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@MLE_online it is dumb and i never ever want it
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Talking about AI is complicated but this particular talking point always gets me...
> At Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others, leadership says that AI generates a growing share of the overall code, which makes it cheaper and faster to produce.
The total disconnect...just going back to judging planes by weight. How many kLOC did you write this quarter?
Like the problem space is simply that "more code needs to exist"
LOL I cannot unhear this...
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A society detached from the act of knowledge generation and object creation...that also freely leverages advanced weapon systems...feel like I saw a show about this once...
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@n8foo@macaw.social If you went to a CSU for computer engineering in the late 90s/early 00s, several of your projects were wire wrapped. There was also Roadrunner which was soldered but was this kind of awesome point-to-point enameled wire routing pen (with a connected spool). The system included these slick wire-ways.
Rummaging through some older photos. Came across this from 10 years ago.
#throwbackthursday (well, Thursday in the time zone this was taken in)
On the boos being heard at graduation speeches mentioning A.I.
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@issackelly@mastodon.social yes this is a major concern, too much discussion happening on mastodon LOL ;)
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@issackelly@mastodon.social Yeah, there is generally a shocking amount of good old "expert system" code a.k.a. if-else rules and regexes going on in this stuff. It's an IRC eggdrop bot that can use curl. 😬
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@swetland@chaos.social Speaking of... I just noticed this right now in an old experiment IR dump. Clang modified a function to take a decomposed struct...basic but along the lines of your topic...I guess I hadn't really thought through this level of things yet as I have mostly been playing with higher-level language ideas.
void takes_val(struct str str_val) {
(struct str is just an int and a pointer in this experiment)
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@swetland@chaos.social I am still on the fence about adding string slices.
Ahh yeah, I just reworked parameters a little bit for mine...aggregate type parameter prep and some forms of re-ordering. Some basics like if a function returns a full struct as value that gets allocated on the stack and the address is passed in as param. That's table stakes but I can re-use alot of that mechanism for e.g. string type.
Decomposing is an interesting approach though.
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place That's cool. On one hand it's annoying that strings are such a (comparably) tricky problem to solve... on the other it affords a lot of cleverness. :P
I've considered the all-heap approach and then ~ installing cleanup for any strings that uhm "look" like they would be on the stack.
-ETOOMANYWAYSFORWARD
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place oh interesting! I was toying with supporting slices. Thought only briefly about a special allocator just for strings or not...or schemes like un-special allocation but manage chunk-sized allocations sort of like gap-buffers so prepending and appending strings is free-or-cheap within some bounds.
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... and then operators like + or assignment are just special cased for str...
I'm working on some bits and pieces related to over-the-air updates to the lunar surface. But OTA doesn't quite capture the scale here. So, I think I am going to rename this TLU for trans-lunar update.
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@swetland@chaos.social same experience here. Devices missing a bit and then hanging the bus, controllers that don't do read timeouts right, weird bus loading issues, nack and clock-hold bugs...I²C is drama
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Very entertaining thread about designing software for an icebreaker from @GeePawHill@mastodon.social
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@secretasianman@types.pl destruction, mayhem, many others ... but maybe all bad? I don't think you can wreak whimsy
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@igb it wouldn't surprise me if he's not been drunk in the last 15 years. he is however likely high as a kite.
GOOOOooooooooo!!!!
hello this is the temperature sensor I have in the shady cool part of the back yard and it is March and I do not like it
The AC is cranking in my lab and it's still 85 (30) degrees in here. It's March. This is fine.
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Much like the author, and just from a consumer experience perspective, I have not bought things due to vendors' ham-fisted AI implementations... I have _also_ not bought things due to ham-fisted anti-AI implementations (companies that won't let me see their website due to some perceived bot-ness). I wonder how much of this kind of untracked loss is at play.
Maxime Heckel's entire blog is gold https://blog.maximeheckel.com/
I am fuckin' PSYCH'D out of my MIND for this @dnalounge@sfba.social 🤘
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@wikkit@mastodon.social you know what they say, a trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
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@issackelly@mastodon.social Yeah... among many aspects of it... it's hard to separate LLMs as a _general technology_ and what they could or will do from the way it's actually implemented currently...as well and the resources involved. A whole lot of talk about "efficiency" and we are talking about [checks notes] a $600B spend schedule on AI buildout from just one of those companies.
Has anyone done the actual math? This is like saying I'm an effient beer drinker when I'm running up someone elses tab.
I don't like the time changes, but I'm glad we are going back to California Correct Time.
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@secretasianman@types.pl Correction. They are reading your shitposts.
Currently trying to figure out what the hell you were on about with these functors and monads and shit "Tom what the hell is a monad? is it a weapon?"
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@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place are all strings in Scopes GrowingStrings that are "managed" on the heap?
Good riddance!
"What if a principle water fountain along the water front looked like a post-apocalytic toxic waste dump designed by M.C. Escher?" -- Vaillaincourt, a bad artist who hopefully felt bed
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@MLE_online@social.afront.org fun! I always thought it would be fun to make the little solar crawler types and set them free in the desert or something
https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/116538879554037679 That is a career plan that is a lot like a lot of other working/middle-class traps (many versions of "retirement") that boil down to "life is what happens when you are busy making other plans". Also, it's quite a gamble given [gestures vaguely towards the world outside].
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@jripley@mastodon.social Regarding ripple current, it's naturally problematic re electrolytics, but the opposite can be true with a grip of parallel low ESL MLCCs (some things need ripple current, obvs ckt dependent)...just throwin it out there.
I think generally I only ever put a chonker electrolytic down these days: if it does save precious board space, building down to cost and there's a relevant assembly cost diff, actually need some outrageous voltage rating.
Whatever it is, don't forget inrush ;)
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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place It's Friday...
"Various code, docs, tests, fixes. WIP"
I added `defer` to crescent (lang) last night. Seems like a straight-forward win in languages that support it. It was also a suprisingly easy feature to add. Args are evaluated at deferral time, calls are made LIFO when the enclosing scope closes.
Very suspicious of how simple it is actually. The only things I could think of were compiler warnings on non-unit return types and errors on `@must_check` and `@allocates` (will probably rename these annotations)
That there is no :rubber_duck: is further proof that the unicode consortium is not serving the people.
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@issackelly@mastodon.social Interesting. It's been a minute, but I recall someone getting pretty decent results off a 4-up 4080 rig and... maybe one of the deepseek models plus some custom wrapper agent code.
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@jripley@mastodon.social "that answer is inextricably contingent upon the type of life being led... and, of course, the quality of the pancakes."
