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by torginus 7d ago
I did not imply harnesses were useless, just that they're merely a functional part of running an LLM. But it's ticking a checkbox. If the harness can support LLM capabilities (tool calling, reading the screen, visual interaction),
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by torginus 8d ago
I was just thinking recently, isn't this fascination with harnesses kind of backwards? I mean ChatGPT is the harness most of the time that's calling the tools, MCPs, etc. Putting a loop around it doesn't really seem like it w
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by torginus 8d ago
This is where I retort about what you wrote not being exactly right, and then you reveal that you have 20 years of professional experience writing compilers, including the one most of the software I run was built with.
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by torginus 8d ago
> In GCC, nested functions are lowered in an early middle-end pass. During this pass, all variables of the parent that are accessed by the nested function are collected into a single synthetic structure, and a pointer to this structure i
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by torginus 8d ago
And the fan favourite 'Imagine the apartment we're trying to sell doesn't look like a superfund site'
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by torginus 8d ago
Is there such a thing as a 1GW data center? Like a beefy gaming PC easily uses 1 KW According to Google, an individual GPU tower consumes anywhere between 10-100kW. An 1GW data center is can fit in a size of a mid size apartment.
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by torginus 8d ago
Today I got stuck with a hairy frontend problem, which even AI couldn't help me with. Luckily, I managed to find a Medium article from like 2019. It was joyfully absent of 'comparisons that actually hold up' and 'X that
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by torginus 8d ago
I don't get how an app like this makes a difference. Isn't an image viewer just reading from disk, using whatever image decoding library that's standard, and copying to screen? Of course you can get any of the above arbitrari
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by torginus 9d ago
> I miss the days of simple executables. One of my "santa's not real" moments of computing was realizing how much static and dynamic libraries fucking suck. This cannot be overstated, and is illustrated perfectly by the he
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by torginus 9d ago
I think a reasonable definition of 'lower-level' is getting the programmer to take over some tasks from the compiler. Mechanically expanding a block of code into intrinsics isn't really that. What makes 'C' not real
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by torginus 9d ago
Solaris has had so many cool features, like ZFS or doors. What I liked about ZFS is you coul make snapshot, which is basically the solution to how to treat data files a single, cheap to access unit, yet still use standard apis for file mana
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by torginus 9d ago
Back in my data hoarder days, I downloaded one of those torrents that had all the world's books in it. It was dunno how many terabytes, but way more than I had HDDs. So I stripped out formatting, got rid of dupes, and tried out zstd, w
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by torginus 9d ago
That is a very particular arrangement of the facts, that really doesn't have the shape of truth to it. Vietnam was a former French colony conquered by the Japanese WW2, that wanted to restore their independence.The Allies liberated Sou
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by torginus 10d ago
That is an objectively incorrect take. A common theme in disastrous US interventions was that they tried to prop-up a failing colonial power, which in this case was France - against the locals who wanted independence. Ho Chi Minh was a Fren
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by torginus 10d ago
Reuse might turn out not to be the future - and its SpaceX has embraced this internally. At least not full reuse, or not the way most people think of a reusable spacecraft as a reusable aircraft. A reusable rocket engine might only have 2-3
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by torginus 10d ago
Europe has always had the Ariane family - it just wasn't really price-competitive and popular as of late.
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by torginus 11d ago
So is there a chance that some of these AI-discovered proofs are actually Lean exploits?
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by torginus 11d ago
Even today (and back when Dune was written), modern military tech is invincible to an enemy below a level of sophistication. The US used to hammer insurgents with Predator drones who had no ability to retaliate. This playbook has only flipp
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by torginus 11d ago
I really haven't invested heavily in understanding new tooling, but I did try to move to TS 7.0 and found that a lot of the tooling actually relies on parsing TS not just stripping the types. And the only tool that can do that reliabl
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by torginus 11d ago
Generally speaking 'the Fable/Astra built GTA 6' videos are a new phenomenon, so it's clear these models have new capabilities and people will need new ways of interacting with them if they want to leverage these imo.
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by torginus 12d ago
We need an 'IP over Gangbang video' RFC
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by torginus 12d ago
Very likely yes. I wouldn't be surprised if they were hosted from the same datacenters even. There has been a story every few weeks about how Musk has sublet X.ai capacity for one company or another. This whole thing makes me thing abo
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by torginus 13d ago
Tablets are obsolete. The new generation of kids is going to be raised by a new generation of technology.
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by torginus 13d ago
Btw, I kind of changed my opinion on AI. Finally, everybody can build an app, so we no longer have to pretend the people who built one and made it big are some sort tech pioneers pushing humanity forward. Likewise, if you're a nerd, yo
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by torginus 13d ago
You can see the breakdown here on what subtasks it outperforms and underperforms Fable. For example it trails in GPDVal which is a collection of everyday office tasks apparently, and r3 banking, which is a fintech related practical problem
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by torginus 13d ago
It's a composite benchmark, so its really not saying anything. Like if one model is very good at science trivia, or debugging failed terraform deploys, that can mean an advantage of a few points above the rest, while in practice, it re
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by torginus 13d ago
Yeah, as interesting this is to nerds, I doubt this holds a candle to your typical GTA 6 or Marvel movie trailer in terms of traffic.
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by torginus 13d ago
Isn't this the classic blackout scenario? Claude goes down, then people move over to Codex, which is overwhelmed, and crashes, so people move to Grok...
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by torginus 13d ago
Yeah, why are they always going to the right?
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by torginus 13d ago
I don't really have an special insight on India, but some of the biggest tech CEOs are Indian born and raised (Google, MS...) Surely they have the resources, connections and experience in how to build tech companies. In fact I'd b

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