dxhdr

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by dxhdr 2y ago
What problems is WASI 0.2 and the Component Model solving? I've read the project goals but I still don't quite understand. I mean, I guess having some defined interface between languages might be useful for some specific usecases
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by dxhdr 2y ago
Very cool! It seems to dead-end unexpectedly on some topics. For example, I delved "path tracing" -> "importance sampling" and it output a section on probability distribution functions (PDFs) but didn't offer any
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by dxhdr 2y ago
> 1999, or any other year is arbitrary, and you probably can pick dates to make any investment strategy look good I agree, that was partly my point!
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by dxhdr 2y ago
If you bought gold in 1999 and kept it until today you would have 8x'd your money.
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> in regard to the NATO-Ukraine question Putin had by that time already achieved a successful, non-violent containment strategy. But ultimately he opted for the full-scale invasion in 2022 anyway. Beginning in 2019, Ukraine went full-pre
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by dxhdr 3y ago
That's some hallucinated nonsense. Putin gave an "explicit warning that Russia perceived NATO's eastward expansion as a threat to its national security" as early as 2007 in his Munich speech [0]. The Russo-Ukrainian war
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by dxhdr 3y ago
"Through the Treasury, the US Government actually booked $15.3 billion in profit, as it earned $441.7 billion on the $426.4 billion invested." So over the 5 years of holding those assets, that's a rate of return of 0.7%?
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> Where people live, the infrastructure exists. Have you tried using non-Tesla charging stations? It's a disaster! Those charging terminals are hastily thrown together pieces of junk, frankly. The hardware, software, billing, everyt
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by dxhdr 3y ago
One thing the article didn't mention is that a gaussian blur can be approximated with multiple passes of a box blur. Not sure how that would relate performance-wise to the discussed stack blur algorithm. The code would probably be a bi
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by dxhdr 3y ago
Rich families already do this by sending their kids to private schools. Have you seen how expensive and competitive these schools are, even starting as early as Kindergarten?
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> But if your assertion checks don't run in release mode, and due to some bug, those invariants don't hold, well, your program is already going to exhibit undefined behaviour. Why not let the compiler know about the undefined b
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by dxhdr 3y ago
Mike Acton presented a great visualization of this in his 2014 DOD talk -- here's a link to just that clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc&t=1831s
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by dxhdr 3y ago
Try out Doom! You don't have to use evil-mode either if that's not your thing (I don't use it), just disable :editor evil in your init.el. Personally I kind of view it like having a custom mechanical keyboard. Why not invest
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> But it is not 'a memory usage pattern not supported by the borrow checker'. You can absolutely write a crate with an API identical to slotmap without using unsafe. I think that might actually be worse though, performance asid
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by dxhdr 3y ago
It's essentially a "user-space" memory allocator with it's own use-after-free and double-free checks, apparently because the language implementation isn't adequate. If anything it just reinforces the articles point
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> In fact the pattern described in the article is a common pattern in Rust and I make use of it all the time; the library for making use of it is `slotmap`. Slotmap uses unsafe everywhere, it's a memory usage pattern not supported b
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by dxhdr 3y ago
How do you measure cache line utilization with a flame graph? I'm not sure it's as simple as you're describing. Poor memory access patterns from heap allocations can kill performance via death from a thousand cuts. It's
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> My opinion doesn't lead to harm to other people, so you'll understand why I don't respect yours. Your right to swing your infected spittle ends where other people's mouths and noses begin. Don't you have the ab
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by dxhdr 3y ago
This removes half the magic of interacting with ChatGPT. Users will quickly realize they're interacting with a dumb database rather than an AI.
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> Socialize losses + Medicare, Medicaid, ERC, unemployment, education, subsidize food, housing, solar, recycling etc etc. I don't understand your point. Those other items are government services that I receive in exchange for paying
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by dxhdr 3y ago
Privatize profits, socialize losses. No wonder it works when you can justify it like that.
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> They claim a net windfall of $2.6B, with projected $2B in future costs associated with the takeover. So in some sense it cost them negative $2.6B; in some other sense (if those cost projections are accurate), negative $600M. Additional
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by dxhdr 3y ago
That's kind of my point, it's a product that doesn't work. It's a language interface that can't understand language. FWIW I tried many alternatives like "Bach classical music" etc to no avail.
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by dxhdr 3y ago
Had the same experience at a friends house trying to get Alexa to play Bach. I gave up after a half dozen attempts. These products are just hilariously bad.
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> Other than that, what's the difference to using Rust's green threads, given that the developer knows what they are doing (but are still human and can make mistakes of course)? An analogy: The BEAM process model is to "de
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> Using Rust afterwards was great, plus it was faster than the BEAM. I guess, why not use Rust entirely instead of as a FFI into Elixir or other backend language? Sure, you just need to reimplement light-weight threading with preemptive
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by dxhdr 3y ago
> What does it do better than other networks? Provides you complete control over your money. You can send any amount to whoever you want, whenever you want, with no third parties capable of approving, disapproving, or delaying the transa
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by dxhdr 4y ago
> “General thinking” is much more than token prediction. Hook it up to some servos and see if it can walk. Honestly, at this rate of improvement, I would not at all be surprised to see that happen in a few years. But who knows, maybe tok
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by dxhdr 4y ago
I wonder if the SVB CEO sold shares 2 weeks ago
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by dxhdr 4y ago
You lose money the instant rates go up. It doesn't matter whether you sell them or not. The only way to gain it back is for rates to go back down. Holding to maturity is irrelevant.

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