whizzter

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by whizzter 6d ago
How else could they justify their spending and pre-IPO valuation?
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by whizzter 7d ago
I don't think we're particularly in disagreement here, I think pinnacle product in manys eyes can be both reputational(prob workstation) or economic in addition to technical, so my reply was mostly in terms of replying to the NFI
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by whizzter 7d ago
Umm, Java/JVM has mostly static typing (if you discount the generic mess) but regardless Java/JVM computations has no type-tags for values (vtables for object types however). This discussion is mostly in relation to dynamically ty
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by whizzter 7d ago
Yep, felt quite stupid when I heard this ages ago and hadn't thought of it (Iirc in an old IRC chat about Maximes old Higgs runtime), from my memory V8 did this from day 1.
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by whizzter 7d ago
100% agreed (see my sibling comment), this all accumulates for in-language function calls,etc since code at runtime often spends a surprising amount of time just moving around values instead of doing useful work, having them just as singula
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by whizzter 7d ago
This was probably 15-20 years ago at this point but I was doing a lot of micro-tests in terms of dynlang->C/C++ transpilers (in relation to my MsC thesis) to see the effects of different value-models, GC strategies and the win of co
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by whizzter 8d ago
I think you're conflating different requirements/usecases. Sure, a type-1 hypervisor like vSphere is technically better since there's no host OS creating unmanageable contention and if you have guests with higher performance
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by whizzter 12d ago
I still do "random" browsing in FF with NoScript, that said, I'll acknowledge the frequency of updates of Chrome,etc and years of hardening. It's not the Bonzi-buddy and driveby-installed IE toolbars wild west of the ear
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by whizzter 12d ago
Keyword is students, 5-10 years ago I was involved in teaching non-programmers how to develop so however people act once in the profession is irrelevant to this discussion really.
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by whizzter 12d ago
> Was that the first/only moment you had a draining/bad student? Seems quick to give up because of one bad experience, maybe this was repeating? Coding was hard enough that even most bad students understood they knew very littl
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by whizzter 14d ago
Paths and shortcuts isn't the most important part here I think, rather negative signals about unfitting choices is more important, do we use algorithm/library/etc XYZ in this situation or not, the developers using it would pr
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by whizzter 14d ago
They probably _were_, since lower level code representations often has little notion of complex types and their semantics they could be kept clean and focused on machine code, however type inference in a language like C++ complicates such m
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by whizzter 14d ago
Register allocation is usually on a far "lower" codegen level as is often DCE, they should be possible to compute/run on a SSA node level or similar long after destruction sequences are applied. Now, there is far more "l
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by whizzter 14d ago
Their system can run with various models, they go into more details in this article. https://aisle.com/blog/system-over-model-zero-day-discovery-...
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by whizzter 14d ago
Maybe they realized that they were falling behind too much? To me it seems like user-feedback on bad descisions by the AI once it's trained to a basic level is among the most important signals in tuning the model to perform better.
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by whizzter 14d ago
RVO is easy to detect since it happens only in expressions in return-statements. NRVO requires the compiler to analyze the flow, like if 2 different variables/constructions can lead to the return (what one do we take, or can we do eith
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by whizzter 19d ago
Someone should copyright the American flag and popular advertised variants of blue/white/red and something alike and start DMCA'ing politicians, maybe that would wake them up to how bad the law is?
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by whizzter 21d ago
The hyperscalers were stable customers buying far more expensive equipment and NVidia has also made a bank selling a lot of auxillary hardware like Mellanox to AI datacenters. But the spending spree is probably coming to an end with the loo
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by whizzter 22d ago
This is something to underscore, US people always talks about how "big and sprawling" the US is, but there's fiber at my fathers house in Northern Sweden that's in an area with similar population density to Wisconsin or
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by whizzter 26d ago
I think you design in layers, frontends that work as clients to TigerBeetle for work in batches (as mentioned by the sibling comment), but the whole idea of removing latency differences by removing unpredictability means that you don't
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by whizzter 27d ago
Exactly, my kids knew how to convert between the formats at a fairly young age.
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by whizzter 28d ago
Another large part of using SSE for floating point arithmetic today is that while the floating point stack was very good for code-density (I still use older compilers for size-optimized C code for demoscene intros), it was also quite painfu
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by whizzter 28d ago
Dolt had an interesting article on the subject, basically to get it more reliable in terms of similar size distribution they basically had a split threshhold function that shrunk by the current size, i did a bit of experimentation with stat
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by whizzter 1mo ago
The thing is that doing a separation for editors necessitates that you create a "client-server" protocol and things needs to flow through it, and that adds quite a bit of complexity over a "plain" editor. And for authori
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by whizzter 1mo ago
The energy mix for electricity in Sweden, Norway and Finland is mostly made up of hydro+nuclear+wind, especially wind and hydro complements each other very well since hydro is very much on-demand and can cover for most temporary wind shortf
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by whizzter 2mo ago
Gonna add the comment about FT2 vs IT, in the demoscene FT2 was probably favoured a bit more since third party replayers (required for embedding the music into demos) were at least somewhat faithful when it came to .XM modules whilst .IT mo
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by whizzter 2mo ago
Like mentioned FastTracker was created by people in the demoscene, also the module format fasttracker created was fairly dominant in the demoscene from maybe 1994 to 1998-1999 (when PC's were fast enough that people started moving onto
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by whizzter 2mo ago
Hmm, interestingly here in Sweden we have "free evidence" (way of gathering is not considered even if "illegal", however someone doing something illegal to obtain it could instead be charged separately). As such in a cas
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by whizzter 2mo ago
Someone who is a lawyer knows any details about the US justice systems precedents with regards to the fifth amendmend (regards to self incrimination) vs obstruction of justice (by destroying evidence) as would be applicable to a duress wipe
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by whizzter 2mo ago
The encryption/hiding is done by the firmware, hence.. 1: The drive more or less looks like any boring old usb-stick, it isn't even uncommon for cheap fake Amazon sellers to sell sticks with SD-card's as faked large drives (s

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