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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Speaking of PHP, XHP predates JSX I believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHP Same idea: an XML-like syntax for creating object trees typically used to model HTML.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
The Ollama distribution size is already pretty big (at least on Windows) due to all the GPU support libraries and whatnot. Having to multiple that by the number of llama.cpp versions supported would not be great.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
I’m I reading this right that the settlement is just “don’t do that again”? Is it typical in antitrust settlements to not have sort of monetary punishment? Like if this were a class action settlement, they would have to pay back some amount
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
There are defiantly better and worse ways to use WPF. Personally I dislike it when data binding is done in XAML, because there is no compile time error if you rename a property on the C# side. When I wrote a WPF app at my last job, I write
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
I’ve had a few family relations approach technology this way. I think it’s like they are missing a “theory of mind” for how software works. We have developed this intuition by either using or creating software for a long time. Like often pe
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
> My technical team has been running around for 4 months for approvals for testing an upgrade of a database. Jeez, and I was just grumbling how it takes up to 24 hours for a change I make to appear in prod, compared to about 4 hours at m
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Unfortunately there is a type of product manager who vibe codes enough to think that most software engineering problems are trivial solvable with AI and trys to push product direction towards AI solutions. Like using overwrote AI-powered br
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Asustor has some cheaper options that support ECC. Though not as cheap as those in the OP article. FLASHSTOR 6 Gen2 (FS6806X) $1000 - https://www.asustor.com/en/product?p_id=90 LOCKERSTOR 4 Gen3 (AS6804T) $1300 - http
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
The maintainer is not a Microsoft employee. For what that’s worth.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Ah, the Asakusa line, which has through running on either end to the Keikyu and Keisei lines. Together they form the only directly rail link between Tokyo’s two airports. The best part is when you get on a through-running trains in Tokyo an
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Does a blog post really need to be contenteditable? The vast majority of people viewing the page are only going to viewing the post, not editing it.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
The thread pool starvation problem in .NET is annoying when you encounter it. Personally I have not bumped into since the .NET framework days. The thread pool implementation has been tweaked over the years to reduce the impact of this probl
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
> I haven't run into any these limitations in my own usage really, but I'm working at very small scales. That’s the way a lot of the optimization problems work. If you have a sever or two, the efficiency is not such a big deal.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Sounds like “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” by Cory Doctorow, but in real life.
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
That would be pretty cool. Something like the Win32 function GetWriteWatch, but implemented in hardware instead of the page fault handler (I assume). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/me
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
It's to create random numbers to make the star field on the home page: https://hoverbear.org/ It's defined in this file: https://github.com/Hoverbear/hoverbear.org/blob/root/sas
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
> suspending threads in your own process is kind of necessary for e.g. many GC algorithms True. Maybe the more precise rule is “only suspend threads for a short amount of time and don’t acquire any locks while doing it”? The way the .NET
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
Or heck, PLists. They have an XML representation that is fairly similar to what JSON can express. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list
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by MarkSweep 1y ago
I’ve played around with a similar concept last weekend. The one tweak I would suggest is to use the “structured outputs” feature of the LLM API if it supports it. It makes it more likely that the LLM generates valid JSON that follows your s
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I think this is a pretty good overview of how motors work and how you can write algorithms to control how much torque they generate by varying the PWM: https://www.actronic-solutions.de/files/actronic/FTPROOT/
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
I'm pretty sure the marshaling code for the pinvoke is not creating GC handles. It is just using a pinned local, like a fixed statement in csharp does. This is what the LibraryImport at least and I don't see why the built in marsh
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Yeah, as written this is quite confusing and does not describe why a Span is useful. It seems to be a garbled quoting of the first sentence of the supplement documentation about this API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us&#x
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
DoorDash has a button that lets you filter by items that are eligible for SNAP (food stamps) when ordering from a grocery store. So enough people living in poverty are using DoorDash that they thought it was worth building the feature.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Did you try searching in the file to see where the function is called? It’s used in some log messages.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
This is great and despite what the article says, an actually useful technique. The reason this performs well is the .NET runtime does monomorphization when the generic type parameters are value types (primitive types like int or user-define
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Can’t edit and this should be obvious, but: I meant to say you CANNOT use the memory allocator in an interrupt handlers through. It takes a lock.
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
Yes, it’s POSIX-like, its system calls can even be implemented using interrupts like a normal OS (though that is optional). It has its own hardware abstractions and IOCTL interfaces around devices. Yes, it has a global memory allocator you
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
One a similar note, there is this period video where Brian Kernighan shows how to construct a spell checker using a UNIX shell one-liner: https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?t=4m56s
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
There is this old chestnut about “null garbage collectors”: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98... > This sparked an interesting memory for me. I was once working with a customer who w
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by MarkSweep 2y ago
No reasonable developer, given the requirement “remove this checkbox as required by a court order”, would respond by changing it to “I love pineapple on pizza”. There are so many other things that could be possibly done instead: just remove

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