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by andrepd 10mo ago
The comments in that link claimed that gag = joke, not gag as in gag order :p
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Thank you Rust for having aliasing guarantees on references!
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by andrepd 10mo ago
I'll add that tone matters. Treating tens of thousands of yearly deaths and horrific injuries in automobile crashes as "just a fact of life, as natural and inevitable as being struck by thunder", does matter a lot to the di
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by andrepd 10mo ago
In what sense is HN an algorithmic feed? It is neither personalised nor does it have a significant discretionary boost beyond "age" and "upvotes". It's qualitatively a different thing.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
You're right, it's also true in many middle-income countries, like Brazil.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
I love that the next day, I open this post and it's simply downvoted with 0 counterpoint.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Two MAJOR issues with your argument. > where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response. Why in god's name would you need to ask a doctor 10 questions every day? How is this
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Honestly that kind of straw man is about equally as grating as the "string theory critics" that watched 1 Sabine Hossenfelder video. And just as uninteresting.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
There was a well-publicised "Claude plays Pokémon" stream where Claude failed to complete Pokemon Blue in spectacular fashion, despite weeks of trying. I think only a very gullible person would assume that future LLMs didn't
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by andrepd 10mo ago
It's a differentiator wrt C and C++, is what I said.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
I use this all the time. It's features like these that sell Rust for me honestly; even if you wrapped your whole program in `unsafe` it would still be a massively better language than C++ or C.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Those are the normier of all.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
It's certainly not meaningful of anything in the first place, since it only tests codegen for a sequence of floating point calculations, which is hardly a representative workload for anything. Even if it were, using an unreliable virtu
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by andrepd 10mo ago
This is meaningless. The benchmarks are (1) run in github actions, (2) include file and console IO, and (3) are compiled with different compiler flags...
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by andrepd 10mo ago
It's exhausting getting "normies" to care about that. Frankly that ship has sailed, on a cultural level. Things that were unthinkable 20 years ago are just... yeah that's normal whatever.
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Gunman in Brown University shooting found dead, linked to MIT killing(reuters.com)
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by andrepd 10mo ago
When you have trillions of dollars being poured into your company by the financial system, and when furthermore there are no repercussions for behaving however you please, you tend not to care about that sort of "waste".
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Hardly. Hundreds of millions of "normies" want a browser that just "gets rid of ads and spam and stuff". If ff can be that go-to browser, they have hundreds of millions of potential users.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
> Without AI enabled features + agent mode being first class citizens, this will be a non-starter in 2 years. The confidence with which people say these things... s/AI/NFT and I've heard this exact sentence many times befo
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by andrepd 10mo ago
> C++ has std::bitset and std::vector Notably, this is not the case. C++ std::vector is specialised for bools to pack bits into words, causing an untold array (heh) of headaches. And "wasteful" is doing a lot of lifting here. I
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by andrepd 10mo ago
For those wishing to read up on this subject, an excellent starting point is this comprehensive post by one of the main contributors of the fast algorithm currently used in core: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comme
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Indeed! I saw that you linked to Neri's work, so you were aware of Teju Jaguá. I might make a pull request to add it to the benchmark repo when I have some time :) Another nice thing about your post is mentioning the "shell"
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Sensible Soccer? :)) Fun times
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Very interesting! I wonder how Teju Jaguá compares. I don't see it in the C++ benchmark repo you linked and whose graph you included. I have contributed an implementation in Rust :) https://crates.io/crates/teju i
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by andrepd 10mo ago
JS frameworks and chasing AI fads, perhaps. But fundamentals? Engineering principles? How CPUs work? Linux, networking, x86? Stuff that is decades old still applies.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Honestly if you play fifa 14 for the rest of your life, are you missing much? As a couch game I mean. I've gotten hundreds of hours of entertainment off FIFA and PES; never missed having any more features.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Poe's Law for a parody of the self-important sv techbro
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Is there a way to try this without a Google account?
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by andrepd 10mo ago
Please don't link to such a rag. There's absolutely nothing of substance in this article and even several glaring factual mistakes.
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by andrepd 10mo ago
I know this is an option since at least 2014, which is when I got mine x) I guess if yours is even older, you might need a software update?

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