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   by zellyn 3y ago

   "and certain non-compete and other restrictive covenants" Might not be possible…
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Fun tip for Virtual ANS (it's basically just a spectrogram → audio): if you record yourself talking, look at what it looks like, then clear it out and make a bunch of little swipes and curves and stuff in the same region, you get fasci
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   If you want to try out a tracker in your web browser, there's BassoonTracker: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/ Also, the amazing-but-curiously-absent-from-many-lists-of-trackers SunVox. Some of the demo tunes I
4. 394.▲
   by zellyn 3y ago

   Wouldn't a simple explanation of line drawings be that segmentation of images into shapes is an important part of vision, using whatever information is available? The reason it would be somewhat invariant across color and lighting is
5. 395.▲
   by zellyn 3y ago

   Why not add support? Nobody owns emacs any more or less than you!
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Do I understand correctly that this kind of constraint satisfaction is more complex than just turning things into a bunch of SAT clauses? Otherwise (and admittedly without a deep understanding of genomics or solvers), I would be surprised i
7. 397.▲
   by zellyn 3y ago

   It's double the work if you skim the instructions too fast and pick your own empty pixel and compute it, only to find that you need to be assigned one!
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   Maxine Chevalier-Boisvert (of note here due to her Basic Block Versioning JIT work and more recently yjit) has been working on similar ideas recently… https://pointersgonewild.com/2023/02/24/building-a-minimal
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   by zellyn 3y ago

   I agree with all of this, except the part where they assume extracting a function is essentially free. Our profession seems to consistently underestimate or even ignore the complexity of interactions between many little pieces. I would rath
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    If I understand it right, https://getfleek.dev/ will turn a simpler yaml config into home-manager/nix/flake config. Might be a simpler way to get started. Haven't started down into the Nix abyss myself though
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Modern feature flag tooling (eg. LaunchDarkly) cover most of the uses here. It'll even tell you whether flags are useful or not (if you push evaluation data back upstream).
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Or just use Hermit to automatically install deno on first run… https://github.com/cashapp/hermit (Disclaimer, I work for Square, a sister org within Block of CashApp, where the folks that created Hermit work.) I'v
13. 403.▲
    by zellyn 3y ago

    https://zellyn.com — not updated in a while. Notable mainly for my pikchr port to Go.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    I was hoping it would reference roc-lang.org, which is actually doing in-place mutation for efficiency, but I didn’t see any mentions :-(
15. 405.▲
    by zellyn 3y ago

    Always interesting when Sanjay Ghemawatt has his name on a paper… https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593856.3595909
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    According to https://math.stackexchange.com/a/216578 , “𝜋 is not known to have this property, but it is expected to be true.”
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Note: if you read the paper carefully, this is LlaMA-derived, so suffers from the same use restrictions. We really need the open LLMs to catch up!
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    The primary author and evangelist of Minix is 79 years old, so maybe slowing down a bit? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    The authors share your wish: > While Vicuna is somewhat comparable to ChatGPT (3.5), we believe GPT-4 is a _much_ stronger model, and are excited to see if open source models can approach _that_.
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    Steve Yegge's recent blog posts claim that SourceGraph are getting a pretty good result by using embeddings created from their knowledge graph of the code structure. That's still the usual [create embeddings, search against embedd
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    by zellyn 3y ago

    It seems disingenuous not to include Zig in this kind of comparison. Possibly Jai too.
22. 412.▲
    by zellyn 4y ago

    Andreas, if you're reading this… have you folks thought about building a new ACID-type test that covers the gaps in the existing ones? Seems like it would be incredibly useful.
23. 413.▲
    by zellyn 4y ago

    I too was wondering about multiple prints. Seems hard to imagine there not being any noticeable variations though.
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    I haven't had a chance to dig into it yet, but I assumed tenderjit would probably be a good place to start…
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    An increasing number of image editors are focusing on “non-destructive editing” too…
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    The last paragraph reads: > If you would like to see interesting innovation, check out what Cosmopolitan Libc is up to. It’s what I imagine C could be if it continued evolving along practical dimensions.
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    Isn't this a case where efficiency through centralization is a huge win for the environment?
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    It might be nice to be able to install it with homebrew on MacOS. btw, I know it's not open source, but you might be interested in KittyCAD: I believe they're looking for software developers with CAD experience. And you could do w
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    Something something giant fire-breathing, acid-spewing, tentacle-flinging, city-crushing kaiju bathwater.
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    by zellyn 4y ago

    Thanks for the information! I came to the hackernews discussion because SourceGraph was so curiously absent from the article and the "brief history of codesearch" article it linked to, and I wanted to see what others thought!