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New comment by GuuD in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

GuuD — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:56:12 +0000

We do know, because we used to have some Claude models identifying as Deepseek when prompted in Chinese

New comment by GuuD in "Decompiling the New C# 14 field Keyword"

GuuD — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:41:36 +0000

I feel like in a few more years and 2-3 major versions C# will have all the useful features of F#. It will also keep being much more exciting because our benevolent corporate visionaries manage to add new gotchas with every major and some minor releases

New comment by GuuD in "Supply chain attacks are exploiting our assumptions"

GuuD — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:51:18 +0000

Zero that we know of

New comment by GuuD in "Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 has 96GB of VRAM and 600W of power"

GuuD — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:03:25 +0000

Bandwidth/GPU real estate in terms of area. Biggest GDDR7 chips are 3GB 32-bit, it has 512bit wide bus. And even this is going to moonlight as a space heater

New comment by GuuD in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

GuuD — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:31:19 +0000

Also, our defaults are opposite of safe (most of the languages are still mutable by default, rigorous type systems wildly unpopular, there is a straightforward way to concatenate strings inside a query etc), our disaster prevention tools and practices seem most often to be targeted at symptoms instead of the causes (god forbid we rethink our collective ways and create/adopt tools that are much harder to use incorrectly), and all of this keeps happening because there is no pressure for it stop. What’s the incentive to?

I don’t think that there is a room for a meaningful and honest discussion about individuals in these circumstances.

New comment by GuuD in "New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy"

GuuD — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:59:56 +0000

The difference is negligible on 2x 4090. There are more important differences like 4 bit KV cache.

New comment by GuuD in "Simply explained: How does GPT work?"

GuuD — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:27:39 +0000

I'm sorry. They were not, it was the joke from OP

New comment by GuuD in "Simply explained: How does GPT work?"

GuuD — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 13:04:48 +0000

Guid partition table. Older of GPT brothers, more of a blue collar guy

New comment by GuuD in "Binance halts deposits and withdrawals for customers in the UK"

GuuD — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:06:46 +0000

English isn't my first language either, and I know how confusing it can be, so let me help here. Here is the quote from the post: "If crypto people feel that the losses are because of Fed's actions, then they should also agree that the profits are because of Fed's actions". As we know, Fed's actions have changed: from providing "cheap" or almost free money (rate was something like 0.08%) to much more expensive ~4.5% now. It wouldn't be a huge leap of reason to assume that at least some of the impressive growth of crypto was driven by insanely low interest rates. But that's just my opinion, feel free to keep comparing monetary policy to homeopathy.

New comment by GuuD in "Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities"

GuuD — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:14:58 +0000

Fuck, I mean… yeah. Thanks for one more insight, by showing me that sending message/calling a method is a binary operation, seems so obvious but I never made that connection. This day started by shelling by Russian rockets, but reading the post and your comment somehow made it… good? I always get caught off-guard by how much baby we’ve thrown with the water with modern languages compared to some brilliancy we had in Lisp and Smalltalk. Both are extremely out of my cup of tea region, but I learn so much when I interact with them. The only thing JS and something like Java taught me is to stay away:)

New comment by GuuD in "Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities"

GuuD — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 14:42:49 +0000

This is fantastically written documentation. What is even more exciting for me, that this is almost exactly what I was dreaming and talking non-stop about for the last few years. I never figured out the brilliant insight about redundancy of operator precedence. On the more embarrassing note in numerous implementation not-quite-attempts I always ended up gutting loops as a feature in favor of recursion and went with effects for capabilities (among other things). Then I was usually caught off guard by either of those or my other darling — partial application interacting in unexpected way (only for me probably) with linear types, which always punched me back to square one. Extremely impressed with how sound and grounded in reality your choices are. Fantastic job.

New comment by GuuD in "What I wish I knew when learning F#"

GuuD — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:22:13 +0000

I would have to respectfully disagree with you on the serializers part here. For me, after decades of fighting with “magic” stuff, simplicity is the key feature. So, everything that is a simple map function in disguise I tend to stick with functional languages and approaches.

New comment by GuuD in "How I built a modern website in 2021"

GuuD — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:01:51 +0000

The combination of caching Postgres queries (because you are making over 30 of them per page), but still deploying everything to 6 distributed regions is just perfect chef's kiss

New comment by GuuD in "Klimaticket: All public transport in Austria with a single ticket for 1095 EUR/y"

GuuD — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:06:19 +0000

In a more broad way — it’s also a tax on conscience. Bonkers.

New comment by GuuD in "What will programming look like in 2020? (2012)"

GuuD — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 07:04:02 +0000

It is, for people who think that the chance of meeting dinosaur on the street is 50% (you either do or don’t)

New comment by GuuD in "Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide"

GuuD — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 13:25:56 +0000

I have no idea, but isn’t it the usual real-world case of “it’s complicated, and it’s both”?

New comment by GuuD in "Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)"

GuuD — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:44:15 +0000

Go is just shitty Pascal, change my mind.

On a more serious note. I decided to read Delphi documentation recently because I’m old enough to hear a lot about it, but not quite old enough to write anything in it. It had discriminated unions. It did! I can’t imagine my life without them, I write stuff exclusively in Ocaml-like languages, so the only question that I have in my mind is “how the hell we managed to go backwards?” It’s so weird.

New comment by GuuD in "Functional programming is not popular because it is weird (2016)"

GuuD — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:21:19 +0000

Oh man. Are you me? Thanks for that comment.

For me functional programming was just like a “missing link”. Wait, I can just code like I think, not in this weird statefull way? It’s just so practical for me. I can deliver 10x the value for 0.1 the effort. It’s just not fair, I know for a fact that there are more people with the same model of thinking, I just want them to feel as liberated

New comment by GuuD in "NASA has selected SpaceX for GOES-U mission"

GuuD — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:18:09 +0000

They voluntarily withdrew their bid, because all 29 of the remaining Atlas 5 rockets (not built afaik, just planned and have engines ready in storage somewhere in Alabama) are already assigned to customers.

New comment by GuuD in "Is Norway the New East India Company?"

GuuD — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 15:11:15 +0000

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...