)
3 points by geophile 7mo ago|0 comments
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by geophile 7mo ago
Z-order based indexes avoid the resolution problem. Basically: - Generate z-values for spatial objects. Points -> a single z-value at the highest resolution of the space. Non-points -> multiple z-values. Each z-value is represented by
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by geophile 7mo ago
The article gets at this briefly and moves on: "I can do all of this with the experience on my back of having laid the bricks, spread the mortar, cut and sewn for twenty years. If I don’t like something, I can go in, understand it and
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by geophile 8mo ago
I did an approximate calculation.
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by geophile 8mo ago
The analysis misses a point. Wordle uses two lists of five letter words: words that are in the dictionary, and can be used in a guess; and those that can be used as the daily secret word. The latter list is smaller, and sticks to more commo
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by geophile 8mo ago
For a long time, I had a MBP (this is in Intel days), with a Linux VM. It was like a reverse mullet, party in front (multimedia), work in back (dev). And then: - Butterfly keyboard - Touchbar - M-series CPUs, which, while tech
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by geophile 8mo ago
FWIW, On Reddit, I am seeing more and more discussions on the Linux subreddits or people getting fed up with Windows and switching to Linux. Usually, it's the Windows 11 upgrade that finally did it.
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Nation-Wide Verizon Outage(yahoo.com)
2 points by geophile 8mo ago|1 comments
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by geophile 10mo ago
This seems like a good time to remind everyone of a letter by David Packard, to his employees. There is more morality, common sense and insightful business advice here than in any 1000 business titles you would care to name. https:/&#
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by geophile 10mo ago
I thought I expressed that: "I came across structured programming. The core idea was ... Then there were Abstract Datatypes, ..."
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by geophile 10mo ago
Well sure, but don't use it to implement if/while/for.
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by geophile 10mo ago
No, "we" are not replacing OOP with something worse. "We" are replacing layers of stupid shit that got layered on top of, and associated with OOP, with different renderings of the same stupid shit. I have been programmin

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