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littlestymaar

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About littlestymaar

Former lead developer at Streamroot, now doing WebRTC, p2p and Rust freelance consulting.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48817278

    > Not at all the take I got, it was a specific, very corporate, section about ”say nothing bad about LLMs” It was merely a “can we please not start a flame war on LLMs and focus on…

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    Comment #48793260

    TL;DR; the author feels betrayed because the Rust leadership didn't take a strong stance against LLMs like the Zig team did. IMHO LLMs are causing lots of issues in the software wo…

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    Comment #48789120

    Back in 2018 it was already running on M5 Hosting, but still on a single server: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041 (And honestly I don't see why it would have changed g…

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    Comment #48789089

    > Does dang run HN on a single server? I don't think Dang is responsible of that part, but I may be wrong. HN used to run on a single server (source: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

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    Comment #48787692

    > Even you use HN. A website that runs on an infra that could sit in a cupboard under the stairs serving hundreds of thousands of users with very small loading time. > My friends a…

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    Comment #48700184

    Linen is the most underappreciated fabric. It's cool in both ways. I don't understand why so few people wear linen in summer.

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    Comment #48513564

    > HTML in its recent iterations made it very clear to try and separate itself from layout concerns. That's what I'm saying, it's a general design principle for new developments, bu…

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    Comment #48509013

    > Yes, really. Even is used to represent the data, not the layout Nope. It's a html tag to lay out data in a table form ! > but it's probably the only element that does such a thin…

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    Comment #48492615

    For that to work I would need to define a custom component from JavaScript, wouldn't I? (and I thought custom components had to contain an hyphen in there name, is that wrong?)

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    Comment #48492593

    Not really. This would not be different to and associated elements, which are arguably better than a div soup.

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    Comment #48488965

    GP said: > completely orthogonal and swappable css. You're talking about having a single CSS and HTML page for multiple layouts, there aren't the same thing at all.

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    Comment #48488952

    > so there often aren't semantic HTML tags that would make sense. Pet peeve of mine: there should really be ` ` and ` ` elements, as well as ` ` (flex item) and ` ` (grid item) for…

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    Comment #48483692

    LD50 is a very poor measurement for this kind of stuff though, there are plenty of stuff that can severely harm you on the long term at relatively low doses but will never realisti…

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    Comment #48483563

    Maybe it's just because reducing treatment makes produces more fragile, which means by buying organic you end up eating fresher stuff just because it couldn't withstand the logisti…

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    Comment #48483539

    The problem is that there's a part that's true (the “organic” label is based in part on “appeal to nature”, allowing certain stuff on the basis that it is natural, which truly isn'…

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    Comment #48159185

    It's still limited, but the shift has been dramatic over the past few month alone. It's hard to tell what the situation will look like in a few years. Unless the midterms are a dem…

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    Comment #48158264

    > Does this translate into a similar reduction in compute? No, quite the opposite actually. Like with speculative decoding this model will compute more tokens and discard the inval…

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    Comment #48157810

    So, it's D-Flash but at each transformer layer and share the KV cache of the original model? Very smart!

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    Comment #48147169

    US tech is currently being weaponized against the ICC and its member judges in Europe[1], and the US is threatening to annex Greenland, as a result all (former) US allies are scram…

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    Comment #47971643

    Stylometry has existed for decades, and there's no way an LLM is stronger at that job than a specialized piece of software (it's not more realistic than expecting Opus to beat Stoc…

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    Comment #47896409

    > the efficiency changes that have created this perceived downtrend in claude quality” Why the euphemism? What Anthropic did was an aggressive degradation of their model to save co…

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    Comment #47896247

    x oil shock (due to Ormuz).

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    Comment #47892124

    Yeah, there are arguments to be made about the benefits (less teenagers on social media) vs the drawbacks (having to hand your id card to some untrustworthy provider), or the fact …