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by veltas 9mo ago
I don't think you know how continents work. It's a bit like saying Canada isn't "North American".
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by veltas 9mo ago
It says "Pan-European" everywhere, but would this include the UK?
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by veltas 9mo ago
> The third chatbot-using student had a very complex setup where he would use one LLM, then ask another unrelated LLM for confirmation. He had walls of text that were barely readable. When glancing at his screen, I immediately spotted a
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Sadiq Khan to urge ministers to act over 'colossal' impact of AI on London jobs(theguardian.com)
3 points by veltas 9mo ago|0 comments
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by veltas 9mo ago
If you look at their personal profile they've made a lot of content with activity and collaboration outside of the main beancount repo, related to beancount. They definitely meet the criteria for 'FOSS dev' in that it's
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by veltas 10mo ago
In the SysV ABI for AMD64 the AL register is used to pass an upper bound on the number of vector registers used, is this related to what you're talking about?
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by veltas 10mo ago
On Linux you can turn this off. On some OS's it's off by default. Especially in embedded which is a major area of native coding. If you don't want to handle allocation failures in your app you can abort. Also malloc can fa
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by veltas 10mo ago
Who was child 12
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by veltas 10mo ago
I think this is true unfortunately, and the question of how we get back to a liberal and social state has many factors: how do we get the economy working again, how do we create trustworthy institutions, avoid bloat and decay in services, e
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by veltas 10mo ago
Yup I also enjoyed that time when they replaced everyone's usernames with their hidden emails on that blog.
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by veltas 10mo ago
Good thing git is distributed! I always like to move as much as possible into the repo itself, 'issues' etc in a TODO, build scripts, or however you want to achieve that, so you can at least carry on uninterrupted when the host is
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by veltas 10mo ago
Microsoft does this all the time, and it reeks of a lack of continuity or ownership internally.
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by veltas 10mo ago
And the red book isn't that good either.
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by veltas 10mo ago
I'm sure it misses stuff, but generally a 'spec' is better than a 'doc' for the reason that you need enough info to at least guess how a spec is implemented, whereas a doc can leave everything out and as long as t
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by veltas 10mo ago
Basically all native libraries inevitably have bad or difficult to follow documentation like this, proprietary or open source. Vulkan is the exception as it's a standard so needs to be very clear so all stakeholders can implement it c
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by veltas 10mo ago
> “play with C until the compiler does the right thing” is brittle It's brittle depending on your methods. If you understand a little about optimizers and give the compiler the hints it needs to do the right things, then that shoul
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by veltas 10mo ago
I'm not them but whenever I've used it it's been for arch specific features like adding a debug breakpoint, synchronization, using system registers, etc. Never for performance. If I wanted to hand optimise code I'd be m
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by veltas 11mo ago
Chapter 3 of volume 1, ctrl+f for "64-bit mode", has a lot of the essentials including e.g. the stuff about zeroing out the top half of the register. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/deve
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by veltas 11mo ago
Sorry I apologise, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to care about countability.
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Using Claude to create a bootable Forth OS(isene.org)
3 points by veltas 11mo ago|0 comments
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by veltas 11mo ago
> If infinite zooming/precision is ruled out, all real numbers can be written as fractions. How? > Problem is with the assumption that some numbers such as pi or sqrt(2) can have absolute and full precision. That's the least
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by veltas 11mo ago
Hi if you noticed, I never said anything about 'infinite zooming', instead I said I can write them all on the paper, which I can. The zooming is finite for every fraction.
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by veltas 11mo ago
The fact that I can't even fit the real numbers between 0 and 1 on a single page, but I can fit every possible fraction in existence, doesn't mean anything? I don't think this definition is that weird, for example by 'la
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by veltas 11mo ago
The difference between infinities is I can write every possible fraction on a piece of A4 paper, if the font gets smaller and smaller. I can say where to zoom in for any fraction. I can't do that for real numbers.
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by veltas 11mo ago
My point is these societies have the rule of law, and the vast majority of laws don't have a "unless you have 50 employees or less" or "unless your revenue is under $1 mil" qualifier. The difference in treatment is
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by veltas 11mo ago
In almost every developed country the rules are exactly the same. No hairnet, no licence? Lemonade Stand Ltd can and will be shut down. The main difference is lenience in punishment which tends to tail off and disappear at the lemonade s
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by veltas 11mo ago
Regulation is a moat designed by and benefitting big corporations. Removing it for small businesses specifically would actually be fair.
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by veltas 11mo ago
They just don't work, they blind me all the time reflecting off of side mirrors or just don't detect that you're in the zone at all.
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by veltas 11mo ago
The problem is the road visibility doesn't need to be 'better', it just needs to be 'visible'. We went from the road is visible to everyone, to the road is only visible to some people because the rest of us don&#x27
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by veltas 11mo ago
I have to do a lot of night driving and often find myself putting my hand out in front of the side mirror to prevent pain in my eyes.

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