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jjmarr

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About jjmarr

All views are my own. Software Engineer II @ AMD

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    > No learning linear systems without learning how to do linear approximation of systems in a mostly non-linear world. That's why Common Core trains kids on estimation from Grade 2.…

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    Comment #49238370

    The ultimate goal is ChatGPT or Claude autonomously making purchases on your behalf and taking a cut. So the "premium" gymcutter subscription will be presented to the user as a too…

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    Comment #49157064

    Having grown up in Toronto, unqualified "beef patty" means the Jamaican snack. It is extremely common junk food I would buy at a convenience store on my way home from school.

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    Comment #49152016

    Erlang/Elixir/OTP has a resilient environment with hot swapping. Is that truly problematic?

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    Comment #49139275

    > Makes me wonder how long we have before, "create your own ChatGPT" becomes the next big thing and people wonder why their "AI Labs" aren't making as much as the big boys. We're a…

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    Comment #49115340

    In this case, it'd be Clang, which does allow AI use.

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    Comment #49062000

    Is this actually true? Could it depend on latitude?

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    Comment #49016614

    It's the politics of the paid membership of the Codeberg non-profit that funds the whole operation. They vote in yearly meetings.

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    Comment #49016237

    In the words of the person who announced the ban, when moderating a discussion on it 8 months prior:[1] > > Dear Codeberg, please push out and ban these political fighters. > This …

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    Comment #49016157

    In the prior words[1] of Gusted, one of the board members that announced the ban: > This is not a neutral space, Codeberg is political. If you disagree with someone, be constructiv…

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    Comment #49014703

    My family has spent centuries marrying into an alternative claimant to the Grand Duke of Tuscany who did not inherit through Ferdinando I. We were planning to use this as an excuse…

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    Comment #48987101

    The United States is rare. Most countries (seemingly including Romania[1]) have adopted either a cadastral/Torrens title system in which the land registry is definitive legal evide…

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    Comment #48972216

    The CUDA/HIP APIs are mostly C-like APIs but are really C++ language extensions. e.g. you need triple angle brackets when calling a GPU kernel. The compiler turns that into placing…

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    Comment #48970879

    > People are perfectly content to accept pollution if it provides actual jobs not just money for tech bro douchebags living on a yacht in Tahiti. > And for fuck sake never talk abo…

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    Comment #48970816

    Unfortunately I'm a GPU programmer. C++-based CUDA/HIP is still the standard regardless of how much people would rather use Rust to program GPUs.

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    Comment #48915728

    In reality, one massive update is too big to digest and it never happens. So you're stuck on out-of-date packages having lost the ability to update. That's never a problem until it…

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    Comment #48891882

    Right now it can't click on anything so it'd probably fail at the minigames. But it'd be super funny to see a 4 person LLM lobby fail at games.

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    Comment #48891579

    I made a general purpose harness integrated into MelonDS and got Claude to play Mario Kart by feeding it continuous video. It made forward progress in the Figure 8 circuit after I …

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    Comment #48868423

    More like the billions of people that use non-Latin languages, or even Latin languages w/ accents.

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    Comment #48827209

    Alan Greenspan (fed chair from 1987-2006) was famous for deliberately confusing forward guidance. Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen are the historical anomalies for clearly communicati…

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    > An arms race is the inevitable outcome. It's either that or competitive gaming is not viable. I'd rather just give my passport and do one of those face turning challenges to play…