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The rumor that has been widely circulating is that the MSVC backend is being reused as a code generator for the Rust compiler (because nobody really understands PDBs anymore, not even Microsoft, and especially LLVM doesn't. So rustc co
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I seem to have dropped through a wall while taking an elevator on the elevation level, it keeps respawning me in the void, so that was a game over =)
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Please avoid spamming with automated comments. Or if you're going to, feed ChatGPT the actual article. This is just responding to the title without saying anything interesting.
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The main use-case is giving the first organization that can build a really big one the ability to break most existing encryption on the Internet, forcing us to migrate to post-quantum crypto. There are really very few other applications at
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Although the answer isn't sent, so it would have to be a very deliberate effort to fish those out of the API chatter and find the right domain expert with 4-10 hours to spend on cracking it Just letting the AI train on its own wrong ou
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Part of it is also the creators optimizing for what the suggestion algorithm rewards. If you don't like the front page, you're looking for a needle in a haystack, because creators are rewarded very heavily for making the kind of c
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I think it's just pretty hard to recommend things outside of what they know you like. You can log off and look at what's popular on your country's front page. I get a couple popular music videos, clash of clans, soccer, and a
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Yes and no, docs are taught that LDL and HDL are not the targets themselves, it's possible to move those numbers without actually improving outcomes at all (especially improving HDL doesn't seem to really do anything). Docs are _b
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Yep. Path-walk is currently pending review here: https://lore.kernel.org/all/pull.1813.git.1728396723.gitgitg... It more or less replaces the --full-name-hash option (again a very good cover letter that explains the di
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Derrick provides a better explanation in this cover letter: https://lore.kernel.org/git/pull.1785.git.1725890210.gitgitg... (See also the path-walk API cover letter: https://lore.kernel.org/all/pul
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For those wondering where this new git-survey command is, it's actually not in git.git yet! The author is using microsoft's git fork, they've added this new command just this summer: https://github.com/microso
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What do you mean, back! There's more than ever! We're overflowing with talented peeps hacking on cool things, writing nice blogs publishing zines, and so forth and on! The formerly-counterculture conventions got so cult and big th
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Another bikeshed is the infinite for(;;) loop being called "always" I've seen "loop" in other languages. But Qt calls it "forever", and that is indeed very pretty. Very Qt, even
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You can distribute a binary that uses "core", and then also uses extensions at runtime if they are available. That's completely fine and standard. It's already what people do with x86 too, if you want to ship say AVX-512
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Well, this is the internet! We had just gotten over tabs vs spaces after barely a thousand years of noticing the other side is objectively wrong . Something new that you're definitely doing wrong to blog and argue and bicker about; it
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Oh I'm sure people still use El Torito today! I remember having to go through that to boot my hobby OS. Admittedly that was some years ago, but you can still find fresh Github issues of lost souls who still use bootable ISOs
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This year is an exception because of the AI Gen AI Artificial Intelligence AI AI zeitgeist. If we keep giving the physics Nobel to people building computer tools, soon it will have to be renowned physicist Linus Torvalds, whose computationa
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>high latency between nodes rather than latency between the sender and the system Yes, that's what I meant. To clarify, latency between the sender and the system would still not be an availability issue, but it also wouldn't be
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The A in CAP doesn't mean what people think it means, it has nothing to do with nodes being up, or crashes, or latency, or SLA, or any abnormal dysfunction. Availability in CAP is purely a software decision, it's an algorithmic p
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This guy writing longform articles and publishing books doesn't know what he's talking about. Take it from me, a random internet commenter with no discernable credentials.
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I'm not sure about the decency of it. I remember all the articles praising the facade of a super-genius. It's a stark contrast to today. People write about his trouble or his latest outburst like they would a neighborh's trou
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As a followup, could the helper attributes feature be implemented to work how you thought it did, enough that most proc macros might want to start using it? =) The author does have a good point when they note that the C++ compiler does the
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OpenAI feels like the most politicaly active with its storylines, flashy backstabs, and other intrigue. But as far as the technology, we're drowning in a flood of good AI models, which are all neck to neck in benchmarks. Claude might b
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There are unfortunately very rarely consequences for academic fraud. It's not just that we only catch a small fraction — mostly the most brazen image manipulation — but these cases of blatant fraud happen again and again, to resounding
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Neurology has shown that a lesion of the string section induces a local dispersion response, therefore we propose to rename this area the cohesion promoting region, replacing the previous name of tan-ish matter, which was based on outward a
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"Error, please enter a name between 3 and 7 characters"
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Works from an EU IP, so whatever it is, it's probably not GDPR?
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A turing machine has a position on a tape and an internal state The <A means the machine is in state A and facing left. To its left are infinitely many zeroes (0^inf), to its right are n 1s, and then infinitely many zeroes (the initial t
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I think Musk is just selective in the causes he finds himself wanting to be a free speech warrior for. Free speech for me and mine, all others pay cash
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A lot of these might be organically grown more than planned in advanced. There's some survivor bias in picking some big open source project and copying its architecture, as if that was the reason for its success. It's still intere

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