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billywhizz

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    Comment #49173546

    i guess you didn't bother reading it then.

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    Comment #49162100

    "people are lending to them" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. e.g. https://prospect.org/2026/08/03/ai-bailout-could-be-baked-in...

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    Comment #49162085

    the fact fortune magazine is the one ringing the alarm bell here is arguably more useful information than any attempt at a "mathematical proof".

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    Comment #48637796

    also notable that deno has a very low overhead bindings layer for doing JS->C/C++/Rust/Native interop using v8 fastapi calls where possible.

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    Comment #48637769

    from what i understand after a quick look at the source is it uses a C ABI to communicate between the WebView/CEF "host" application and the deno runtime which is loaded by the hos…

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    Comment #48154996

    this is social media induced psychosis my friend

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    Comment #48154976

    > It will completely kill the market. it will kill all the people in that hospital too

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    Comment #48141282

    > I doubt the entire process was a single week, just whatever harness they specially prepared for the work. it wasn't. probably quite a lot of preparation i would think. and it's v…

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    Comment #47969463

    i did a quick benchmark on this with a single db connection updating user_version in a tight loop with the wal_hook callback enabled. on my crappy old i5 with the db file on /dev/s…

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    Comment #47968255

    good point. but ime and as seems to be widely understood writing from multiple connections is a bit of a minefield in SQLite. and afaik it still would be possible to have a hook on…

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    Comment #47967952

    SQLite has a wal hook which calls you back every time a transaction is committed to the WAL. https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/wal_hook.html

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    Comment #47894835

    "some value" is not the same as "a surprisingly good measure of the quality of the model for other tasks". doublethink does not mean holding two conflicting ideas in your head at o…

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    Comment #47893513

    how can you say "it ended up being a surprisingly good measure of the quality of the model for other tasks" and also "It should not be treated as a serious benchmark" in the same c…

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    Comment #47883654

    you probably could have written the low stakes productivity app in a fraction of the time you wasted on this.

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    Comment #47883638

    what's even more amazing is it took them two weeks to fix what must have been a pretty obvious bug, especially given who they are and what they are selling.

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    Comment #47883548

    why do you find it surprising? these models have no actual understanding of anything, never mind the physical properties and capabilities of a bicycle.

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    Comment #47593652

    SQL Server was very good and used in a lot of enterprises. ime the decision between Oracle and SQL Server tended to be down to whether the IT department or company was a "Microsoft…

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    Comment #47282992

    the chinese can

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    Comment #47188820

    that sounds way off. there is a big perf hit to async, but it appears to be roughly 100 nanoseconds overhead per call. when benchmarking you have to ensure your function is not goi…

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    Comment #46440877

    i played around with this a while back. you can see a demo here. it also lets you pull new WAL segments in and apply them to the current database. never got much time to go any fur…

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    Comment #46426173

    > We are just dumber than them. you are, for sure.

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    Comment #46237389

    is it not obvious? > These issues are present in the patches published last week. > The patches published last week are vulnerable. > If you already updated for the Critical Securi…

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    Comment #46198076

    the OP was specifically about jetstream so i guess you just didn't read it?