It's interesting that you chose to measure how well each LLM did in talking to other NPCs, and having each NPC also use an LLM to react to each input. Why not have the LLM fight NPCs and loot items (both a significant part of the MUD experience, neither requiring LLMs on the server side), then measure character progression in experience and stats?
Not a Thinkpad and not Intel, but that already seems attainable with the asus G14 (AMD 8945HS + NVIDIA 4070) or the upcoming asus zenbook S16 (AMD HX 370).
I've never seen a large company with more L7+ engineers than L7+ managers. Usually it's a ratio of drastically more managers hired/promoted into those levels than engineers, and some orgs don't have any engineers in those levels at all.
I prefer sticking with bash where necessary (where a script is the only thing that will reasonably work), and elsewhere using a programming language with testing, type checking, modularity, and compilation into something with zero or minimal runtime dependencies.
Is this similar to people moving away from giving their code as open source when companies take it, repackage, and sell it while the authors get nothing?
You still need postcss or something like it to use css modules. The alternative of CSS-in-JS requires a build step to extract either a CSS file or inline critical styles for server rendering. The browser-native alternative of CSS Module Scripts doesn't work in Safari.
You still need babel, tsc, or swc to transform typescript to JS.
And then there are imports of files that aren't JS (images, fonts, stylesheets, etc).
There's still no good way of publishing an npm package with multiple components, stylesheets per component, and transitive consumers using only the stylesheets for the components they reference while rendering fully server side. CSS is still not scalable.
Very good to have a smaller runtime. Some of the stated benefits of the new generator are silly and the comparison with ts-proto doesn't point out the actual improvement (generating d.ts files means your CI doesn't spend time type-checking and compiling ts sources), but nice to see this new alternative.
I think that's ocaml. Higher level, with GC, nice type system, no traits but signatures and higher order modules might be enough for you, and a compiler that produces fast native binaries.
Yes. Even this week, we have the news that his supreme court nominees are voting to strike down abortion protections, and I have female friends and family in states with trigger laws.