richard_todd

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by richard_todd 2mo ago
Honestly -- and I know this project is just a toy/fun experiment -- with modern AI, I think this is the correct approach to Rust-ifying projects. Just fork it and do an AI-assisted wholesale conversion, and run in parallel for a while
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by richard_todd 3mo ago
The author assumes the way to keep segments going with larger memory would have been to change the amount of overlap, but it would have also been possible to make an 80286 where the segment registers were > 16bits, and everything else is
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by richard_todd 3mo ago
I agree, it would be way more interesting to see a table of original GIF sizes versus the improved size. I'm left wondering how bad the plain greedy version is on a typical image.
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by richard_todd 3mo ago
I agree this is great, but I also feel like it's an intermediate step to just asking Claude for whatever file edits you want... and then you don't even need the text editor.
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by richard_todd 6mo ago
Well at least for what I do, success depends on having lots of unit tests to lean on, regardless of whether it is new or existing code. AI plus a hallucination-free feedback loop has been a huge productivity boost for me, personally. Plus i
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by richard_todd 7mo ago
Even if I were retired and financially set now, that would mean nothing in 10 years if an unemployed society collapses around me. Apathy is not on the menu today.
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by richard_todd 7mo ago
The craft is still there just like painting is still an alternative to a photograph. It's just not going to be valued by society anymore, and far fewer will learn how to do it. Natural language is the new programming language. For n
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by richard_todd 8mo ago
It's a fun article and this really doesn't matter much but `5{|+\x}\1,2` does not give the typical fibonacci sequence. Either `5{|+\x}\1,1` or `5{|+\x}\2,1` do, if the results from this random online interpreter can be believed (
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by richard_todd 9mo ago
Lately I just ask an LLM to teach me things interactively. It will be interesting to see if that stops working so well, when authors stop writing books for LLMs to absorb. Maybe as long as there is some kind of canonical reference, the LL
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by richard_todd 10mo ago
If I'm considering becoming a drug runner, and I hear "sometimes they arrest you" I'd say "so what?" If I hear "sometimes you get shot at", I'd take my chances and shoot back. But if I keep hear
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by richard_todd 10mo ago
I think the problem with XSLT is that it's only a clear win to represent the transform in XML to the extent that it is declarative. But, as transformations get more complex, you are going to need functions/variables/types&#x
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
If you think a situation where everyone had access to ipchains for 3 years to figure out how to migrate is similar to a situation where some architectures will be killed in six months without ever having had access to the new product then
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
First off, the mail references far more rust adoption than just Sequoia, but since you bring it up: here is how RPM adopted Sequoia in Fedora-land. There was a proposal, a discussion with developers about the ramifications (including disc
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
On their github you can see all three changes identical to x.org's happened on October 28th (same day as the advisory). So, they were not already fixed, but the fixes were applied immediately.
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
ipchains is a perfect representation of what I want to see. They introduced it as an option alongside ipfirewall in 2.1, made it the default but allowed fallback to ipfirewall in 2.2, and removed ipfirewall in 2.4. That is a sane way to i
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
Nah, I called out redox and another commenter pointed out ripgrep as an even better example of what I’d prefer to see, and those are also by what I would call rust enthusiasts. I don’t think of them as a monolithic group. Where we disagree
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
Exactly! People love ripgrep because of its clear advantages, and had the developers been interested in making posix mode for it, I'm certain at least some distros would have made it the default by now.
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
There are like 1000 Debian maintainers, right? This person doesn't speak for the project as a whole, and as far as I can tell he is telling Debian folks they will be accepting rust whether they want it or not, and whether their pref
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
I'm not sure if it's an insecurity thing or an immaturity thing, but when all these stories pop up, I always wonder why rust enthusiasts don't just prove their point by making their own "modern" and non-"retro&
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by richard_todd 11mo ago
As a 1980's adventure game fan, I can only hope that whatever comes after AGI is called SCI. Maybe it could be "Soul-Crushing Intelligence". Once we don't need people to make stuff anymore, we need to re-do society so p
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by richard_todd 1y ago
In my workflows I already tend to tell LLMs to write scripts in Go instead of python. The LLM doesn't care about the increased tediousness and verbosity that would drive me to Python, and the result will be much faster.
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by richard_todd 2y ago
I find grok to be the best overall experience for the types of tasks I try to give AI (mostly: analyze pdf, perform and proofread OCR, translate Medieval Latin and Hebrew, remind me how to do various things in python or SwiftUI). ChatGPT&#
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by richard_todd 2y ago
I feel like a few decades ago, standards intended to standardize best practices and popular features from compilers in the field. Dreaming up standards that nobody has implemented, like what seems to happen these days, just seems crazy to m
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by richard_todd 2y ago
Yes I periodically try to get scanned images of Medieval Latin and Hebrew books ocr’d and translated by Gemini and ChatGPT… sometimes the results are amazing, but you have to proofread it all because they occasionally go off the rails. They
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by richard_todd 2y ago
It’s amusing that the sequence of events in that story makes a great example of prior art getting regurgitated and altered by humans. If he were an AI bot, we would say Steve Jobs “hallucinated” a fact about Picasso.
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by richard_todd 3y ago
There was a lot of excitement among tech enthusiasts in the mid-90s about virtual/cyber everything. I remember hearing regularly that soon we wouldn’t need local mediocre teachers because everyone could be taught virtually in cyberspac
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by richard_todd 3y ago
It's not referring to the XML formats.. it was a feature of Word specifically which allowed you to embed a user-defined xml schema in your Word document, and use XML data that fits the schema in your document. See https://ww
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by richard_todd 3y ago
We used to call 16-bytes a paragraph, so the nostalgic geek in me would love to see ‘para’ catch on. I never thought I’d be slinging around whole paragraphs of memory in registers!
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by richard_todd 3y ago
Wow, I was initially very enthusiastic about lout, and I still think it had some good ideas. I just remember the templates not being as easily hacked/tweaked as (La)TeX, and the advice was generally "accept how it already works&q
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by richard_todd 3y ago
Too bad they can’t open-source it and see if there is any community interest in keeping it going.

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