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jiehong commented on The Whole App is a Blob   drobinin.com/posts/the-wh... · Posted by u/valzevul
mzhaase · 2 days ago
Italian is also very easy to learn while German makes absolutely no sense.

A turnip is female, the fishmongers wife is neutral, a boy is male, a girl is neutral, the wife is female. Plural of Tür is Türen plural of Öffnung is Öffnungen, plural of Vogel is Vögel plural of Fenster is.. Fenster.

Hundreds of unspoken rules regarding word order, some verbs that can be separated and others cannot.. Completely random.

And good luck even being able to hear the difference between spucken and spuken if your language doesn't have long vs. short vowels.

jiehong · a day ago
French shares those, and add the fact that many letters aren’t pronounced, but must be known to correctly make the "liaison".
jiehong commented on Show HN: 100 Million splats, a whole town, rendered in M2 MacBook Air   twitter.com/AKurian001/st... · Posted by u/Arun_Kurian
bigyabai · a day ago
I hate to break it to ya, but Apple Silicon isn't in the top 25 highest-performing consumer GPUs. It's probably not even in the top 25 most-efficient either: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks
jiehong · a day ago
Neither is their target, they are more in the perf/watt segment.
jiehong commented on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system   borretti.me/article/hashc... · Posted by u/thomascountz
rsanek · 2 months ago
>I have learned that the biggest bottleneck ... is just entering cards into the system.

Couldn't agree more. I think I would take this opinion and go even further -- we shouldn't be making cards fully by hand much, if at all, anymore. AI-assisted card creation is to me clearly the future, and already AIs are good enough for this to work well.

jiehong · 2 days ago
But making the card actually help in forging a memory of it.
jiehong commented on AI and the ironies of automation – Part 2   ufried.com/blog/ironies_o... · Posted by u/BinaryIgor
jiehong · 2 days ago
This irony of automation has been dealt with in the aviation industry for pilot for years: auto pilots can actually land the plane in many cases, and do fly the plane on most of the cruise.

Yet, pilots are constantly trained on actual scenarios, and are expected to land airplanes manually monthly (and during take off too).

This ensures pilots maintain their skills, while the auto pilot helps most of the time.

On top of that, plane commands often are half automatic already, aka they are assisted (but not by LLMs!), so it’s a complex comparison.

jiehong commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments   dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez
jiehong · 2 days ago
Anybody used it?

Without the LLM bits, this is basically like Bazel or buck2, right?

jiehong commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments   dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez
tajd · 2 days ago
This looks interesting but I’m trying to understand it in more layman’s terms. Is it more about providing abstractions for llms to work within to do things?
jiehong · 2 days ago
It’s actually a CI/CD as code tool, where some pieces can be LLM agents.

But, the marketing heavily focuses on LLM stuff to the point of making everyone confused.

jiehong commented on Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments   dagger.io/... · Posted by u/ahamez
oulipo2 · 2 days ago
I was interested in the beginning for CI/CD, but then they tried to take a kind of "AI-oriented" view in order to ride the AI wave, and the value prop of their tool was completely muddied up...
jiehong · 2 days ago
Same, the marketing was even worse a few months ago.
jiehong commented on Scala 3 slowed us down?   kmaliszewski9.github.io/s... · Posted by u/kmaliszewski
jiehong · 9 days ago
> After upgrading the library, performance and CPU characteristics on Scala 3 became indistinguishable from Scala 2.13.

Checking the bug mentioned, it was fixed in 2022.

So, I’m wondering how one would upgrade to scala 3, while keeping old version of libraries?

Keeping updated libraries is a good practice (even mandatory if you get audits like PCI-DSS).

That part puzzled me more than the rest.

jiehong commented on Show HN: TapeHead – A CLI tool for stateful random access of file streams   github.com/emamoah/tapehe... · Posted by u/emamoah
jiehong · 9 days ago
Now that it exists, I don’t see how it didn’t exist before!

Nice tool, and congrats on the tool launch!

jiehong commented on Notes on Bhutan   apropos.substack.com/p/no... · Posted by u/sg5421
shubhamjain · 15 days ago
As much as I appreciate Bhutan's ideas around happiness and its style of sustainable development, I feel Bhutan being a tiny hilly country is what allows them to work. Add to that the gift of Hydroelectric power, which alone contributes 1/4th of government revenue, and was responsible for 14% of its GDP[1]. Its population is less than a million, where as even tier-3 towns in India have a couple of million people living there.

A large country, with a large population, has far fewer options other than supporting economic development at a scale.

[1]: https://thewire.in/world/south-asia/bhutan-hydropower-electr...

jiehong · 15 days ago
I think size is also what prevents countries too. Not enough people and not enough GDP? Well, some projects might take more than the country’s available capital.

Size isn’t everything: compare China to India.

I wish them luck, and success, because why not!

u/jiehong

KarmaCake day1452September 30, 2016View Original