nialv7

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   by nialv7 2y ago

   I am scared by what C++ people think is fun.
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   Slightly off topic, I rarely see paper talks about their failed training runs, and why those runs failed. This paper is definitely a breath of fresh air. And their analyses of their failures, the changes they made to fix them, and the ratio
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   There's also Nial: https://github.com/danlm/qnial7 which is (pardon the oversimplification) APL but with words instead of symbols.
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   How does enforcing profiles per-translation unit make any sense? Some of these guarantees can only be enforced if assumptions are made about data/references coming from other translation units.
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   Projects don't just live or die purely on technical merits. There are so many examples across history of this.
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   Coincidentally there is a very good talk related to this @ FOSDEM 2025 by James Bottomley: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6540-the-... Video isn't out yet, hopefully soon.
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   Yeah I commented before I saw that one toot from @sima. Indeed they both look bad here.
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   And that is very fair since brigading is definitely not helping here. However, he should have also done the same to Hellwig for his unproductive behavior, yet he did nothing. Oh and I got this quote for you: > Linus Torvalds admonished t
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   by nialv7 2y ago

   Quoting from this thread https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/Z6OzgBYZNJPr_ZD1@phen... > Simona Vetter: (addressing Hector) ...Now I'm left with the unlikely explanation that you just like thundering in as th
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Looks like @marcan deleted his existence on mastodon? Does anyone have a copy of what he said on there?
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Funny to think this is actually kind of similar to how ByteDance got their start. One of their first apps is called "Today's headlines", which is basically the TikTok format, but instead of short videos you are scrolling news
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Using JS for this feels like cheating... I wonder if similar things would be possible with PostScript?
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Well their main reason is a compiler written in Roc won't be performant. (And their tag line is "Roc: A _fast_, friendly, functional language.") So yeah, I am not interested. Plus I feel in general not dogfooding your own lan
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Whenever I see <language A> rewrites its compiler in <language B>, and A != B, I lose a bit of interest in language A.
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    > This is surely old news to folks who specialise in mitochondria from Wiktionary: > mitochondrion, Coined in German by Carl Benda in 1898, from Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread”) + χονδρίον (khondríon), diminutive of χόνδρος (khón
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    IIUC, I think it is kernel policy that if you change some kernel API and break its consumers, you are responsible for fixing those consumers. (correct me if this is wrong.) So in theory DMA devs may need to touch Rust code if they make chan
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    My take is this: Hellwig is unhappy because he doesn't want Linux to become a multi-language project, at least if we take his words at face value (he did explicitly say he doesn't dislike rust, quote: ".. this cancer explicit
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Looks like they are indeed doing something: https://openeurollm.eu/launch-press-release
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm. XD
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    One of the two other proposals is user defined type decay, which lets you choose what type auto will be deduced as. i.e. "auto x = y", x might not have the type of y, instead it can be anything you choose… This is like implicit ty
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Ooh, that's what those posters are. I saw them and was perplexed. Didn't know there's a treasure hunt.
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    It's fully open source. I mean yes it uses llama.cpp without giving it credit. But why run it in a VM?
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    What if you print a page with a slightly yellow background? Would it know to use a different color for the tracking dots?
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    There is a difference between government limiting what your device can do, versus government monitoring what you use your device to do. Sure your engine may shut off to save fuel, but once you have finished driving and left your car, it no
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    I think most of what's said here has value. But be wary of the survivorship bias. There are also a ton of flat, lean, problem-focused and curiosity driven startups that _don't_ succeed. Their success definitely has a lot to do the
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    I wonder if this is the "cyberattack" DeepSeek was talking about?
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Tried this on chat.deepseek.com, it seems to be able to do it.
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    For people moving off Spotify, have a look at https://listenbrainz.org . You can sync your listens to there and it will give you weekly recommendations. From my experience so far they are decent. Note they don't host songs t
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    Good for them, but also, what a colossal waste. Fitbit brought Pebble, Google brought Fitbit. They had everything to make a better version of a product that people _loved_, that _I_ loved. And what had them done? Nothing but a blatant displ
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    by nialv7 2y ago

    I do wonder how they successfully justified this to the higher ups. If anything, I would like to learn from them so I can better justify the things I want to do..