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by wiz21c 9mo ago
Expensive because of: 1/ a re-write is never easy 2/ rust is specifically tough (because it catches error and forces you to think about it for real, because it makes some contruct (linked list) really hard to implement) for kernel
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
FTA: "One thing is certain, is the less reliable gains from compute makes our purview as computer scientists interesting again. We can now stray from the beaten path of boring, predictable gains from throwing compute at the problem.&qu
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
Same anecdote for me (except I'm +/- 40 years experience). I consider my self a pretty good dev for non-web dev (GPU's, assembly, optimisation,...) and my conclusion is the same as you: impressive and scary. If the somehow th
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
Check "Monthly Protest Count" since september 2022 and you'll see things don't change much...
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
as far as Trump capitalizes on Europe's demise, this won't happen
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
Claude is currently porting my rust emulator to WASM. It's not easy at all, it struggles, I need to guide it quite a lot but it's way easier to let him do it than me learning yet another tech. For the same result I have 50% the me
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
That's the crux: we must invest in trains instead of planes.
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
Maybe the FrameWork company wants to build something out of the clutches of proprietary software and big corp hardware. And that's fine. Since they don't have the volumes to make enough money they may have to charge more per lapto
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
Belgium is not exactly low on corruption... One hundred kilometers from there, there is this station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge-Guillemins_railway_... by the same architect, and budget exploded as well..
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
The office has no windows. That's a pretty sad working place :-(
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
more or less my experience too. But I'd like it to succeed. Fortran is now the COBOL of science. I'll continue to follow it closely.
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
I think it is way to slow too. The one from microsoft (pylance IIRC) is better in my opinion.
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
It's been long since I've heard of Julia. It seems it has hard times picking up steam... Any news ? (yeah, I check the releases and the juliabloggers site)
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
didn't find any video so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRL_RU7-jfc
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
When I'm tired my typing goes bad. I obvioulsy meant: "is that number even odd ?" :-)
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
Lots of network engineer don't understand the usefulness of a stack trace. IOW: when my network fails "No route to host", I want to know who failed and why. Not just "hey, start the route tool on your production sever wh
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
I'm disappointed, it's not in rust. :-)
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
With a tree you'll be limited by the RAM. I advise to use a database.
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
Gemini took 4 seconds to answer this prompt: "Here is a number 4200020010101. Think deeply about it and tell me if it is not or or not even." So if you're concerned with privacy issues, you can run the assembly version propos
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
really good 1st of April joke !!! rotfl ahem... We're not the 1st of April...
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
It's not that it cannot, it just doesn't want to :-) (but you're right). I guess that in this very case of DLL, it's a bit hard to swallow. To be honest, it's because the rest of rust really helps me in other areas
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
it just may be: https://www.systemiq.earth/reports/invisible-ingredients/
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
it is not straightforward in rust because the linked list is inherently tricky to implement correctly. Rust makes that very apparent (and, yeah, a bit too apparent). I know, a linked list is not exactly super complex and rust makes that
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by wiz21c 10mo ago
Last day I asked Claude to estimate a loop of a dozen 6502 instructions. It failed but his estimate was not bad at all. Amazing!
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
The Food Recipe example link doesn't go to a food recipe :-(
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I'm 53, started at 10. At that time, being able to edit a line of code without re-typing it completely was "cool" :-) Then, on apple 2, we had GPLE (global program line editor) then Assembler toolkit which had an editor. Then
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
yeah, typed too fast. I was talking about 40 years ago. Apple 2+ to be specific.
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I'm talking about things that were long before DOS even existed. At that time you didn't even have the tools to cut sprites from image in the first place. That's why it took a lot of time (and I was 12 years old and my dad wa
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
no, it's some turtle-ish dialect
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by wiz21c 11mo ago
I think it is weird to have two cells divided downto their smallest size when my cursor clearly occupies only one of them, not two.

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