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awestroke··on Show HN: New AI edits images based on text instructions
Try these prompts:

"Add lens flare"

"Increase saturation"

"Add sparkles and gleam"

awestroke··on PHP in 2023
Your argument is basically:

"Yes, yes, the footguns are still there front and center, but we added more guns that don't shoot you on the foot."

If I was using PHP, I'd be livid that the cruft is never removed. Just deprecate and remove it

awestroke··on PHP in 2023
Website traffic to servers running the language is not necessarily correlated with the size of the community
awestroke··on PHP in 2023
Quoting myself:

> They claim that the article A Fractal of Bad Design (which was really cathartic to me when it came out) is out of date, but when I look, all the old footguns are still there, all the problems with the standard library are still there and stdout still writes directly to the browser.

awestroke··on PHP in 2023
It feels large to you because you are in it. Other language communities feel small to you because you are not in them.
awestroke··on PHP in 2023
I started my career with PHP. Created my own apps, created client websites etc. Full of footguns, but I didn't know any better. Once I learned more languages, I never used PHP again. I actually started to feel like I'd been fooled into using PHP.

Now the small PHP community keeps trying to justify their language choice with articles like these and comments like the ones on this submission. They claim it's a no brainer to use Laravel for new apps, because it has a big ecosystem and good ergonomics, and pretend that this description somehow does not apply to hundreds of other frameworks. They claim that the article A Fractal of Bad Design (which was really cathartic to me when it came out) is out of date, but when I look, all the old footguns are still there, all the problems with the standard library are still there and stdout still writes directly to the browser. The foundations are rotten.

Go ahead and use it, I don't care, but stop trying to convince me to use it.

And now the downvotes begin. PHP devs hate dissent it seems.

awestroke··on PHP in 2023
This is delusional
awestroke··on PHP in 2023
Which ones have been fixed?
awestroke··on PHP in 2023
Just use typescript
awestroke··on A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal
You don't get to dictate how I interact with my terminal. I like colors in my terminal, I like nicely formatted output with columns, I like ligatures, I like emojis in output.
awestroke··on NanoGPT
Or GPT-365
awestroke··on NanoGPT
I can't find any source on the 1.5T params number. I'd love to read more if you have any links to share. Thanks
awestroke··on NanoGPT
Microsoft (using Azure DCs) built a supercomputer with 10,000 V100 GPUs exclusively for OpenAI. [0]

It is estimated that it cost around $5M in compute time to train GPT-3.

OpenAI has received billions in investment prior to launching GPT-3, including $1B from Microsoft in 2019.

[0]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/openai-azure-supercomputer/

awestroke··on NanoGPT
Good point, but perhaps a leap could take small players into territories of language models that are large enough to be useful. GPT-3 crossed that threshold
awestroke··on NanoGPT
Are there any possible technologal or scientific leaps on the horizon that would reduce training time by an order of magnitude or more? GPT-3 took 355 years to train with incredibly expensive hardware, which means small players have no chance to push the state of the art
awestroke··on England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes
Instead of a slightly slightly cheaper but much worse fiber connection
awestroke··on GPT3 Get answers to technical questions from your documentation site
Q: can I self-host questdb in my own EKS?

> QuestDB is a popular time series database used by many companies for their application monitoring and real-time analytics. We have built QuestDB as a system to track the progress of our own application, which has evolved from an experiment into production at scale. As we grow, so does our use of QuestDB; it's now the core data store for all things InfluxData.We are looking to hire talented engineers who share our mission of empowering data producers with tools to

Not super impressed

awestroke··on An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries
Do you really think 2 billion people care deeply about the Bible? I think the number of Christians who spend any time at all reflecting on or debating validity and meaning of the Bible is in a small minority
awestroke··on Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git
That can't be true
awestroke··on Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store
You are completely disregarding E-ink screens
awestroke··on AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
Ban them on what grounds?
awestroke··on AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
> AI will not give us that [...]"

Is that true?

awestroke··on AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
So, people start signing their AI-generated messages. What have we gained?
awestroke··on Ethylene carbonate solvent with a sodium iodide salt create a new refrigerator
The problem with that is that there will probably be rust and moisture deeper down underneath the new paint that will continue the rust process, cracking the paint and allowing more water, salt and air in
awestroke··on I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
But I don't like C. I like modern systems languages.
awestroke··on AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
Looks great! I'll finally be able to uninstall Docker.app
awestroke··on Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?
Do your emails ever end up in people's spam folders, or bounce?
awestroke··on Ask HN: Do You Host Your Own Email?
Do your emails ever end up in people's spam folders, or bounce outright? Considering this setup for myself
awestroke··on Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation
No, encryption is very different from obfuscation, even if the former is often used in the latter
awestroke··on AWS releases Finch: An open source client for container development
I've never been accused of being an artist before, but I'll take it as a compliment.
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