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Comment · 5 months ago
Thx, that often works, but that's still inaccessible to me.
Comment · 5 months ago
> Not a X. Not a Y. Not a Z. The thing he was most proud [...]"

This construction - how is it called? It is clear "AI speak" - at least I remember Claude talking like that (even if it is code).

Comment · 8 months ago
If you think about it, it makes sense.

Say what you want about LLM-assisted software development, the chances are high that it will stay, meaning a non-trivial part of code will be written by an LLM.

So is it better to have

  - git commit (mostly only code)
  - magic or blackblock (meaning back and forth by developer with LLM, before commit)
  - git commit (mostly only code)
  ...
  (rinse and repeat)
or

  - git commit (prompt and/or code)
  - git commit (prompt and/or code)
  ...
  (rinse and repeat)
Obviously for that to work the LLM output has to be deterministic and a commit chain has to be pinpointed to a specific weight blob.
Comment · 11 months ago
You can use ctrl+shift+t to open the recently closed tab again.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah I see, thx, it's a pretty default configured "gnome-terminal", which probably captures the F10.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's an interesting file browser, the default "blue" colors gives old-school vibes nowadays.

If you wonder how to quit (if started from a terminal):

It's `ESC 0`. Or "exit" like from a shell. Took me some time I have to admit (q, ctrl-c, ctrl-q, F10, ESC all did not work).

Comment · 1 year ago
Valid question i think in this context. I knew about GNU multiprecision library, but thought that couldnt be it, as it's "just" a highly optimized low level bit fiddling lib (at least thats my expectation without looking into the source), so it's strange why it could be damaging Hardware ...
Comment · 1 year ago
It's okayish. Considering 64G to 128G are available for (nerd) high-end consumers you're just off with a factor 5 (if we can squeeze out a little bit more performance).

Thas is pretty astonishing in my opinion.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think there is some kind of misunderstanding. Sure, if you get somehow structured, machine-generated PDFs parsing them might be feasible.

But what about the "scanned" document part? How do you handle that? Your PDF rendering engine probably just says: image at pos x,y with size height,width.

So as parent says you have to OCR/AI that photo anyway and it seems that's also a feasible approach for "real" pdfs.

Comment · 1 year ago
Do you think as an observer of Roko's basilisk ... should I share these prompt or not?
Comment · 2 years ago
This guy footnotes.
Comment · 2 years ago
They don't.
Comment · 2 years ago
Although this is nice, the problems with the GIL are often blown out of proportion: people stating that you couldn't do efficient (compute-bounded) multi-processing, which was never the case as the `multiprocessing` module works just fine.
Comment · 2 years ago
Why is it always public cloud (aws, gcp, azure) vs. "bring your own hardware and deploy it in racks".

There are multiple providers that offer VPS and ingress/egress for a fraction of the cost of public clouds and they mostly have good uptime.

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