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aldanor

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About aldanor

Quant. Programmer. Musician.

https://github.com/aldanor http://ivansmirnov.io

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    Comment #48846788

    Things are not always that simple, eg https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/

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    Comment #48844669

    A pretty good related question is - compute a running median (or window median).

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    Comment #48842054

    Even, possibly, the other way around in some cases. A seemingly identical program may (and it does occur) compile to a faster machine code in rust than in C++ due to extra markers …

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    Comment #48609484

    Or cubizenzic?

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    Comment #48327272

    What type of software will you not be able to run? Your browser will work just the same, and your dev env and devtools will be just the same, and it's a posix environment. If that'…

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    Comment #48307682

    And that lad is of course an information security engineer

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    Comment #48265909

    Both have `class` keyword

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    Comment #48226905

    Foundation series vibes anyone?

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    Comment #48205473

    If there's no UBs then what will we programmers do, there won't be enough to debug and fix?

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    Comment #48130378

    Correlation doesn't imply causation

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    Comment #47913329

    Exactly, if choosing blue would allow you to wear a blue badge which would raise your happiness level or otherwise affect your utility function, then it might make sense. Otherwise…

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    Comment #47909851

    Not the factory floor. The receiving end. It wasn’t one bottleneck. It was all of them. Not the nuclear material. The pattern. Money was never the constraint. Knowledge was. ...

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    Comment #47847362

    Efficiently communicating with other human beings

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    Comment #47805121

    Yep. As a recent example in AI space itself. China had scarce GPU resources, quite obvious why => DeepSeek training team had to invent some wheels and jump through some hoops => so…

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    Comment #47664816

    Rust's ratatui is pretty good on the lower-level side of things

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    Comment #47580410

    Incorrect.

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    Comment #47566183

    Most of the active development in the ecosystem is done for neovim these days. If you're using barebones vim then yea you probably won't see much difference, otherwise you have no …

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    Comment #47501753

    Big thanks to him indeed (and for other projects in Rust space as well). // really hoping openai wouldn't now force him to work on some crappy codex stuff if he stays there / in as…

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    Comment #47439652

    One of the popular products on the planet acquires the most popular python packaging org

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    Comment #47196835

    Yes. To me personally, Rust and both its restrictions and features (ie no OOP and prevalence of sum types and hence other goodies) makes approaching the implementation of big probl…

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    Comment #47016332

    Honestly curious, what are the tradeoffs with vim9 / vimscript?

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    Comment #46597201

    Unless you, well, state in AGENTS.md that prompts may offer suboptimal options in which case it's the machine's duty to question them, treat the prompter like a coworker and not a …

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    Comment #46546261

    Anyone from Solace MUD here?

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    Comment #46500820

    Perhaps you have a 49'' screen