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Comment #49224623
I've been living in Germany for more than a decade, and I've been exposed to many aspects of it, and lived also in several other countries. For those who also lived in southern cou…
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Comment #49215667
In our team's experience, the product of agents is generally The Homer (1). It does work, but it's vastly overengineered. When I personally want tight code, I have to spend a consi…
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Comment #49202872
> it should instead say "AAA gaming is dead now" > All we see out of mainstream AAA gaming is abused devs, private equity scalping, and mindless remaster regurgitation. Basically g…
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Comment #49195674
> "gaming is dead now" One gets the impression that gaming is dead when one's only contact with modern gaming consists of reading headlines about a handful of AAA games. In reality…
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Comment #49166284
> but this is how progress happens. This is progress in the same way that a man climbing a tree is making progress toward reaching the moon. This project is essentially the MoE-of-…
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Comment #49155867
> but are they functionally useful or helpful to anyone currently? Yes and no, depend on your expectations. Some/many like to run local LLMs just for the sake of it, so anything wi…
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Comment #49154267
> 1. speaking German doesn't matter too much in Berlin, except older "Berlin Berlins" most people speak conversational English This depends on the context: it doesn't matter to spe…
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Comment #49154232
German culture is very functional, rigid, and dry, and it serves people with that kind of mindset very well. However, it clashes strongly with typical Southern cultures, so it is n…
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Comment #49154026
"AI-assisted" != "AI-written". People who have AI write their articles entirely surely don't mention it at all.
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Comment #49075735
Which are those use cases, considering that the hypothetical server, as described by the GP, is also extremely slow (4/6 hours for a response)?
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Comment #49069008
> This post doesn’t make sense The author's assumption is that a rewrite is not just a mechanical translation of code - it's also a state of stability. And no release, for the auth…
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Comment #49068727
A firewall can reduce who gets an opportunity to exploit this, but does not make an authenticated RCE irrelevant. This access pattern is perfectly legitimate for hosted Redis servi…
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Comment #49042423
No, that’s a flawed analogy, because this is an RCE. It's (like) having credentials for a network service, then exploiting that service to execute arbitrary code on the Windows hos…
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Comment #49014256
I'm actually confused by the post - indeed why choosing the 27B dense and the 35B MoE models? Given the structure of the post I honestly have the impression that the Spark was purc…
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Comment #49005484
> but used as an attack against other languages, as if to prove they are not good enough for a specific use case. Ultimately, it comes down to the (subjective, sure) ergonomic limi…
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Comment #48972003
It really depends on the end goal. For personal tools that one uses, LLMs are extremely useful. But publicly used software doesn't only need to be written - it also needs to be mai…
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Comment #48944326
> Go's runtime is written in Go. The whole compiler toolchain, GC, compiler, linker, Assembler, is written in Go. There's some nuance to this. The runtime code uses specific compil…
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Comment #48917897
No argument that it's inappopriate, but I wonder if the author works with other programming languages - in some (Groovy, Kotlin, Ruby), "it" is the implicit block parameter.
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Comment #48890059
> Anthropic is not in the programming language market; their post about rewriting Bun in Rust is full of technical details that led to improving the end product for their users Ant…
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Comment #48876423
> I suspect Anthropic had to turn up its safety guardrails to an 11 to assuage the government’s concerns, as this hasn’t been a one-model problem. This behavioral change is actuall…
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Comment #48831893
NK is politically aligned with the red countries, and positioned against US. Especially after the Otto Warmbier accident, some believe that Americans/Westerners in NK are in consta…
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Comment #48820099
> There's no real evidence in here that the IDTech team or the "coders" were specifically let go Scott Miller said it himself: > Big day today at Id Software [...] today, Microsoft…
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Comment #48775813
The same applies to ray tracing; the question whether shadows can be rendered accurately and cheaply is also not knowable - but it's very unlikely that ray tracing will become as c…
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Comment #48775757
> Seems like an investment into building expertise Learning LLM internals != using them as daily tools (the latter was the topic of discussion). Shifting to the learning topic: no …
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Comment #48769404
Not really - it's essentially a workflow. The steps, described [here]( https://github.com/obra/superpowers#the-basic-workflow ), are: brainstorming → using-git-worktrees → writing-…