adrian_b

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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Yes, that reply provides convincing arguments for not merging the Bun fork, as it interferes with Zig's own roadmap for achieving even better results, while continuing to improve the whole language.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The argument that tries to belittle the current warming by pointing that in the past there have been times when it was warmer, does not have any value. Besides the fact that a much lower temperature than in the past can do a lot of damage t
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Training is time-consuming and/or expensive but it is not the main blocker. The main problem is obtaining a big enough training data set. Now, unless you are someone like Google or Microsoft, it has become much harder to scrap data fro
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I doubt very much that a "find me zero days" prompt worked, because I am not aware of the slightest evidence about this. The Anthropic report that describes the bugs they have found with Mythos in various open-source projects admi
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Moreover, the calorie numbers for raw ingredients are much more accurate than for snack foods, where the amount of each ingredient may vary from nominal, even when the total mass is nominal. So when you cook yourself and you weigh the ingre
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Those Rust fans exist on almost all Internet forums that I have seen, including on HN. I do not care about what they say, so I have not made a list with links to what they have posted. But even only on HN, I certainly have seen much more th
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The Rust developers have not read the original coreutils, because they want to replace the GPL license, so they want to be able to say that their code is not derived from the original coreutils. For a project of this kind, this seems a rath
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
You are right, but those who set for themselves the goal to substitute a Linux/UNIX package must implement programs that handle correctly all the quirks of the existing Linux/POSIX specifications. If they do not like the design mi
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Yes, but the point was that rewriting something in Rust is not sufficient per se to prevent such bugs. The goal claimed by all these rewrites is the elimination of bugs.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
> caused by programmer error, not anything inherent to Rust Your argument does not work as a praise for Rust because the bugs in any program are caused by programmer errors, except the very rare cases when there are bugs in the compiler
941.
by adrian_b 6mo ago
Nobody disputes that Rust is one of the programming languages that prevent several classes of frequent bugs, which is a valuable feature when compared with C/C++, even if that is a very low bar. What many do not accept among the claims
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
"Rust" obviously does not promise that. On the other hand, there are too many less-experienced Rust fans who do claim that "Rust" promises this and that any project that does not use Rust is doomed and that any of the ex
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
For what you say to be useful, please specify what sowftware you have used with B70, including its version. Hardware-wise a B70 should be significantly faster than any of the available CPUs at ML inference. If it was not so in your tests, t
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
What you say is not consistent with TFA. The parent article shows that B70 is faster than RTX 4000. RTX 4500 is faster than RTX 4000, but it cannot be more than 3 times faster, not even more than 2 times faster. The parent article is consis
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
It is not hard to remove the satellites, but that is not free. It reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of the image, making more difficult the detection of faint objects.
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
No. It is based on the premise that if the proprietary licenses are valid, then also the open source licenses are valid. So what is held as true is only the implication stated above and not the truth value of the claims that either kind of
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Unlike GPL, BSD and Apache licenses do not claim to also cover your non-AI-generated code that only invokes the AI-generated code. However, even if the BSD/Apache/MIT licensed code can be incorporated freely in your application, y
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
For many years until about a decade ago (more precisely until the launch of the Intel Skylake Server processors) the server CPUs had a performance per dollar comparable to desktop CPUs so the expensive server CPUs were expensive because of
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
There is no doubt that less than 10 years will be needed for China to be able to do something equivalent to what the ASML machines can do now. What is far less certain is what ASML will be able to do at that time, i.e. if they will be able
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Unfortunately, that seems to be the only solution. However, it has serious disadvantages. It will exclude the poorer from astronomical research, except within the limits enabled by whatever cooperation the richer will be willing to do with
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
I strongly agree that the agenda must be published upfront. Moreover, when something more substantial must be discussed, e.g. the accomplishment of some project milestone, or a work plan or a proposal for new features or for a new project,
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Weekly meetings and weekly activity reports are typically fine and useful. What is bad is that there are plenty of companies that want daily meetings and/or daily activity reports, which always greatly reduce the productivity of develo
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The 1 MW chargers installed until now (in China) are 1000 V / 1000 A. So the charging voltage has been increased, to allow a less increase in the charging current. I assume that the car negotiates with the charger the charging voltage
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The already existing 1 MW chargers have internal batteries, so they do not need from the grid the peak power, but only the average power. The average power is lower, as there are idle times between cars. Moreover, in the beginning only a fe
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The 1-MW chargers have internal batteries, so they can pull a much lower average power from the electrical grid. The connection to the electrical grid of a charging station is not dimensioned based on the charging times. It is dimensioned b
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
For now, most of the 1-MW chargers are located in China, where they have been installed during the last half of year or so. Therefore there is no wonder that none could be found in UK. Because BYD and other companies have announced plans to
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Batteries are much less powerful bombs than fuel tanks, because they cannot produce a so great volume of gas. Batteries are dangerous mainly as sources of fire that is difficult to extinguish. For instance extinguishing with water may actua
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
There is no doubt that confusions are the origin of these English words. It is extremely unlikely that any of those who introduced these words in English chose intentionally to use them for other things than for what they had been used for
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
Someone has downvoted this, despite the fact that what I have written is not an opinion, but just facts. Because I have seen on HN extremely frequently downvotes that just show that the downvoters are ignorant about what they downvote. I st
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by adrian_b 6mo ago
The current use of "cyan" for blue-green is a modern confusion caused by people who have used Greek words without bothering to check their true meaning. In Ancient Greek, "cyan" was blue, not blue-green. More precisely,

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