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by atq2119 10mo ago
I've seen some weird breakage recently in vscode. The C++ support failing to parse sources correctly (for LLVM), Rust debugging no longer showing vectors properly. Not sure if this is some bizarre interaction with my setup (which is pr
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by atq2119 10mo ago
The benefit is also RAM bandwidth . That probably adds to the confusion, but it matters a lot for decode. But yes, RAM capacity requirements stay the same.
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by atq2119 10mo ago
This framing is extremely counterproductive, though. Most societal problems cannot be fixed entirely. There will always be child sex abuse just like there will always be murder, theft, tax evasion, and drunk driving. It makes sense to see i
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by atq2119 10mo ago
Those languages don't treat blocks as expressions, so you really can't do the same thing there. Something very similar, yes. But not the same.
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by atq2119 10mo ago
Not mentioned in the article but kinda neat: you can label such a block and break out of it, too! The break takes an argument that becomes the value of the block that is broken out of.
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by atq2119 10mo ago
It's a silly offhand remark at the end of the article, but anybody who is genuinely interested in whether they've been tying their shoes wrong will enjoy Ian's shoelace site: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace&#
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by atq2119 10mo ago
Eh, I get it. I also independently came up with these MPMC approaches before hearing about LMAX. They're not entirely trivial but they do follow fairly naturally from the problem space when you really think about it. It's a good p
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by atq2119 10mo ago
Looks like a good write up, but I'd caution that some of the statements about memory models aren't completely accurate. The terms relaxed, acquire, and release refer to how an atomic operation is ordered against other accesses t
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by atq2119 10mo ago
I'm always skeptical of claims like these. Ultimately, programming is about writing down instructions for computers to follow. Existing programming languages evolved to be ergonomic for that, proof assistants less so. And having meta l
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by atq2119 10mo ago
Sure, which is why right to repair laws are so important. I understand this discussion as being about how society should deal with it, not how you could try to make the argument internal to a company.
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by atq2119 10mo ago
> But for safety reasons, since the software controls when the toaster pops, you decide to check at boot time that the software hasn’t been modified. As arguments go, this is a pretty weak one considering how obvious the solution is: Mak
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by atq2119 10mo ago
Plus, Rust has a more expressive type system. I like loose type systems for some quick scripting, but I started to adopt Rust for many of my personal projects because I find it's so much easier to get back into a project after a year w
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by atq2119 11mo ago
Discrete GPUs still have an advantage in memory bandwidth. Though this might push platforms like laptops towards higher bandwidths, which would be nice.
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by atq2119 11mo ago
We're all groping around in the dark here, but something that could have happened is a tokenizer artifact. The vocabularies I've seen tend to prefer tokens that start with a space. It feels somewhat plausible to me that an LLM sam
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by atq2119 11mo ago
> LLMs are humanity's "first contact" with non-animal intelligence. I'd say corporations are also a form of non-animal intelligence, so it's not exactly first contact. In some ways, LLMs are less alien, in other
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by atq2119 11mo ago
Sample size is way too small. Unless he was able to sample with temperature 0 (and get fully deterministic results both times), this can just be random chance. And experience as SWE doesn't imply experience with statistics and experime
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by atq2119 11mo ago
The counter-devil's advocate[0] is that consuming CSAM, whether real or not, normalizes the behavior and makes it more likely for susceptible people to actually act on those urges in real life. Kind of like how dangerous behaviors like
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by atq2119 11mo ago
You're probably right, but that doesn't mean GP is wrong, just that they need to state their thesis more carefully. There's more science to be done there, but there's no reason to believe that new fundamental laws of phy
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by atq2119 11mo ago
If you continue that thought experiment, you'd very quickly run into the issue that the way the 386 interfaces memory is hopelessly primitive and not a good match for running 1000s of cores in parallel. A large reason why out of order
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by atq2119 11mo ago
It's important to remember that people are not some homogenous mass. There were certainly some rich and powerful people who did intend to lower everyone (else) to a shit position. That's what stuff like anti-union policies are a
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by atq2119 11mo ago
Let those large retailers put pressure on their suppliers. Prices haven't exactly been stable recently. I really don't think it matters, but if it did (as you claim) then surely some downward pressure is a good thing.
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by atq2119 1y ago
Which is ironic, considering that the 1950s were long before the internet boom. The internet didn't even exist yet, let alone dial-up modems.
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by atq2119 1y ago
FWIW, it's part of the plot of Andreas Eschbach's Lord of all Things. (IMHO one of his weaker novels, but weirdly one of the few that were translated into English)
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by atq2119 1y ago
Aside from the fact that such calculations aren't necessarily applicable anyway, it is incorrect because they would most likely have continued to use and have to pay for Evernote for more than just the one year.
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by atq2119 1y ago
That really depends on which country you're in.
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by atq2119 1y ago
The solution is that the probes were built by a long ago technological civilization on Earth as a desperate measure in an interstellar war. The probes are out there and were programmed never to come back to Earth.
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by atq2119 1y ago
You forgot about branch predictors.
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by atq2119 1y ago
'cough' could share a root with 'keuchen' (IANAL)
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by atq2119 1y ago
The operations could be short-circuiting.
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by atq2119 1y ago
Agreed. There is no sane reason why live translation and/or its privacy properties should depend on the specific headphones used. Even if the live translation were to happen in the headphones themselves, that should only tie the availa

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