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llama.cpp uses a hard cutoff. The agent then does "something" that is specific to the agent's implementation and configuration. It might summarize and then "finish the thought" wit…

Huh. I thought hosting one's own databases was still the norm. Guess I'm just stuck in the past, or don't consume cloud vendor marketing, or something. Glad my employer is still on…

Whoops, you are right. I misread the article.

Local inference users are all about sampling, but users addicted to commercial inference services are wary of sampling, because they have to pay by the token.

The author speculates that bigger/smarter models interpreting vague directives to utilize general-function tools will outperform more precise and detailed directives to utilize nar…

Well, that's just great. The academic community has been using the term "skill" for years, to refer to classes of tasks at which LLMs exhibit competence. Now OpenAI has usurped the…

Yes, you will need to employ someone with basic system administration competence. That's a given. Cloud infra is touted as obviating the need to hire system administrators, but tha…

Senior software engineer with 46 years of experience (since I was 7). LLM inference hasn't been too useful for me for writing code, but it has proven very useful for explaining my …

After having worked on accounting software for a living, which did need to precisely take into account the variable nature of time measurements, I greatly appreciate that Numbat ha…

I tried very hard to like Ruby. "On paper" it looks great, but I had a lot of trouble getting used to the syntax. I ended up going deep on the D programming language for my "new la…

Working with Perl, two things spoiled me for other languages: JSON and DBI/DBD. In Perl, everything serializes to JSON without fuss. It can be "lossy"; objects without an explicit …

> Proposing "fall back to Usenet" in 2023 makes about as much sense as "folks who use Slack should just use IRC". Hey! :-( IRC is still alive and kicking, thank you very much!

> Are you just blanking out on the whole of the 1965-1980? If you have to dig back half a century to make your point about contemporary events, you have effectively ceded the point…

> Rust had a lot of effort pored (and still going) into the nostd variant to be used in bare metal applications like microcontrollers and kernels. D has had "dcompute" since 2017, …

Rust has a very enthusiastic following, and D is perceived as interloping on "their" territory because it is good at a lot of the same things.

> Doesn’t D require a GC to achieve the safety guarantees that Rust provides without one No. The paper covers this. The authors used D's fat pointers, scope, slices, @safe, and own…

D has been around for 21 years. It has had a compiler in the gcc project (gdc) for four years. It debugs easily enough under gdb. Several editors support D syntax (including geany …

It always gives me a spell of cognitive dissonance when someone points out that Slackware is no longer a "major" distribution. It used to be the major distribution. Funny how times…

/me sees FVWM referred to in the past tense from his FVWM desktop, and scowls

My thought exactly. It even incorporates functionality for turning any local git repo into a shared git repo. Mainly what they need besides that is a place to co-ordinate, collabor…

I don't disagree with anything you say :-) but it bears pointing out that D already lets you call into C libraries without glue. This means you can write C and use the entire wide …

For what it's worth, I'm a long-time C programmer, but have piss-poor C++ skills, and despise C++, and D clicked for me immediately. I'm loving it. Whether D "clicks" for someone m…

Google for "dlang" (including the quotes) and you'll get all the D hits you want.

.. and with much better run-time performance than Go.

D comes with a lot of "casual parallelism" baked in at the language level, and in its standard libraries. Actors are just one feature among many. You -can- explicitly manage thread…