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arbitrandomuser

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    Comment #48312628

    A lot of people dont know this , also the chatbot (chatgpt) itself is a next token predictor (the GPT) that's been given an initial text that says " pretend to be a chatbot .." and…

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    Comment #48157767

    hydrogen and deuterium also count as different groups when accounting for optical activity carbon forms 4 bonds , if the 4 things bound to carbon are different then the molecule ca…

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    Comment #48075892

    oh , is it closed source now ? i couldnt find it on github anymore , github.com/LoopModels returns a 404.

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    Comment #48075620

    hey , what happened to LoopModels ?

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    Comment #48075574

    yup the LSP is bad, there is a new lsp being rewritten based on JET.jl a static code analyzer , this should be faster than the old lsp which kind of runs by loading all the modules…

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    Comment #47421856

    julia version existed , https://github.com/Keno/julia-wasm not actively developed anymore

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    Comment #47328910

    doesnt it get annoying when you actually have to type two adjacent j ?

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    Comment #46731316

    when it comes to enabling opportunities i dont think it becomes a matter of shame for them anymore. A lot of people (especially in regions where living is tough and competition is …

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    Comment #46729121

    do you print in pla or abs ? how long do pla parts last ? where i live the moisture gets to pla eventually and i cant use it for anything that cant be failproof especially somethin…

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    Comment #46688036

    leap.nvim you press a keybind and then press one or two characters , all instances of that character pair in the viewport will get get a hint (a characteror two in highlight) , hit…

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    Comment #46215190

    what is an intrusive data structure?

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    Comment #46201903

    its interesting that the inverse distance formula works for the glow effect, but the photon explnation is incorrect, you dont "see" photons that are intersecting the ray path, you …

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    Comment #45988587

    Julia gets this right. casting to both double and int, it does both a floating point compare and an integer compare , then AND them and return

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    Comment #45943097

    onivim also seperated the core functionality of the vim editor into a seperate library libvim , this would have been great for other people looking to make their own gui frontend t…

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    Comment #45925562

    while technically possible with massive projects like these its not as simple to simply fork it, because of the man hours involved . its better to keep in the product stands enshit…

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    Comment #45875063

    carnot theorem does not put an absolute limit , a carnot cycle can have any efficiency as long as you have reservoirs hot and cold enough , besides that if you could be more effici…

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    Comment #45855480

    Zig structs are "modules" in themselves, apart from c like struct fields , they can have local variables, structs and functions declared and used inside of them . in fact files in …

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    Comment #45783017

    yes but i think branch prediction essentialy makes them zero overhead

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    Comment #45138372

    >You don't write kernels in Julia. The package https://github.com/JuliaGPU/KernelAbstractions.jl was specifically designed so that julia can be compiled down to kernels. Julia's is…

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    Show HN: Constructive Solid Geometry with Python in the browser

    This is a little hobby/side project i've been working on . Its tool for constructive solid geometry using python which runs in your browser (best viewed on desktop). The gist of it…

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    Comment #44571844

    The bond energy is also mass . Energy is mass , If you had a nuclear reactor surrounded by gas and this setup ran a turbine which compressed a humungous spring and this whole setup…

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    Comment #44157495

    I made an account on alphaxiv , seemed interesting to tune into discussions and comments on papers I'm interested in. sadly the only active discussions are around LLM this and LLM …

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    Comment #43853561

    The alternative is not programming purely in the repl but to have an editor where you type out your code and from where you can send bits of text to the repl to run and get feedbac…

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    Comment #43734375

    This imo is a shortcoming of vim on modern systems, the action precedes the selection. I would like to select first have a visual feedback of what I selected before taking action o…

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    Comment #43581650

    I just want to put this hack here which enables the toy servos with a very high accuracy and repeatability https://youtu.be/ECLrLupFW10?si=dQPSq-hjMTaVGuQS