webdevver

7 ms·

31.
by webdevver 7mo ago
as a layperson, it seems the whole collider stuff has not been a very fruitful scientific direction so far (has there been any discovery made with the help of a collider that found its way into an industrial product?) maybe we are trying to
32.
by webdevver 7mo ago
a similar (?) scandal happened in China, for which 2 people faced execution, alongside some very lengthy prison sentences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
33.
by webdevver 7mo ago
its funny how writing games in C is now seen as some kind of 'hardcore mode', despite the fact that a huge number of excellent titles up to and including the 2000s were written that way. the core of games tend to be a 'world
34.
by webdevver 7mo ago
it definitely sucks to be honest, and theres a lot of cope out there. fact of the matter is, being able to churn out bash oneliners was objectively worth $100k/year, and now it just isnt anymore. knowing the C++ STL inside-out was also
35.
by webdevver 7mo ago
imo the engineers who stay in their nuts-and-bolts lane - those are the ones who are at a real risk of 'brainrot', who sometimes at the ripe age of 50+ continue to misunderstand what motivates management, the executives, seemingly
36.
by webdevver 7mo ago
demis is more than qualified. he was politically savvy enough to stay in control of deepmind when it was acquired by google, thats up there with the altman fiasco a year or two ago.
37.
by webdevver 7mo ago
i did a similar excercise - something i found very funny, was that my half-baked emulator was getting stuck in various places in the tetris ROM. i copy-pasted the program counter hex address into the google search bar, and immediately got a
38.
by webdevver 7mo ago
reading books these days is more akin to visiting the theatre. its a special cultural occasion that you might do once a year to remind yourself that this stuff is still out there, but for actual practical purposes reading books is probably
39.
by webdevver 8mo ago
knowing elon, he will make this actually work, thus fully vindicating both the financial engineering and his arrogance!
40.
by webdevver 8mo ago
thats fair enough but reading assembly is such a pain in the ass... it was exciting for the first 10 minutes of my life, but now, if i ever got to that point, i will 100% copy-paste the listing to chatgpt with "hey, can you see anyth
41.
by webdevver 8mo ago
i was sincerely hoping i could get auto main(argc, argv) -> int int argc; char **argv; to work, but alas it seems c++ threw pre-ansi argument type declarations out.
42.
by webdevver 8mo ago
right click -> "explain this for me" has been a life-changer. nothing infuriated me more than having to ask someone to elaborate only to get some high-and-mighty "you wouldn't get it" type response. now the AI ca
43.
by webdevver 8mo ago
>beatings continue >stock goes up >beatings stop >stock goes up
44.
by webdevver 8mo ago
well, the split is both ways. lets not forget that depite a lot of talk and wish-casting, the EU is still largely impotent. I know for sure that I am envious of my colleagues in the US. but europe? hmm... regarding the Russian kleptocrat si
45.
by webdevver 8mo ago
i think there's a danger here of underestimating how varied mankinds 'mindware' is at large. for us lot who were 'born in it, molded by it' (tech), it can be very hard to internalize that there are a lot of people
46.
by webdevver 8mo ago
im sure the clang compile times are very respectable, but for llms? paltry 200gb/sec compared to the rtx 6000 pros 1.8tb. sure you can load big(-ish) models on it, but if youre getting <10 tokens per second, that severely limits how
47.
by webdevver 8mo ago
the reason he (probably) wants that feature so badly is cos it crashes his amdgpu driver when he tries inferencing lol although, as an amd user, he should know that both vulkan and rocm backends have equal propensity to crap the bed...
48.
by webdevver 8mo ago
permanent underclass...
49.
by webdevver 8mo ago
starting from a 'known good' config file (olddefconfig, allnoconfig) and then carefully iteratively switching options around is the only methodology ive had any success with. I've had some good experiences with using Gemini t
50.
by webdevver 8mo ago
Making bespoke linux distros should be quite a good fit for LLM agents, especially given the recent results with the LLM-authored web browser.
51.
by webdevver 8mo ago
I have increasingly negative things to say about this. There is (so far) nothing 'open' about RISC-V. and I wonder if there really ever was any desire for it, at this point. This whole "Open ISA" crap appears to be a thi
52.
by webdevver 8mo ago
riscv is going to start having brand issues with these hardware offerings (if it doesn't already.) sure, prototypes are good. but maybe it shouldn't be sold as a general product, because it implies that the sellers deem it a good
53.
by webdevver 8mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260117185107/https://maniek86....
54.
by webdevver 8mo ago
id imagine someone like Simon to pick his AI products carefully enough that he doesn't waste his time on duds.
55.
by webdevver 8mo ago
the US is the centre of the world, and AI is at the centre of US attention! why would anyone do anything else, anywhere else?
56.
by webdevver 8mo ago
it would be so incredibly trumpian if he announces "Greencards For Greenland!" surely, surely someone has already brainstormed it...
57.
by webdevver 8mo ago
applesisters...
58.
by webdevver 8mo ago
not really an answer ofcourse, but what ive found to be quite fun is having the elixir linux source code open in Edge, and using the copilot side-window to just copy-paste it bits of code and asking it to walk me through it (select block of
59.
by webdevver 8mo ago
if everyone had symmetric gigabit, this would be a no-brainer. imagine having auto-scaling CPUs, auto-scaling RAM, etc - it would incentivise some cool OS architecture (yes yes, privacy issues aside etc.) most of the time i'm doomscrol
60.
by webdevver 8mo ago
to be fair, that cobol program has been working for probably 30 years (maybe even longer than that) - thats unusually reliable and long-lived for a software project. the only real contender in this regard is the win32 api, and actually that

More ›