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by ngrilly 3y ago
Archive, as the original link seems to be unresponsive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230702221952/http://cliffle.co...
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by ngrilly 3y ago
In which city was it? Sounds like a nice place. I live and work in Stockholm and it's similar to what you described.
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by ngrilly 3y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On one hand, I love having an open source option. On the other hand, this is a total rip-off of Linear.app. Even the website is a copy-paste of Linear.app. A bit shocking. And for the record, Linear.
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by ngrilly 3y ago
I'd be really curious to read the memos — if there is any... — explaining the rationale leading to those decisions. What concrete problems have they seen with the WFH setup? But also what advantages? How does it compare to the pros and
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by ngrilly 3y ago
I'm so much with you on this. I love Signal, but I'll never recommend it until it gets backup/restore. I have no clue why this is not prioritized over everything else.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Good point. I didn't see it like that. Thanks!
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by ngrilly 4y ago
What did you expect?
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by ngrilly 4y ago
I totally agree with your position on LFP, and about 400 Wh/kg being enough to unlock some applications. But I’m not fully convinced on silicon anodes versus solid state. Yes, energy density is very promising, but I understand capacity
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Sounds the same to me. A copper sheet coated with a thin layer of lithium-activated tellurium instead of a thicker layer of graphite. Not trying to diminish their achievement, but I don’t understand the anode-less claim.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Some applications still require higher energy densities than what LFP can provide. Are you saying silicon anodes are more promising than solid state for those applications?
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Why is it called anode-free when it still has a copper collector with a special coating? Yes, they removed the graphite, but they didn’t remote the entire “anode”. Or is it because the collector and the coating are not technically considere
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by ngrilly 4y ago
The rate of progress is impressive.
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Rust Identified as Safer Coding Tool by NIST(foundation.rust-lang.org)
74 points by ngrilly 4y ago|7 comments
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Regarding naming conventions, there is an issue about switching to snake case for functions as well, the main rationale being there is no difference between snake_case and camelCase for one word identifiers: https://github.com&#x
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by ngrilly 4y ago
I use and really like Obsidian, but there is something about the UX that is often making me come back to Apple Notes: it feels easier/faster to create new notes, retrieve them and search in Apple Notes.
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Simulating the Universe Could Yield Quantum Mechanics(greydanus.github.io)
3 points by ngrilly 4y ago|1 comments
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by ngrilly 4y ago
I had a quick look at your website and I don't understand the value. The point of SQLite is to run it in-process, with no networking overhead. Does each client keep a full copy of the database? If not, then what you're offering is
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by ngrilly 4y ago
I don't like that title. I perceive Tim Cook has a CEO caring a lot for Apple and not as someone obsessed with "securing his legacy".
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Makes more sense. But as you said, still amazing!
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by ngrilly 4y ago
The README says it has been "hacked in an evening"! Have the 10.000 lines of ggml.c been written in an evening, without reusing a lot of pre-existing code? That's quite amazing.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
This is exactly why I'm excited about Zig. It offers everything that was powerful and fun about C, and much more (comptime, error handling, better types, etc.), but without the warts that made me avoid C during the last 20 years.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Perhaps Go's GC is not state of the art, or perhaps it is, but I don't think that's a very helpful statement without being more specific. Here is a what I found: "The ZGC design strives to deliver a max pause time of a f
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by ngrilly 4y ago
I think the Go GC guarantees pauses bounded below 100 microseconds, regardless of the heap size. Of course, that means incremental GC.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
I used to think the same, but go fmt totally changed my mind on this. Most languages now have a code formatted that is integrated in all popular text editors and IDEs.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Carbon seems much more "low-level" and less "dynamic" than Julia? They don't seem to play in the same domain. If you're looking for a lower-level language than Julia, supporting operations on vectors, Zig is in
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Agreed. Zig for example is considering triggering an error for incorrectly indented code/misleading indentation: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/35
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by ngrilly 4y ago
That's right. That's the other side coin. But I'm not convinced it matters that much nowadays when most languages provide code formatters.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
You're right. What matters is that explicit block markers are easier to learn (from the student's perspective). Being easier to teach (from the teacher's perspective) doesn't matter as much.
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by ngrilly 4y ago
It's interesting that people keep claiming that indentation-based blocks makes Python easier to learn and read. I've been teaching programming to students in banking, finance and insurance for a few years, using Python, and my exp
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by ngrilly 4y ago
Some differences, major and minor, compared to Go: - Manual memory management; no garbage collector (which also means it is not as memory safe as Go) - No hidden memory allocations - No hidden control flow (no panic/recover) - Syntax c

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