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Mojo 1.0 Beta 3 months ago

I do wonder if Mojo was a great idea just a little too late to the party. Porting ‘prototypes’ from Python to lower level languages is fairly trivial now with LLMs.

Swift 6.3 4 months ago

Okay so the module import thing is interesting and feels like 1) it should have been included on day one and 2) might have made Swift more viable for projects like Ladybug

The truth of the matter, though, is that the Rust community seems to want to take a different approach to concurrent data access.

Not knowing anything about development of the kernel, does this kind of thing create a two tier Linux development experience?

Coarse is better 7 months ago

Is some kind of MoE or routing (but for image models obviously), depending on the prompt ask, a possible solve?

I’m building a custom vocalist/DSP AI. I’ve never built any kind of neural net beyond a toy demo, but I’ve been programming for ~25 odd years.

Think like ACE Studio, but I’m going much less for pitch performance and much more for clarity, expressiveness and human realism.

Very much at the data labeling phase but a little bit beyond the crude initial experiment phase.

I am very new to Next.js. I came across it first two years ago in a Vercel setup and it was it was a mess. I now attribute that to the code base rather than either Vercel or Next.js itself.

Fast forward to ~9 months ago. I joined a company that self hosts Next.js in GCP (Cloud Run). The set up is so effortless I’ve actually started building a new side project completely with it. I come from C#/Swift ecosystems.

This is to say, my anecdotal experience has been extremely good. Next.js is an amazing framework and has been the catalyst for me retooling my whole career into the TypeScript/JavaScript world after resisting for many years.

I don’t see this happening. Five Eyes is the US’s invite only security umbrella. Many in Australia would love to kick the Americans off our land (eg Pinegap) but as the US will “coup who they want” that ain’t happening.

OpenAI O3-Mini 1 year ago

I’ve coded in many languages over the years but reasonably new to the TS/JS/Next world.

I’ve found if you give your prompts a kind long form “stream of consciousness”, where you outline snippets of code in markdown along with contextual notes and then summarise/outline at the end what you actually wish to achieve, you can get great results.

Think a long form, single page “documentation” type prompts that alternate between written copy/contextual intent/description and code blocks. Annotating code blocks with file names above the blocks I’m sure helps too. Don’t waste your context window on redundant/irrelevant information or code, stating a code sample is abridged or adding commented ellipses seems to do the job.

Perhaps more indicative of late stage capitalism where rent seekers try to extract more and more value and consolidate more and more power.

The only acquisition? Emagic, the original maker of Logic was acquired some 20 years ago and now Logic is one of if not the flagship software product sold by Apple

Swift 6 2 years ago

All this magic being baked into the language (as opposed to the libraries/ecosystem) is why I abandoned being a native app developer professionally