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  • sfink39 minutes ago
    &quot;RSS lies. Your process might not be using that memory. The allocator might be hoarding it.&quot;<p>Interesting writeup, but:<p>No, anonymous AI author. Your process <i>is</i> using that memory, for its allocator. Features like lower-latency allocations don&#x27;t come for free, even when they turn out severely suboptimal for your particular case. Your <i>code</i> isn&#x27;t using that memory, but a support library is. It is very much in your process.
  • tpetry1 hour ago
    I am wondering about the last part of glibc malloc. Isnt that exactly the problem reported for the last 10+ years with glibc? And the common solution is to use tcmalloc or jemalloc which hasnt these problems?
  • VulgarExigency1 hour ago
    Claude write me a post-mortem. Make no mistakes. Add a big image of a hero banner instead of rendering it in HTML for some reason.<p>I use AI myself (it&#x27;s essentially non-optional at work right now), and it&#x27;s not like this is useless information, but god, I&#x27;m just so saturated of this writing style.
    • BigTTYGothGF1 hour ago
      &gt; I&#x27;m just so saturated of this writing style.<p>I saw at least one tense error, so much for the idea of intentionally introducing grammar mistakes to demonstrate personhood.
    • sfink43 minutes ago
      Dammit. For a long time, I was blissfully clueless about AI writing style. But I recently read something that screamed en-SLOP, and now I can&#x27;t unsee it anywhere. It hit me immediately with this article.<p>I want to go back to being dumb and naive. Give me the blue pill, please!