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by elcritch 1y ago
It's an interesting take on an IR. It's goal is to support the current C/C++/JS backend but also to make generating native assembly easy to do as well. It also doesn't rely on lexical scopes to do analysis for thing
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by elcritch 1y ago
It’s not really. Zig emphasis on it to replace generics is somewhat unique, but ultimately it’s not different than what Nim (and D) have also done for many years. Nim has a full compile time VM. You can even compile it into a program to run
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by elcritch 1y ago
It's not clear to me if it's different than Zerotier's routing design or not. Partly because ZT has their "moons" and custom network controllers. Googling about it does seem to indicate ZT doesn't support peers
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by elcritch 1y ago
> We believe our new Tailscale Peer Relays connectivity option—unique to Tailscale—gives customers the best performance and flexibility. Seems pretty similar to some of the stuff ZeroTier was doing years ago. Hard to claim it's uniq
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by elcritch 1y ago
Chrome moved to a time based release cadence.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Fascinating, and us humans aren't that different. Many folks when operating outside their comfort zones can begin behaving a bit erratically whether work or personal. One of the best advantages in life someone can have is their parents
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by elcritch 1y ago
Wow that’s an interesting list. Sorta of surprising with Raku beating out Perl. Nim is also in the top 10, nice!
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by elcritch 1y ago
Unfortunate because for the first time in his life he had RAD hair. ;)
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by elcritch 1y ago
> How "long term" are we talking about that rewriting battle-tested, mission-critical C utils (which, as other posters noted, in this case often have minimal attack surfaces) actually makes sense? Makes me wonder if putting a s
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by elcritch 1y ago
Folks also run into compatibility issues with musl as well. The biggest I recall was an issue with DNS breaking because musl didn’t implement some piece.
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by elcritch 1y ago
The IETF has made a bunch of standards lately like COSE for doing certificates and encryption stuff with CBOR. It’s largely for embedded stuff, but I could see it being a modern alternative. I haven’t used it myself yet. CBOR is self-descri
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by elcritch 1y ago
> The fact that you theoretically can validate an xml document against a schema is honestly completely useless. If I am parsing XML, its because my code already knows what information it needs from the XML document, and really it should
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by elcritch 1y ago
Googling TSMC margin and it looks to be 53%-59% gross margin. That is after they became the leading global fab of course. No doubt keeping costs low helped them get to that stage. Still that's a crazy margin. I imagine much of it'
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by elcritch 1y ago
I've had a number of friends who worked at Micron in Boise at their semi-fabs. Yes boring work, but the pay was decent. Especially for guys just graduating. I think it was like a 4-10 schedule.
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by elcritch 1y ago
US Workers while costing more do seem are still competitive at expensive high value tasks. There was some reports a year back where the TSMC labs in Arizona while employee costs were higher also had 4% higher yield [1]. I'd wager combi
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by elcritch 1y ago
Makes sense to me. Lots of folks attracted to Rust seem to enjoy code-golfing more than solving problems. Designing the “perfect” game architecture vs shipping games seems to match that and my take on much of the Rust ecosystem.
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by elcritch 1y ago
It’s not just ordinary bread. It looks to be prosphora, or communion bread [1]. In Eastern Orthodox churches communion bread is leavened and it is prepared by hand often by laity [2]. I find it beautiful that such a small but sacred action
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by elcritch 1y ago
Personally I prefer Codex's less-chatty nature nice. I prefer to save my human emotions for humans.
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by elcritch 1y ago
How is BitTorrent considered better for a “guy in a cabin with weak internet”? Bittorrent requires substantially more connections generally.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Just realized the modern equivalent of of little Johhny Drop Tables; would be some LLM prompt injection scheme.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Well that is going to be a thing soon enough. LLMs running on humanoid robots as AI partners are gonna become a thing one day.
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Corporations take their revenue to pay people as either employees or shareholders. I am not sure why we need to tax corporations at all. Take employees as income perhaps, tax dividends, tax shares being sold, but allow companies to use
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by elcritch 1y ago
Perhaps for most companies, which was part of my point. But it's interesting to consider. I haven't read up too much on it in recent years. The largest, most profitable international mega-corps always seem to pay much less because
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by elcritch 1y ago
> 1. Tariffs are bringing in real money. > The U.S. collected $195 billion in customs duties, more than double the prior year. That doesn’t capture the full jump because tariff rates only ramped up in April, halfway through the year.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Great links and even briefly skimming them makes me lean more towards zoonosis myself. However, @hackingonempty's comment shows how dangerous over politicising these topics can be. Claiming lab-accident origin as a conspiracy theory st
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by elcritch 1y ago
Access to information has historically been a great equalizer. Not to diminish Gates’ malaria efforts, but remote villages having access to information about malaria and prevention methods could be helpful. Along with techniques for filteri
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by elcritch 1y ago
There's almost like an "uncanny valley" type situation with good products. As in new technologies start out promising, but less okay. Then as they get better they becomes close to being a "good project" the more it&
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by elcritch 1y ago
Good point, if Google had released the first version of Bard or whatnot as the first LLM it probably would've received some good press but also a lot of "eh just another Google toy side project". I could've seen myself s
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by elcritch 1y ago
Good points, thanks. That's rough. It's not always great in the US despite it being acknowledged and somewhat accepted. It's gotta be really rough in a country that doesn't accept adhd. Ouch, a medical evaluation might m
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by elcritch 1y ago
Yeah agreed the issue with medical costs in the US isn’t primarily pharma or insurers. It’s just easier to blame them companies because they’re more centralized. Easy to point and say “look at the billions in profit”. Doctors as a whole are

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