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by gregw2 5d ago
True. I think we tried bevy but don't remember what if any issues we had.
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by gregw2 5d ago
Err, no. If someone is at fault, it is definitely the company (OpenAI) not the employee in this case. Just think, isn't the whole point of a company, of incorporating, is that the liability shifts from the employee to the firm? It is
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by gregw2 6d ago
Oh, I 100% agree. The question is how much you can reduce the effort of the port/migration, and in particular the validation effort. I've worked on projects where the core bits of code were "90%" converted by some autom
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by gregw2 6d ago
Why isn't the game industry moving to rust? Someone in that industry can perhaps speak to it, but I have two cents of perspective... I have helped a young person with gamedev interests try to learn rust (on Windows). They've learn
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by gregw2 6d ago
Those interested in this may find the following articles of interest: Microsoft goals [edit: err, Microsoft hiring manager vision-casting goal ] to convert 1 billion lines of code to rust by 2030 via automated tooling enabling "1 engin
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by gregw2 11d ago
This is all about Greenland and reducing leverage Trump might wield to get it, right? They can't say that, it just gets them into a pissing match with Trump and what good is that but it's not hard to read between the lines. I also
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by gregw2 12d ago
Hey now, sure, Microsoft Bob didn't get us ordinary users a "partner that helps you by making it easier", but it DID help MS Bob product owner Melinda French get a "partner that helps you by getting 10+ billion dollars&q
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by gregw2 13d ago
Agreed. Cheerios and Rice Chex/Krispies are what I settled on for a while... not loaded, not zero, but minimal.
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by gregw2 23d ago
And Bigquery has continuous queries: https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/continuous-queri... And many databases have triggers. And with postgres you can combine triggers with NOTIFY to push changes downstr
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by gregw2 27d ago
Ugh. This analysis starts off a little interesting with its observation that "intelligence", as analyzed historically, tends to be about solving bounded-context problems (with a known right answer) rather than open-ended problems
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by gregw2 27d ago
Regarding the "expensive overhead of boxed types", do we just need more work at the hardware ISA level (with pointer tagging or NaN-boxing) and we need the hardware to be aware of those bits and handle them safely/properly vi
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by gregw2 27d ago
Last time I went to donate blood, I read all the fine print they asked me to sign, and I was giving them the right to sequence my DNA (!) The tech taking my blood had no idea; nobody else had ever read it. I did complain and ask the blood d
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by gregw2 29d ago
A confusing rename means you the customer can't understand the product line and your large enterprise must have more conversations with Microsoft to clarify. Such conversations then become sales opportunities. That plus the resume-buil
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by gregw2 1mo ago
Per his GitHub repo ( https://github.com/pfalstad ) last week he ported his electrostatics sim fro. GWT/Java to Typescript+Vite ...
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by gregw2 1mo ago
He also wrote zsh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_shell ) as a sophomore in 1990, moved onto other things a few years later, and a couple decades later in 2019 it became the MacOS's default shell.
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by gregw2 1mo ago
It was a joke/tease question. I have yet to be able to create diagrams or visualizations I am happy with with LLMs. I can get a diagram, but tweaking it via prompts is extremely painful. I do think it's a interesting moderately s
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by gregw2 1mo ago
What a great visualization! Now can your favorite LLM make me a similar one for the Real #s?
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by gregw2 1mo ago
The conclusion that the sun and moon look the same size in the sky is most intuitive when you think about how ecipses appear to us. The relative curve shapes when the moon covers the sun, and the ways total eclipses appear to match sizes do
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by gregw2 1mo ago
Is there any reason Zuckerberg/Meta should get huge lawsuits and criticism for addictive design and say, Pinchai/Google/Youtube should not? Not a troll question, just wondering.
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by gregw2 1mo ago
As someone with kids, I still don't see a scenario with YouTube fading... What are you talking about? The video slop problem? If so, it's sort of like saying you don't think the Internet can survive if GenAI keeps going... w
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by gregw2 1mo ago
If certain political problems to be solved are zero-sum, and others are win-win, I'm not sure how adding more intelligence will solve the problem of the zero-sum ones that are the source of conflict and resource constraints. The premis
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by gregw2 1mo ago
I'm not an academic but I've worked through practical problems in this space for longer than I'd like to admit, often in ignorance of the literature. The most CS-y fundamental paper would probably be Lamport(1978) below, but
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by gregw2 2mo ago
I was a little surprised to find someone experienced in time series modeling not mentioning bayesian modeling nor the use of ensemble models... but I do think its more fundamental points were worth making.
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by gregw2 2mo ago
Between the difficulty and value propositions for forecasting timeseries "disk usage" versus "financial markets" there are some rather relevant time series such as "company sales" or "demand for company pr
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by gregw2 2mo ago
What seems intuitively wrong as a layperson new to this about Coase's theory, is that the "surprising" collapse in prices to marginal cost "in period 1" assumes that consumers have no marginal utility, and thus no
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by gregw2 2mo ago
There are a limited number of bitcoins and Satoshi started out as a monopolist of them... so Coase expects them to get sold at the marginal cost? There are a limited number of iPhones....? Do either of those examples shed light on where Coa
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by gregw2 2mo ago
The earlier Spanish measurement system that changed to meters in Gaudi's lifetime was, like the English system, more 12-centric than 10-centric. In a way, base-10-centric measurements are the victors of a three thousand year battle bet
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by gregw2 2mo ago
When I saw the emphasis was on 12, I wondered why it was combined with 7.5 so much rather than say, a more 12-centric nearby number like 7.2. 7.2 = 12 * 12 / 10 / 2 But having integers for ones' for lengths (e.g 90m rather th
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by gregw2 3mo ago
It's an interesting time window you chose. Why would there be an anomaly during that window (if there is one)? Perhaps it is due to the outward-facing, civic-oriented values coming out of WW2? There was a lot of reflection in America o
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by gregw2 3mo ago
I don't see the underlying economic dynamics of the relevance of substitution costs driving the way we do things going away. And substitution costs are all about limitations. Abundance and limitations are a bit of ying/yang phenom

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