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by bjourne 2y ago
> In fact I hear people telling me they understood the blog _better_. The whole academic writing shtick has become so obtuse that not only writing is cumbersome, but so is reading. Legible writing has little incentive. You can write in a
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by bjourne 2y ago
Geoguessr pro zi8gzag tried out one of the AIs in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQKoDSoxRAY It was indeed extremely impressive and for sure would have annihilated me, but I believe it would have no chance to beat
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by bjourne 2y ago
They sure do, it's still those who amass the most votes who gets to decide. And it leads to clownish ridiculous results. ADL is listed three times as green, yellow, and red. Comment says "There is consensus that the ADL is a gener
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by bjourne 2y ago
Love the use of the "we" word here. :) What is counted as a reliable source is voted on on one of Wikipedia's meta pages. So "reliability" is not based on any factual circumstances, but on whether the vote is won or
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by bjourne 2y ago
I knew IceWhiz. You are correct that he (or rather "they") eventually was kicked from the site. But he/they operated on the site for years and was the biggest PITA you can imagine. He must have single-handedly scared away t
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by bjourne 2y ago
It relies on OpenAI's o3-mini model which (I think) you have to pay for.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Then why are you using C? :P
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by bjourne 2y ago
There are many low-level devices where initialization is very expensive. It may mean that you need two passes through memory instead of one, making whatever code you are running twice as slow.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Your char a[4] is not more readable and sooner or later you'll get screwed by strlen(a) or some such. It's quite telling that the construct is not legal in c++.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Err... we teach C neophytes that you should never write values to variables that are larger than what the variables can hold. Don't write an int to a short, don't write a short to a char, and don't initialize five bytes to an
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by bjourne 2y ago
> "Loop unrolling also increases register pressure" -- it does, but code that really requires >32 registers is extremely rare, so a good instruction scheduler in the compiler can avoid spilling. No, it actually is super comm
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by bjourne 2y ago
I looked at RISC-V SoCs last year and I couldn't find anything at all with support for RVV. Just a lot of "coming soon", "in progress", and "preorder now". Maybe the situation has improved since then.
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by bjourne 2y ago
I don't get why they decided to create all these very complicated extensions before even getting solid hardware for the base instruction set. RVV support is many, many years into the future and I bet many of its instructions will be mi
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by bjourne 2y ago
In concatenative languages with an implicit stack (Factor) that expression would read: iter [ alive? ] filter [ id>> ] map collect The beauty of this is that everything can be evaluated strictly left-to-right. Every single sy
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by bjourne 2y ago
SLAM and algorithms for autonomous movement is very hot. Too bad most of its applications are military.
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That remapping Caps lock to Esc is great.
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by bjourne 2y ago
No? Both Lolita and Mein Kampf has been available no questions asked in most well-stocked libraries for decades. If older generations survived that, I see no reason why younger generations wouldn't.
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Nearly a Billion Dollars in Doge 'Savings' Disappeared Overnight(notus.org)
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In this case its subpixel rendering on low-dpi displays.
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It's a very beautiful font. I'd love to use a monospace variant of the font for coding.
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by bjourne 2y ago
In my opinion, Georgia serif, black-on-white text, large font size, and short lines. Lines should not be longer than 110 characters.
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by bjourne 2y ago
Intel was looking to sell Altera for over a year before Trump's Tariff Tourettes. And I bet it wasn't the hardware that was the problem, it was the software. No matter how amazing your FPGA hardware is, it is useless if you can&#x
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by bjourne 2y ago
Tooling mostly. To write fast code for CPUs you need a good optimizing compiler, like clang or gcc. Imagine how much work has gone into making them good. We're talking thousands of man years over several decades. You need just as good
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by bjourne 2y ago
Apparently, the FPGA industry wasn't large enough for two major players. Maintaining an extremely specialized developer ecosystem for a relatively small niche can't have been cheap. Almost zero cross-over too, since FPGA tooling i
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by bjourne 2y ago
That my opinions are right and if you don't agree with me you truly suck!
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by bjourne 2y ago
In non-web contexts untrusted input is not interpolated into the executable streams so you don't worry about special characters. E.g., there is no point in "sanitizing" the name of a variable in a C compiler. > And if you
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by bjourne 2y ago
> > That's the "correct" that matters. Not the "I'd like to put words in your mouth and pretend you meant something you don't". > I think I made it clear that I don't think parent post was sa
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by bjourne 2y ago
But it is proof of manipulation.
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by bjourne 2y ago
> You're technically correct of course. That's the "correct" that matters. Not the "I'd like to put words in your mouth and pretend you meant something you don't". Israel is legal abstraction, not
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by bjourne 2y ago
The proof is supplied by the article: "Multiple independent sources inside Meta confirmed the authenticity of the information provided by the whistleblowers. The data also show that Meta removed over 90,000 posts to comply with TDRs su

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