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Keep in mind that this is a synthetic benchmark. The task is to remove outliers and for that the roughly 99% correct guesses of the branch predictor is perfectly fine.

Because what makes stream compaction challenging is the loop carried dependency: the location you write to in a given iteration depends on the locations you wrote to in previous it…

This problem is called stream compaction and there is a wealth of research on it. The best methods use prefix scan. They first efficiently compute the index in the output array of …

> Despite this decade-old research, many organizations still rely on lines of code as a measure of developer productivity. No, they don't! It's easy to dispel myths when the myths …

Wow, very impressive! But where is the bulldozer tool? I have some landscaping to do.

Do you know of any major German industry for which energy costs amounts to even 10% of the labor costs? It's a rhetorical question intended to engage the common sense pathways of y…

Agreed. It has nothing to do with either tulips nor mania. Just some random musings.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE…

Datacenter-scale GPGPU compute is extremely efficient compared to what you would achieve with a network of independently operated distributed heterogeneous devices spread across th…

Yeah, this is one thing you should absolutely never, ever do as a responsible developer. It makes future debugging much more difficult (destroys git blame) and also is a huge dump …

Hard to say since you are not presenting any concrete examples.

You need to present some evidence of your claims that US tech workers does not benefit from immigration. If you can't there is no point wasting time with you since you're then a "t…

Speed and expenses are non-factors for arena.ai.

I'm skeptical. According to arena.ai, Fable 5 dominates almost every category : https://arena.ai/leaderboard Kimi K3 has an edge in WebDev but struggles to reach top 10 in many oth…

> I sincerely don't understand what the point of these laws are, when the cost of flagrant violations is no more than a slap on the wrist -- these really meager sums that serve as …

First you need to understand why C is a deeply flawed language. Google is your friend.

There is a fine line between using an LLM to clean up grammar and spelling and using it for text generation.

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Nope.

> 1. Even if the pleasantries/signature were edited out of your question, is that so bad? It pissed off znpy so bad that many years later they still recall on HN how irritated that…

It wasn't only LLMs it was also the downright user-hostile attitude prevalent on many sites on the SE network: https://ibb.co/WWgwNBpX Yeah, bro, I'm not a statistics professor so …

Bruh, software development isn't like boxing where your body reaches its pinnacle at 25. Self taught at < 30 you probably don't even know how little you know. You can either have y…

I'm not claiming that no one can make a better music video for $100. I'm claiming that a random member of the HN peanut gallery can't make a better music video for $100. :)