Philpax

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by Philpax 7mo ago
> Chris Lattner, inventor of the Swift programming language recently took a look at a compiler entirely written by Claude AI. Lattner found nothing innovative in the code generated by AI [1]. And this is why humans will be needed to adva
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by Philpax 7mo ago
Apologies for the obligatory question, but what did you try to do, and with which AI did you try to do it with?
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by Philpax 7mo ago
Astral's tooling is excellent and almost makes up for Python being a badly-designed language. Almost.
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by Philpax 7mo ago
Yes, but the grandparent poster and I would agree that the parse is not that ambiguous/the meaning is easily inferred. The sentence states that the library is overlapped _and_ that overlap is available in better quality: it may seem co
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GitHub: Degraded Performance for Various Services(githubstatus.com)
3 points by Philpax 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Philpax 7mo ago
There's not really an exact science to it, but manually-optimised code is usually more structured/systematic to make it easier for the human author to manage the dependencies and state across the board, while automatically-optimis
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by Philpax 7mo ago
Your macroless variant of Rust would offer a safe builtin that does this. It doesn't need to be implemented with a macro.
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by Philpax 8mo ago
If you asked a three-year-old a question that they proceeded to completely flub, would you then assume that all humans are incapable of answering questions correctly? Nobody is arguing for the quality of the search overviews. The models tha
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by Philpax 8mo ago
I'm a Rust main, but this argument seems... incorrect? You would not need macros for Rust to remain a usable memory-safe language. They certainly make it easier, but they're not necessary. It would be perfectly possible to design
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by Philpax 8mo ago
It is presented as a Wikipedia article from the future describing a subculture of tomorrow. See also https://qntm.org/mmacevedo for another example of this genre.
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Anthropic's Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute(techcrunch.com)
42 points by Philpax 8mo ago|2 comments
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by Philpax 8mo ago
Functionality-wise, it's great, but it's a buggy mess, and it seems to be getting worse with each release.
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by Philpax 8mo ago
The human operator controls what gets built. If they want to build Redis 2, they can specify it and have it built. If you can't take my word for it, take those of the creator of Redis: https://antirez.com/news/159
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by Philpax 8mo ago
I wish some taste had been used in the choice of font. Courier New is rather unpleasant to look at for prose.
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by Philpax 8mo ago
Interesting claim; have anything to back it up with?
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Async/Await on the GPU(vectorware.com)
228 points by Philpax 8mo ago|55 comments
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by Philpax 8mo ago
That is probably Composer-1, which is their in-house model (in so much a fine-tune of an open-weights model can be called in-house). It's competent at grunt work, but it doesn't compare to the best of Claude and Codex; give those
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by Philpax 8mo ago
The type system does not require that. You can just discard the result: let _ = do_thing();
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Can agentic coding raise the quality bar?(lpalmieri.com)
1 points by Philpax 8mo ago|0 comments
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Deep Blue(simonwillison.net)
35 points by Philpax 8mo ago|13 comments
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by Philpax 8mo ago
At the risk of being that guy , I haven't had any issues onboarding people onto native projects written in Rust. rustup does a great job of fetching the required toolchains without issue. I'd imagine the same is also true of Go o
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by Philpax 8mo ago
Eh, I've had good luck with porting codebases to newer versions of Bevy by pointing CC to the migration guide, and that is harder to test than a language migration (as much of the changed behaviour would have been at runtime). I still
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Tell HN: Yet Another Round of Zendesk Spam
11 points by Philpax 8mo ago|3 comments
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by Philpax 8mo ago
I really, really don't think so, but you're welcome to try :-)
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by Philpax 8mo ago
A genuinely impressive effort, but alas, still missing some pretty critical features (const, floating point, bools, inline, anonymous structs in function args).
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by Philpax 8mo ago
Can't compile the Linux kernel, and ironically, also partly written by Claude.
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by Philpax 8mo ago
> $20,000 in API costs I would interpret this as being at API pricing. At subscription pricing, it's probably at most 5 or 6 Max subscriptions worth.
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by Philpax 8mo ago
You will experience very spooky behaviour if you do this, as the language is designed around those semantics. Nonetheless, mrustc exists: https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc It will not be noticeably faster because
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by Philpax 8mo ago
Please look at the source code and tell me how this is a "simple, basic LLM task".
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by Philpax 8mo ago
Their C compiler is not reliant on having another C compiler around. Compiling the 16-bit real mode bootstrap for the Linux kernel on x86(-64) requires another C compiler; you certainly don't need another compiler to compile the kernel

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