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> Boilerplate is a sign of a bad language This is true, but I was mostly referring to framework boilerplate (Spring, React, etc.) or plumbing boilerplate. If you've ever written co…

> Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product? Frankly, this barely scratches the surface of the hubris of eng…

Location:Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm an engineer and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.…

I am so happy I haven't written a line of C++ in like 15 years. Absolutely disgusting language. Every time I look up one of their new standards, I'm like how does anyone keep all o…

If you're testing how good LLMs are at compressing information, then I think that's a fair test. Personally, I don't really think that's where their strength comes from (especially…

One-shotting is a bit of a red herring, imo. Let's say I wanted to build a "Super Dario" meme platformer. I would do some research, find a platformer on Codepen or Github that "fee…

> Pangram does work It's trivial to see how many people think Pangram is absolute trash[1] (because it is). > You appear to be misinformed about how Pangram specifically works, it …

Pangram doesn't work, and I wish people would stop treating it as gospel (but the AI/anti-AI grift is real). Here's a fun paradox: I can literally tell ChatGPT: "Say X" and it will…

Who implements transliteration rules? I assume operating systems? Or text renderers?

This is pretty crazy, literally built something almost exactly like this for a project I'm working on (a local-first AI agent that does work on folders while you sleep). Basically …

I'm using Kokoro for a fun little side-project browser-based game I'm working on. It's legitimately super good for being only 85mb (for the wasm version) or 300mb (for the webgpu v…

> to reveal both players to each client during the same tick And I explained why this is not feasible given modern network topology. Players move around maps and peek around corner…

A tick is the smallest amount of time the server does its "work" in. It does not mean, as the person I'm replying to was implying, that clients are 100% always lined up, because a …

Well, if you cheat in WoW, Blizzard might just sue you[1], so that tends to be quite effective :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Industries,_LLC_v._Blizzar... .

> so I would consider it absolutely tenable Always confuses me why people speak so authoritatively on topics they aren't versed in. PVS culling is not even remotely comparable to o…

"Same tick" is a misnomer for a few reasons. First of all, games use UDP, which is basically a "fire and forget" protocol (which means packets get dropped routinely). Second of all…

This has been done before in both 1.6 as well as Source. I helped with some of these implementations back in the late-2000s when I was playing professionally and I even tried to ki…

Location:Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm an engineer and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.…

This is a very authoritative answer that should be more nuanced and caveated as implementation-dependent. In some cases, repetition penalties take precedence over sampling; top_k a…

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An alarming number of people don't understand that LLMs work via purely stochastic processes, so I'm happy to see in-depth pieces like this. I'm looking for a job and maybe this is…

This is one of the few AI hills I will die on: not disclosing AI tool usage when you produce a product where the writing is the end result (in this case, the website I'm being sent…

Went over a few of these with a pretty keen eye, and they aren't that particularly interesting. The Docker one is just a weird bug, it's not a vulnerability, and certainly not a "0…

Likely doable with metaparameter tuning (used to work on a team with data scientists that were routinely doing this in various situations). Seems like a cool idea.

In a world where Fira Code, Hack, JetBrains Mono, and like a zillion others (of equal, if not greater, quality) are offered for free, this is obviously a pure marketing play and it…