vinceguidry

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by vinceguidry 9d ago
One of the stranger aspects of Roman history is that for centuries, there was a fight over who gets the public space. You'd have the local mystery cults defacing whatever the Christians put up and vice versa. Assimilating local traditi
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by vinceguidry 18d ago
> Also note that I'm using the term "materialism" loosely to mean that oneself is a part of a larger world rather than the whole. No matter how good physics gets, it can't solve the mind-body problem, that exists at a
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by vinceguidry 20d ago
Color is perhaps the worst thing to try to make this argument with. We can measure it with tools and there's entire industries that would fall apart if human color perception wasn't a knowable thing. Like, the whole Apple iMessage
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by vinceguidry 20d ago
I first read your comment as "giving money to kids." That's probably how commenter interpreted it and it makes sense in that context.
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by vinceguidry 20d ago
> Solipsism or simulation theory type of metaphysical positions remain undefeated, but they don't matter for practical purposes because materialism and its accompanying theories of physics have the same predictive power about what I
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by vinceguidry 1mo ago
You got lucky, mine didn't even start up, even after overnight charging, batteries have such short lives these days.
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by vinceguidry 1mo ago
I don't know what the deal is with Linux and cameras. I've got Fedora installed on this old Retina MBP and apparently Linux somehow stopped supporting the built in webcam. I've never heard of a device losing Linux support but
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
I love it. Claim gets made, it's pointed out that there's no evidence for said claim, claim gets justified anyway with some version of "it's logical / rational / stands to reason." All it amounts to is &#x
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
Ah! You're right, I had read somewhere that he'd implemented his own X windows but I suppose I was mistaken.
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
Vidar wrote one in pure Ruby. https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
When has Linux ever been a "complete OS designed to work as a whole"? The Cathedral and the Bazaar was written 29 years ago.
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
What do you need your tiny routers to do?
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
My Gen Y brain can do this no problem, and I'm among the oldest of the generation. Anthropomorphizing is fun!
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
Author's criticism is valid. Using LLMs, like using search engines before them, is a skill. You have to know what to ask and what to accept as a valid answer, what to push back on and when to throw in the towel and try another approach
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
... it always has been? It's youthful exuberance that can pretend it was ever anything else.
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
Sounds like someone who has never touched grass. ;-p
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
You'd be amazed at just how much tolerance human guts can develop for this kind of thing. I recall reading about a hunter-gatherer tribe the discoverer ran across just going to town on horribly rotten carrion. The more rotten the bette
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
I'm seeing tons of blog posts which seemingly amount to having AI write code. It would have never occurred to me to repeatedly invoke an LLM to do what a simple script could, but I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. 20 line bash
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by vinceguidry 2mo ago
Ask someone to name all fifty states, see how far they get. Then start naming places and ask if they're a US state or not. One of these tasks is far more likely to get a 100% hit rate.
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by vinceguidry 3mo ago
I was hired once to be the Rails guy on a team of competent web developers, that didn't know Rails. I spent two years slowly ironing out issues with the codebase. By the time I was done our velocity had increased to the point to where
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by vinceguidry 3mo ago
Very interesting work! I put some effort into getting it to work with models my hardware can actually run well and they just fall over immediately. gemma4 12b runs like molasses on my 2080 super but it was the only model able to, with your
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by vinceguidry 3mo ago
Has anyone come up with a decent harness for small local models, say, gemma4 e4b? I'm trying to roll my own but man, the capability gap is real.
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by vinceguidry 3mo ago
The school bully rarely has a great life after high school. In this case, the bully ended up working for them.
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by vinceguidry 3mo ago
A much better answer to the question "why not just use Tailscale?" is that critical functionality only is available with cloud hosting, self-hosted headscale just doesn't offer a usable solution. > If you want to release
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by vinceguidry 4mo ago
> Piketty, no conservative, has argued that UBI fails to address root structural problems: “unequal access to education and health, low-paying and low-productivity jobs, malfunctioning markets, corruption, and regressive tax systems.” Da
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by vinceguidry 4mo ago
Ruby's YJIT compiler does compile ahead of time, the details are in the link provided. On the first run it will, if feasible, compile blocks of frequently executed code and stow it away for when it's needed next. So only on the fi
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by vinceguidry 4mo ago
Ruby is compiled, it JIT compiles the code, in theory it should be on par with go once the compiler works out all the code paths, in a long-running application, you should expect the whole codebase to be compiled eventually. More: https:&#
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by vinceguidry 4mo ago
I choose it because I know and love it. If I gotta go figure out what the bot did, I'd much much rather try to figure out its ruby than anything else. On the browser plugin I'm making, I took one look at the js code it generated t
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by vinceguidry 4mo ago
> I guess it's hard for boomers to avoid posting their typical knee-jerk reactions publicly. I use the phrase "there's a boomer in every room," to describe the phenomenon. Always taking up space, never knowing when to
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by vinceguidry 4mo ago
The curse actually feels more relevant to me to ruby rather than lisp.

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