SoothingSorbet

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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
That sounds fun. I tried to design an assembly game once, but found I lack the creativity to design puzzles/goals that are not just "implement this common algorithm in assembly language". The idea of bootstrapping a PC from v
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> It's uniquely inconsistent (many distinct toolkits with irreconcilable look-and-feel, even in the base system) While I agree that Windows has long since abandoned UI/UX consistency, it's not like that is unique: On deskt
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I still find this explanation confusing because decoder-only transformers still embed the input and you can extract input embeddings from them. Is there a difference here other than encoder-only transformers being bidirectional and their pr
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I wonder, is there a good reason to use Dillo over something like Netsurf or Ladybird nowadays? They support far more of the Web (i.e. more likely to be useful) while still being lightweight.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> but sadly, the secrets of how I am doing it are in Intel’s proprietary cblas_sgemm_batch() function. Perhaps you can reverse engineer it?
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Please explain how you would solve the iterator invalidation problem using only C++ and RAII. Thanks.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> Java solved it with a JAR file JARs still require a JRE to run, and the runtime needs to be invoked. The equivalent would probably be a Python zipapp (which are just Python files zipped into a .pyz the interpreter can run). Static bin
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I love your idea of using it for compression. I didn't notice a link to any code, would you be open to sharing the code? I'd love to take a look at how you did things and play around with it myself.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Ballmer also gave us the maligned Windows Vista and Windows 8. Microsoft has also been way more open source friendly during Nadella's tenure, whereas Ballmer was openly hostile to FOSS. I'll take Nadella, thanks (although he shoul
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I don't know if Google has changed their position, but Mozilla is willing to accept a memory-safe (read: Rust) JXL decoder [1]. If it becomes used in Firefox, maybe there's a chance that Google would see the benefit in picking it
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Yes, CanvasBlocker for Firefox does this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/canvasblocker e.g. For me it shows a new unique fingerprint each refresh.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Why managed when it could be in Rust and have both performance and safety? The Servo shouldn't have ever been laid off. Yes, I'm aware a team is working on it now, but it isn't up to the same speed and enthusiasm as it was wh
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> 1. non reproducible is there in the API It should be reproducible if you set the temperature to 1, have you tried that?
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> However, the telemetry of VSCode is non-personal metrics I don't care, I don't want my text editor to send _any_ telemetry, _especially_ without my explicit consent. > some of the most popular extensions are only available
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
There's no difference there because the types are already disjoint. Say you wanted to define some function taking `YYMMDD | MMDDYY`. If both YYMMDD and MMDDYY are just aliases to `str`, then you gain no information, you cannot discrim
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Indeed. And importantly, you could tell exactly which UI elements were which. It's sometimes genuinely difficult to tell if an element is text, a button, or a button disguised as a link on Windows 10/11.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> Windows exists to enable the user to do whatever he wants It's very bad at that, then, considering it insists on getting in my way any time I want to do something (_especially_ something off of the beaten path). > If the user w
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I'm sure Windows is perfectly capable of driving a GOP framebuffer. That doesn't mean the kernel has an actual GPU driver.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
That's interesting, why would notepad.exe use mmapped files?
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> Arguably asyc/await could help with this; obviously it didn't exist in 1991 when Linux was created Wouldn't that just consist of I/O operations returning futures and then having an await() block the calling thread u
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Linux has changed dramatically since its first release. It has major parts rewritten every decade or so, even. It just doesn't break its ABI with userspace.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
The screenshot is not "ugly", but I agree that the README is functionally useless -- no documentation, no examples, no indication of why I'd want to use this. Fails on a fundamental level to communicate what it's about.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
What "sucks" about it? Since they added type checking it's been perfectly fine, besides the notable omission of nullable types (which is... a strange omission, to be sure).
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
> PDB (which isn't documented)... What about https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb ? Not technically documentation, but the closest thing to it.
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
You can jump to the address and then declare the data as a struct. It is annoying though that you can't make the register display show a particular type, it only shows unsigned hex integers. If I'm tracking a 32-bit float it is ve
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
There's also panda[1], but I never got it working myself. I share your frustration, as it would help greatly with debugging, especially with nondeterminstic bugs. I likewise never got QEMU's record/replay to work. [1] https:
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I've been waiting on that game since 2010, and it seems to have no release date, so it just might! I wish they would just break it into smaller pieces to have something to ship and iterate on. > The game has been in development sinc
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
I'd also appreciate a comparison to DB Browser for SQLite ( https://sqlitebrowser.org/ )
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
Looks good, I have a few questions about the project: - Is there an Android app or is it Web only on Android? (This is very important for playback on video player apps, which support more than the Webview does.) - Is there a Flatpak availab
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by SoothingSorbet 2y ago
They do, you may just not look very much into the ecosystem. OSes - redox and many other smaller projects git - pijul is novel, gitoxide is a pure-Rust git reimplementation vim - Helix, based on vim and kakoune >a lot of C code will be m

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