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by achierius 2mo ago
How is that a moat, if anyone else can do the same thing? And how would you get this all into Clang? Nobody wants to use your custom compiler. It's certainly not going to be as fast as Clang!
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by achierius 2mo ago
One unintuitive thing I noticed about these curves, at least from the demo on the page, is that they have both areas where their behavior quickly 'snaps' from one configuration to another, and areas where they saturate such that c
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by achierius 2mo ago
It'd be really interesting to see whether the winning (losing?) instructions/strategies would be different on other architectures. At least right now the top spot (`fxrstor64` on MMIO, starve PCIe) seems relatively architecture-in
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by achierius 2mo ago
Why are you opposed to a general pause?
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by achierius 2mo ago
Time is often not of the essence when doing fundamental research.
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by achierius 2mo ago
Desktop operating systems != phone operating systems. You need to have a lot of support for things like "sleep apps you're not using right now" or you'll burn through battery. Not to mention that we tend to expect a lot
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by achierius 2mo ago
The 'special treatment' isn't technical, it's procedural -- insofar as if, during development for a new release, MSVC were to land some changes that broke GSL, Microsoft's testing would catch that and ensure that th
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Immediate Full Adoption of Temporal API in Safari Stable Required(bugs.webkit.org)
2 points by achierius 2mo ago|0 comments
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by achierius 2mo ago
But we still try to stop people from doing so, and we punish people who do. Many good honest people, when confronted with the end of their business, accept it and file for bankruptcy. Those that choose to instead commit fraud don't get
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How I would implement an SSA-based compiler(gist.github.com)
2 points by achierius 2mo ago|0 comments
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The Sticky Mark-Bit Algorithm for GCs(wingolog.org)
2 points by achierius 2mo ago|0 comments
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Claude Disagrees with Human Philosophers(marcusplutowski.com)
4 points by achierius 2mo ago|0 comments
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by achierius 2mo ago
For if someone steals the phone?
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by achierius 2mo ago
They're engaging with the writing . Talking about it as if it's just an "argument" is reductive; this isn't highschool debate club
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by achierius 2mo ago
Man, it's not an argument. Nobody is paying us to read this. If your argument sucks to read, people aren't going to read it - this has always been true, it's nothing new.
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by achierius 3mo ago
Reading through this accounts other comments, it feels rather Claude-like. I wouldn't mention this if it weren't a consistent pattern
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by achierius 3mo ago
Sorry, but most of us need to work to eat. This idea that our "value" is has nothing to do with the economy is an idea rooted in deep privilege, in the ability to say -- if I don't like my job, if I'm not employable, I c
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by achierius 3mo ago
Many devices are indeed locked down. But given that it's an OS company and hardware vendor, many employees have access to hardware with e.g. SoC fusing that allows them to install custom-signed firmware. It's very difficult to mak
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by achierius 3mo ago
> We would still sometimes treat for varroa, but making it easier for the bees to handle varroa how they had evolved to was the first line of defence I thought this was very dependent on the species -- European honeybees did not evolve
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by achierius 3mo ago
I've always had mixed feelings about Cognition. Obviously they have some very, very smart people working there (I even know a few), and they do make real products. But at the same time, they've made suspicious marketing claims mor
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by achierius 3mo ago
Post offices aren't meant to operate in the free market. More things should be like them.
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by achierius 3mo ago
If you keep studying econ you will learn that these failures are actually the norm, and thus why the only "capitalist" states to really succeed have been the ones where the state was strong enough to reign in the market. Of course
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by achierius 4mo ago
> they catch every security issue No they don't! They catch a lot but certainly not all of them. I can't explain why but it 100% happens.
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by achierius 4mo ago
I'm not saying anything good or bad about the fact that they can do what they do. But they can do what they do, it's not hype.
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by achierius 4mo ago
> while the large slowdown is justified because it allows people to use existing C applications unchanged instead of rewriting in a safe language (never mind that these two claims contradict each other) Those two claims don't contra
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by achierius 4mo ago
I want to put this charitably, but you come out swinging by saying this is "over hyped"... You clearly don't work in a role dealing with attacks from these models. They've changed the game, and for the worse. Capabilitie
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by achierius 4mo ago
No, that's not the point. This isn't a situation where you need to "guess"; bloom filters should be sized according to their capacity. This is akin to having a fixed 10-arg buffer for your program, getting a crash when s
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by achierius 4mo ago
ML compilers in particular go beyond even the level of stability you would expect from numerical programs. Due to how the SIMT model of thread/warp divergence works, the hardware heavily punishes unstable branches. E.g. if you have 32
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by achierius 4mo ago
It's not an agreement but it is indicative of the company's position. Why do you go to such lengths to avoid assigning responsibility to a large corporation?
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by achierius 4mo ago
Hate to be a pedant, but that's really not what "zero cost abstractions" means. The idea behind those is that you get a cleaner interface to some gross machine functionality/OS API/etc. layer, but don't pay a p

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