Calavar

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by Calavar 2y ago
> My response to this would be that this infectiousness is not a feature of async/await but an intrinsic property of the function. A function calling an expensive function is itself expensive. This is not a bug, it's just reali
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I think you read the article as saying that juggling function color is trivial nonsense and a waste of programmers' time, and your rebuttal is "await" isn't trivial - it conveys important information about the function.
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Not all definitions are created equal (you seemed to imply that yourself when you said "It doesn't meet your definition of the word open") and the OSI definition is widely considered the de facto standard. Of course no defini
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by Calavar 2y ago
> It doesn't meet your definition of the word open. That's a disingenuous argument. It doesn't meet the OSI's definition of open. > the community piled on them until they said it was so not worth it that just pulle
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by Calavar 2y ago
The meme/troll issues were edgy teen style humor and not that funny, but the legitimate ones that tried to gently explain what rebase does and went completely ignored were funny because they felt surreal and hyperreal at the same time
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by Calavar 2y ago
We've lost a lot with the deletion of this repo. Not the code - that's already out in the ether - but the absurdist comedy of the issues, pull requests, and commit history of trying to piecemeal delete third party non-FOSS softwar
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by Calavar 2y ago
Edge is reskinned Chrome. Opera is also reskinned Chrome. The whole point of having multiple browsers is to get multiple competing implementations of web standards, so a single vendor can't force unilaterally force its features or its
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by Calavar 2y ago
Maybe you just haven't found the right static site generator for your needs? Jekyll is the most well known in Ruby space, but it's tailored to a specific niche - authoring a blog with Markdown or another lightweight markup langua
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by Calavar 2y ago
It does feel like every organ system and every disease has at least one research group trying to connect it to the microbiome. It's reminiscent of the hype cycle around oxidative stress and antioxidants 20 uears ago. There was a core o
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by Calavar 2y ago
Yes, but only if you served the XHTML with the proper MIME type of application/xhtml+xml. Nearly everyone served it as text/html, which would lead to the document being intepreted as this weird pseudo XHTML/HTML4 hybrid diale
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by Calavar 2y ago
> If developing nations with arguably inferior education systems can responsibly live with open access to medical treatment resources like diagnostic imaging and pharmaceuticals, Well, the conditional in this if statement doesn't ho
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I agree, but there's a big difference between saying some industries or companies are still targeting old standards and saying there's "near zero" adoption of new standards. The latter just isn't accurate from what
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by Calavar 2y ago
You can find std::string_view (C++17) in Google's WebGPU implementation [1], static_assert (C++17) in Protobufs [2], <bit> (C++20) in React Native [3], and std::format (C++20) in Cuda Core Compute [4]. So the big names in tech a
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by Calavar 2y ago
The US population today is twice what it was in 1960. I know I am oversimplifying, but so much of the the history of long term growth could be intepreted as older people benefitting from progressively larger younger generations. More people
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by Calavar 2y ago
I got the impression it was intentional. A bit tongue in cheek.
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I am a doctor, so let me give you the perspective from the other side. A friend of mine who works in primary care has a policy of not prescribing semaglutide unless a patient has tried at least three months of diet/exercise first. She
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by Calavar 2y ago
I agree, that could explain a lot of it. I also suspect that the length of the generated code plays a role. In my experience, LLMs sometimes peter out a bit and give up if the generated program gets too long, even if it's well within t
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by Calavar 2y ago
I just signed up for the free version. Claude Sonnet does properly use malloc/free to manage the buffer where GPT-4o screws up (Yay!) It manages to gets through the whole process of initializing a graphics device and grabbing a queue f
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by Calavar 2y ago
I feel like I'm living in a different universe sometimes. The consensus on HN seems to be that you can be pretty productive with LLMs as coding assistants, but every time I try I find it borderline impossible to get functional code eve
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by Calavar 2y ago
> The real problem here is that we're expecting Google to do this instead of law enforcement. Is there a scammer? Arrest them. That would be ideal, but getting 195 countries on the same page on cybercrime just isn't going to ha
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by Calavar 2y ago
> Do you think UB-as-feature is something that someone would honestly describe C or C++ as? Yes. That's how I describe it. That's also how Ralf Jung (long time Rust contributor and one of the main people behind Miri) describes
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by Calavar 2y ago
> They are not UB-as-a-feature like in C/C++. That's the part that's incorrect. That, plus the implication that UB is a bug in Rust, but not in C++. As I said, the existence of UB is a feature in both languages and actuall
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by Calavar 2y ago
> Those are bugs. They are faults in the code. They need to be fixed. They are not UB-as-a-feature like in C/C++. Rust has UB-as-a-feature too. They could have eliminated UB from the language entirely, but they chose not to (for ver
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by Calavar 2y ago
As far as I am aware, the standard doesn't mandate bounds checking for std::vector::operator[] and probably never will for backwards compatibility reasons. Most standard library implementations have opt-out std::vector[] bounds checkin
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> today cars drive themselves You can attach about a hundred asterisks to that. If anything, I think self the failure to hit L5 driving after billions of dollars and millions of man hours invested is probably reflective of how automatic
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Do all seven work at the same place? The PhDs I know mostly work a M-W/9-5 schedule with the occasional late night or weekend day when it's crunch time for a conference deadline. Plenty of time left for family, and they all have f
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by Calavar 2y ago
Very much a false equivalence to the point that it sounds like a bad faith argument. There's a massive difference between contingency planning for a hypothetical versus actively planning for something that's is intended to be agen
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And Trump has said that he intends to cancel that tariff [1]. Honestly, the narrative that Biden enabled Chinese EV encroachment is very bizarre. It reflects almost the exact opposite of the actions the candidates have actually taken. [1]
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If you believe the Kremlin narrative around their motivations for the war, and I think there are a LOT of reasons to be skeptical of that narrative, but even if you believe it, the 2022 invasion plans were likely already well underway in 20
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> > In 1953, Enrico Fermi criticized Dyson’s model by quoting Johnny von Neumann: “With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.” For those who are interested, you can watch Freeman Dyson r

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