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by randomifcpfan 7mo ago
Interesting to compare this to the in-progress project https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/frankensqlite Which aims to match SQLite quality and provide new features (free encryption, multiple simultaneous writers, and
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by randomifcpfan 10mo ago
Current frontier agents can one shot solve all 2024 AoC puzzles, just by pasting in the puzzle description and the input data. From watching them work, they read the spec, write the code, run it on the examples, refine the code until it pas
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by randomifcpfan 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu In 2018, Google replaced Goobuntu with gLinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian Testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLinux
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by randomifcpfan 1y ago
The study points out, “Python and Rust are the two most popular languages used by Advent of Code participants. This may explain why Rust fares so well.”
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by randomifcpfan 1y ago
Here’s a study that found that for small problems Gemini is almost equally good at Python and Rust. Looking at the scores of all the languages tested, it seems that the popularity of the language is the most important factor: https:/
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
In my application, code generation, the distilled DeepSeek models (7B to 70B) perform poorly. They imitate the reasoning of the r1 model, but their conclusions are not correct. The real r1 model is great, better than o1, but the distilled m
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
The DeepSeek R1 paper explains how they trained their model in enough detail that people can replicate the process. Many people around the world are doing so, using various sizes of models and training data. Expect to see many posts like th
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
College degrees from reputable colleges used to serve this purpose, but grade inflation has greatly weakened this signal.
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
Thanks for explaining! That’s quite different from the US English (and RFC English) meaning of “should”.
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
“You should consider using this in your requirements” implies that this is not a hard rule, it’s just an ignorable suggestion. It would be interesting to audit gov.uk web pages over time to see whether this advice is being followed.
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
I remember seeing the PERQ at trade shows. The best thing about the PERQ was its monitor, which was unusually sharp for that era. It used a yellow-white long persistence phosphor. A CMU grad student friend told me that the monitor designer
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
They identify 6 bugs/mistakes, of which, not doing staged releases, was the final mistake. They stop short of identifying the real root issues of running at kernel level, and of not auto-backing-out updates that cause crashes, perhaps
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
A tool for updating bazel build target dependencies. It inspects build files and source code, then adds/removes dependencies from build targets as needed. It requires using global include paths in C/C++ sources. It is not perfect,
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
That’s certainly how it seemed from the Android side at the time. The Linux side was hoping that they could adapt the desktop Linux stack to work well on mobile devices, without introducing new concepts like wakelocks. It took them a long t
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
https://opengoal.dev/ has reverse-engineered a compiler and runtime for the non-GC lisp GOAL that Naughty Dog used for the Jax and Daxter action adventure games. They have decompiled the game code for all three games.
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by randomifcpfan 2y ago
You can see them throughout Southern California. They are strikingly beautiful when in bloom. Not mentioned in the article is that the blossoms exude a sticky nectar that makes an absolute mess of the area under the tree.
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
Comparing the App Store listings, it looks like this app has a much simpler interface and far fewer features than Draw Things. Some users might prefer the simplicity of this app. (Draw Things is by far the most advanced app that supports on
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
The potential for overlapping numbers was the thing that tripped up many developers. But a simple “find the first number searching from each end, just like the puzzle instructions asked” implementation just worked. The lesson is to read the
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
The Computer History Museum oral history interview with David Cutler is also very good: Part 1: https://youtu.be/29RkHH-psrY Part 2: https://youtu.be/SVgSLud50ss
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
The original Dart language designers gave Dart Smalltalk semantics with JavaScript syntax. But Dart’s users rebelled and forced Dart to adopt a more compile-time-type-checked type system. Some of the original Dart designers have developed a
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
For completeness, Apple’s consumer GPUs currently max out at 64 GB - OS overhead, so about 56 GB. But you are limited to 1 GPU per system.
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
Under US accounting rules, it is much better for a landlord to leave a property unrented at a higher price than to rent it at a lower price. If the property is unrented, the landlord can use the proposed rental price in calculating the valu
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
Mixed reality is a VR headset with cameras that pass through an approximation of outside reality. The hope is that gets you most of the vision benefits of AR. But you still get most of the physical drawbacks of VR. All the current high-end
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
Heh, you may have been lucky. I worked at Apple during the middle part of the no-Jobs era, and I remember there was plenty of political intrigue between teams. Mac vs Apple vs Newton vs Draco, Blue vs Pink vs AUX vs Red. Many different hard
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
As I understand it, Apple is expected to only introduce a VR headset this year, like the new Sony VR headset or the high end Oculus. Apple’s AR headset is still many years away.
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
Note the current Verse style guideline is to capitalize variables rather than types. Seems pointlessly contrary to established practice. Makes the code read like the author is shouting.
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by randomifcpfan 3y ago
The web says you need to specify a YouTube live stream offset in seconds: https://www.youtube.com/live/teTroOAGZjM?t=22500
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Nah, NURBS are a dead end. They are difficult to model with and difficult to animate and render. Polygon-based subdivision surfaces entirely replaced NURBS as soon as the Pixar Renderman patents on subdivision surfaces expired.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
A quick web search finds: https://hothardware.com/news/3dfx-rampage-gpu-performance-re... But you could argue that the Rampage drivers weren’t optimized.
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by randomifcpfan 4y ago
Sounds like you are thinking of “New Math”, which was tried in many Western countries including the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math In many ways SICP was from the same intellectual tradition as New Math.

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