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Good and honorable lessons to draw, even if the author is personally failing to uphold them: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/dont-flee-...
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Ooh, I completely disagree. Julia has a worse type system overall, IMO. The big downside of Julia is that Julia has no interfaces or protocols. So, you can't type assert that something is an iterable of integers, for example. Another
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Julia (by default) does the latter, and its terrible. It makes it a) slow, because you have to do nonlocal inference through entire programs, b) impossible to type check generic library code where you have no actual usage, c) very hard to t
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It's sad to see how poorly the U.S. has been enforcing (and interpreting) its own anti-trust legislation the last ~40 years. In my view that decline has been one of the contributing factors to the growing business oligarchy in the coun
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The Danish center for disease control's webpage for the vaccine links to a recent (5 year old) Swedish study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1917338 , but I couldn't find any Danish studies.
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True. I'd consider these minor flaws. W.r.t. the CIGAR, the spec says you do need to store it as a tag.
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Do the math on energy density. 1 kg of fuel contains roughly 45 MJ, which would require you to lift 1 kg of cement 4.000 km up. Or, alternatively, 1 liter of petrol has enough energy to lift a 3 tonne cement block 1 kilometer upwards.
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SAM is not a bad file format. What's bad about SAM?
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I don't think anonymous companies make sense ethically, and they're demonstrably causing harm to society by enabling corruption and money laundering. To address your concern, I think the problem is that a) the address is publicall
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Usually people create languages to address issues that cannot be addressed by a library because they have different semantics on a deeper level. Like, Rust could not be a C++ library, that does not make sense. Zig could not be a C library.
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Im pretty sure Julia does JIT compilation of pure Julia to the GPU: https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl
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I think Julia aspires to be performant enough that you can write the kernels in Julia, so Julia is more like Mojo + Python together. Although I have my doubts that Julia is actually willing to make the compromises which would allow Julia to
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Mojo to me looks significantly lower level, with a much higher degree of control. Also, it appears to be more robust. Julia is notoriously fickle in both semantics and performance, making it unsuitable for foundational software the way Mojo
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But kids (and adults) are exposed to all kinds of fantasies. War is not like Call of Duty. The Mafia is not like GTA. Monarchy is not like in the fairy tales. Romance is not like Twilight. BDSM is not like 50 Shades of Grey. For all these t
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This kind of comment is not productive for the discussion. Next time you feel like typing out a cheap dunk that would degrade conversation, just close the tab and do something else.
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That doesn't seem right for biology. There's just way too much stuff we don't understand, but which we could understand, because it's there, right in front of us. Maybe there are some fundamental limits to how much biolo
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There is a cost to writing documentation - it takes time, which could be used to improve Zig in other areas. For code that is work-in-progress, it can make sense to not document until things are more settled. Of course documentation is good
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The visualisation makes it hard to see changes near the end of the string, which makes it a bad visualisation for verifying cryptographic hashes.
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IIUC, no, they are not excempt. Certain professional contexts are excempt from surveillance, including political work, police work, military work and some corporate work. This is intended to prevent state or corporate secrets to be subject
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Funnily, my country has a similar story but with the opposite moral. Scattered around my country you will see plantations of huge oak trees, all the same age. What gives? Well, in 1801 and 1807, my countrys navy suffered terrible defeats by
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by jakobnissen 1y ago
I think the author's take is overly bleak. Yes, he supports his claim that AI businesses are currently money pits and unsustainable. But I don't think it's reasonable to claim that AI can't be profitable. This whole th
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Author here. In scientific computing, there isn't much of a security implication of UB, and the most dangerous kind of error are when your program silently computes the wrong thing. And that is especially likely when you use indices ma
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Author here. Yeah, I don't like the borrowchecker. But the motivation for me writing the article is the almost religious zeal with which many Rustaceans refuse to even acknowledge that the borrowchecker has a cost in terms of ergonomic
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The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust(viralinstruction.com)
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I don't really think so. Areosol pollution is short-lived and kills a ton of people. So you get enormous downsides in the short run (WHO estimates 2 million people die of air pollution in China alone), and in the medium term, you don
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You must be reading other mainstream media than I do, because drone warfare has been covered extensively in what I read. Namely DR (Danish national media), Zetland and The Atlantic.
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Interesting. How do you know the background distribution of bytes? Won't a scan of the haystack to get the distribution take up a significant amount of time?
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Gemini 2.0 Flash is listed at 0.4 USD / 1M tokens. Bing search API is 15 USD / 1k queries. So the LLM is indeed 37 times cheaper for a 1000 token query.
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That could be a way to get compile times down, but I think there is still much to do on the Julia side. Such as a more fine grained compile cache, better tooling to prevent i validations, removal of the world splitting optimisation, more us
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You mean tab completion in Rust? Otherwise, let me introduce you to: imap(f) = x -> Iterators.map(f, x) ifilter(f) = x -> Iterators.filter(f, x) v = things |> ifilter(isodd) |> imap(do_process) |&gt

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