xyproto

Joined 15 years ago

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Oct 11
Software developer, Arch Linux package maintainer, Go/C/Python/C++ developer and open source enthusiast. Likes the game of Go.
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Comment · 13 days ago
The Algernon web server comes with built-in support for Teal.
Comment · 22 days ago
Comment · 22 days ago
AI tools can be deterministic by setting the temperature to 0. This does allow it to behave as a high level programming language, contrary to what the article claims.
Comment · 2 months ago
What do you mean by regulation? Laws that could lead to a fine or jail time, or the enforcement of laws through ie. the police?
Comment · 2 months ago
What will the long term effects of this be? Models on Hugging Face that only runs properly on NVIDIA hardware?
Comment · 2 months ago
Achtually... if it's a 31556952 second clock, it's only right once a year.
Comment · 2 months ago
As long as one didn't have to downgrade X11, they were straightforward to install. You are right that upgrades was a pain, but I believe the drivers themselves were on-par with the Windows drivers.
Comment · 2 months ago
NVIDIA created quality (but proprietary) drivers for Linux early on, when supporting Linux at all was not a given. They should get at least a tiny bit of credit for this.
Comment · 2 months ago
Quick, solve a double integral by hand!
Comment · 2 months ago
Some skills are easy re-pick-uppable, like bicycling. Mathematics is probably more challenging. Not sure about programming, especially "borint" business-like programming.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's also very easy to dismiss everyone falling into the "AI trap" as being mediocre in the first place, though. But one just can't know this without having seen their work pre-AI.
Comment · 3 months ago
I can't tell if this is insightful or copium.
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh how the wheels have turned.

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