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What a weird, low-effort comment. Randell’s got another (large) book on ARM assembly. He’s also got a handful of other great books on software engineering in general - he’s more th…

That is a fantastic presentation. It reminds me of the annotated source/site that backbonejs used to have, but this one is interactive. Really great job!

Elderly gen-x are screen addicts because they had access to gaming consoles and computers? Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment. Not every gen-xer was strapped to a console grow…

> but from time to time, doing this does require doing arithmetic correctly (to correctly add two exponents or whatever). so it would be nice to be able to trust that. It sounds we…

I’d add that the potential to support other architectures is also a benefit. At the moment the framework 13 chassis supports risc-v [0] [1] with rumors about an arm variant. Beyond…

That jibes with what Nadella said in an interview not too long ago. Essentially, SaaS apps disappear entirely as LLMs interface directly with the underlying data store. The unspoke…

> The criticisms in the cnn article are already out date in many instances. Which ones, specifically? I’m genuinely curious. The ones about “[an] unfalsifiable disease-free utopia”…

Ditto - no spam at all. I do get reminders that it’s time to file, and conveniently, if nothing has changed since the previous year (address, employer, marital status, etc.) then t…

I’ve used them for probably the better part of a decade. I’ve never had any issues, they’re pretty inexpensive, they e-file by default and you get a notification when state and fed…

That doesn’t seem very likely from my reading. It sounds like it’s not unheard of for prion-diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob to take a while to destroy a person. The poor lady fta a…

Out of curiosity, what kind of writing? Journaling and getting your thoughts out, or fiction, something else?

A “complex” cfg is still a cfg, and, giving credence to Chomsky’s hierarchy, remains computationally less complex than natural, context sensitive, grammars. Even a complex cfg can …

> [Harper Reed] cautioned against being overly precious about the value of deeply understanding one’s code, which is no longer necessary to ensure that it works. That just strikes …

Why? I can understand the argument that you don’t want an ISP or a middlebox injecting ads or scripts (valid I think even if I’ve never encountered it to my knowledge), but otherwi…

I’m seeing a lot about price hikes, new service charges, and bad customer service since the acquisition. I noticed the price hike with one of my domains through them, I paid it but…

How is it winner-take-all? Training models is expensive, yeah, but big companies are willing to do it, and if deepseek is any lesson, it’s not as expensive as we used to think. You…

Temperature? Definitely tweaks the results…but I don’t know if “deterministic” is a term you can use in any way, shape, or form, in the context of LLMs. https://www.ibm.com/think/t…

> It feels disingenuous but even companies I know and respect are adding questionable “agent” features that rarely work. Word. I’m not a huge Microsoft fan, but it feels like they’…

Ditto! I haven’t found any hardware that’s daily-driver ready, but I keep looking. https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-ai-pc-risc-v... I especially like the idea of get…

That sounds a bit unfair. All that code that we neither wrote nor understood, I think in the case of Rust, it’s either the borrow checker or the compiler itself doing something it …

> Monopolies can only be created by government dictate, like old AT&T or modern cable companies. By virtually every definition I can find, a monopoly is a an entity that functions …

AST had raccoons on one or two of his books, earlier editions of “ Operating Systems Design and Implementation” iirc. I always thought cartoon raccoons on the cover of a technical …

I really enjoy Crafting Interpreters, but I’ve revisited it a couple times and haven’t yet made it through half the book. It’s very well written and there’s a lot of material to ch…