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by rerdavies 5d ago
Of course. I don't think a language can support async/await without a library implementation, or the language features that support it. And I can't honestly think of another paradigm that doesn't require callback functio
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by rerdavies 5d ago
Why would you not AOT compile at install time?! That would allow the compile to use CPU-specific features? And put a compiled preamble for class initialization on applicable functions that patches the VTABLE to skip the class initialization
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by rerdavies 5d ago
The principal difference between dispatching in a thread-based framework and async/await is that async/await allows you to program sequences of asynchronous operations much more easily. No more separation of code that initiates an
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by rerdavies 14d ago
If you mentioned your needs in the article, I don't see it. You need to explicitly state somewhere that you are only interested in the camera app and the phone app. I mean I guess it's obvious that you're going to end up with
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by rerdavies 16d ago
Having established that they aren't neccesarily slop, may we ask how you determined which ones were written by AI? Or is that a matter of opinion too?
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by rerdavies 18d ago
Yes, the tried-and-true first apartment cheap stuff is still there. But the majority of what's for sale in IKEA these days is of significantly better quality (and significantly higher price). The best alternative to IKEA furniture is m
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by rerdavies 1mo ago
Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty,
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by rerdavies 1mo ago
My recently-purchased Google Pixel 10 Pro has an unlockable bootloader. (Although it may be locked if you buy it through a provider). And, for a nominal one-time payment, you can register as a developer, and compile, install and run absolut
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
Silly theory for why minor sounds sad: Say "ah", like you've just discovered something interesting. Now say "ah" like you've been told something sad. Notice the pitch difference? And notice how both pitches are
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
I've done that for transpilation from SAOL (an MPEG 4 historically curious language) to C++. It does make it incredibly easy to write the compiler. The big drawback that I never managed to sort out is how to integrate with visual debug
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
Claude 4.6+ seem to work fine with my React/typescript apps.
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
No thank you.
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
Written by a human != correct.
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
Twitter posts never die if you never post to Twitter in the first place.
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by rerdavies 2mo ago
Harry Potter would have posted the original video to YouTube instead. It seems like a tragic irony, and perhaps a sign of danger, that OP posted the demo video to the website of He Who Should Not Be Named. Why? Why?!
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Those are both extraordinarily low profit margins. Good on them!
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
I'm wondering how "everything just costs twice for exactly the same thing because it's Apple" factors into the equation.
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Is this actually new? Looks like a standard US export restriction for encryption technology to me. These sorts of restrictions have been around since the '90s. Let's Encrypt becomes subject to US export restrictions on cryptograph
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Which one?, out of curiosity.
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
https://arxiv.org/html/2510.05179v1 16 frontier models from multiple vendors all showing significant "alignment" issues, and tendencies to act "unethically" when threatened with shutdown. Other mode
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
... and to answer your question directly. No. I don't think claude could do it unless you guide it very carefully through the process. You need to have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done.
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Current state of the art in guitar emulations are Neural Amp Modeler Core A2 plugins, which are dramatically better than Line6 amp emulations. (See the results of large scale listening tests in the following page that compare NAM A2 against
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Also not getting the downvotes. It's not a rhetorical question; it's a question looking for an answer. If somebody could explain why "Scope" gets should get precious space in the title of a commit, I'd be grateful.
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Yeah,don't use GPT for that. It really can't do basic arithmetic. Try Claude, which can.
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
I'm not mostly Claud-ing it. Perhaps I should. But in the difficult bits, it never ceases to amaze me what these tools are able to do. Yes, if it matures, it will go open source. Not immediately clear at this moment whether it's f
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
I'm not getting why "scope" gets any priority at all. Are filenames not attached to a commit for those exceedingly rare cases where you're looking for which files are thrashing?
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by rerdavies 3mo ago
Working on a Spice compiler to convert schematics for classic guitar pedals into real-time executable code. I provided a reference to a The Spice Manual 2nd ed. a page number and an equation number, and asked Claude to implement it (not rea
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by rerdavies 4mo ago
You are oversimplifying. They do produce one word per cycle. But they can also have context buffers carrying up to two million tokens, which is most definitely larger than your measly human short-term memory context buffers. You, of course,
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by rerdavies 4mo ago
I point of sorts. Assuming that is true (I don't think it is), the big question that urgently needs to be addressed is what happens when we DO give LLMs tools to interact with the real (or virtual) world. And people are doing that, rig
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by rerdavies 4mo ago
Millenia, in fact. The big difference, of course, being that we now have experimental philosophy machines (aka computers). So we can actually put some of these theories to the test, and recognize how utterly inadequate most of the work done

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