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by nindalf 3y ago
> CPU with lots of cores is basically required Funnily enough, the game devs were saying that the game is mostly single-threaded unless you're using mods. Each mod runs on a separate thread. They're working on changing this tho
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by nindalf 3y ago
This already exists. There are classifiers for Scams, Sextortion and other crimes. Like with all interventions, recall isn't perfect.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Zig is great no doubt, but the irony in this comment increased my RBC count.
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by nindalf 3y ago
The complement being the metaverse. You can’t handcraft the metaverse because it would be infeasible. If LLMs are a commodity that everyone has access to, then it can be done on the cheap. Put another way - if OpenAI were the only game in t
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by nindalf 3y ago
One pattern I really like is opening the networks tab of the browser, finding the request I'm interested in and "copying as curl" - the browser generates the equivalent command in curl. Then I'd use something like https
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by nindalf 3y ago
IQ hasn’t declined though. The Flynn effect means that the median IQ has gone up steadily every decade since they started measuring. It’s unclear why. Maybe better nutrition, better schooling, less leaded petrol - hard to tell. So an 85 IQ
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by nindalf 3y ago
Two things. I didn’t say anything about school in the 1960s. I only said, they used they’ve used the IQ test for about a century to good effect. When they abandoned it for expediency, the results were tragic. That’s why they’ll stick to the
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by nindalf 3y ago
That standardised test administered by the US military has some history. The idea was that folks who were below an 85IQ would be harder to train. During the Vietnam war they tried abandoning the requirement and the results were sad. It cost
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by nindalf 3y ago
Wouldn't per capita emissions in a city be lower? Simply because of transport - we're far more likely to use public transport than folks living in rural areas.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Was wondering why that link was grey for me. Yeah, these guys never miss.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Are you considering the resources it took to create the chip itself? If you’re running a single threaded process on a multi core machine and nothing else, the rest of the processor is being wasted. Further, the way modern processors conserv
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by nindalf 3y ago
It's certainly possible to make the case you're saying. And I would be interested in reading such a paper. But my view is that someone using the benchmarks game hasn't proved anything.
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by nindalf 3y ago
This is a repost of a low quality paper from 2017 [1]. It's low quality because they haven't done anything truly novel - they simply took the results of the benchmarks game [2] and flipped it. The ones that ran faster are consider
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by nindalf 3y ago
You have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re so confidently incorrect about Rust that there’s no point even trying to educate you. Good day.
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by nindalf 3y ago
There’s a small message contained in that unnecessarily long post - that maybe a popular library used for HTTP in Rust could use less unsafe. There was no need for this half mocking, half condescending tone. If the author wanted an explanat
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by nindalf 3y ago
Holy fucking shit. I've never seen anything like that last comment on HN before.
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by nindalf 3y ago
> however if someone wants to rewrite OpenSSL in Rust You mean rustls?
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by nindalf 3y ago
$18m over 3 years to help 500k people suffering from serious financial hardship? Thats not even $40 per person. Yeah, seems like an easy win.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Would debug symbols ever be loaded into CPU cache? They'd be in RAM, sure. But why would the CPU ever load them into cache? The way I'm imagining this, and I could be wrong, is that the debug symbols are to one end of the binary.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Yes, I am sure this is going to be a part of Rust 1.77.0 and it will release on 21st March. I say that because of the tag in the PR ( https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/13257#event-11505613... ). I'm
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by nindalf 3y ago
> so I guess I'll have to wait several more years A feature that's landed in Rust nightly will be part of the next beta release (at most 6 weeks away) and then the following full release (exactly 6 weeks away). For this feature
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by nindalf 3y ago
It’s funny, because your claim that it’s a great indicator is contradicted by the article we’re discussing. Rust was widely considered to be “only pay for what you use” despite having 4MB hello world programs. And now that it’s 400KB that c
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by nindalf 3y ago
If you divide 1 second by 60, you get 16ms. So to hit 60 Hz, you need to complete all processing and draw the frame within 16ms. For 120Hz, like you're claiming, all processing needs to be completed in half the time, or 8ms. And yet, A
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by nindalf 3y ago
As an organisation we’d like to drug test everyone, except those with enough leverage to tell us to get lost.
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by nindalf 3y ago
Weird. Here's the Rust Foundation annual report for 2023 ( https://foundation.rust-lang.org/static/publications/annual-... ). No "legal bullshit", it's short and to the point. Or here's anot
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by nindalf 3y ago
I really hope Zig succeeds! Of all the languages out there, I think it's the closest to achieving the goal of being C, but without the avoidable footguns. Rust is great too, but is different enough that I can imagine a future where bot
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by nindalf 3y ago
American consumers think that “made in the USA” is a sign of quality. The regulations in the USA that weed out poor quality products are a big part of that. You buy such a product without being afraid that you’re going to injure yourself wh
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by nindalf 3y ago
Hell is other people’s code. Of course our code is perfect, and we would never write a buffer overflow or issue that would be solved by memory safety. But I find consistently that other people seem to, and then I’m forced to contribute to t
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by nindalf 3y ago
The obligations of the company are different if it’s for performance reasons. If it’s a layoff it’s a lot more. It also sends a negative signal about the company to customers and investors. The CEO commenting elsewhere implied they have a s
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by nindalf 3y ago
Atuin has encrypted sync, that'll be a big difference. I've used mcfly for years and I appreciate the hard work cantino has put into it, but mcfly is currently looking for a maintainer while the maintainer of Atuin has recently co

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