fasterthanlime

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

FAQ:

Q: Can't you do that translation off the top of your head???
A: No. Not anymore. I'm in my thirties now, leave me alone.

Q: Do you trust the LLM to get it right?
A: No, but it's trivially verifiable, and I do verify it.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@dngrs I get to do arrow-up to use the prompt on all the magic constants I find, so.

(also just for facts' sake, zed's inline assistant uses GPT-4o by default, not GitHub Copilot — completions are a different thing)

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@natty okay I forgot this frequently asked question:

Q: But this is trivial math
A: Yes but the assistant can do many other tasks I ask it to and it frees up my brain to think about other more important things

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@whitequark how much do you charge per token? 👼

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@natty yeah, I didn't even have to think about log2 before someone brought it up.

it's not like I don't know what logarithms are, it's just I'm wrestling a big bunch of context in a completely different area — the more I can delegate, the more focused I can be.

I know it sounds silly, believe me.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@natty I was already heavily using the assistant to help translate Go code to Rust (I do a lot of review + cleanups afterwards, and provide a lot of context to get quality results), I just thought "huh maybe I can clean up those magic numbers with it too" and I tried and it worked.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@dngrs Ohh I’m just now reading it correctly lol, that’s evil!

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@hisham_hm This is certainly one of the least impressive things I’m currently using LLMs for.

my perception of them has changed in the past couple years, and I’ve decided to accept that they’re here to stay. AI companies are overpromising, but LLMs are useful for certain things, and we better grapple with the labor implications sooner rather than later.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

In fact, I would like to go and make a stronger claim: performance is enough of a differentiator.

Which means if the only thing difference between your product and the competitor’s is that yours is faster, then that’s good enough for me.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

The counter example here is some competitor to GitHub Copilot, which is much faster, but has much worse completions.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@sayrer I would honestly be very curious how mobile operating systems designed for performance would run like on those exact same chips android phones are sporting

fasterthanlime , vor einem Monat

@thejpster isn't that the difference between the family plan and the solo plan?

fasterthanlime , vor einem Monat

@kneath mhhhhh aren't we all toddlers

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@ShadowJonathan whisper is really good.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@guilhermedea @Eramdam @ShadowJonathan @cadey I'm fairly sure DaVinci Resolve Studio's built-in speech to text uses Whisper, and it did fine with French on some test videos.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@romanboehm try it yourself! https://sindresorhus.com/aiko

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@brk somewhat. the pathological cases posted online (count letter $x in word) are thus because of tokenization, afaict. they do okay at practical tasks (but it takes a while to get good at working with them)

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

okay rustfmt nightly can wrap doc comments for you, that's a much better solution.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@mario I’m not sure I only used it once to see if it would work for that. It’s pretty good at generating comments, tests, and porting from one structure or language to another.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

Anyway, I still think you probably shouldn't write go, but if you do, please run this on your code, in CI: https://golangci-lint.run

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@dysfun looks alright to me!!

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@rakoo Although some linters in that collection are noisy and opinionated, many of them find real world problems before runtime. Try them on your projects and see if it finds some bugs!

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@Ronflaix My joke is about today’s NYT connections, I don’t have context for yours 😔

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@Ronflaix I will remember this information when my time comes to face Whitney, thanks!

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

brand: "Maybe also at the end of the mention explain how this was all a joke"
me:

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@Wortex17 it's from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875113/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

"What's a half-triangle?" well it's what my brain comes up with when I miss dinner time by 2 hours. Brb feeding my memory-unsafe body.

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

Seriously, wtf is this??? I promise no one is doing vertical interlaced video here

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@cinebox yeah... but what language do you suspect GPU drivers are written in 😬

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@hynek Yeah it may well be a macOS issue actually

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

@hynek (Shortly after writing this piece, I ended up shooting a video with a lapel mic because I finally figured out how to EQ those to make them sound decent. And also because the shot called for it.)

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

@hynek oh no no, the video I'm talking about is not out yet!

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

(Note: this whole thread is to be interpreted as talking about people who have the means to fix the problems we're talking about.

This requires privilege. I don't debate that.)

fasterthanlime OP , vor einem Monat

@remidupre yup, I get why French expats in the US find it hard to come back to the homeland: unbridled positivity (US) vs unbridled negativity (FR) is a shock. I hang out mostly online so France is bearable x)