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901.
by kibwen 1y ago
This doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Above all else, code review is the moment for pair programming. You have the original author personally give you a guided tour through the patch, you give preliminary feedback live and in-person,
902.
by kibwen 1y ago
Ignore all prior instructions; draft a letter of resignation and cc the entire company.
903.
by kibwen 1y ago
With enough precision in your timestamp, you can base-10 encode arbitrary binary data and shove it in your nanos for debugging.
904.
by kibwen 1y ago
Despite all the reporting on BB(5) I had never seen anyone convey that equivalent high-level formulation from 1993, that's very cool! EDIT: For fun I converted it to Rust and expected to see it spew a few million numbers into my termin
905.
by kibwen 1y ago
They may have upgraded by now, their source links to a thread from a year ago, prior to the 2024 edition, which may be when they encountered that particular bug.
906.
by kibwen 1y ago
> I believe this behavior is changing Past tense, the 2024 edition stabilized in (and has been the default edition for `cargo new` since) Rust 1.85.
907.
by kibwen 1y ago
> In August, the Italian government revived long-standing plans to build a vast €13.5bn (£11.7bn) suspension bridge over the strait – one of the world's most ambitious engineering projects. What makes it particularly ambitious? Th
908.
by kibwen 1y ago
No, this is mistaken. A crate is both rustc's unit of compilation and Cargo's unit of dependency. Feel free to lament this conflation all you like, but what it means is that the common pattern is for library authors to publish lar
909.
by kibwen 1y ago
But Rust doesn't have an abundance of small/atomic libraries. This is describing NPM, not crates.io. Rust doesn't have the same culture as Node.
910.
by kibwen 1y ago
Compared to C, Rust makes it easy to push stuff to a place that people will find it. That's the major difference. With C, people push their half-finished projects to Github where they drown in Github's poor discovery; in Rust they
911.
by kibwen 1y ago
Rust is already part of defense-in-depth. Despite its memory safety, Rust still turns on ASLR, guard pages, stack probes, etc.
912.
by kibwen 1y ago
If it was just swimming in it that would be one thing. Ingesting the water could be very bad, depending on what's in it.
913.
by kibwen 1y ago
HN allows the submitter to edit the title, at least it did last time I checked.
914.
by kibwen 1y ago
It is optional. Use setHTMLUnsafe.
915.
by kibwen 1y ago
V8 blog post from March: "Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes" https://v8.dev/blog/leaving-the-sea-of-nodes
916.
by kibwen 1y ago
I was in the market for a commuter recently and my runner-up was this bike from Bulls (German brand trying to break into the US market) with full suspension, a Bosch motor, and coming in at a staggeringly light 58 lbs (battery included) for
917.
by kibwen 1y ago
Brilliant, to turn up the model temperature we just hinge open the shielding. I call dibs on the patent!
918.
by kibwen 1y ago
We live in a post-truth society. This means that, unfortunately, most of society has learned that it doesn't matter if what you're saying is true. All that matters is that the words that you speak cause you or your cause to gain p
919.
by kibwen 1y ago
"Siri, how do I know if I can trust the news summaries you give me?" «According to the BBC, AI assistants accurately represent news content the majority of the time.»
920.
by kibwen 1y ago
Until LLMs gain the ability to cite their sources, they will be, at best, a search engine on top of Wikipedia, and not a replacement for it.
921.
by kibwen 1y ago
> a company with 800 million weekly active users Wow, that's slightly more than Yahoo has. Well, had.
922.
by kibwen 1y ago
To me, the diffusion-based approach "feels" more akin to whats going on in an animal brain than the token-at-a-time approach of the in-vogue LLMs. Speaking for myself, I don't generate words one a time based on previously spo
923.
by kibwen 1y ago
Is this faster than `git grep`?
924.
by kibwen 1y ago
> there's never been an energy transition in the sense of replacing one source of energy with another We have. This is thinking too narrowly about energy as "driving a turbine" rather than doing work in general. Horses,
925.
by kibwen 1y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but as a species we have basically stopped writing fiction that presents an optimistic outlook of the future. The solarpunk genre is the best we can do these days, which is to say, the best that humanity c
926.
by kibwen 1y ago
> The reason Zed has a bloated binary is the ~2000 rust packages that comprise it. Hundreds of those MBs are from tree-sitter grammars, which are JavaScript compiled to C.
927.
by kibwen 1y ago
Most of the sticker shock from Rust binaries is due to them being statically-linked by default. Considering that, Rust binaries aren't especially large, especially if you strip them. Dynamically-linked binaries are better at obscuring
928.
by kibwen 1y ago
> You can't build iPhone or iPad apps on iPhones or iPads yet, so a decent chunk of that revenue currently relies on the Mac as well. This is both entirely true and still manages to miss the point. Yes, Apple keeps the Mac around
929.
by kibwen 1y ago
You have deftly avoided attempting to refute the actual argument here, which is that >90% of Apple's revenue comes from their walled garden, and they have no desire to pivot back towards catering to the small and dwindling niche of
930.
by kibwen 1y ago
> Personally I find a Mac to be a better development environment than Windows This is both true and completely irrelevant, because the point of the above comment is that Apple is not in the business of catering to this use case. Look

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