torginus

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by torginus 4mo ago
git and npm install are somewhat slower on vanilla Windows, true, but on WSL2 they're downright unusable
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by torginus 5mo ago
Proprietary for now, not sure how good the open source one is. But the proprietary has many quirks/bugs and limitations especially when i comes to things like Linux specific Vulkan extensions. I don't know the full story, but afai
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by torginus 5mo ago
I just have small thing to add to this article - it mentions how the code contributed per engineer has increased as per Claude Mythos to 8x of baseline. Now, I have encountered many times, when I asked AI to implement a function for me for
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by torginus 5mo ago
Imo it was the right call. Linux filesystems, file attributes are different from Windows, and the two never would've been completely compatible. The two big ones, are the execute bit, and the very fact that windows files represent the
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by torginus 5mo ago
I, who has to professionally support installs running Linux with Nvidia hardware, would personally say the situation is very far from ideal on Linux. I dislike this 'my dad can beat yours' kinda competition when it's very cl
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by torginus 5mo ago
WSL2 operates through a file-level translation layer, not unlike NFS in Linux, which can be a huge performance problem for programs that manipulate lots of tiny files, like git or npm.
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by torginus 5mo ago
If I remember correctly, Zed's framework didn't set the goal of being able to draw arbitrary graphics/UI and by constraining that, it basically managed to represent everything with quads and distance fields in shaders, which
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by torginus 5mo ago
Not anymore. I bought a brand-spanking new high-end Electrolux dishwasher and discovered it had a flimsier construction than the 20 year old one my mom has at home, that was an absolute bargain bin purchase.
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by torginus 5mo ago
From what I've seen of youtube teardowns by mechanics, Chinese cars often have the air of modernity and future tech about them, but under the hood, they like to use technical solutions that were abandoned by European manufacturers a de
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by torginus 5mo ago
I'm not American, but is talking to bartenders actually a thing? When I go to places like this I always either go with friends/family. There are some smaller pubs where I do know the bartender/pub owner, but it's more of
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by torginus 5mo ago
Vertical integration is a double edged sword. When your car is a decade old or more, and stuff starts breaking, the only vendor that makes parts for it is BYD - and its up to them if they bother selling to you, at what price, provided they
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by torginus 5mo ago
True. It is a well-known fact that braincells per capita, and technical competence and understanding rapidly increase the higher you are on the management ladder.
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by torginus 5mo ago
The whole point of Hare is to be a part of a modern computing environment that offers most of the creature comforts of modern computing, yet is small enough to be understood by one person.
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by torginus 5mo ago
Hare did the legwork of adding proper DWARF support afaik. Btw that spec is huge, and the debug info generator ended up being larger than the rest of the compiler at that point. Btw adding some non-standard debugging support to QBE is not i
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by torginus 5mo ago
Read the article, 1.2 was 40% as fast on one specific benchmark, and its lack of speed largely came down to having a much worse CRC implementation, not general shortcomings. Now 1.3 is 63% the speed of gcc O2 on this largely hostile benchma
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by torginus 5mo ago
I love that there are compilers beside the big 2 with a simple API, and small enough codebase, that produce decent-enough code, but damn did I make an honest effort to crack the QBE source code, and it is just impenetrable , not only becau
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by torginus 5mo ago
I had a geniunely surreal conversation with the security team the past week, it went like: 'Hi, we are reaching out to you because our tool flagged a large data transfer between such and such services' 'Wait, the source endpo
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by torginus 5mo ago
Sorry, not a native speaker, so I guess I had that word misfiled, thanks for correcting me. It does sting a bit but that's a hell of a lot better than going through life mixing up words.
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by torginus 5mo ago
They very well can be. The CPU mutexes use some form of cache-coherency mechanism based on the MESI protocol - essentially each CPU keeps track of which other cores have a certain piece of memory in their cache, and if any of them modified
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by torginus 5mo ago
> But a hard guarantee that userspace code won't be interrupted is probably untenable in a preemptive multitasking system. I wonder why this is the case. Considering modern (personal) computers have more cores than available work (o
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by torginus 5mo ago
I don't understand why this isn't bigger news - this is a laptop SoC with actual gaming hardware running on ARM - unlike Apple's M series, which tend to have rather underwhelming perf in games compared to what the specs woul
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by torginus 5mo ago
This is incredibly ironic considering it's a sandboxing technology
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by torginus 5mo ago
I'm not an expert, but I do ship frontends that muggles (the public) get to see, and my understanding is that frontend is like the yellow brick road in the Wizard Of Oz - if you don't veer of a small set of okayish best practices,
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally the biggest conceptual problem with HTML/CSS is that it's incredibly unintuitive with mapping to real-world concepts, and not low-level (or straightforward) enough so that the low-level primitives are easy to manipulate
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by torginus 5mo ago
my impression was that there are algorithms that work well (dont remember the name sorry), and they don't really keep track of the entire network per node, each node only has a heuristic idea of how to route packages both to local and
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by torginus 5mo ago
an LF is 1 character, just like a space. Its just looks bigger to our puny human brains.
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by torginus 5mo ago
Hasn't this always been an intelligence thing? I think across all societies and eras we find that generally a a rather alarmingly large section of population is unable to grasp basic written instructions - and that section usually incr
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by torginus 5mo ago
I haven't used these things for writing recreationally for a while (since the Claude 3.X days), so my opinions might be outdated - but they definitely weren't bad - after all they had a huge library of witticisms to pull from, and
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by torginus 5mo ago
Hardware is arbitrarily priced, with the floor being as little money as it costs to make it, and the ceiling being how much competitors are willing to pay for it - the latter is much more of the driver of current pricing in the West than in
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by torginus 5mo ago
I think meshes do work extremely well in practice, and are quite resilient with regards to errors, and load balancing, and they get better as you add more nodes. I think it's perfectly feasible for a small neighborhood of regular peop

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