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It is non portable, that's true. But defer [1] is at least undergoing discussions w/the standard committee. Didn't make it into C23 but maybe next time. [1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14&#
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"Drive" [1] was a really fun episode of "The X-Files" featuring exploding head(s). And - interesting anecdote about it: > The episode was written by Vince Gilligan, directed by Rob Bowman, and featured a guest appeara
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They generally have a very latency sensitive input/rendering loop. Performance analysis can be challenging, but with the right tools it can be much easier.
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I recently listened to this great episode of "This American Life" [1] which talked about this very subject. It was released in June 2023 which might be ancient history in terms of AI. But it discusses whether LLMs are just parrot
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> The memories will be so thick, they'll have to brush <<gestures>> them away from their faces.
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Jackson Lamb is the Mr. Hyde to Smiley's Dr. Jekyll. It's just fantastic to see Oldman in both roles. Lamb is just a riot.
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Absent the etymology described in this thread, I would have had a similar confusion to theirs as to what distinguishes this scam. But now I know it's a regional term for it and I shouldn't necessarily expect a term with an obviou
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In this case it seems that the question is referring to fidelity - the file's similarity to the original uncompressed audio after it was sampled and mastered but before the lossy compression. I would think that you could use something
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And great dietary magnesium sources like spinach and black beans.
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He's Finnish. Most of the English-second-language speaking world learns British English, so I'd expect that he definitely understood the word. > I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First &#
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> You can't just write some code and then say it must be secure because Rust was involved. I have a feeling that the qualifier is there in the headline to distinguish from the potential security improvements that come from replacing
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Unfortunately, the table with the actual data is not functional here and it's one of the more interesting parts of the article.
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To whitewash something that otherwise appeared like theft via one more level of bureaucracy.
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Using the word "nintendo" on something intended to play any kind of games is trademark infringement. The Kawaii devs likely don't intend to confuse people, but if a consumer saw this product for sale they'd rightly assu
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Is it intended/desired for Zig to use it in lieu of libclang at some point?
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> I am sure Walter knows how to compile on one machine, then go to another machine and do the linking or whatever is needed. Historically, you would or at least could get your compiler and linker from different vendors -- assembler, disa
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The grandparent post refers to the fact that Zig ships with C, C++ library source that it lazily cross-builds (at least for linux, I don't recall how it solves this problem for macOS or windows). And possibly it uses lld too? Since
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Stephen Fry on Linux, GNU, and the Importance of Free Software [video] (2009)(inv.tux.pizza)
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FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans(theregister.com)
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> Move to Texas follows new California law aimed at preventing gay and transgender students from being outed to their families; ‘this is the final straw,’ Musk says Musk's estranged trans daughter [1] likely factored into this decis
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Wasn't there similar useful stuff from systemtap before eBPF? That's been around for quite a while.
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In addition to c-reduce and shrinkray there's also cvise [1] for reducing tests. It's great. Also, if you happen to be reducing an LLVM case you can use llvm-reduce [2]. [1] https://github.com/marxin/cvise [
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I think gerrit seems to use this same kind of workflow, but with a git frontend (but just for transmitting the patches). More convenient than arcanist IMO.
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Don't make the mistake of bringing about Roko's basilisk too slowly.
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> If we eradicate autoimmune diseases then there's a chance we won't survive the next big pandemic. IMO it seems more likely that we'd find effective treatment which mitigates symptoms of autoimmune disease than a treatmen
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> The people who like the technical stuff are not going to like the artificial drama, and vise-versa. Pick a lane, show, and stick with it. I like the show as-is. Maybe I'm not in love with every single subplot but in general the s
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From a NYT article about the Lewiston, Maine shooter's brain injuries [1]: > Researchers found that before they worked around blasts, the instructors brains looked healthy. But in follow-up scans five months later, their brains were
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> We will get LLM => magic pixie dust => executable Indeed one of the challenges with using machine learning as a part of compilation is reasoning about it when trying to investigate reported defects. Some of the research focuses o
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> FDA has some culpability They appear to have left the oversight up to two individuals - ones with whom there was an obvious quid-pro-quo [1]. It's a stain on the agency and they should take responsibility and make changes. [1] ht
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Another (more portable) way to get the cache line size is to use std::hardware_(destructive|constructive)_interference_size from C++17. While it's more portable, there are some drawbacks. Drawbacks with this approach are: (1) the stat

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