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Philpax

8,713karma·1,330submissions·October 1, 2013
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I feel as though this website does a poor job of telling me what the framework actually does . There's the mostly-fluffy marketing lead text, followed by an overly-complicated configurator to ge…
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Congrats to HN on colonising the website!
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While I agree with you to some extent - working with a higher-level language where you _don't_ have that kind of visibility is its own kind of liberating - Odin is very specifically not that kind…
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I believe GitLab post-dates GitHub, but I otherwise agree with the sentiment.
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I can say that I've chosen not to bother when submitting a fix requires me to stray away from GitHub, and doubly so when it doesn't use a PR/MR workflow. There are only so many hours in…
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This is inherited from the websites [0][1][2][3] it was inspired by. [0]: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ [1]: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ [2]: https:&#…
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If you're curious why people keep wanting to reinvent HDLs, these posts by Dan Luu might be useful: - https://danluu.com/why-hardware-development-is-hard/ - https:/&#x…
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That sounds like it'll lead to human-driven reward hacking [0]? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking …
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Their point is that the name and logo are clearly drawing from the Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, with all the potential baggage that comes with it. It's an interesting choice.
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How many people do you think Elon Musk has indirectly killed as a result of his actions, especially through his work with DOGE? I would not make such a threat myself, but I can certainly see why one w…
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I'd go as far as to say that Sega's embracing of their fans is a big part of why they're still around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Mania#Development …
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I think that's a bit optimistic; that's the path every VC-funded tooling company tries to take, and it often doesn't end well; restrictive licenses, hostile forks, early deaths, etc. …
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A type checker is much more algorithmically bound / difficult to parallelise, but I'm sure there are still wins to be had in the future.
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Is it really that hard to believe that people like the language and the problems it solves for them?
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You've gotta watch more Guy Ritchie movies.
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A visual depiction: https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0
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The answer is simple: have your AI stay on top of this for you. Mostly joke, but also not joke: https://news.smol.ai/
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Well, you certainly live up to your username.
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I had a similar experience when I moved to Stockholm a few years after visiting for the first time. Looking over my photos from the original trip, it was delightful to recognise landmarks that I now h…
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Absolutely! I very much respect that; some things are meant for a specific audience, and that's OK. That being said, it looks like this website is meant to serve as a portfolio and a self-introdu…
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Oh, it's godawful; the format is a crime against all things structured. I use `parse-wiki-text-2` [0], which is a fork of `parse-wiki-text`, a Rust library by an author who has now disappeared in…
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Yeah, it's a bit confusing at first to navigate. Luckily, they offer XML dumps that aren't too bad to work with: 1. Go to https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/latest/…
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You may be able to fetch the weights directly from Hugging Face. I'd try that first.
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I'm reminded of this VRChat world, which runs Qwen2-0.5B in a shader: https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_e919c1f4-8399-43... …
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