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by webdevver 8mo ago
>Isn't it a bit exaggerating to say that users cannot use Snapdragon laptops except for running LLMs? I think maybe what OP meant was that the memory occupied by the model meant you couldn't do anything alongside inferecing, e.
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by webdevver 8mo ago
i cant believe we're still putting NPUs into new designs. silicon taken up that couldve been used for a few more compute units on the GPU, which is often faster at inference anyway and way more useful/flexible/programmable&#x
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by webdevver 9mo ago
would be really funny if this was actually someone preparing for who wants to be a millionaire
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by webdevver 9mo ago
i think i might be brain damaged because i actually like the eclipse ides they put out, atleast the stm32 one
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by webdevver 9mo ago
it is an interesting thought: run a vanity fluid sim on your website to filter out everyone without discrete GPUs...
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by webdevver 9mo ago
> https://wttr.in/ didnt load for me
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by webdevver 9mo ago
i have an even stupider question, which is what if we scrapped ip addresses and just used ethernet addresses to route everything? just make the entire internet network be one big switch. i think the guy who created tailscale wrote about som
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by webdevver 9mo ago
theres a fun "K-shaped" optionality with LLMs: on one hand, its possible to deal with otherwise large API surfaces. but on the other hand, you can 'go oldschool' but with the hot new tools: install ubuntu, launch claude
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by webdevver 9mo ago
honestly, with LLMs, everything is fun again. embedded dev with a billion toolchains, GPU development with each vendors bespoke API, ffmpeg with its billion parameters - if anything, you could say LLMs bailed us out of the impending ultra
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by webdevver 9mo ago
thats the one, thankyou for posting!
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by webdevver 9mo ago
its fun seeing HN articles with huge upvotes but no comments, similar to when some super esoteric maths gets posted: everyone upvotes out of a common understanding of its genius, but indeed by virtue of its genius most of us are not suffici
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by webdevver 9mo ago
>How he did manage to avoid lawsuits from Microsoft is beyond me. MS probably chose not to shut down that effort on the basis that it was enabling the MS stack in Linux. I wish I could dig up an internal presentation that was prepared in
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by webdevver 9mo ago
well yes, but from todays events it seems that everybody elses military is degraded, if anything. after being inundated with scenes of russian donkeys, ukranian 3d-printed drones, and hezbollah toyota machine-guns, this is a stark reminde
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by webdevver 9mo ago
you say cannon fodder - the latest reports indicate not a single casualty in todays US offensive. infact US combat operations are very well known for minimizing troops casulaties, and when it happens an entire movie gets made about it (blac
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by webdevver 9mo ago
nah thats cope. idk what putins issue is, i think hes just old, or maybe its just the best they can do. obviously ukraine is not venezuela but frankly 'slow and steady' is a losing strategy most of the time. something ive read som
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by webdevver 9mo ago
no way - this notion of "exchanges" isnt real, certainly i will never believe it. why would the US 'play nice', when it can have its cake and eat it too? venezuela show of force, followed by imminent regime change in ira
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by webdevver 9mo ago
video format world is one where you nope out pretty quick once you realize how many moving pieces there are. ffmpeg seems ridiculously complicated, but infact its amazing the amount of work that happens under the hood when you do ff
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by webdevver 9mo ago
Down with large line counts! LLMs have done two things for us: made lines of code a commodity, but arguably even more important: made understanding an arbitrary amount of lines of code a commodity too. with this in hand, large codebases tha
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by webdevver 9mo ago
"no no officer this is an orange pi! an orange pi!"
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by webdevver 9mo ago
i am actually eagerly waiting for someone to show the real-deal: actually everything in a github repo, including 'artfiacts', or atleast those artifacts which can't be reconstructed from the repo itself. maybe they could be e
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by webdevver 9mo ago
i am quietly waiting for the "bitter lesson" to hit compilers: a large language model that speaks in LLVM IR tokens that takes unoptimized IR from the frontend, and spits out an optimized version that works better than any "c
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by webdevver 9mo ago
79 years of age!? umm... i dont understand - is this supposed to be a warning to others, or an invitation ? where was the FBI for the last 40 years? or did he really just go postal post-covid?
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by webdevver 9mo ago
people say apple is often the brave company that does something unpopular that is then followed by everyone. i think, genuinely, the brave thing for apple to do here is to cut the foldable. they could even use this leaker as an excuse to ma
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by webdevver 9mo ago
i get the notion that "human things should not pretend to be human", but there is funny circularity (?) here in that the "thing" that is accused of being "human" is not in fact human, and its alleged attempt to
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by webdevver 9mo ago
the article is... whatever. BUT... on the subject of apple: i wouldnt be surprised if apple is going to bring back server offerings. the industry is swinging towards datacenter again and apple already has historic precedent there (Xserve) p
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by webdevver 9mo ago
i would like to push back a bit on this and say, it is worth working hard, but i would argue a lot of programmers get hindered by the illusion that programming is important, or even delivering results. unfortunately in software this is exac
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by webdevver 9mo ago
yeah thats kinda harsh, phoronix is a good oss news aggregator at the very least, and the PTS is a huge boon for "whats the best bang for buck llvm build box" type of question (which is very useful!)
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by webdevver 9mo ago
the pc gaming market is a hobbyist niche compared to the ongoing infrastructure projects. i predict that the "pc" is going to be slowly but surely eaten bottom-up by increasingly powerful SoCs.
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by webdevver 9mo ago
it is surprising (or not?) that there is such a vast gulf in terms of automated tooling between the semiconductor world and pcb routing world. i guess maybe there are less degrees of freedom and more 'regularity' in the semiconduc
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by webdevver 9mo ago
reminds me of this remark made by Carmack on hidden surface removal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6UKhR0T6cs&t=2315s > "research from the 70s especially, there was tons of work going on on hidden surface remo

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