mpyne

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by mpyne 4d ago
It may, but the latency it contributes to the end-to-end AI processing has been not noticeable in practice for our users. That's not to say Bifrost wouldn't have been better, but the choice to use LiteLLM was arrived at after a fa
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by mpyne 4d ago
Sure Rust is better on it, my point is that it is there, despite that community making it a Big Freakin' Deal to have all the memory safe they could design into the compiler and language. If even they had to add escape hatches despit
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by mpyne 4d ago
Well yes, that's what UB means. It's a singularity, you run into it and there's no longer a specified requirement for the behavior that will follow. Rust also has UB, btw, https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference&#
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by mpyne 5d ago
We run it at my org and it's never been a noticeable resource hog. It's actually the best performer between it, our AI observability stack and the front end.
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by mpyne 10d ago
I get the context, but then the comment I'd replied to would have said that humans get better at communicating their ideas by writing their ideas on their own, rather than that writing is some kind of human-only mode of exposition. It&
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by mpyne 10d ago
And it doesn't foreclose the possibility of LLM achieving human-like writing ability. If I stole the writing of a human author much better than me it would still be plagiarism. Of course, with real books we do have the problem of ghos
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by mpyne 10d ago
> Root cause here is that writing is how humans communicate ideas. Writing is a way humans communicate ideas. It's not the only way humans communicate ideas. And now, it's not only humans who communicate ideas, we just saw wi
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by mpyne 10d ago
Yes, that's what I'm talking about. It does expand on the empty base object optimization, though it is still not fully generic. But you can now have multiple zero-sized types as siblings in a struct or class that can be zero-sized
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by mpyne 11d ago
It's pretty deeply tied into C++'s object lifetime mechanics, which rely on storage being available and reserved for the use of that object's lifetime. If multiple objects with valid lifetimes had a situation where one lifet
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by mpyne 11d ago
Everything. The issue is that the compiler won't even bother with polymorphism through a vtable for a polymorphic type (one with a vtable), unless the object is accessed through a pointer or reference. If you have a value of the type
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by mpyne 11d ago
Perl was there decades ago: https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
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by mpyne 11d ago
RIAA doesn't like it, but my introduction to a video game series I've since spent hundreds of dollars on over the years, came from running across one of its soundtrack pieces on Youtube. There's a reason companies talk about
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by mpyne 16d ago
> FOSS started as a counter movement against Microsoft in order to escape from surveillance and corporate control. ??? FOSS was around before that, famously so. The rise of Microsoft made FOSS more important, but FOSS wasn't a react
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by mpyne 24d ago
Yeah, I've actually found in my own testing and usage of LLMs that this is where I get a lot of benefit. I already have fd, ripgrep, etc. installed and know how to use them, but it's not hard to tell the LLM to do it and it often
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by mpyne 24d ago
> any comparison between asphalt and concrete is automatically implied as a comparison between asphalt and non-asphalt concrete, and to specify would be redundant. Sounds like the comparison isn't between asphalt and non-asphalt con
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by mpyne 25d ago
That doesn't work well for enterprise-managed MCP, where you actually do want the user to overtly authorize their agent to user their identity for MCP services, rather than the MCP server just setting a user ID in an HTTP header some
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Yeah, on one of the reactor designs I was familiar with, control rods were bundled into groups which were managed as a set and were intended to be operated in different sequences over core life. So when I read "3 control rods hit the b
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Perhaps an interruption of power to the field windings of the affected control rods. Could be as simple as a control cabinet fried unexpectedly or some other electrical gremlin. 3 rods inserted into the core out of the many available would
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Man I love and agree with nearly everything about this post except that I wouldn't take the advice to follow waterfall or PMBOK literally. The post laments that it's hard to find Dr. Royce's original waterfall paper. That&#x2
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by mpyne 1mo ago
I seem to remember “assume the customer will always want better prices” to be one of the few ironclad axioms that Jeff Bezos oriented early Amazon around. If you're in construction then you need a quality drill that will carry you from
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by mpyne 1mo ago
> There’s probably an optimum for maximizing sales/growth that doesn’t land on highest quality products in the real world, with non rational consumers, imperfect information etc… sadly. Of course it wouldn't land on highest qua
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Excel is already a solid grid without a separate report designer being necessary.
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by mpyne 1mo ago
There's probably various methods, but if you don't already have quantitative estimates, you'll probably end up polling SMEs you'd trust for this on how much increase in retention and decrease in acquisition costs you&#x2
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by mpyne 1mo ago
I think this is no longer true. C++26 implemented a change to make trivial loops like these defined behavior (and therefore will loop endlessly as you'd expect). And this example was always defined behavior in C. Both languages continu
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by mpyne 1mo ago
This risks getting into the Fisherian/Bayesian stats wars again, but it would be possible to project a revenue gain, even in advance of making the change. You'd do this in terms of improved customer retention, lower cost of future
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Probably because some people want to feel like they're succeeding in the 'actual game' and not the 'Fisher Price version of the game'. For those people the solution is ultimately to make their reality appear to be t
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by mpyne 1mo ago
> SBMM also a double-edged sword. Some people like to play game relaxed. That's just a different way of saying some people like to play games where their opponent has no chance. So your "relaxation" comes entirely at the e
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by mpyne 1mo ago
> There was a time when these were considered super sharp high-resolution monitors. I think that time corresponded to when monitors were smaller than 27 inches though. A "good" CRT monitor used to be 15" and at that size
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Ukraine is also running headlong into the reality of kill or be killed.
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by mpyne 1mo ago
Yes, but the military exists for the nation, not the other way around, so a military success that turns into a national disaster is not a military success at all. That's why even in the nuclear Navy, as crazy as they are about reactor

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