C is entirely as complicated as Rust, if your goal is to write correct software that doesn't crash all the time. It's only a syntactically simple language. Actually making anything interesting with it is _not_ simple.
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taminka commented on Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) gregoryszorc.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/thundergolfer
IMO development is too complex and misdirected in general since we cargo cult FAANG.
Need AWS, Azure or GCP deployment? Ever thought about putting it on bare metal yourself? If not, why not? Because it's not best practice? Nonsense. The answer with these things is: it depends, and if your app has not that many users, you can get away with it, especially if it's a B2B or internal app.
It's also too US centric. The idea of scalability applies less to most other countries.
many ppl also underestimate how capable modern hardware is: for ~10usd you could handle like a million concurrent connections with a redis cluster on a handful of VPSs...
taminka commented on Nvidia Tilus: A Tile-Level GPU Kernel Programming Language github.com/NVIDIA/tilus... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
okay, I am not a systems level programmer but I am currently learning c with the aim of doing some gpgpu programming using Cuda etc., what is a tile level gpu kernel programming language? and how is it different from something like cuda?
I know i can ask a llm or search on google, but i was hoping someone in the community could explain it in a way i could understand.
programming w/ tiles means working w/ contiguous-ish blocks/squares of data, to minimise cache misses (often major bottleneck in gpu programming), so it's just a nod to the fact that optimisations like these are included in the language or some such...
Couldn’t we spend a small amount of crypto to write our public key into a blockchain to avoid the MITM threat?
actually though? storing a very small but important info (public keys, domain ownership and such) would have been a perfect use case, which also keeps the chain small...
taminka commented on Why LLMs can't really build software zed.dev/blog/why-llms-can... · Posted by u/srid
The way it works for me at least is I can fit a huge amount of context in my head. This works because the text is utterly irrelevant and gets discarded immediately.
Instead, my brain parses code into something like an AST which then is represented as a spatial graph. I model the program as a logical structure instead of a textual one. When you look past the language, you can work on the program. The two are utterly disjoint.
I think LLMs fail at software because they're focused on text and can't build a mental model of the program logic. It take a huge amount of effort and brainpower to truly architect something and understand large swathes of the system. LLMs just don't have that type of abstract reasoning.
i wonder why nobody bothered w/ feeding llms the ast instead (not sure in what format), but it only seems logical, since that's how compilers undestand code after all...
taminka commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
Whisper is genuinely amazing - with the right nudging. It's the one AI thing that has genuinely turned my life upside-down in an unambiguously good way.
People should check out Subtitle Edit (and throw the dev some money) which is a great interface for experimenting with Whisper transcription. It's basically Aegisub 2.0, if you're old, like me.
HOWTO:
Drop a video or audio file to the right window, then go to Video > Audio to text (Whisper). I get the best results with Faster-Whisper-XXL. Use large-v2 if you can (v3 has some regressions), and you've got an easy transcription and translation workflow. The results aren't perfect, but Subtitle Edit is for cleaning up imperfect transcripts with features like Tools > Fix common errors.
EDIT: Oh, and if you're on the current gen of Nvidia card, you might have to add "--compute_type float32" to make the transcription run correctly. I think the error is about an empty file, output or something like that.
EDIT2: And if you get another error, possibly about whisper.exe, iirc I had to reinstall the Torch libs from a specific index like something along these lines (depending on whether you use pip or uv):
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
uv pip install --system torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
whisper is great, i wonder why youtube's auto generated subs are still so bad? even the smallest whisper is way better than google's solution? is it licensing issue? harder to deploy at scale?
taminka commented on OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography openssh.com/pq.html... · Posted by u/throw0101d
That's great.
I was thinking about whether to move the Terminal-based microblogging / chat app I'm building into this direction.
(Especially after watching several interviews with Paul Durov and listening to what he went through...)
what did he go through? also why would a blog website need ssh?
taminka commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
tor tries very hard to bypass censorship. Have you tried the numerous Tor bridges, or the new Snowflake p2p bridge?
yeah none of them work in russia, only thing that works is xray vpn
taminka commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
i wish they were also a lifeline for censorship too, tor is effectively non functional in many countries :(
In your country if say some public TV would publish hard core porn mid day for children to see, would there be consequences? like fines and license removal? I am sure in civilized countries that TV station will be punished.
Now imagine you have a Ruzzian TV station publishing hard core porn for children to see, how to you punsish them without paid trolls claiming censorship ? Because this si what happens, in Romania Romanian TV station need to respect the Romanian laws , liek for example pay fines and retract any falsehoods and mistakes, but Ruzzians can publish fake documents and videos and if we want them to respect the laws of our countries we it is censorship... blocking faked documents is bad, blocking boobs is good in the land of the free
rt hasn't done this and there are concrete laws against doing this, if rt violated them, they would/should fined/suspended, it's really that simple, do you have any real examples of illegal things they've carried out?
and if you're implying that extrajudicial measures are the only effective method to deal w/ situations like these, then there's an issue w/ the laws
just because censorship is carried out against a cause you don't like, doesn't make it justified, since it's very likely to be used in less benevolent ways in the future