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by prngl 2mo ago
There are 2 economic arguments for why it would make sense for Chinese State to subsidize the open-sourcing of models beyond undermining Anthropic's and OpenAI's investments (and by proxy the American financial economy, ie capital
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by prngl 5mo ago
This was an interesting interview. Like a lot of great comedians, Odenkirk has a very grounded and bleak view of the world. I suppose a lot of art, comedy included, is a way of coping with their perspective, for themselves and for the audie
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by prngl 5mo ago
Should have specified old used thinkpads. I’ve never bought one new. My daily driver is 10+yo, bought for $200 and upgraded mem, battery, and ssd with another $100.
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by prngl 5mo ago
Resonates. Reminds me of old Thinkpads. Cheap sometimes means accessible, simple, minimal, functional.
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Is the Strait of Hormuz Open?(isthestraitopen.io)
4 points by prngl 5mo ago|0 comments
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Public Restroom Doors Are a Nightmare(holdtherobot.com)
3 points by prngl 6mo ago|1 comments
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by prngl 6mo ago
Very Don Norman problem. It is odd that things like this aren't more of a "solved problem." Maybe they are in some places and builders in the US just ignore the best practices.
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by prngl 6mo ago
These are the points I'm making, which I think are fairly one-to-one with my original comment: - American politics presents a false choice between Democrats and Republicans - America is both a consumerist and corporatist society - Anth
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by prngl 6mo ago
It's funny how the false choice of American politics (Red vs Blue) also makes it into its consumerist corporatist life. That Anthropic's threadbare "limits" on government usage are seen as a heroic stand is a testament t
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by prngl 8mo ago
Looks nice!
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by prngl 9mo ago
I think this is spot on. It’s interesting how rhetoric about “liberty” seems to practically serve oligarchy. I suppose an alternative to bans and regulations is to genuinely pursue the elimination of deprivation, orient our collective capac
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by prngl 10mo ago
Looks nice. Maybe share a bit about the implementation (windowing, networking, security, Mac APIs, …)?
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by prngl 10mo ago
Here here. Strategy and efficiency are overrated, desire (even obsession) underrated.
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by prngl 10mo ago
Yes, I think you're right. Seems to reveal a fundamentally extractive, rather than value-generative, economic model.
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by prngl 10mo ago
I always find it odd when media (and others) consider consumerism as somehow "helping" the economy. The economy is entirely about the collective activity of humans serving humans. Everything we make or do is really about prioritiz
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How to use Claude Code for big tasks without turning your code to shit(holdtherobot.com)
3 points by prngl 10mo ago|1 comments
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by prngl 10mo ago
"Metaphorically, I think about any job given to Claude as having 3 dimensions. There's the breadth of the task (roughly how many lines of code it will touch), the depth of the task (the complexity, the layers of abstraction needed
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My computing prayer(ryansepassi.com)
3 points by prngl 11mo ago|0 comments
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by prngl 11mo ago
Thinking of bunny huang’s open source hardware efforts, a 28nm nommu system seems like a good long term open source target. How much complexity in the system is the mmu, and so how much complexity could we cut out while still having the abi
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by prngl 1y ago
I’m sorry, I did not intend to accuse you of being part of the evangelical community. Your article only prompted the thought I shared. On the technical point, I think I do disagree, but open to changing my mind. What would be better? I’m wo
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by prngl 1y ago
That would be the “arbitrarily bounded” allocation. Arbitrary because now you have to make a decision about how many items you’re willing to maintain despite that number being logically determined by a sum over an unknown set of modules.
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by prngl 1y ago
> The last time I used [a doubly linked list] was in the nineties. I know the Linux kernel uses them, but that design was also laid down in the nineties; if you were designing a kernel from scratch today, you would probably not do it tha
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by prngl 1y ago
Certainly onto something but misses how much large organizations are actually controlled by small organizations operating in the “large complex system” environment. It is only individuals and small organizations that have agency at all. Lar
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by prngl 1y ago
Yes being able to have compilers as libraries inline in the same code and same language. That feels like what all these call for. Which really is the Lisp core I suppose. But with static types and heterogenous backends. MLIR I think hoped (
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by prngl 1y ago
I do find the pattern interesting and powerful. But at the same time, something feels off about it (just conceptually, not trying to knock your money-making endeavor, godspeed). Some of the issues that all of these hit is: - No printf debug
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by prngl 1y ago
This is cool. There's an interesting parallel with ML compilation libraries (TensorFlow 1, JAX jit, PyTorch compile) where a tracing approach is taken to build up a graph of operations that are then essentially compiled (or otherwise l
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by prngl 1y ago
I share the author's enthusiasm for coroutines. They're nice abstractions for all sorts of state-machine-like code and for concurrency (without parallelism). > You could allocate a piece of memory for a coroutine stack; let the
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by prngl 2y ago
If we go a bit old-school on AI and reason in the "connectionist" framing: Let's say neural memories are encoded in some high-dimensional vector space. And so memory recall is an associative process that entails constructing
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by prngl 4y ago
ref: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by prngl 4y ago
Very cool! Love that it's about bringing joy to kids. Some of tech/AI feels soul-sucking at the moment. Can you tell us more about the technical challenges of making something like this run real-time locally? How do the methods co

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