People do these kind of decisions every day, every second.

Shit bloated code is one of the reasons Epic Launcher is extremely behind in market share when compared to Steam.

Sure, they ship their product fast. They can iterate faster than Valve. They also add technical debt with each iteration.

Also: we are almost all using a Chrome derived browser instead of Firefox, old IE, old Opera, because of performance and quality. They just won the internet because of the quality of their code. Besides that, all browsers let you browse the internet.

When people can choose, they choose quality most of the time.

I'm sorry to get into this conversation, but the performance of a model is some orders of magnitude lower (meaning it requires greater amounts of specific computing power) than all the network stack of all the nodes involved in the internet traffic of some particular request.

Meaning: these 5000 tokens consume tiny amounts of energy being moved all around from the data center to your PC, but enormous amounts of energy being generated at all. An equivalent webpage with the same amount of text as these tokens would be perceived as instant in any network configuration. Just some kilobytes of text. Much smaller than most background graphics. The two things can't be compared at all.

However, just last week there have been huge improvements on the hardware required to run some particular models, thanks to some very clever quantisation. This lowers the memory required 6x in our home hardware, which is great.

In the end, we spent more energy playing videogames during the last two decades, than all this AI craze, and it was never a problem. We surely can run models locally, and heat our homes in winter.

I'm sorry but this article is just clickbait.

It's comparing cables, which everyone with some experience knows they make no difference.

I expected something more substantial, like a comparison of different IEM price tiers, or a comparison of different DAC chips, or something else that actually matters.

I used to dislike TCL/Tk because of the ugly toolkit and also language. Now I wish it had won instead of the unholy abomination we have with Electron apps.

And they are called maps. Wonderful stuff.

The Knowledge is exactly the first thing to get into my mind the moment I read the headline.

The buttons are not swapped. The close button is the one further away from the center, closest to the corner.

Same as in Windows. It just makes sense.

You need to learn to adapt to the real world where most things are not deterministic. Go and learn.

I already know that. That's why we have deterministic algorithms, to simplify that complexity. You have much to learn, witty answers mean nothing here, particularly empty witty answers, which are no better than jokes. Maybe stand-up comedy is your call in life.

That may be true, but do you not want determinism where possible, especially within this context, i.e. filtering data?

Is your argument that the world isn't deterministic and so we should also apply nondeterminism to filtering json data?

> But i almost never play them, because the application is super slow.

And people say C++ is dead and everything must be done in Electron because developers are expensive and computers are cheap.

This here, is the reason performance matters and fast development time is not always the answer if the competition is strong and their product is high quality.

(Rust and friends are also good solutions.)

Hear, hear!

There are countless good audio players now.

I am using Amberol, it looks just amazing in a modern desktop and plays my FLAC collection.

About using the command line... I just type open musicfile.flac and it works. Opening another file adds it to the reproduction queue.