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by dnautics 3mo ago
without criticising the work (its very cool and a very important first step) they haven't figured out division yet, which is kind of important.
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by dnautics 3mo ago
no, it mounts a .so file using dlload, and itself is a NIF. Incidentally there is a second proprietary industrial camera on there that I have running as a different NIF built in zig, but truth be told I probably could have had claude do tha
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by dnautics 3mo ago
> What do people use zig for, and why zig and not one of the others? I'm the maintainer of zigler ( https://zigler.hexdocs.pm/Zig.html ), and I have my own pharma startup. I currently use zig in two contexts: 1) wrap
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by dnautics 3mo ago
not really sure what you're asking. but time is now part of the io interface, so you can pretty easily write your own io implementation that just stubs out to the stdlib's default io content and has custom time functions if you w
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by dnautics 3mo ago
a lot of heavy duty systems have multiple allocator systems. the erlang virtual machine has 12: https://www.erlang.org/docs/25/man/erts_alloc.html jvm has at least 5: https://github.com/openj
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by dnautics 4mo ago
@intCast
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> This cant't make sense unless u24 is defined to be 24bits in the first place It's worth remembering that zig is a ~hll that should be platform agnostic. suppose someone built a byte-chip with a 24 bit word. the "new&qu
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by dnautics 4mo ago
im surprised it's still around. i remember reading it in the late 90s.
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by dnautics 4mo ago
I'm gonna be that guy and say that the concern about torture is orthogonal to authoritarianism. There were very much "less authoritarian/less centralized" eras in the US when it was general course of action was to do to
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by dnautics 4mo ago
medicare, medicaid, ss is > 4 billion and dod is 1 billion, so its more like ~< 1/4. sorry i forgot to mention medicaid, also my bad. i was eyeballing a pie chart.
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by dnautics 4mo ago
all military is ~1/6 of ss and medicare. new military expenditures is a rounding error
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by dnautics 4mo ago
you listed some rounding errors
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by dnautics 4mo ago
social security and medicare?
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by dnautics 4mo ago
gotta be ready for the crazy heat in the summers, they don't call it extremadura for nothing. unironically best lodging is rooms that were dungeons in the castle.
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by dnautics 4mo ago
you implying US? What agreements has the us left aside from the iran one and the paris accords (ironically the US is the country on track to meeting paris accord requirements) Hell, the US still hands tons of intelligence to ukraine, even
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> "except one recently" russia and {ukraine, georgia, etc}?
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by dnautics 4mo ago
wait do sota models use mamba-like SSMs? this is the first im hearing this
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> Qwen hybrid models don't handle prompt caching and instead re-process the context in full on every turn. I'm wondering if you were able to solve this and how? Isn't this the nature of how LLMs work? Or do you mean that
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by dnautics 4mo ago
for me (might be because of the language im using) i had a substantial bump around september and a huge bump around January. in my stuff now i use an OT library that claude put finishing touches on in September.
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by dnautics 4mo ago
weimar republic created hyperinflation, in response to deflation, and so at best its a second order effect with a not so subtle intervening policy that was the primary target of the backlash
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by dnautics 4mo ago
just because it's not double blind doesn't mean it's not science though. like idk, how do you do double blind studies of astronomical phenomena?
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by dnautics 4mo ago
I'm suggesting deflationary contractions, but okay. Note that deflationary contractions in 1930 sucked because we didn't have solid supply chains, modern agriculture, liquid asset markets turbocharged with rapid information inter
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> It's a cautionary tale and we should aspire to do better. Why is it a cautionary tale? Sounds like we should have a bunch of incinerations of capital, ideally let the capital mobilizers that are actually competent survive.
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by dnautics 4mo ago
it's hard to argue that the environmental movement has had "no effect" considering how much carbon the US and Europe have reduced in the last 15 years. SOx and NOx, have basically gone to zero, and water is cleaner, etc. Sur
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> It is simply not possible to get enough people to reduce to make an impact What are you talking about? The united states is currently ~-30% off peak carbon emissions.
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> it seems his prediction was accurate Not really. his two predictions are 1) that EVERYTHING will be running on some javascript assembler. We are getting incrementally closer with things like firecracker, but plenty of stuff still run
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> The significant downside of C++ metaprogramming is that sometimes many features interact weakly and feel very much tacked on top of each other while Zig’s looks more cohesive. spot on, in my experience. nothing in zig triggers my lite
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by dnautics 4mo ago
really? bosnia 1990s, turkey early 1900s, pogroms all over europe in the 19th century, holodomor, china with tibet and uighurs, germany tabulating data on the jews with the help of ibm...
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by dnautics 4mo ago
There is a significant movement in conservative circles that "the census should literally only be a count". this could be a wedge to prevent detailed demographic data collection by the government
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by dnautics 4mo ago
> if you have solar, it is not, because you have battery and equipment degradation from cycle charging, c’mon man… no, the rate of that is pretty independent of use. unless you live in a place where selling energy back rules are designe

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