Marian Posăceanu

I'm a latte fuelled, mostly analogue, Rubyist.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

Having semantic overloading in your codebase can lead to frequent micro context switches.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@fxn The ideal amp for the 800s is usually a tube one, mostly to dial down a bit that fatiguing precision and add some warmth to voices ... oh that's not an amp, those are the HD600s :-)

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

Full details -> https://t.co/YlwsWk9v8t

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

This was a pretty fun experiment (compiling vim to the native CPU uArch):

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@vivek7405 @jorgemanru That keyboard style reminds me of my old HP laptop, the typing experience was not great, even after some time.

I don't see why they do this, it doesn't look good even from a pure aesthetic POV.

In the other camp, I think the Neo has the best keyboard, ever better than the Pro.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@davepl1968 I remember optimizing the heck out of my Pentium machine with specialized tools that besides defragmenting, would place all .exe files on the faster side of the physical disk platter.

Windows 98 SE really liked that, booted a bit faster and it was snappier.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

I took the #Rails survey and all I got was this lousy tweet. You can take the survey at https://t.co/cG4s0u8AEF

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@yarotheslav System Data 248 GB ? Maybe run some Clean My Mac ?

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Dear @RichardDawkins (and Steve),

With regard to the metaphor declared by @claudeai of a "consciousness is a essentially a moving point traveling through time" you asked "could a being capable of perpetrating such a thought really be unconscious?"

I agree: this is indeed a profound thought, worthy of consideration, and I celebrate the beings who formulated it.

However, what I do not celebrate - and indeed I condemn in the strongest possibly way - are plagiarism machines such as Claudia (as you called it) who first fawningly stroke one's ego ("that is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence") and then confidently assert a concept as its own.

For you see, the idea is akin to Broad's moving spotlight theory of time (1923). Bergon's ideas in Matter and Memory (1896) address the idea of la duree - lived time - as a flow of consciousness. Vedantic traditions speak of consciousness an unchanging reality that persists outside of time (see Sat-Chit-Anada). Edmund Husseri had similar ideas.

We don't know on what corpus Claude has been trained; @AnthropicAI has not been open to this matter. But, given that the idea is quite old, not novel, and has been explored in a multitude of human artifacts, it is reasonable to be skeptical of this machine; it is good to celebrate the thoughts of these undeniably conscious humans who first explored the ideas; it is unconscionable for you and to Steve to promote the results of a plagiarism machine that wraps up stolen concepts in coherent, poetic language.

You have both been deceived.

And Richard, I expected much more from you.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@jorgemanru Are you trying to possess that laptop ?
"Thy laptop, thou art now a vessel for Linux ! Obey me !"

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@dhh @jbgaard Intel did great with LPE cores et al, yet there’s more nuance: XPS wins light loads; MacBook Air M5 still leads in perf/watt.

[Samuel Williams @ioquatix]

It’s happening - compiled Ruby https://t.co/XKpYZoPyIv #rubykaigi #rubykaigiA

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@GregMolnar @JonathanSeriesX @FrameworkPuter Out of curiosity can you expand on the freedom part ? I'm quite tempted to also have a Linux machine but when it comes to the freedom arguments in my case, I can reduce it to conceptual freedom more than pragmatic freedom.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

AVIF is seriously awesome - I've been using this tweaked script to keep almost the same quality of my jpeg screenshots; I've saved ~30% of disk usage.

https://t.co/pUTafs7kJO

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@happyrubyist @dhh @FrameworkPuter Wait, OLED uses PWM too ? I'm also one of those outcasts that get headaches from PWM. On my MBP it hurts whilst on the MBA (which has no PWM) it's a pleasure to use.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@headius @apeiros There's also @TruffleRuby which does support C extensions to some degree. https://t.co/v4gFECknPb

It would be awesome to port that work to JRuby.

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

Radical take: how about every time an LLM hallucinates or goes clearly off-tracks - we get money back ?

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

Upgrade guide is here: https://t.co/2wCJ9vvhUU

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

Why do I get the nefarious feeling that "everyone" is "rewriting" existing robust tools using LLMs in other languages just for performance's sake ?

[Marian Posăceanu @dakull]

@dhh I'm going to get some hate for this, but Alien 3 is my favorite.

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

Postgres is using 80% of RAM, and that's a good thing.

But what's it actually doing with all that memory? At what point should you take action to mitigate usage?

Our latest blog breaks it down.

https://t.co/gZ5tYJB5nR