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And Altavista was slow! Google was so much faster, it felt way nicer to use. But LLMs are slow; forcing my google queries through an LLM is destroying that speed.

It remains to be seen what they actually end up selling for, but it seems like Slate intend to offer a 200 hp motor, 52 kWh battery ... and the rest of a whole vehicle for $28k. Th…

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People fight about tab sizes all the time though.

Sometimes I wonder if the throat-clearing is an indispensable part of getting to the "good bits" that follow. Like, do those extra tokens give it more "room to think" even if they'…

It seems to me that the distinction becomes irrelevant as soon as you connect inputs and outputs to the real world. You wouldn't say that a 737 autopilot can never, ever fly a real…

I'm sure it's fine you do it properly ([1] for example). The issue here was the utter lack of engineering, not the specific manufacturing technique (although those do seem to be hi…

The extra fun thing about this is that eval has different semantics if it's assigned to a different name, in order to allow JavaScript implementations to apply extra optimizations …

My "will not bailout AI companies" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

What does the word "material" in "material support" mean if advocacy counts?

The "scraping helped slow it down" theory makes no sense to me. What do you think has a higher coefficient of friction - tire rubber on asphalt, metal on asphalt, or metal on metal…

Good thing the current supreme court has such respect for precedent!

One might even say they have chutzpah .

Do any of the major airlines have a software stack that isn't a legacy nightmare?

"built to the highest Microsoft standards of security, privacy and performance" seems perhaps importantly different from "but to the highest standards".

Similar concept, though an important distinction: QFTF assumes that you have a phone you can scan QR codes with, but that isn't where you want the file to end up. Instead, it displ…

I've been working on a little utility to transfer files between two computers using QR codes: https://github.com/cibyr/qftf It's kinda like Magic Wormhole without typing. It uses i…

So many autoplaying videos on the page, and none of them are the video that the article is about.

Imgur is particularly infuriating because it was initially touted as an alternative to the shitty image-sharing sites of the day (photobucket and the like) - one that would let you…

Zig's claims of memory safety are a bad joke. Sure, it's easier to avoid memory safety bugs in Zig than it is in C, but that's also true of C++ (which nobody claims is a memory saf…

Can a C program be memory safe as long as it doesn't have any relevant bugs? Yes, and you can even prove this about some C programs using tools like CBMC.

What's the alternative though? If you're fine with garbage collection, just use garbage collection. If you're _not_ fine with garbage collection (because you want deterministic per…

I think rdrd just missed that piece of the fine wordsmithing - so long as there's at least one person not included in that "some users", then "we don’t keep logs of who EVERYONE is…

I really wanted a Palm Pre back in the day, but they initially didn't offer them at all outside of the US, and later only in a handful of other countries. It seemed like they weren…