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by audunw 3mo ago
I didn’t read the beginner energy comment as faux positive at all. In fact Andrew has commented about his own beginner energy just recently and shared some embarrassing forum post he made as a teenager. Stinky manager.. I could see, but eve
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by audunw 3mo ago
> You didn't see K&R publish "so-and-so writes bad C", or Stroustrup decrying the Boost maintainers as hacks. The world is completely different now. The VC fuelled culture was not as intense and LLMs certainly didn’t e
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by audunw 3mo ago
How often do stuff fall of the rails, and how common is derailment? In case of derailment you’ve got much bigger problems than some broken solar panels.
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by audunw 3mo ago
It’s not easy though. When we started with html we assumed images could only have one source. It was obvious that cardinality was 1. Later we realised we could have multiple versions of the same image. With audio tags that was resolved. I’v
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by audunw 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s about being a spectrum. It’s about having different paths to the same goal. GC is one well-proven path. Rust / Borrow checker is another path, with other benefits and limitations. Zig is well on its way to a third pa
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by audunw 3mo ago
The most interesting killer application for Zig is perhaps Ghostty and its library libghostty, which will probably be fairly easy to integrate with C apps since Zig is close enough to C. There’s also Tigerbeetle, but unlike libghostty its u
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by audunw 3mo ago
I assume the compiler(s) do not run in WASM. Just the build script. The build script just orchestrates the compilers. So you can run any compiler that the build script is given access to, so compiling C/C++ or potentially any other lan
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by audunw 3mo ago
I truly don’t understand what value a JIT would provide here. Especially in Zigs case. The language allows for full pre-compilation and the compiler is so blazingly fast it’ll finish compiling faster than the startup time of some interprete
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by audunw 3mo ago
PUFA vs saturated fats come with a lot of caveats. It's generally good advice to avoid saturated fats, but there are only certain conditions in which saturated fats are unhealthy and we don't fully understand those conditions yet.
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by audunw 3mo ago
I really think the best way to describe it is an attempt to replace C. Go is only like C in that it's simple. But it's clearly not a direct C replacement. It's not a great language for writing an OS or embedded code. Rust may
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by audunw 4mo ago
The scale of Apple is such that I suspect they also set prices based on what would lead to shortages. If they had significantly lower prices, to avoid annoying customers by not having things in stock, they’d basically have to fund the const
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by audunw 4mo ago
I’ve followed Zig fairly closely and this is the first I’ve heard of Andrew pushing “social issues”. I don’t believe for a second that it’s a factor at all.
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by audunw 4mo ago
I may be damaged from working on IC hardware design and various weird architectures, but I truly can’t comprehend why you’d think this doesn’t make sense. Yeah, if your architecture doesn’t support 24-bit int it maps to 32-bits. But it also
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by audunw 4mo ago
Maybe those complaints are for datacenters using gas turbines for power. I think some of the recent ones (xAIs?) was built without sufficient power from the grid.
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by audunw 4mo ago
I only started watching it after I got spoiled, and didn’t mind it. Before I knew about the premise I thought the show looked boring. Didn’t pick it up based on the excerpt on Netflix. The show doesn’t really rely on not knowing the twist.
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by audunw 4mo ago
Heating is one of the easiest to pair with intermittent power. Heat storage “batteries” can store energy for a very long time. Stockholm recently converted an old cave used to store oil, which now stores heat for a district heating network
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by audunw 4mo ago
There is definitely an economic changeover point, I’m sure I read they will use conventional drilling down to a certain depth, before switching to MMW I doubt argon is the purge gas.
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by audunw 4mo ago
Shutting down nuclear power plants prematurely was very foolish (looking at you Germany). But other than that, it’s true. When you boil the issue down to the fundamental facts, our challenge is simply: add as much power production as fast a
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by audunw 4mo ago
Depends on what we mean by programmer. Fabrice is more clever and faster, I guess. But John Carmack is in my mind a better software engineer. He writes elegant code that can be used and maintained for a long time. At least from Quake 2ish,
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by audunw 4mo ago
Mozart doesn’t feel right. The code isn’t beautiful and elegant. It’s not built to last (at least for ffmpeg) or be some kind of masterpiece. He writes code to get a job done or tickle some intellectual curiosity. It’s not beautiful but tha
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by audunw 4mo ago
You don’t know there’s still millions of lines of code being written for environments with no OS or much more limited OS than what’s on modern desktops/laptops/servers?
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by audunw 5mo ago
It’s not the only time the CCP has reported an unbelievably low number of casualties in a large catastrophe. Seems like the number of dead is always around 6-7 (sorry) no matter how big the incident is. Like the flooding of that tunnel a fe
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by audunw 5mo ago
I’m not sure what your point is. I could certainly not, and I could certainly not write a breakthrough paper in mathematics even with the most advanced AI. I wouldn’t even know what to ask of it. Perhaps I could set up an elaborate master a
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by audunw 5mo ago
Well yeah of course, using APIs io_uring and grand central dispatch is basically the whole point of all this async stuff in a systems programming language. It’s absurd it hasn’t been mentioned more here. OS Threads are for compute parallel
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by audunw 5mo ago
The C compiler was a prime example of an application where the LLM can self-evaluate/optimise, with one of the best set of tests could imagine. Yet the end result was a mess. I have experienced areas where high productivity can be had
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by audunw 5mo ago
I don’t see why you would look at nuclear at all on a 100 year horizon. At that timescales you gotta look at the fundamentals: 1. We’ve got a free fusion reactor in the sky and collecting and storing that energy is fundamentally cheap. Espe
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by audunw 5mo ago
The new response works for me, because in my mind I’ve always defined “woke mind virus” as a a mental virus which causes people to become absolutely pathologically obsessed with fighting an imaginary enemy they call “wokeness”. It’s the onl
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by audunw 6mo ago
I find the talk around Donut so weird. At CES we were told they had nothing because they hadn’t shared third party test. They then shared third party tests remarkably fast. From the dating of VTT reports it’s clear they shared it as soon as
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by audunw 6mo ago
The danger of batteries doesn’t have much to do with their capacity. Many solid state batteries are far safer than liquid electrolyte ones, while also having higher energy density.
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by audunw 6mo ago
Nothing market leading about AirPods? I find it telling that it’s one of the only Apple products that LTT Linus is using, despite not working as well with Android as with iOS. And they have around 30% market share in their product category

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