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> I can only think of a few other optimizations that affect memory usage Java has string interning. I think that’s a hack that shouldn’t exist in an ideal world. Reason is that, as…

> Yet apple has been trying to tell us all along that it's not just a consumption device, that you can achieve real work with one. There are plenty of real jobs where people do rea…

Plus the fact that an implementation that recognizes the new syntax and produces an error whenever it encounters it will be conforming. On such an implementation, the feature is av…

> where they found a strategy for GPT beating humans on the Turing test 2/3rds of the time. IIRC, PARRY https://simulation-and-society.org/parry/ got there in 1972 by pretending to…

> the push for age verification instead of regulation on the actual harmful content _If_ you think there is content grown-ups should be able to see but kids shouldn’t be able to se…

> I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1 There definitely was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_1 : “The Macintosh "System 1" is the first m…

> Releasing a new iPhone every year at this point is stupid That buying a new iPhone is stupid for the typical user doesn’t mean releasing a new on every year is stupid for Apple. …

> With exception of Swift, D, and bytecode based languages, the ABI is left to the vendors. I don’t see exceptions there. Apple defines the ABI of Apple’s Swift’s implementation, W…

In science fiction, the AI agent has written the training loop management software and included a back door to prevent that from happening (or found a way to talk to the training l…

> Unfair societies collapse. I don’t think we have the data to disprove the stronger claim “societies collapse”, and I don’t think being unfair (whatever that means) makes societie…

> So he was willing to do what Microsoft asked? No. Balk = stop and return on your steps. He was moving towards ”migrating more than 14000 PCs in public administration to Linux”, G…

> I don’t think any such benchmark should exist. wing-_-nuts says (emphasis added) “My personal benchmark for 'MAYBE this function is too long' is when it doesn't fit on the page.”…

Is executing a strategy that you (should) know to be impossible to implement because of logistical limitations really a logistics failure? It’s not as if the US, a few years ago, s…

> Microsoft has always been half-baked, even in the 80s and 90s. Heck, my parents basically raised me (20+ years ago) by running a business fixing problems with Microsoft products …

That may not be the strongest example. https://github.com/googlefonts/inconsolata : “Building the family Family is built using Glyphs, fontmake and gftools post processing script. …

For maps, a convention is to use K and V for key, respectively Value. I think that’s best as you’ll soon learn the “single-character capital letter ⇒ generic parameter” convention

Weird title for a book on assembly - for x64 - on Windows - using MASM There are other 64-bit OSes, CPUs and assemblers for them, and people do use them.

Even if you specifically train the model on producing shorter answers, I would think producing good short answers would require more resources just as it does for humans ( https://…

> Minimizing tokens out, or generally "token efficiency," is part of the objective function for these systems. First time I heard that, and I doubt it. Don’t customers pay for outp…

> The game is already as global as it gets There is a tiny bit of room for expansion. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y03dermmeo : “Football is almost non-existent on…

> Beautiful. Far more so than Python’s "stressed"[::-1]" “stressed" [8..1]” Looks better, but IMO is worse, as it requires you to know the length of the string. Change the string a…

> I think they were brought up by Epson. Checked that at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiko_Group and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson , b…

> if, for some bizarre reason, a meter gets redefined Miles, feet and yards were tied to the meter in 1893 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendenhall_Order ). The meter got redefin…