vnorilo

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by vnorilo 21d ago
I use LLMs at work without much thought by now. I'm also contributing a little bit to Sourcehut and keep my personal projects there. While I'm not necessarily in the "LLMs are evil" camp, I find I respect this position a
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by vnorilo 1mo ago
Totally agreed; I was talking from the POV of someone designing an iOS app. Apple could fix a lot of this jank with better design, individual apps less so.
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by vnorilo 1mo ago
Screenshot and share functionality get massively overloaded on iOS, but it's not because a product person / designer lacks the necessary taste, vision or "courage". It's because the OS is not capable of composing ap
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by vnorilo 4mo ago
If solutions come naturally to you in OOP, why not just roll with it? Personally I find it easiest do design data flows: think about what we need in order to compute the result. The less I have to think about state the better. Functional pa
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by vnorilo 5mo ago
When you need a configuration step, cmake will actually save you a lot of time, especially if you work cross platform or even cross compile. I love to hate cmake as much as the next guy, and it would be hard to design a worse scripting lang
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Wamp, WinAmp style native audio player for macOS(github.com)
2 points by vnorilo 5mo ago|2 comments
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Supply Chain Attack in litellm 1.82.8 on PyPI(futuresearch.ai)
8 points by vnorilo 6mo ago|1 comments
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by vnorilo 6mo ago
The wireless used for pro audio is never bluetooth, however.
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by vnorilo 6mo ago
Indeed, which is not all that different from LLM code generation, to be honest.
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by vnorilo 6mo ago
Yes. LLMs are search engines into the (latent) space or source code. Stuff you put into the context window is the "query". I've had some good results by minimizing the conversational aspect, and thinking in terms of shaping t
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by vnorilo 8mo ago
When something is hundreds of megabytes, it is very unlikely to be mostly compiled code. A lot of that fits in each megabyte.
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by vnorilo 9mo ago
Probably true for many. When thinking about hard problems I'm usually not thinking in language, at least not the kind we speak between us humans, so it can be incredibly distracting if I have to "translate" back and forth whi
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by vnorilo 9mo ago
>I seriously doubt anyone who has written projects in assembly would make such comparisons... With genuine respect, I believe this type of insinuation is rarely productive. Someone might still have silly opinions, even if they have been
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by vnorilo 9mo ago
sure, I was thinking of large OO cores. "Correspondd to the instructions the cpu runs and their observable order" is how I'd characterize C as well, but to each their own.
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by vnorilo 9mo ago
I have empathy for this having written compiler passes for 10ish years of my career. But as I've studied register renaming, speculative branch prediction and trace caches I would no longer agree with your last sentence. It's fine
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by vnorilo 9mo ago
And yet modern assembly does not correspond 1:1 to the micro-ops the CPU runs or even necessarily the order in which they run. Both ISA-level assembly and C are targeting an abstract machine model, even if the former is somewhat further rem
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by vnorilo 1y ago
When I was in third grade, I decided I want to make computer games to get more of them. Dad got me started with GW-Basic turtle graphics and I made pictures with them - usually non-functional title screens for my games. At some point I had
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by vnorilo 1y ago
Finnish has been very peripheral and isolated due to geography. It is closely related to Estonian, but remains much more similar to their common archaic root, while Estonian has streamlined and developed due to more contact and exchange. (
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End times of Intel [video](youtube.com)
1 points by vnorilo 1y ago|0 comments
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by vnorilo 1y ago
In my experience search engines have rapidly deteriorated - probably because of the SEO arms race - and LLMs often feel like search engines used to feel back when they worked. Who knows what will happen once all the marketing attention shif
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AI driven drop in human web traffic(economist.com)
5 points by vnorilo 1y ago|2 comments
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by vnorilo 1y ago
Not in general. Immutable strings can be deduplicated, leading to a different performance tradeoff that is often quite good. This is mentioned in TFA.
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by vnorilo 1y ago
For sure. Data structures and call graphs like to converge, so when designing a data model, you are actually designing the (most natural) program flow too.
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by vnorilo 1y ago
The recent C# feature called interceptors [1] pretty much looks like comefrom from where I stand. Yet everyone talking about it has either been serious, or very good at trolling. 1: https://khalidabuhakmeh.com/dotnet-8-inter
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Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset(economist.com)
90 points by vnorilo 1y ago|153 comments
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by vnorilo 1y ago
I wrote blitters in assembly back in those days for my teenager hobby games. When I could actually target the 386 with its dword moves, it felt blisteringly fast. Maybe the 386 didn't run 286 code much faster but I recall the chip bein
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by vnorilo 2y ago
> But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism. In communism, an individual can not own any means of production - effectively 0% of the society's total capital. I don't think it follows th
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by vnorilo 2y ago
C++ monomorphises generics on demand too. That's why it can have errors specific to specialization and why template error messages spam long causal chains. C++ compile times are due to headers. Which in case of templates result in a lo
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by vnorilo 2y ago
In my mind Clojure is Lispy, Python is not, nor is Javascript. In addition to REPL and macros, I think two other Lispy features are essential: nil is not just the sad path poison value that makes everything explode: lisp is written so that
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by vnorilo 2y ago
Not sure the lynch mob would pause to check that the web of trust is unbroken.

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