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d0mine commented on LM Studio 0.4   lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0... · Posted by u/jiqiren
PlatoIsADisease · 15 days ago
What was the original core principle of ollama?

I had used oobabooga back in the day and found ollama unnecessary.

d0mine · 14 days ago
Ollama vs. llama.cpp is like Docker vs. FreeBSD Jails, Dropbox vs. rsync, jujutsu vs git, etc
d0mine commented on A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks   twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/bigwheels
sailfast · 16 days ago
That’s far-fetched. It’s in the interest of the model builders to solve your problem as efficiently as possible token-wise. High value to user + lower compute costs = better pricing power and better margins overall.
d0mine · 16 days ago
> far-fetched

Remember Google?

Once it was far-fetched that they would make the search worse just to show you more ads. Now, it is a reality.

With tokens, it is even more direct. The more tokens users spend, the more money for providers.

d0mine commented on AI coding assistants are getting worse?   spectrum.ieee.org/ai-codi... · Posted by u/voxadam
colechristensen · a month ago
Ok, but if you're saying I've had delusions LLMs being helpful either I need serious psychiatric care or we need to revisit the premise because we're talking about a tool being useful not the existence of supernatural beings.
d0mine · a month ago
Measuring programming productivity is hard. For example, take testing. It is certainly useful. At the same time, you can waste time on it in some situations.

When, what, how to test may be important for productivity.

I don't know whether LLMs are in the same category.

d0mine commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now   dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
112233 · 2 months ago
It it actively dangerous too. You might be self aware and llm aware all you want, if you routinely read "This is such an excellent point", " You are absolutely right" and so on, it does your mind in. This is worst kind of global reality show mkultra...
d0mine · 2 months ago
It might explain why there is a stereotype the more beautiful woman the crazier she is. (everybody tells her what she wants to hear)
d0mine commented on Alignment is capability   off-policy.com/alignment-... · Posted by u/drctnlly_crrct
stonemetal12 · 2 months ago
Fiction is I have a hypothesis, and since it is not easy to test I will make up the results too. Learning anything from it is a lesson in futility and confirmation bias.
d0mine · 2 months ago
Gedankenexperiments are valid scientific tools. Some predictions of general relativity were confirmed experimentally only 100 years after it was proposed. It is well known that Einstein used Gedankenexperiments.
d0mine commented on What is “literate programming”? (2024)   pqnelson.github.io/2024/0... · Posted by u/joecobb
d-lisp · 2 months ago
Yes, notebooks are a restrictive type of litterate programming, interactive and browser bound.

TeX was "proven" as a text/typography tool by the fact that the source code written in WEB (interleaving pascal and TeX (this is meta (metacircular))) allows for you to "render" the program as a typographed work explaining how TeX is made+ run the program as a mean to create typographic work.

I'm lacking the words for a better explanation of how do I feel sbout the distinction, but in a sense I would say that notebooks are litterate scrips, while TeX is a litterate program ? (The difference is aesthetical)

d0mine · 2 months ago
There is Org Babel in Emacs that can be an alternative to jupyter notebooks for literate programming (research/devopsy tasks). It is more powerful in some aspects and weaker in others.
d0mine commented on Catala – Law to Code   catala-lang.org... · Posted by u/Grognak
embedding-shape · 2 months ago
Law isn't written to cover 100% of real life scenarios and potential cases, it's written with deliberate parts of ambiguity, that will ultimately be up to courts to set the precedents for, in various situations and context.

I think the idea is that you can't really cover 100% of real-life cases in "code", either legal or software, so the areas you'll leave this out of would be those "not-entirely-strict" parts.

d0mine · 2 months ago
The same can be said about driving but self-driving cars exist.
d0mine commented on Fabric Project   github.com/Fabric-Project... · Posted by u/brcmthrowaway
dheepakg · 2 months ago
Should have a better name. There is Fabric, a library in Python, microsoft's SaaS offering
d0mine · 2 months ago
I see fabric python library (open source ssh automation) https://pypi.org/project/fabric/

No connection to microsoft.

d0mine commented on The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models   shujisado.org/2025/11/27/... · Posted by u/jonymo
themafia · 3 months ago
Taken to an extreme:

"Why forbid selling drugs when you can just put a warning label on them? And you could clarify that an overdose is lethal."

It doesn't solve any problems and just pushes enforcement actions into a hopelessly diffuse space. Meanwhile the cartel continues to profit and small time users are temporarily incarcerated.

d0mine · 3 months ago
> cartel continues to profit

It doesn't follow. The reverse is more likely: If you end prohibition, you end the mafia.

d0mine commented on Fifty Shades of OOP   lesleylai.info/en/fifty_s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
nr378 · 3 months ago
You can hide fields in Python with a little bit of gymnastics:

  class EncapsulatedCounter:
      def __init__(self, initial_value):
          _count = initial_value

          def increment():
              nonlocal _count
              _count += 1
              return _count

          self.increment = increment


  counter = EncapsulatedCounter(100)
  new_value = counter.increment()
  print(f"New value is: {new_value}")

d0mine · 3 months ago
Usually, a simple function is enough:

    def make_counter(start=0):
      count = start
      def incr():
        nonlocal count
        count += 1
        return count
      return incr
Example:

    >>> c = make_counter()
    >>> c()
    1
    >>> c()
    2
But it hides nothing:

    >>> c.__closure__[0].cell_contents
    2
    >>> c.__closure__[0].cell_contents = -1
    >>> c()
    0
"private" in Python is cultural, not enforced. (you can access `self.__private` from outside too if you want).

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