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egnehots

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    Comment #48875865

    You're stating: "delivers near-V8 speeds" But according to zoo.js benchmarks that is far from the case: https://zoo.js.org/ Unless there were major perf gains since 2026-02-10?

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    Comment #46171427

    From a customer perspective, I think there should be an option: - prioritize security: get patchs ASAP - prioritize availability: get patchs after a cooldown period Because ultimat…

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    Comment #43974428

    I don't think so, pdf.js is able to render a pdf content. Which is different from extracting "text". Text in PDF can be encoded in many ways, in an actual image, in shapes (think, …

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    Comment #43038403

    What about all the designers that used to handle this issue by tweaking their font weights, colors...? Changing a long standing issue with a lot of users will break things for some…

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    Comment #42936555

    this could be used as an incredible low bitrate codec for some streaming use cases. (video conferencing/podcasts on <3G for ex, just use some keyframes + the audio).

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    Comment #42577275

    If you understand how LLMs work, you should disregard tests such as: - How many 'r's are in Strawberry? - Finding the fourth word of the response These tests are at odds with the t…

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    Comment #42221631

    here is their Elevator Pitch: > Minor rant incoming: Something's not working? Maybe a service is down. docker-compose ps. Yep, it's that microservice that's still buggy. No issue, …

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    Comment #42219805

    yeah, I wonder if there's room for a different networking abstraction that could address most of complex orgs networking issues, I, for sure, don't think that we should still think…

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    Comment #41968615

    It might be a mistake since it's different from what's stated in their readme: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/... (which is referring to the license of…

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    Ichigo: Local real-time voice AI

    There was an announcement on LocalLLaMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1g38e9s/ichigol... There were several links: - Blog for details: https://homebrew.ltd/blog/lla…

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    Comment #41819376

    > How do I check how many seconds the replica is lagging behind the master? Use PostgreSQL administrative functions, specifically: pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp. ( https://www.post…

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    Comment #41802878

    Try Go. Go is really stable as a language and have a very small core feature set.

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    Comment #41792494

    Some points resonate with me: > People don't want "to have to play Chess against the compiler" Things that are easy to express in other languages become very hard in Rust due to th…

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    Comment #41770032

    As mentioned in the article, it's a good idea to consider this when creating a new table, since it's essentially a free optimization. However, it's probably not worth the hassle of…

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    Comment #41769856

    It's pretty misleading not to mention the performance overhead. That's an obvious downside and quite easy to benchmark. Skipping any discussion of performance feels like sweeping i…

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    Comment #41557540

    well it's human nature to struggle with collective action when the risks are unclear, vague and not shared. stakeholders are juggling immediate, tangible concerns, like climate cha…

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    Comment #41347263

    I would be interested in a computer science only version. A quick search didn't bring up an already existing one :(

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    Comment #41038335

    There is also the function scope vs block scope... var x = 3 will escape the latter.

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    Comment #41038205

    I think that you have made the right decision. One of the most common and high-impact failure mode is crashing when parsing a leap second that is represented as "23:59:60". Jiff is…