Zambyte

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by Zambyte 4mo ago
I've written a couple of fairly large projects in Zig, and never really felt like I needed anything more than what comptime provides. What kind of pattern do you think Zig would benefit from supporting?
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Minetest :)
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
> They need Go 2 with T and ? T - that would be nice language to use. Zig has basically been this to me. As a developer, writing Zig feels a lot like writing Go, except with basically all of the pain points addressed. - Zig has differen
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Do you use your own CA? Would you expect users to even notice if the certs were suddenly issued by LetsEncrypt? Or are you signing traffic using something other than TLS, where the domain name doesn't really matter anyway?
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Where do I login to the Fediverse? It's not an application. It's a network of applications. Where do I login to ATProto. It's not an application. It's a network of applications. Where do I login to Bluesky? https:/
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
You're refusing to look at the ATmosphere network and instead compare Bluesky to the Fediverse. I can instead compare mastoson.social to the ATmosphere and draw the inverse conclusions. What's the point?
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
> Yes and I find it rather egregious that you can pay (a lot) to self-host a full stack [...] I wrote this other comment that I think does well to address this misconception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601998
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Driving a car is a higher net risk than riding a motorcycle. The problem is that drivers externalize much more of the risk. People die riding motorcycles all the time - way more than people driving cars. But you know what people driving car
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
> It kind of sounds like you're admitting that there is no real difference from a user standpoint with browsing to twitter.com vs bsky.app that have anything to do with decentralization. Bluesky users can interact with Blacksky user
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
The cost of ATProto is only high if your AppView has a goal of "every user should be able to see and access every post and interaction indefinitely". If one limits the scope of what users see on their AppView to, say, a similar sc
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Excuse my ignorance if by "distributed training" you mean a specific process, but couldn't this be considered a step toward distributed training? If nations train models independently and then later distill them into a single
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Or they were running Fable :-)
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Hot take but people should be paid for working instead of ripping off people with cancer because they got to call dibs on intellectual "property".
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516656 This earlier comment referenced it :)
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
High schoolers are to senior software engineers as current models are to future models. Is that really so hard to follow?
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Following my analogy, the high school project would have been continuously extended by high schoolers passing the project on from class to class each year, rather than "improved by many engineers". The "engineers" (futur
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
> In case of driving the stakes are equally high for everyone on the road The stakes are significantly higher for everyone outside a car. This seems like a pretty good metaphor for slop bombing people who don't use AI. People drive
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Because improving a high schoolers project is probably not as good of an idea as giving the original task to a senior engineer.
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Falling behind on electric cars will probably not cause other options to thrive, but ideally it is a symptom of other options thriving. Also to be clear, I have been saying "electric cars" instead of EVs because I do see EVs as
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Fellow American here, I hope we do. Not because electric cars are any worse than combustion cars - they are better. But they're still cars. Electrifying them is a bandaid on the gaping wound that is our transportation infrastructure. I
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
> Chai, a word for tea in numerous languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Well that's unfortunate.
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
What does this mean?
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019) (2022)
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
For what it's worth, the concurrency model is very similar to the one in Go. Zig has std.Io.Queue instead of channels, std.Io.async and std.Io.concurrent instead of the go keyword, and switch over std.Io.Select instead of the select ke
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Yup. Rust tries to make it hard to do systems programming poorly. Zig tries to make it easy to do systems programming well. Rust pushes you into certain (good) practices. Zig makes it exceptionally easy to understand what's happening,
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
Yes, it is a standard library difference. But unless you plan on rewriting the entire Rust ecosystem, you're going to be dealing with invisible failure points in Rust code that you would not be dealing with when writing the equivalent
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
They moved it out of the bullet list in the CLI version, and added it to the web version.
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Conversely, Rust doesn't force you to explicitly handle if memory allocation failures. The least you can do in Zig is explicitly ignore allocation failures.
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by Zambyte 4mo ago
This language exists so you can reuse the same code in environments where memory allocations may fail, and where memory allocations can't fail. Let's say you write an application that runs as a Unix daemon in Zig. Later you may de

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