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by resonancel 5mo ago
I always think the determinism discourse on LLMs is off the point. The elephant in the room is semantic preservation. Compilers can most often preserve semantics across abstractions, while LLMs most often cannot. For sure the problem isn&#x
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by resonancel 5mo ago
You can think of comptime (as of zig 0.16) as an interpreter that evaluates code with very limited optimization. So yes, naive use of comptime can definitely grind compilation to a halt. Zig tackles the halting problem a bit differently by
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by resonancel 5mo ago
Did Putin do anything meaningful to stop "NATO's advance" into the Baltic Sea? Maybe Putin was so pacifist that he let Sweden and Finland join the NATO with impunity.
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by resonancel 5mo ago
Come back when Americans are routinely jailed for rubbing their elites the wrong way (in some countries, criticisms aren't the only way to rub the leaders the wrong way)
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by resonancel 5mo ago
I believe China only got this huge because all its neighours couldn't help joining the peaceful middle realm \s
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by resonancel 5mo ago
IMO "level" roughly corresponds to the amount of runtime control flow hidden by abstractions. Zig is famous for having almost no hidden runtime control flow, this appears pretty "low level" to many. OTOH, Zig can have hi
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by resonancel 5mo ago
Then it's actually the immature zig ecosystem that rubbed the author the wrong way, not zig the language itself. Not that the ecosystem isn't important, but IMO a language only truly fails you when it doesn't offer the compos
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by resonancel 5mo ago
Well, Xi Jinping and his lackeys are known for their poor educational background, maybe not quite well known in the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYQpaAI90A
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by resonancel 5mo ago
It's more like driving across country vs firing a missile with you being the warhead...
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by resonancel 5mo ago
Can't take this lib seriously when there're lots of gems like these in the codebase. // Open source directory dir_t* dir = open_dir(source_dir); // Find where dot is char* dot = strrchr(file,
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by resonancel 5mo ago
C# is a perfect example of feature envy, but because "Java sucks" C# must be the best thing ever in the world of computing. Orthogonality and coherence be damned.
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by resonancel 1y ago
The Swift ecosystem is pretty amazing too. I've made several PRs and got them merged into Swift Parser while exchanging ideas with Apple employees fruitfully. The only big caveat is there's no guarantee your work will ever be merg
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by resonancel 1y ago
XCode evidently cannot keep pace with the rapid development of Swift. Instead of fully embracing community development, Apple maintains a proprietary (dated and divergent) fork of the Swift toolchain in Xcode. For example, check how differe