#anymore
4 discoveries · Hand-picked discoveries from the open web, newest first.
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Not just a bystander, not anymore…
One Saturday night this summer, I was leisurely walking down main street hand-in-hand on a date, when suddenly, I heard a commotion about 50 yards down a busy side street. It was too far away to make out what was happening or what was being said. But I figured it was fine since the side street had plenty of people walking up and down it. Still, I couldn’t help but peer into the distance, transfixed, like a deer in the headlights. There was an anime convention going on that weekend. Initially, my brain reasoned that a couple of cosplayers were recording a TikTok video or doing a K-pop dance. Th
LessWrong · EN
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Installing Mac OS X Mountain on my old laptop
I don't use my old laptop anymore. Let's restore it to its original-ish software!
Rich Infante · EN
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There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
The other day, I saw a viral tweet saying that people talking about how LLMs are causing slow, bloated, code are going to eat crow once they re-write everything in super-optimized assembly. We're not quite at the point where we want to write everything in assembly , but some variant of what Nolan Lawson said about testing, you can choose how many bugs you want now , which I less eloquently noted here , is becoming more true for performance. In response to a comment in my last post that the cost of formerly specialized performance work has dropped by many orders of magnitude and performance wor
Dan Luu · EN