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by gf000 9mo ago
How on earth would Wayland be slow? Like it's literally an IPC on top of the lowest level Linux kernel API (DRM), displaying buffers. It was partially made for car infotainment systems that are knowingly weak hardware.
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by gf000 9mo ago
Reviewing PRs and merging them requires great effort, especially in case of a non-trivial behemoth like X. Surely if all these merge requests were of huge value, someone could have forked the project and be very happy with all the changes,
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by gf000 9mo ago
Is it gnome or kde or what? That's like saying "the website doesn't work", without saying what browser you are using.
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by gf000 9mo ago
It's not "super slow" and most languages do something very similar within concurrent data structures. Also, copy by value in itself is just a semantic requirement, it doesn't say how it's implemented. And shared mut
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by gf000 9mo ago
> I think having a chance at stopping mass government slaughter This would be questionable 100 years ago, let alone today's technology. Civils just can't organize efficiently, and "heads" (like someone locally coordin
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by gf000 9mo ago
Arguably, there are countries where it's pretty damn effective.
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by gf000 9mo ago
Open hardware is mostly a lie. They all run proprietary blobs inside and out. It's ridiculous gatekeeping to say that on the kernel level it's bad, but below it I just put my head in the sand and disregard the millions of lines of
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by gf000 9mo ago
I think parent means it from a lambda calculus perspective. If you only have values at an AST level, then you only have a tree of.. values, like an XML document. You can apply meaning to a particular shape of that tree which could be execut
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by gf000 9mo ago
There are plenty examples to the contrary. It's almost like one of the platforms has the supermajority of phones in most countries, so there are plenty of apps only targeting a single one.
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by gf000 9mo ago
You can get some really hefty fines for not playing by the rules. It's taken extremely seriously in basically every aspect of life in Europe. It's not enforced hard enough against US company empires like meta and the like unfor
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by gf000 9mo ago
I may misunderstand your problem, but I just have a configuration repository for various "hosts". There are a couple of settings I share between them, and then just specify the differences. "Deploying" one is as simple a
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by gf000 9mo ago
I mean, cap'n'proto is written by the same person who created protobuf, so they are legit (and that somewhat jokish claim is simply that it requires no parsing).
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by gf000 9mo ago
(Not quite the same as a search engine, but to create a base model in an LLM, they pretty much did "download the whole internet" for it)
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by gf000 9mo ago
Competition only works when we have an even field. Like shooting your opponents in the leg before a Marathon will surely improve your chances, but it doesn't mean you are the best out of them. This is like the very tenet of markets, re
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by gf000 9mo ago
I think the best way is you buy a software, and that version is supported "forever". The developer then creates version n+1. The old version is kept supported, but new features go only into the new version, which you can optionall
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by gf000 9mo ago
During development you don't use prod data, though. So I don't see much problem here, even if I'm developing something where I would store sensitive data later. (If there is a bug though which I would want to debug and if I w
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by gf000 9mo ago
Availability is a big thing. I don't order a coffee to my house because I can make coffee at home. But if I'm at another city, then paying for a coffee beats not having it.
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by gf000 9mo ago
Reminds me of ethimology nerd's videos. He has some content about how LLMs will influence human language.
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by gf000 9mo ago
> arrays are a notation for address offsetting That's an implementation detail, though.
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by gf000 9mo ago
You can rename folders. Long press on them, edit and you have quite a few options.
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by gf000 9mo ago
With all due respect, I don't believe it is "more snappier than react". React itself with nothing else is plenty fast. You would have to go way out of your way to see performance differences between different UI approaches, c
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by gf000 9mo ago
It worked as in react is the de facto frontend choice. It didn't work as in if I were to ask for the router, state management, etc library, there would be a combinatorial explosion of react "frameworks", all sucking in diff
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by gf000 9mo ago
I really recommend watching this section of this video. Embeddings do encode plenty of "human knowledge" into the vector values and their relations to each other. https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M?si=QEaPWcp3jHAgZSEe&am
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by gf000 9mo ago
Faster for worse results, though. Determining the source of a symbol is not as trivial as finding the same piece of text somewhere else, it should also reliably be able to differentiate among them. What better source for that then the compi
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by gf000 9mo ago
It reminds me of the joke that "I can do math very fast", probed with a multiplication and immediately answering some total bollocks answer. - "That's not even close" - "Yeah, but it was fast" Sure, it&#x
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by gf000 9mo ago
> The example you gave of a compiler is canonically implemented as multiple process making .o files from .c files, not threads. This is a huge limitation of C's compilation model, and basically every other language since then does i
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by gf000 9mo ago
Statistically? I don't think it's that wild. If you prefer it, salaries correlate with years of experience, and the latter surely correlates with skills, right? (No, this doesn't mean that every 10 years XP dev is better than
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by gf000 9mo ago
> It's compilers and compiler optimizations that make code run fast Well, then in many cases we are talking about LLVM vs LLVM. > Ultimately, producing fast/optimal code in C kind of is the whole point of C Mostly a nitpick,
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by gf000 9mo ago
> I can write C that is as fast as C++ I generally agree with your take, but I don't think C is in the same league as Rust or C++. C has absolutely terrible expressivity, you can't even have proper generic data structures. And
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by gf000 9mo ago
Well, what about small CLI tools, like ripgrep and the like? Does multithreading not matter when we open a large number of files and process them? What about compilers?

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