robinei

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by robinei 28d ago
The article says they could have asked an AI themselves, but that is missing that I may have an agentic context with exactly the right information to answer the question well, which they do not have. For example because I worked on somethin
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by robinei 7mo ago
Who cares if a piece of open source has American maintainers? The point is not to avoid touching anything American. It is control and sovereignty.
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by robinei 7mo ago
Do you think it would fundamentally be a mistake to thread data along with error type through the error return path, or is it just that it costs too much say from a calling convention perspective or some other technical reason? Is it relate
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by robinei 8mo ago
My feeling is that I consistently find on-point solutions for my Linux problems with a quick search. However if my Windows install gets in trouble my search will yield some DISM.exe invocation which doesn't help at all. A bit anecdotal
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by robinei 9mo ago
Let’s not underestimate the scale of the search which led to us though, even though you may be right in principle. In addition to deep time on earth, we may well be just part of a tiny fraction of a universe-wide and mostly fruitless search
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by robinei 1y ago
XWayland is compartmentalized, and should not make life harder for anyone else in the Wayland world (except the ones spending time maintaining it). And Zink gives us a clean OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan (so not contributing to com
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by robinei 1y ago
Since it's trained on a vast a mount of code (probably all publicly accessible Go code and more), it's seen a vast amount of different bespoke APIs for doing all kinds of things. I'm sure some of that will leak into the outpu
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by robinei 1y ago
If it was first, it could have self-improved more, to the point that it has the capacity to prevent competition, while the competition does not have the capacity to defend itself against superior AGI. This all is so hypothetical and frankly
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by robinei 2y ago
Cut for the foreseeable future AFAIK. They may return to it when ready
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by robinei 2y ago
Why would the function's dependencies need recompilation? I guess the dependees may require it, if they inlined it, or if the signature changed.
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by robinei 2y ago
That's the theory. However, isn't likely that as things like the new Nova Nvidia driver is written in Rust, the things that depend on Rust are suddenly so important, that shipping with it disabled is unrealistic, even without a po
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by robinei 2y ago
Calling some of those leftist is quite a condemnation of the right.
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by robinei 2y ago
The question is who is suppressed.
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by robinei 2y ago
And start treating the alliances as vital part of the whole, and stop betraying the fragile trust they are built on. Use Korean industry until the industry at home can catch up.
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by robinei 2y ago
Maybe idealism is dead and even the youth have been corrupted these days.
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by robinei 2y ago
I’m talking of the typical left/right split. Where leftist policies tend toward redistribution of wealth to the benefit of broader swathes, while right oriented policies tend to at least lead to more concentration of wealth. Maybe it i
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by robinei 2y ago
On the flip side, it seems evident that younger people tend to vote for the betterment of all, while older people tend to shift toward voting for «themselves».
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by robinei 2y ago
Ideally arrays of primitive values like `long` to store the bytecode represenation for proper good performance. Then use bitwise manipulation to access "fields"
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by robinei 4y ago
I actually prefer the Adlib version!
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by robinei 5y ago
Given the accepted MAD doctrine, which kept the "peace" throughout the cold war, you would think nuclear escalation would be unthinkable as a means to stave off a conventional defeat on foreign soil.
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by robinei 5y ago
Though if the evidence presented for this event is persuasive, then all they achieve by making the connection is to speculate on a natural cause for a biblical "miracle". I mean it can strengthen a view of the Bible as source of h
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by robinei 5y ago
You can constrain type arguments with a compile-time `if` check, and generate a compile error on violation.
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by robinei 5y ago
Since then Zig has come quite far in its self-hosted rewrite. So the point of it being Andrew's first compiler is no longer valid.
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by robinei 6y ago
Zig does it ( https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/ ). Basically using "await" just means you are declaring opportunity for concurrency at the call site, but it is still valid to await a syn
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by robinei 6y ago
Soundness gives an important benefit: Performance, for a compiler capable of utilising the type information properly. It can omit run-time checks, and unbox primitives etc.
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by robinei 6y ago
This shows that if you are making a not-very-fast compiler (most compilers these days), then the much maligned C compilation model has some serious advantages on modern and future hardware, due to its embarrassingly parallell nature.
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by robinei 6y ago
The stocks they are borrowing for their shorts have really high interest now. They are bleeding money just paying interest. And now that goes for a couple of hundred percent of the stock float.
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by robinei 6y ago
It seems like shorting alone can create this kind of systemic risk, with its infinite downside. One has to question whether it might be better were it not allowed.
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by robinei 6y ago
Swift has the slowest compiler I have ever had the misfortune of using. The dev iteration cycle was unbearable for me in a Swift project the I inherited.
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by robinei 6y ago
In Norway MSN Messenger was responsible. I remember all the people who were a couple of years younger than me starting with that, and ICQ never recovered.

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