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exebook

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    Comment #41061923

    Tokenization can be bypassed like this; (mistral large 2) How many letters R are in the word "s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y"? The word "s-t-r-a-w-b-e-r-r-y" contains three instances of the l…

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    Comment #39988980

    I'd guess these poor teenagers were mentally sick of something else before the social networks thing came to be. And they will be sick of another thing after social networks get re…

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    Comment #38650578

    Sounds like a cross over of The Age of Supernova and Tri-body Problem. In the former Supernova radiation kills all people on earth except kids under 13.

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    Comment #36932108

    I made my own proportional font Variable.ttf and refined it for over a decade. I am using it daily. Over many iterations I refined space width and each important coding character's…

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    Comment #35859894

    When you say community, where exactly you find people who can help with wezterm?

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    Comment #35843230

    And especially strings, which with all those escape codes are small programming languages in it's own right.

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    Comment #35843182

    It is also about performance. I've watched a video recently from a guy who compiled entire Linux kernel in under 1 second I believe, he used TinyC and also noticed that something l…

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    Comment #35770898

    Exploration seems like a natural way for civilisation to live, but that's because exploration is needed to expand knowledge and grow more intelligent, we as a civilisation mostly b…

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    Comment #35769946

    posted here because I couldn't find the repository. I was looking here https://github.com/memechain

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    Comment #35769924

    Huawei y8p, Android 10, 2400x1080, Chromium 88. Hope this helps.

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    Comment #35769867

    Are you an author? I have read the sci-fi short novel when I was a kid, and that was 80ies. The future earth have found signs of life on some distant planet and the science ship wa…

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    Comment #35766197

    Maybe first thing super civilisation would do is to upgrade their bodies, I'd first thing get rid of 50-100 kg of useless meat, bones and blood, I guess then the entire consciousne…

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    Comment #35765309

    I guess while Python interprets this branchless code it still can do some branching? Or am I missing something here?

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    Comment #35757761

    Do you want a bug report? The lowest row doesn't fit into width of my phone's Chrome. I can only see few millimeters of the rightmost and leftmost cubies. Pinch zoom seems disabled…

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    Comment #35033456

    Wanted to play, but after the tutorial a first touch makes the ship disappear. When I reload the page, I can see the ship again, and the landing curve, then again if I touch the sc…

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    Comment #34872464

    Amazing work! If I had a GPU, I'd join. I know similar project for text-to-image: https://aqualxx.github.io/stable-ui/

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    Comment #34840629

    It seems that the wires prevent the drones to go further inside the ship, so I wonder if they can be made wireless? If radio is not working in such conditions maybe sonic or light …

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    Comment #34840611

    Might be they estimated based how quickly bacteria eats pure metal, but it could be covered with something that protects it, dust, rust, another bacteria, some chemistry that is sy…

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    Comment #34784998

    Came here to say this. I didn't like any available variable width font for coding though so I created my own based on helvetica. https://github.com/exebook/variable

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    Comment #34565229

    From quick googling(yandexing?) Yandex.Robot appears to be a self driving briefcase.

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    Comment #34563622

    Values seem to be nan-boxed, which means numbers are simply doubles and therefore will still be located in the same block of contiguous memory. When the higher 8 bits are FF the re…

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    Comment #34543517

    #line directive gives you exactly that, you step through original code, it's similar to source maps in JavaScript. #line directive has two arguments the file name and the line of t…

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    Comment #34518415

    What was your language? I read two of his books when I was a kid in Russian. Also built the matchbox machine but I think it was playing hexapawn which was too simplistic compared t…

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    Comment #33378464

    What are the bugs in tcc you have discovered? I am using it almost every day for many years and yet to encounter a single bug. It generates much slower code than gcc but the point …