rootlocus

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by rootlocus 6d ago
Simple is better than complex Complex is better than complicated Or something, I don't remember...
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by rootlocus 14d ago
They're asking about a reaction. "What did I say wrong?" is a valid question IMO, even if wrong is subjective, it's part of the question.
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by rootlocus 1mo ago
OP posted his rollercoaster tycoon inspired simulator that explained how chips are fabricated. Comments were full of people pointing out inaccuracies and hallucinations. The problem with LLM explanations of unknown topics is that you litera
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by rootlocus 1mo ago
You can focus on elevator music, doesn't make it not elevator music.
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by rootlocus 1mo ago
Because that html page needs a full browser to render and browsers have accumulated decades of bloat for everything from webgpu to drm. There's a reason we can't write new web browser from scratch, and why some people are excited
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by rootlocus 1mo ago
10 apss using 100mb each plus 600mb shared use less ram than 10 apps using 200mb each.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
Except where will be the programmers paying for overpriced coffee?
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
If 0.0000125% of the population understands "the general ideas" I wouldn't call it accessible.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
I have ~100 repos on github and only a few of them with LLM assistance. Aside from a few comments and a PR here and there throughout the years nobody cares about them. I have to assume it's the same for the majority of developers.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
There's a reason we have expressions like "train of thought". Going from one idea to another is pretty much how we think. Much like going from one token to another.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
https://omp.sh/ - It's maintained by the author of the article.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
According to some benchmarks has the coding capability of Opus at the price of Sonnet, supposedly will be open weights and is not subject to random trade wars with allied states. Competition is always good.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
As someone with very little knowledge of economics, I played with the idea of writing a kind of wealth simulator, where money acts as voltage and keeps the economy running. It would allow you to eliminate jobs and replace them with AI and s
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
Which is why Zig's top feature on its webpage is "No hidden control flow."
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
Is Tracy complicated enough? Because it's imgui. https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com> Co-authored-by: Codex <codex@openai.com> Co-authored-by: Composer <composer@cursor.com> Co-authored-by: Cursor Grok 4.5 <noreply@cursor.com> How do
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
Im constantly surprised by the disk size required by rust builds. It takes over 50G to compile zed IIRC.
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by rootlocus 2mo ago
This is exactly how I feel about performance. Unrelated to any programming language, including my own optimizations. The higher the speedup the more we cheer, however most optimizations aren't clever techniques. They're just someo
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
> If someone was wrong, I wanted them to know it, and I wanted them to know exactly why. I collected counterarguments the way I collected patches. I believed that if I just laid out the logic clearly enough, the other person would have n
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
And they still find ways to drink themselves to alcohol induced comas. There's no real substitute for education and parental nurturing only best effort band-aid solutions. Children with problems at home are more likely to be targeted b
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
Protecting kids online requires attention from their parents, not from the government.
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
I would try to generate puzzles that don't involve plurals at all. It happened twice that the word I missed was the plural of a word I already found. After finding a word I don't follow it again so finding the plural happened by a
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
Sure, and the article mentions the AI in elden ring is scripted in lua which is loaded at runtime, meaning it's not hardcoded.
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
LLMs can be described as "hardcoded weights for generating the next token". All code is "hardcoded". I think AI for game NPCs is perfectly valid terminology. The actor senses the surroundings and makes decisions to achie
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
Ginger Bill, the Odin language developer, is openly hostile against package managers (he wrote a post called "Package Managers Are Evil") so he maintains his own wrappers of popular C libraries in vendor folder next to the compile
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
CEO of a company that failed to become an AI giant says we can't let the companies that succeeded take their slice of the pie.
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
Q: Will this help me get hired? A: Having connected apps on your LinkedIn profile is extra proof of your practical experience with leading tools. While connected apps make your expertise visible, they are just one part of your pr
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
Oh, you have to look up him pretending to play Path of Exile 2 with best in slot gear and casualy saying he's looking to upgrade his items because he can't tell the difference between required level and actual utility of an item.
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by rootlocus 3mo ago
To be fair, game developers have been rendering text on the GPU for over two decades. I've done it in college a decade ago with bmfont [1] (nowadays the engine does rasterization during import). Whoever thought was making a case with &

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