robmccoll

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by robmccoll 21d ago
The only language where this happens? https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-53161 https://www.sentinelone.com/vulnerab
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by robmccoll 26d ago
Huh 30% of our lumber just got 50% more expensive. Good thing we don't have shortages of affordable housing that need new construction to solve. Brilliant stuff Donald. Truly some 4D chess moves.
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by robmccoll 29d ago
Just had an HDD in my array die. Thought I'd replace it and add another spare. The prices are up 300% from 2 years ago. For spinning disks. Why?
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by robmccoll 2mo ago
Non-nullable reference types at the language level? Null coalescing operator? Safe navigation accessors? Record composition?
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by robmccoll 2mo ago
DXM may or may not suppress coughing relative to placebo - the study cited here appears to be have been written entirely by authors from drug companies, so perhaps there is some bias. Here's a meta analysis that favors honey over DXM
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by robmccoll 2mo ago
Not totally accurate - there are a handful of foaming agents and surfactants that are mixed and matched to make shampoos, so really it's nearly the same except that no one has ever overdosed on applying too much sodium lauryl sulfate t
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by robmccoll 2mo ago
Because I associate that style with "I have little to say, but I will say it in as many words as I possibly can"
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
What does the actual startup latency look like? Does it depend on the size of the resulting image?
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
The problem I have with Kunernetes in general is that everything is slow and configuring everything seems needlessly complex in common use cases.
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
For reference, a PlayStation 5 is $600-650 for the base models (lower performance than Steam Machine) and $900 for the Pro model (likely higher performance). I know this is a PC and thus an open platform, but for most buyers in living room
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
That's interesting. I gave nearly the same task to Gemma4 31b as a test yesterday. Write a symbolic math engine in Typescript that can perform evaluation and simple expression reductions over +-/*(). It performed the task correctl
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
I just don't want to have to have a pipeline going in order to fully occupy my time. I don't want to wait on the model to review the prompt, read the parts of the codebase indicated, do its own research in the codebase and documen
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
Yes - I want that and dramatically faster. Newer models don't seem to need any more or less guidance and iteration, so let's make the time-to-wrong-answer as short as possible.
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by robmccoll 3mo ago
Musk sold Twitter into xAI which he then sold into SpaceX as a financial engineering effort to lessen the impact of massive debts and cash burn. The IPO and some clever structuring is the final step in the process.
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by robmccoll 4mo ago
My Nissan Ariya checks nearly every box. The controls for the AC have dedicated buttons, but they are capacitive, not tactile. Anyway, love the car. It's a real shame that they aren't selling them in the US anymore.
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by robmccoll 4mo ago
Making these claims on a 2B parameter model seems a bit like seeing linear scalability from 1 to 4 cores and then assuming 256 cores will give you a 256x speedup. Or demonstrating massive improvement on datasets that fit in cache and then a
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by robmccoll 4mo ago
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by robmccoll 4mo ago
Maybe - let's assume that we could simulate a human brain to a high level of fidelity starting from a known good state and emulate its input and output. Do you think we could poke at it enough and ask the simulated person about their e
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by robmccoll 5mo ago
Any solution that involves having to use a keyword to get the value returned from a function is such a poor design choice to me. Nearly every time I call a function I don't want to have to care if it is synchronous or not. I want the s
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by robmccoll 5mo ago
Being the least bad doesn't make something good. macOS is the least bad choice for the majority of people that just want a machine to mostly browse the Internet, look at their photos, do some light productivity work, and participate in
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by robmccoll 5mo ago
If they think macOS is one great idea, that's a terrible misjudgment.
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by robmccoll 5mo ago
Edge Gallery by Research at Google
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by robmccoll 5mo ago
It seems like Halo's rampancy take on the breakdown of an AI is not a bad metaphor for the behavior of an LLM at the limits of its context window.
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
Totally! But it doesn't have to be this way.
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
I care because every second of that startup time is lost productivity and focus. For me and any developer on my team. Hot reload only works if no class or method has changed so that's not a solution. I've worked on codebases of si
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
Does this app take 5 minutes to start? That's so much dynamic Spring magic. Also, how do you keep track of control flow when anything at anytime could have been overridden by something else? It seems like tracing and debugging this thi
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
Probably training data. The largest number of public repos are built on that stack. We recently picked React for new projects because LLMs seemed to be the most reliable when writing React code.
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
jq is probably faster than storage, the network, compression, or something else in your stack and not your bottleneck.
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
Until you start using frameworks like Spring and then everything is so painfully magic that no one knows how the program actually runs.
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by robmccoll 6mo ago
Since modshim isn't money patching and appears to only be wrapping the external API of a package, if the change is deep enough inside the package, wouldn't you end up reimplementing most of the package from the outside?

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