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by dumah 1y ago
Fantastic post. Please do one on your analysis and optimization workflow and tooling!
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by dumah 1y ago
I’m not sure why you’re comparing __new__ to constructors in other languages. Ruby has the same thing but it’s called ‘new’. Implementing the type of customization (idiomatically) that __new__ provides in Kotlin and JS isn’t any cleaner.
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by dumah 1y ago
That’s not “the normal way”, it’s just the case when the LHS is immutable. This behavior is congruent to C++ and it’s documented and idiomatic. It’d be weird if the in-place operator deeply copied the LHS, and problematic for a garbage-coll
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by dumah 1y ago
No, he finally said something that cost Murdoch money instead of making him money.
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by dumah 1y ago
Of course every bit of it survived. U-235 has a half life of over 700m years. Whether it’s yellowcake or UF6, it was merely dispersed within the facilities and has not been mobilized. Recovery would consist of chemical processing of debris
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by dumah 1y ago
You can embed these requirements into conventions that systematically constrain the solutions you request from the LLM. I’ve requested a solution from Sonnet that included multiple iterative reviews to validate the solution and it did succe
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by dumah 1y ago
Radiation at desirable operating temperatures is a relatively weak means of heat transport, hence spreaders. Only a big power-efficient chip like M2 Ultra could survive if it could _only_ radiate from one side of the wafer into CMB. The res
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by dumah 1y ago
Geostationary orbiters operate there during the day but this concept would position systems 100x closer to earth and well inside the protective envelope.
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by dumah 1y ago
This is called the pulsar’s magnetic inclination and it’s often quite far from 0, all the way to nearly orthogonal. Yes but this is a dynamic process that produces more correlated stars as the galaxy ages. Astronomers routinely measure such
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by dumah 1y ago
OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) is a database paradigm optimized for handling high volumes of short, fast transactions in real-time, typically supporting day-to-day operational activities like order processing, inventory updates, and c
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by dumah 1y ago
ISO 8601-1:2019/Amd 1:2022 Midnight at the start of the day: 00:00:00 Midnight at the end of the day: 24:00:00
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by dumah 1y ago
It's wild that you are offering your views on software documentation while you think checking git blame is a substitute for retaining documentation, and you don't understand why users would want documentation for old versions.
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by dumah 1y ago
PEP-723 solves this nicely. https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43500124
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by dumah 1y ago
This is because of the dispatch semantics for dunder operator methods, which the Python docs are horrible at communicating. The types returned as you described are exactly what I’d expect and idiomatic for Python. This isn’t a problem wit
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by dumah 1y ago
From my perspective, the adoption for Linux kernel modules, prevalence in the ecosystem of data science my industry relies on, and the explosion of great rust CLI tools satisfies this foundation. Native rust extensions to provide canonical
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by dumah 1y ago
The regularity of this microstructure is incredible, even in comparison to additively manufactured steels. https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2025/creating-an-anti-crash....
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by dumah 2y ago
Framing this as a personal income tax concern is a bit off the mark. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_erosion_and_profit_shif...
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by dumah 2y ago
What if I told you that the largest and most liquid market for assets in the United States wasn’t covered by any transaction tax?
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by dumah 2y ago
The law has recently changed quite a bit with respect to the very nature of a smart contract (Tornado). I don’t think they’re very specific. The lack of specificity was such that the government is now purporting to end “regulation by enforc
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by dumah 2y ago
The primary purpose of guided missile destroyers is missile defense. Modern destroyers are capable of staying on station almost indefinitely and defending themselves and allied vessels from nearly any existing airborne threat. Such a platfo
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by dumah 2y ago
That’s fair.
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by dumah 2y ago
Lon Horiuchi couldn't be convicted because the state's prosecutor dropped it.
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by dumah 2y ago
There are almost 4000 open issues on gdb reported more than five years ago. In this conversation are reports of an annoying bug that requires a user patch gdb and it's existed for almost twenty years. It was years before anyone was eve
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by dumah 2y ago
my_ridiculous_list = ["Ilya Sutskever"]
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by dumah 2y ago
Java https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/Makefile Rust https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/tests/run-make... Go https://github.com&#x
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by dumah 2y ago
Missile approach warning systems don’t need radar. Most use IR sensing and lasers. Even in radar-based MAW systems, they are not multipurpose and do not detect aircraft by design.
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by dumah 2y ago
The air-to-air radar is not necessarily peanuts compared to the helicopter. A recent sale of blackhawks to Greece was priced at 1.95B for 35 helos. A past sale of 36 Apache Longbow radars and support to Korea was priced at 3.6B. A helo is a
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by dumah 2y ago
This is demeaning, uncivil, and largely baseless.
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by dumah 2y ago
There’s at most a zero floor value on holdings of government debt, corporate equities, bank holdings, and any asset held by a custodian. The floor value of physical commodities with significant storage costs is negative. The market is aware
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by dumah 2y ago
Being restricted from doing crimes by a vendor of commercial software isn’t a cyberpunk dystopia. Buy or download something else. It’s a typical restriction of software terms of service to prohibit use outside of applicable laws and regulat

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