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Unfortunately, Tyrell is incorrect. https://www.replacementlightbulbs.com/ohmslaw.html which gives the equation: Life(actual) = Life(rated) x ( V(rated) / V(actual) ) ** 13 NOTE th…

me too. Those things were built to last - and they do.

I bet you do, or you will. In my case, I had been getting movie recommendations from friends and also randomly. I'd look up the flick on IMDB, metacritic, and rotten tomatoes and I…

Yes, it IS confident of its weights & biases... but, if you keep at it, Claude WILL find the smoking gun, eventually. Even a broken watch is correct twice a day ( unless it's a dig…

https://archive.org/details/Programming_the_Z-80_2nd_Edition... is where I learned about the "W" and "Z" registers -- if you don't know what they do, I won't spoil your fun reading…

I take the previous point about missing MMX / Vector instructions. Presumably, that's a straightforward optimization, when code is vectorizable? That is, yes, it would be nice to h…

MMIX uses register windows to make stack frame pointer offsets unnecessary when referring to PUSHed arguments. Don is trying to make the algorithms understandable and correct, and …

This is exactly correct. Low 10s of kHz is quite functional for machines moving in human space / speed. If one is trying to do some assembly line (max # of operations per second), …

Wow, the Python folks do not want to entertain different goals for the language, it would seem. I still remain interested in whether it makes sense to add features to Python anymor…

Absolutely serious question: is anybody actually writing code anymore? (Reviewing it, architecting it, sure -- we do that). But writing code? If NOT, then seems to me, what we want…

Paul Graham? ;-)

If we used it more than just "ok look it works, we'll standardize on this internally" we'd have been happy to buy it, as we all other open source that has a donation option. We wer…

It was written in older version of PySimpleGUI -- it just stopped working! Pretty annoying.

Now, if only the LoC would recognize the brilliance of the Fossil SCM ....

I had heavily used PySimpleGUI in various work projects, and one day, when I had to run some older piece of code I had not run in a while, I get a notice that PySimpleGUI won't wor…

Excuse my ignorance, but does this functionally mean we can treat this as a 'microkernel' a la minix? I always liked the 'tiny protected subsystem' in Ring 0, then a Ring 1 for Dri…

A bit surprised Sussman's and Wisdom's book hasn't yet been mentioned: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262028967/structure-and-interpr...

i let v0 = 0.616 u + 0.291 v - 0.135 let v1 = if 0 > v0 then 0 else v0 is there something 'less good' about: let v1 = if v0 Am I the only one who stutter-parses "0 > value" vs my c…

yes, and, fortunately -- even the frogs have enough awareness they actually jump out before they are boiled.

It's possible. I don't know. My tone comes off as support Elon, and I do not, at all. I've seen first-hand almost all of these tactics while I was at . I'm observing that some peop…

BIG Head.

Karparthy worked for Elon for, what, 5 years? How did he do it, if Elon is Ivan the Terrible?

I have always disliked the := as assignment operator convention. In these declarative languages, assignment is done frequently. There is little cognitive load to using '=' as assig…

One other helpful frame: I consider LLMs simply to be very flexible high-level 'language' Compilers. We've moved up the Abstraction Chain ever since we invented FORTRAN and COBOL (…

I want to be in your camp, and am trying hard. But the OP's blog entry should at least give us a moment to "respect the dead". That's all he's asking, I think.