Conscat

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by Conscat 5mo ago
Fwiw, nobody has ever suggested to me that I employ token compression in my daily workflow. I don't pay full attention in all the AI workflow demos I'm supposed to attend, but I don't recall that even being discussed. Is th
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by Conscat 5mo ago
I'm not, I work higher level products. I've talked to a few people who do but I don't recall if they have different standards.
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by Conscat 5mo ago
At Nvidia, we have no limit for Anthropic or Open AI models (for now) and are heavily encouraged to use them as much as possible.
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by Conscat 5mo ago
I learned to read Devanagari by putting generic Google images cards on my phone's wall paper.
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by Conscat 5mo ago
I had never heard of low background steel. That's a fascinating problem it solves (and I love the analogy).
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by Conscat 5mo ago
In the bay area, I've met relatively few NRIs who don't know Hindi well, even if it's not their first language. Most of them that I've met are not even Kannadiga, Mallu, Telugu, or especially not Tamil. Sample size of at
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by Conscat 5mo ago
Studying Hindi has felt very rewarding to me, and it impresses people disproportionately to my actual skill, but I don't feel it has affected my ability to communicate with coworkers whatsoever.
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by Conscat 5mo ago
Any media company which deliberately rids itself of everyone willing to speak vaguely positively of transsexual people may not be attracting the most free thinking writers.
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by Conscat 5mo ago
That feels reductive. It's actionable to get OCI, renounce US citizenship, and become Indian after a decade. It's just not very practical for most people. I know many people who don't work their dream job, but switching to a
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by Conscat 5mo ago
My understanding from speaking with a few Tile IR devs on dates is that its primary motivation was providing better portability for programming tensor cores than PTX offers. Nobody ever told me they saw it as a response to anything other th
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by Conscat 5mo ago
Every reasonable language has a Python interop story. All it takes is C FFI. But what Mojo promised early on was the eventuality of compiling a large amount of Python code if not entire wheels as Mojo.
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by Conscat 5mo ago
At least it doesn't go down as often, I guess. I think most users do want a centralized forge that gives them discoverability and star graphs.
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by Conscat 6mo ago
An under noticed ninja feature I adore, which was implemented relatively recently, is the ability to configure how its build progress is printed. In my fish config, I have the `NINJA_STATUS` envvar: set -x NINJA_STATUS "STEP: %f&
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by Conscat 6mo ago
Rust cannot take a const function and evaluate that into the argument of a const generic or a proc macro. As far as I can tell, the reasons are deeply fundamental to the architecture of rustc. It's difficult to express HOW FUNDAMENTAL
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by Conscat 6mo ago
> Why, for example, is printing the source-code text of an enum value so goddamn hard? Aside from this being trivial in C++26, imo it isn't actually that tricky. Here's a very quick implementation I made awhile ago: https:&#x2
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by Conscat 7mo ago
Simply by asserting "we support MSVC", most `exciting` C++ will never be touched in a codebase.
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by Conscat 7mo ago
No offense intended to your perspective, but I do find it a little amusing that C++23, which was generally considered a disappointingly small update due to COVID complications, was the breaking point in complexity.
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by Conscat 7mo ago
PyCuda 2024, used fairly often in certain industries, still contains `auto_ptr` ;-;
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by Conscat 7mo ago
That's become of the most memorable threads on Hacker News to me. I definitely think about it at least once most weeks.
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by Conscat 7mo ago
> An interesting perspective. Could turn it around as "everything you can do in C++ you can do in C with a lot less language complexity". C can't parameterize an optimal layout fixed-length bitset with zero overhead, nor c
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by Conscat 7mo ago
My understanding is that Scala 3 came with many large breaking changes that made adoption difficult. I at least hadn't heard users complain that new features weren't desired.
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by Conscat 7mo ago
> I understand that Boost is now deprecated. Huh?? Boost is used basically everywhere.
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by Conscat 7mo ago
It's not merely a matter of detainment or deportation. Racial minorities, not just immigrants, face intimidation tactics. These guys are walking into schools, they're walking into social security offices, and courthouses. They sta
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by Conscat 7mo ago
Even if you're not likely to be deported from a foreign country, you wouldn't want to face frequent gang intimidation tactics, would you? Simply feeling threatened isn't fun, even if nothing truly terrible will happen to yo
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by Conscat 7mo ago
This feels like a false dichotomy to me, and if anything, it might invert cause and effect. Europeans pillaged most of the countries that you're contrasting to, and under intense economic pressure, traditional values (especially misogy
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by Conscat 7mo ago
Statistically, fathers who ask the courts for joint custody almost always receive it. Occam's Razor dictates these men you know most likely prefer to complain about their divorce rather than to do the arduous work of parenting. They
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by Conscat 7mo ago
I was a kid at the time, but adults, magazines, and other children convinced me that 3D printing at home would likely replace a huge number of products. This included extremely optimistic speculation, like printers producing smart phones or
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by Conscat 8mo ago
This is not closely related to varna.
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by Conscat 8mo ago
I'm a user of ClearFlow, a layout with similar design goals (and it's available on GBoard by default). Interestingly, ClearFlow is an ortholinear layout, but I'm not sure if that's due to a limitation of GBoard or the in
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by Conscat 8mo ago
Ah that makes sense. For Hindi in Roman, I input characters like ṅ ḍ, but I have a one-shot layer for that on my layout.

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