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by gpderetta 7mo ago
More or less Wine + some experimental patches not yet I twgrated in mainstream wine + a buch of DirectX translation libraries + close steam integration.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
The idea has been around for a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s ... > President Donald Trump signed an ex
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
I doubt a MW laser can reliably intercept a reentry vehicle. A lot of energy is lost through the atmosphere when intercepting a warhead in space, from a land based laser. Once it reenters the atmosphere there might not be enough time. You
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
bit_cast and reinterpret_cast do different things: one works at the value level, the second preserves address identity (and it is problematic from an aliasing point of view). Not sure what any of this has to do with initialization though. F
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
I have used C++ for 20 years without LSP, but now I wouldn't want to go back to a plain editor.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
First of all mem::transmute is like bit_cast (which works perfectly fine in constexpr context), not reinterpret cast. Second, this compiles just fine: constexpr int ivalue = 1; constexpr bool bvalue {ivalue}; This fails at compil
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
After dismissing it for a long time, I have come around to the philosophical zombie argument. I do not believe that LLMs are conscious, but I also no longer believe that consciousness is a prerequisite for intelligence. I think at this poin
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
> In "one shot" mode it can't be Turing complete, but in a weird technicality neither does your computer have an infinite tape Nor our brains, in fact.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
> It's like approaching an Italian who has never learned or heard any other language to speak French Interesting similitude, because I expect an Italian to be able to communicate somewhat successfully with a French person (and vice
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired rando
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
Of course you don't spawn a thread from the signal handler. You start it first thing in main and park it waiting for a wakeup.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
> This doesn't really have anything to do with async signal safety. TLS not being async signal safe is explicitly called out on the article as the reason the token is sent in clear text. > Handle it as a synchronous event in a ma
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
TLS is not async signal safe. But having a dedicated thread whose responsibility is to only send cancel tokens via a TLS connection and is woken up by a posix semaphore seems a small, self contained change that doesn't require any majo
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
> Make sure to check /active Thanks, TIL.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
The author is running the benchmark multiple times with the same random seed to discover how long a pattern can the predictor learn.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
Typical branch predictors can both learns patterns (even very long patterns) and use branch history (the probability of a branch being taken depends on the path taken to reach that branch). They don't normally look at data other than b
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
True. Yet he still managed to do less damage.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
Ah, I remember Cosmos and SCOPE from my time at MS ~15 years ago! It was actually pretty cool technology. So is it still around?
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
wouldn't a concurrent change without synchronization be UB anyway? Also parent wants to cache the address, not the value (but you have to cache the value if you want to optimize manually)
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
ok, then it is nuts that __getattr__ (itself a specially blessed function) is not required to be pure at least from the caller point of view.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
MSVC used to break library ABI pretty much on every release. They stopped after overwhelming customer demand.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
I don't understand what are you saying. The journalist published an article claiming that a missile struck without being intercepted (although with no damage). The gamblers wanted the journalist to retract and say that the missile was
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
If the rules used to compute the index change (as opposed to the index composition of course), are index funds obliged to follow them no matter what? I assume this is very fund dependent, but would be interesting to know what most guarantee
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
Trying not to spoil a 40+ year old story, but Asimov eventually retconned that the flourishing of humanity was driven by a benevolent AI behind the curtain.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
For many, the Culture is an utopia to aspire to, for some is something to run away as fast as possible. Banks himself described the dichotomy.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
It is quite independent in Italy actually. The government is pushing for a constitutional amendment to help "fix" this feature. There is going to be a referendum on the change very soon.
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
Isn't the CEO taking themselves out of the equation in this demo?
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by gpderetta 7mo ago
> Can we get a flag feature? there is one already, and you would know if you weren't a new account complaining about "What happened to this site" after a comment from a 20yo account.
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by gpderetta 8mo ago
signal/noise
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by gpderetta 8mo ago
> all local state needs to be copied all local live state. The idea is that most objects are ephemeral and will be orphaned before there is a need to be collected.

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