jmull

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by jmull 3d ago
Open source is collaborative, and isn't exactly a niche thing, even at commercial companies.
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by jmull 3d ago
Is that a settled question? China isn't exactly struggling right now.
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by jmull 3d ago
> But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter. Seems like a fundamentally poor analogy. Software development is collaborative, not competitive.
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by jmull 4d ago
Yeah, this 100% looks like an effort to use fear to create a regulatory moat.
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by jmull 4d ago
I can't help but notice your counter arguments are "lol, okay" and "These are some 2024 arguments". Not exactly convincing stuff.
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by jmull 6d ago
Tailwind templates give you a quick way to get good, functional, customizable components. LLMs give you a quicker way to get good-enough, functional customizable components. You have to pay for LLMs too, but you aren’t getting the LLM just
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by jmull 7d ago
I used to be a fan of smaller phones -- my current one is a 12 mini. I'm getting this thing. Changes in eyesight change your priorities.
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by jmull 7d ago
Nah. Tailwind provides an actual simplifying layer for the (over-)complicated practice of front-end web development. By being well-though-out, well-designed, and very well documented, it actually made web app styling easier/simpler (wi
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by jmull 12d ago
It's a weird article. Despite the title and some of the text, much of the article makes the point that LLMs are next-token predictors, where the predictions are based on both training data and various reinforcement learning technique
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by jmull 12d ago
> You can just watch or read the mainstream news for a few days and see for yourself, really. I read mainstream news, but I don't know what you're referring to. It's not like they are perfect, but I do see accountability w
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by jmull 13d ago
I do. I’m open to being convinced, but if you’re claiming mainstream media has no accountability, I think you need to substantiate that. I realize there are information bubbles on the internet where this is accepted as truth, but unexamined
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by jmull 21d ago
One way to gauge how close to viable local inference is the quality of the arguments against it are. $100/mo for ten years is $12K. $200/mo is $24K. When you look at the valuations of the companies providing these tokens, you don&
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by jmull 27d ago
I think this is an attractive chimera, but will never be popular and will only be used much in specific domains. The thing is, trust is a massive optimization. If you believe code from X is competently made and not malicious, you can acce
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by jmull 28d ago
> Here are some conclusions I’ve reached through experimentation: ...a bunch of stuff specific to certain models the author is currently using. Experimentation is good for technical leaders, but you want to be focusing on approaches and
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by jmull 29d ago
There’s essentially zero doubt that universal healthcare would save over $1T per year. How do we know? The experiment has been done multiple times, all over the world. In the worst case (Sweden), healthcare is a bit short of $5K per capit
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by jmull 29d ago
It’s really not experimental though. Assuming their math and design are good, this is pretty strong, as these things go. But there were a lot of other things that were different between the groups that could reasonably be affecting results.
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by jmull 1mo ago
The most important thing is to default to the user’s system setting. Then you (and your users) only need the toggle, if at all, for edge cases. (If the user cares, they likely will have set system settings the way they like them, and if the
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by jmull 1mo ago
It’s in TFA, just a few sentences in. Isn’t the article about how to best deal with the UI for letting the user indicate that the system should decide? Which covers your case.
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by jmull 1mo ago
There isn’t though. Garbage collectors aren’t magical black boxes with no levers, and you can use them how you like. You address performance problems relating to GC the same as you do anything else: measure, analyze, optimize, repeat.
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by jmull 1mo ago
Not sure I understand the question, but it generally works like this: Once you measure, you'll find a small fraction of the code is taking a large fraction of the time. When you zoom in on trouble-spots you may find, e.g. that the GC i
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by jmull 1mo ago
Game developers are always trying to push the boundaries. The only game engines without performance issues are ones hardly being used.
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by jmull 1mo ago
GC languages typically have features of the language and/or standard library that make GC the default, not the only option.
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by jmull 1mo ago
I think the consternation here isn’t warranted. If a large enough proportion of incoming students need an adjustment period, surely it’s better to have one than not. Also, it’s misdirected. If incoming students aren’t prepared for college,
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by jmull 1mo ago
Read the comment I replied to. It claims the researches must have somehow controlled for correlation (whatever that’s supposed to mean). Which they haven’t. There are a bunch of other comments arguing there’s something beyond correlation sh
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by jmull 1mo ago
> kneejerk "correlation does not equal causation" The article (and apparently the researchers too) advances the idea there's a causal link here, even though one is not shown by the research. They go so far as to generally
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by jmull 1mo ago
This current story is likely just the latest lie.
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by jmull 1mo ago
A pretty weak essay. The arguments are couched in questions… which all either have ready answers or imply strawman arguments that few are making. I suspect it’s emotional and indirect because the author understands how poor its arguments
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by jmull 1mo ago
"Aggressively Against LLM Usage" is the wrong way to think of it. If my hobby is running, I would refuse to use a car to do my morning loop. Not because I have anything against automobiles, but because that's not my hobby. Al
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by jmull 1mo ago
I don't think the internet as we know it is going to survive generative AI. Before, the simple existence of the content of some basic level of quality was a strong signal of effort, which corresponds strongly to value. If it's the
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by jmull 1mo ago
It's quite common in enterprisey environments. For one thing, bigcorps in regulated areas like it a lot. They push hard to get it required by the regulations (in practice if not directly). Although it's quite inefficient, it becom

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