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by loglog 5d ago
> Mathematics is about discovering and understanding the logical implications of assumed axioms under various inference rules. That's like saying that programming is about producing valid programs in various programming languages.
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by loglog 13d ago
Distillation of our blessed models is no fair!
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by loglog 19d ago
> Also in a TUI you never ever have that issue that some text isn't copy/pastable like some dialogue boxes May I present OpenCode, which somehow managed to break copy from terminal: https://github.com/anomalyco&
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by loglog 19d ago
Self-hosting won't protect you from getting locked out of a closed weights model, because you can't self-host it even if you have the hardware.
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by loglog 19d ago
If they "should" cost 4k in the sense of marginal cost, then you will be spending more running the same at home, because your home hardware will always be less efficient.
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by loglog 20d ago
As of now, there are only 2 natural language clusters in the partition: Claudish and Spanish/French. From a first glance, the other clusters seem centered on technologies (lots of command line flags and abbreviations among the "mo
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by loglog 20d ago
Their suggestion to tax tokens extends the problem of taxing wages to a new type of production. The real solution is, of course, taxing the capital, but you will never hear that from them.
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by loglog 3mo ago
The bots can also write Rust instead of C++, doing away with the arcane nonsense accumulated by that legacy language. SCNR.
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by loglog 3mo ago
Bureaucracy gives you leverage against slop. Review seriously, but limit the time that you spend. This will stall the slop. When the culprit complains, tell your boss "I spend X hours per week on reviews. If you need more throughput, t
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by loglog 3mo ago
Writing and reading design documentation can be slower than pair programming. On the other hand, info about code design also belongs into inline documentation or commit messages (in this order of preference), so the effort might not be wast
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by loglog 3mo ago
It's not just documentation. Everything that makes programming easier is now suddenly valued, because wasting tokens is obviously worse than wasting your employees' time.
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by loglog 4mo ago
This claim is plain malicious. Of course falling asset prices would be excellent for the median person, since they would be less extremely priced out of everywhere. This is one of the central benefits of a wealth tax.
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by loglog 4mo ago
> For that kind of implementation, ... This is the key point, what is the meaning of "zero knowledge" here? It seems that you need to know something about the implementation, even if it is not the full implementation. Compare t
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by loglog 4mo ago
The list of tools that Pythonheads present as a definite solution to their problems changes every year, yet the results are still far behind Rust/Scala/Kotlin/C#.
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by loglog 4mo ago
Surpassing DB's punctuality is the first large-scale example of the "Overtaking without catching up" East German slogan coming true.
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by loglog 4mo ago
The "fix everything" button is abolishing zoning laws, and its aggregate cost is negative. Aggregate cost is not the issue preventing problems from being solved.
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by loglog 4mo ago
> on top of a well designed language constructed over past language design experience While I believe that Chris Lattner is a great compiler designer, his language design record has been less stellar. Swift bidirectional type inference f
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by loglog 4mo ago
Mojo is NOT Python compatible (although they initially wanted it to be). So they got all downsides without the upsides.
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by loglog 5mo ago
How is it possible to provide a zero knowledge proof that their circuit works for large problem instances if there is no efficient way to run or simulate the circuit with the required instance size?
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by loglog 5mo ago
"I believe that almost anything that has been formalised today in any system could have been formalised in AUTOMATH. Its main drawbacks were its notation, which really was horrible, and its complete lack of automation. Proofs were long
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by loglog 5mo ago
There are videos on the internet of drones being shot down with an assault rifle out of a 50 year old training plane, 1914 style.
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by loglog 5mo ago
A Bundeswehr worth of equipment is so little nowadays that Bundeswehr itself lost several Bundeswehrs worth of equipment while being at peace for the last few decades.
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by loglog 5mo ago
Americans are very comfortable with eminent domain, as long as it is applied to brown people.
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by loglog 5mo ago
This makes sense, because parking a car does take a similar amount of space as a studio apartment.
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by loglog 5mo ago
1. Java is mentioned in their comparison table. They just don't use it much. 2. There is really no reason to include Java in the search for your preferred language, since Kotlin is strictly better along every relevant axis.
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by loglog 5mo ago
That's a very low bar. Any language feels consistent compared to C++.
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by loglog 6mo ago
On a national scale, keeping a stock of transformers is peanuts. For this to be viable, they only need to be interchangeable, not identical.
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by loglog 6mo ago
I recommend to block the Linkedin feed with uBlock.
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by loglog 6mo ago
Traveling? Lake home? I am glad to go to work just to not listen to my wife how we are so poor and cannot have nice things.
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by loglog 6mo ago
> how many people here have actually worked at an early stage startup in a lead role Obviously very few, because these roles are impossible to get into. What else did you expect?

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