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by slimsag 3y ago
If you are familiar with Go, you're gonna be at home with Zig's standard library in general. `std.io.writer`, `std.io.reader`, `std.io.multiWriter`, etc. are all there and pretty similar to Go's interfaces.
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by slimsag 3y ago
The inverse is also true; I don't have to pay Google or AWS to deploy my software to dedicated consumer devices. The user already paid for it.
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by slimsag 3y ago
interesting; I didn't realize libraries were adding official emscripten ports using the emscripten APIs. That's definitely a level up in my eyes, then.
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by slimsag 3y ago
has little to do with my rather normal day job, you can read the article for details
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by slimsag 3y ago
I can and do. typing actively then 3-4mph, if thinking deeply about a coding problem and occasionally typing then 6mph.
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Hotspot performance engineering fails(lemire.me)
191 points by slimsag 3y ago|102 comments
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by slimsag 3y ago
Zig fits pretty naturally here too. We've got ~19 WebGPU examples[1] which use Dawn natively (no browser support yet), and we build it using Zig's build system so it 'just works' out of the box with zero fuss as long as
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by slimsag 3y ago
Meta has led in the application of ML to computer vision for years now frankly. They have tons and tons of papers on computer vision using ML that are clearly and obviously applicable to metaverse-esque things. (I have no stake in Meta in a
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by slimsag 4y ago
OK that makes sense; so basically if I want to give this a shot then I would just need to read llm_chat.js and the TVM docs, and translate llm_chat.js to my language of choice effectively?
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by slimsag 4y ago
Nice work! I knew it wouldn't be long before someone put this together :) I'm curious if given a different language (like Zig) with WebGPU access if you could easily translate that last-mile of code to execute there or not? In spe
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by slimsag 4y ago
You don't need to be vegan to care about animal rights. I can consume closed-source software and care about FOSS at the same time, do not discard people who are on your side just because they aren't extreme enough for your tastes.
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by slimsag 4y ago
Two YouTube researchers[0][1] (they make science content that is very much not in the traditional form of YouTube) have been working on Infrared Cooling Paint for almost a year now and have been detailing how individuals can make it at home
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by slimsag 4y ago
19:00-21:00 hits home hard for me I used to have coworkers ask 'what programmers do you look up to?', and that question always felt icky to me because it kind of implied you can't make the same choices and become your own her
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by slimsag 4y ago
What are your thoughts on the direct descendant, Roc? [0] I know it's pre v0.1 so maybe you don't have any, but as a fellow Elm lover it seems pretty compelling on the surface albeit less directly frontend-dev focused. [0] https:
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by slimsag 4y ago
I always tell a joke about colorblind design: > User: My hands don't work very well, I can't drive > Designer: What if we made the steering wheel larger? Which is to say that for myself and many like me, 'colorblind mod
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by slimsag 4y ago
Closer to 3.5 years now, maybe I'll do an update at 4 years. The 2.5 year initial duration (when I posted that article) was like working two full-time jobs, 100h/week, 80% writing code. Past year has been more like 85h/week,
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by slimsag 4y ago
WebGPU says the baseline should be what is supported on both desktop+mobile, and that extensions (in the future) should enable the desktop-only use cases. Others seemingly argue that mobile should be ignored entirely, that WebGPU shouldn&#x
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by slimsag 4y ago
This is very welcome and a long time coming! If you're eager to learn WebGPU, consider checking out Mach[0] which lets you develop with it natively using Zig today very easily. We aim to be a competitor-in-spirit to Unity/Unreal&#
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by slimsag 4y ago
But owners of these properties do not want users to have that choice, they want users in a mobile app where they can collect more telemetry and spam notifications to get engagement. There’s a reason Reddit aggressively pushes you away from
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by slimsag 4y ago
Yes we'd be better off if cookies were removed. But if it was only Firefox, people would simply add banners saying "Firefox is not supported." since it's only like 3% of marketshare these days.
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by slimsag 4y ago
The README also says this: > This fine-tunes the [GPT-J 6B]( https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B ) model on the [Alpaca]( https://huggingface.co/datasets/tatsu-lab/alpaca ) dataset usin
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by slimsag 4y ago
In Arizona, Nestle is building a new $700mm plant to produce 'high quality creamers', and were going to use the local utility EPCOR for water-but apparently EPCOR may not be able to provide enough for their needs. To resolve the i
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by slimsag 4y ago
I 1000% agree with you; both my parents were aerospace engineers and when they were going through college that was what everyone was pushed to choose as a career; nowadays it's tech (software) - so I see that problem very clearly. (i
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by slimsag 4y ago
I edit'd my comment (after I saw you say it appeared ageist); that's not what I intended and I can see how it came across that way (esp in the context of layoffs) - there are definitely going to be technically proficient people ac
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by slimsag 4y ago
Why do you claim there are fewer gen-z to replace those who retire? Many of my coworkers and peers are millennials, and I personally also know large swaths of gen Z folks who are extremely technical, more and more people are pushed into tec
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by slimsag 4y ago
> design patents do not protect pictures, images, graphic designs, patterns or any other 2-dimensional visual imagery in the abstract. A patented design must be tied to an article of manufacture. In fact, the patent examination manual kn
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by slimsag 4y ago
Huh? Patents have nothing to do with it, unless you were granted a license to use it then it is copyright infringement by definition. Whether they sue you over it is a different matter.
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by slimsag 4y ago
Google invested over $400mm in Anthropic; not sure how people missed this. That's >10% stake in an OpenAI competitor and a clear bet on something.
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by slimsag 4y ago
The page itself literally leads with multiple extensive statements about how the sqlite CVEs are exaggerated and inaccurate: > Grey-hat hackers are rewarded based on the number and severity of CVEs that they write. This results in a prol
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by slimsag 4y ago
GP is not exactly right; CGO is not involved in building a shared library except for exporting C functions which can be called. It doesn't "convert Go code to C code" or anything like that. `-buildmode=c-shared` is what produ

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