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by eigenspace 6d ago
Due to how the release cycle turned out, most new major features got pushed to v1.14, and this one is a rather iterative release focused on making various things faster, quashing bugs, and general polish. Still though, faster GC, lower star
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Julia 1.13 highlights(julialang.org)
270 points by eigenspace 6d ago|47 comments
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Julia does have an interpreter, but due to the multiple disptach semantics and the type system, it's a rather slow interpreter. There's some exciting work that was presented in Juliacon 2026 though on an upcoming tiered JIT and th
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Here's a somewhat recent discussion sparked by someone who was concerned having read the blogpost: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-stability-vs-rust-fo... It got a little long and meandered a bit, but I th
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by eigenspace 12d ago
It's a really nice feature. That said, I do think in the earlier days, the community did get a bit too enthusiastic about it, and used it in a lot of places in the ecosystem that didn't make so much sense. I think things have come
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by eigenspace 12d ago
I did not say "How do I get *to* ..". > Of course you do - you very likely didn't start programming in assembler. I did not, and I do not think that conventions from assembler should influence basic ergnonomic design dec
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Not trying to gaslight you. Especially if you were hitting that issue with the stdlibs, as I said, I don't think we should have allowed a release to go out with that problem. It was treated as bug though and fixed (though it also took
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by eigenspace 12d ago
> More like breaking changes That certainly has not been my experience with the language since 1.0 > weird issues with basic transitive dependencies breaking after a minor version bump to the language. Not sure what exactly this is re
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by eigenspace 12d ago
> You asked for a good argument - I provided one. I don't see a good argument though, I just see adaption to a quirky convention. > Either way of thinking works - I spent decades going back and forth from Fortran to C, and people
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Okay, but why are you trying to think about *elements* of a list in terms of offsets from the origin? I mean, that's an important low-level detail to know when you're working with assembly or doing pointer math, but it is not so
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by eigenspace 12d ago
This depends a lot on what you're trying to do with it. There have been companies which did what you described, but there's also companies happily using it. If you reach into unstable language internals, yes there is a lot of chur
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by eigenspace 12d ago
This argument over indexing conventions is so tired. I have yet to hear a good argument for why the answer to "How do I get the third element of this array?" should be `arr[2]` > Both R and Julia have their core functions wr
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Programming languages have bugs. These things happen, and this tired article blows them totally out of proportion. Some languages are less permissive, and have a culture of searching harder for corner cases and dealing with them than others
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by eigenspace 12d ago
Julia is such a great language, it's what really made me care about end enjoy programming. I think it's the modern language which has taken the most lessons from lisps, and has come up with some great ideas of its own too. There&#
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by eigenspace 17d ago
So far :')
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by eigenspace 19d ago
The process you're describing is underway. Schleswig-Holstein, Munich, Leon, and the Austrian military all come to mind as recent examples of that sort of migration, and then pivoting savings into support contracts for open source. T
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by eigenspace 19d ago
Flatpak is proving to be a very important piece of underlying infrastructure if government agencies want to switch to Linux computers running distributed graphical applications for their workers. Yes, it has major problems, and you might be
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by eigenspace 20d ago
I don't really agree here. I think what they are doing is pretty strategic, especially given the relatively limited money they have. There's basically two sides to funding software that are actually rather different 1. Accele
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Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak(modal.cx)
274 points by eigenspace 20d ago|140 comments
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by eigenspace 20d ago
I don't think the comic is claiming that all tariffs in any context are bad, that would indeed be a reductive, bad take. Given the timing and the metaphor of blood being sent to and from a limb, this is almost surely a reference to the
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by eigenspace 20d ago
So, here is one of the major problems with having a US administration run by liars, crooks, and bullies: your arguments lose all credibility. I'm a Canadian who is pretty unhappy with our protectionist dairy lobby, and thinks there pro
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by eigenspace 22d ago
Nearly 70% of eligible Americans didn't think that Trump was a enough of a problem to vote against him in 2024. This betrays a complete lack of civic seriousness, and a childlike belief of invulnerability to consequences.
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by eigenspace 22d ago
If you want to run reasonably big, local AI models, what are your alternatives? That may not be many people, but there certainly will be some people who want to do that, and are willing to pay big bucks to do so.
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by eigenspace 22d ago
> Every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination. Trump's entire modus operandi for his entire career has been to heavily borrow against the future to chase short term benefits, and hope that the
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by eigenspace 23d ago
I should have been more clear. While distillation is part of how we got lucky here, what I really think is that it's just surprising and lucky that such a heavily data-driven approach ended up being so powerful here. Transformers are l
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by eigenspace 23d ago
Even if the transformer paper wasnt published, the info would have diffused out eventually. Its not that wild of an idea. It's not like e.g. chipmaking where even just knowing how things are done doesnt mean you can copy it.
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by eigenspace 23d ago
Im sure that's well on its way.
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by eigenspace 23d ago
Jeeze, what are you doing that uses so much electricity? I live in Germany where people won't stop whining about electricity prices, and I pay 75€/mo.
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by eigenspace 23d ago
Yes, but 10 or 15 years ago, I would have thought that there'd be more to it than just a slight modification on the ideas behind a CNN to get this level of AI. There were somewhat good reasons to think it needed more than just this dat
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by eigenspace 23d ago
I wouldn't be so sure about that. The popping of a bubble is usually just as irrational as its rise. If investors start fleeing from senseless businesses in the AI sector, that does not mean that sensible businesses will be spared. The

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