qalmakka

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by qalmakka 5d ago
Codegen was still done via LLVM. LLVM supports the MSVC _runtime_, here they're talking about using their (arguably worse) backend directly to generate code and do optimisations
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by qalmakka 5d ago
... but why? The MSVC backend has been falling far behind LLVM with every release. I understand they want uniformity but IMHO either they catch up or they switch fully to LLVM, if they can
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by qalmakka 13d ago
For me it definitely was
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by qalmakka 25d ago
libuv does all sorts of shenanigans, like using the undocumented fields in STARTUPINFOW the CRT uses to pass file descriptors to processes inheriting handles so that you can open whatever file descriptor you need in your children processes
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by qalmakka 1mo ago
I don't know. I know that the old interface was less pleasant than it could be, but breaking every single program ever written in Zig to change it for a super unwieldy API felt to me more like the authors being unnecessarily fastidious
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by qalmakka 1mo ago
One thing XML is very good for is semantic documents adhering to a well defined schema - and it's one of the few commonly used text-based data storage formats that do it well (with XSD, DTDs are pretty terrible). Unfortunately the only
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by qalmakka 1mo ago
It's mostly useful to allow sandboxed AI apps to access external functionality. If an LLM has any kind of access to a CLI then it stops making sense, because LLMs are very good at CLI and almost always they use less tokens doing that.
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by qalmakka 2mo ago
This is clearly not how it's going though. Any advancement from any lab has been quickly (< 6 months) matched up by basically everybody else. Even Grok nowadays is decent, and that's something. When something like you've d
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by qalmakka 2mo ago
I never truly understood what the intended business model around LLMs was. Get them widespread through cheap pricing and then jacking it up? Being the only ones that had a viable product so to get the ability to extract as much value as you
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by qalmakka 2mo ago
If those buses use DEF, have a anti particulate filter and are well maintained, their emissions should in theory be extremely low, with no heavy compounds. I hope local municipal authorities don't remove filters from their buses. Even
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by qalmakka 2mo ago
It is a serious crime. Diesel exhaust is s IARC type 1 carcinogen. Somehow people go nuts when companies pollute water but not when they pollute the air they breathe
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
To be fair is quite hard to actually understand what this White House is saying most of the time
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
It has been clear to every single human being reading it for hundreds of years. It was never up to debate until some person of this administration decided to go and question the meaning of "jurisdiction thereof". Also saying that
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
This is kind of crazy. The text of the amendment is as literal as it gets. If this had failed it would have basically meant emptying Congress of all of its powers, because now the executive can just pick whatever interpretation they deem fi
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
To be fair a lot of it had also to do with the sheer immense amount of vast, mostly unused ,fertile land available in north America. I sincerely doubt the American experiment would have worked this well if they had rowdy neighbours and infi
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
While some parts of Europe got slightly warmer during the Middle Ages, only to then cool down significantly during the little ice age. Anyway all of those changes were slow, over the course of centuries, and not like now a quick, aggressive
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
OT: It's sad that future generations will probably be robbed from the joy of being able to stroll around fields and nature during the summer, at least in Europe. The climate is so hot already that you basically need to live the whole s
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
Yes, but - the apps almost always allow you to remotely increase your stay - the apps almost always allow you to pay by the exact minute instead of by the quarter/half an hour
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
You need to find a working parking metre which may or may not work, accept cards or give back change. Also most if not all of parking apps allow you to pay by the exact minute and extended your stay dynamically from the go, while with a pap
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
> A very large portion of that ABI is already implemented due to both systems being POSIX. POSIX provides an API, not an ABI, and that API kind of ends at libc. Being compatible with Linux at an ABI level means being able to provide the
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
> IMHO the real Linux advantage is that it was using the gnu user land, and thus gcc worked well with it and companies started to sell commercial support early. IMHO what really differentiated Linux were a. the bazaar development approac
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
The BSDs would be much bigger today if it wasn't for AT&T going after them hard in the early '90s, exactly when both them and Linux were starting to take up speed. I think that things could have gone way different if the BSDs
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
> I'm not sure how it'd defeat the point of having their own kernel. Because then you'd need to both maintain your kernel AND your own implementation of the Linux ABI, an ABI you don't have control over and that basic
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
> aving containers run hardware one owns, a bad or even shameful idea what? it isn't, it's absolutely a right you surely have. The problem is that a. Apple forces people to buy Macs to build, notarise and deploy iOS and macOS a
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
macOS sandboxing is deliberately limited just enough to prevent anyone from truly implement Darwin-on-Darwin containers. People have been discussing about this for a while, see https://github.com/apple/container/di
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
That's totally unrelated to what I wrote
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
This is all fine and dandy, but where are the native Darwin Jails Apple? Still scared that people will filling whole rooms of Mac Minis if you allow them to have multiple macOS containers and not only up to two fat VMs per machine?
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
Linux and the BSDs take APIs one from the other all of the time. The issue with having a Linux ABI is that you don't need just the few APIs you're missing, you need to implement the WHOLE Linux API and it has to be _perfect_, othe
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
FreeBSD has Linuxlator because there is a lot of binary only software that was never and never will be ported to BSD, so it's necessary for them in order to avoid bleeding users away. Conversely, macOS has basically all software ported
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by qalmakka 3mo ago
Does any older folk here remembers when NT was the Cool New Thing (TM) and it had by design support to multiple subsystems plopped over the NT API, and Win32 was just one of them alongside POSIX (Interix) and OS/2? There was even a _ve

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