nu11ptr

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by nu11ptr 7d ago
> Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? Folded, I get, I want it to be a "regular size", but the only reason I don't like big devices is because they are clumsy to store in my pock
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by nu11ptr 7d ago
It is distracting. Just use your hands normally. It just feels a bit alien and scripted.
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by nu11ptr 28d ago
It is a massive accomplishment and neat tool for sure but: 1) Induces a large performance penalty 2) Introduces a GC into C code bases (higher memory requirements, performance profile changes) 3) Is x86-64 only atm I believe An idiomatic Ru
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by nu11ptr 1mo ago
How are compile times compared to Rust? Zig? Go?
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by nu11ptr 2mo ago
> It’s the language behind Kubernetes admission policies, Envoy’s RBAC rules, Google Cloud IAM conditions, and gRPC’s protovalidate Very small nitpick, but AFAIK protovalidate comes from Buf, not Google. While protovalidate DOES work wit
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by nu11ptr 2mo ago
Agreed, I really like Rust's Result type. Go's idea is okay, but they should force you to handle the error.
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by nu11ptr 2mo ago
Checked exceptions were actually the "right way" to do exceptions (if there is such a thing), the problem was just that developers hated them, but I think that draws the wrong conclusion. That tells me their syntax/usage was
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by nu11ptr 2mo ago
> When I write new code in Fil-C, I just lean into the GC all the way, which makes programming in C and C++ so much nicer. I don’t ref count, I don’t use smart pointers, I don’t free and I don’t delete. It makes these languages so much n
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by nu11ptr 2mo ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but to me this makes GPT-5.6 Sol Max look better. It is about half the cost for nearly the exact same performance. It just goes to show how expensive Fable really is when Opus 5 is still this expensiv
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by nu11ptr 2mo ago
I've always thought it odd that we don't use ECC as a standard on all computers. I think people really downplay the impact of memory issues. They can be devastating, especially over time. They will slowly corrupt your file system,
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
As someone just starting out with the JS ecosystem, how does this compare to something like SurveyJs?
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
> Not sure how in touch you are with the author of Vale? FYI - this article is written by the author of Vale
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
Not necessarily Java-flavored, but internally vs externally focused, yes. More difficult FFI assuming that is the exception not the rule, and that the language itself takes precedence. Write barriers are also not a given if using segmented
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
> why do languages like Crystal and D still use Boehm? Languages use Boehm for exactly one reason: it is easy to shim into an otherwise manual memory system (it was designed for use in C/C++). I mean no respect to its authors, but u
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
Glad I bought a fully loaded MBP a few weeks back and not now. The price on my exact configuration just went up a whopping 29%!
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
> A nil check is suspicious when it silently handles a state the program claims should be impossible. If only that could be expressed in the type system. Instead, the programmer is now forced to think about these things everywhere over t
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
This looks interesting and useful (I haven't tried it yet), but it is important to realize that every single useful Rust program has unsafe. Every single one. Why? Stdlib usage is full of it, and it must be by definition of what it doe
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
I'm a little unclear as to when and under what conditions this results in non-heap objects, now (<= 64-bits?) and in the future (???). I thought that was the _ENTIRE_ point of this project, so I was surprised to see they can be null
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
That looks very nice. How much of the UI is effectively stock gpui-component vs custom components? The charts? I assume you did custom theming?
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by nu11ptr 3mo ago
Not only that, but asking it to do a security vulnerability assessment of your own project is a very valid and important thing, and there is no way for it to know what is yours vs someone else's, so we just lose this capability?
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by nu11ptr 4mo ago
"Accelerated depreciation (if any) from shortening the lifespan of the device will be more expensive than the electricity" Shortening the lifespan?
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by nu11ptr 4mo ago
I am a developer, as many of us on here are. I currently have 32GB of RAM and am constantly fighting swap. 64GB would be min even w/o local model.
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by nu11ptr 4mo ago
You are assuming I'd only get it for that. That would probably just be the straw that broke the camels back, but I'm already thinking about a purchase even if that doesn't work out.
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by nu11ptr 4mo ago
Still trying to understand if a Macbook Pro M5 Max with 128GB is likely going to be able to run coding models well enough that I can cancel my Codex, or even go down to the $20/month plan.
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by nu11ptr 4mo ago
Ultimately it comes down to your entropy source. I always generate and insert in a loop for this reason, if there is a collision, I therefore handle that gracefully.
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by nu11ptr 5mo ago
It isn't about the code (they probably don't even know what that is), they focus on the fact that my daily job tasks have changed entirely (iow, I used to do 'something', 'what' doesn't matter, and now I d
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by nu11ptr 5mo ago
People are blown away when I tell them that, in the last 6 months, my job of coding has changed entirely, and that I now write very little code, but instead manage agents who write it. It is still engineering, and I still very much care wha
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by nu11ptr 5mo ago
Have they made a way to move those tiny icons in the lower left (aka "activity bar") to larger icons on the upper left like VsCode? As it stands, I can barely see them on my 4K screen and selecting them with a mouse cursor is like
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by nu11ptr 5mo ago
Interesting. I started working on this same idea a couple of years ago as a way to bypass CGo. Eventually I moved on to something else. Glad someone else is working on this. How does the generated Go performance compare to the original WASM
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by nu11ptr 5mo ago
Wow, written in just over a month. Say what you will about AI, but it has enabled serious speedups in the hands of a talented coder.

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