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Show HN: I made an AI agent write a spoiler-free wiki for the novel Anathem
I made an LLM agent build a spoiler-free wiki about a novel where the reader can select the latest chapter they've read, and then see pages written with only contents of the book u…
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Comment #35254898
I like ` `; ctrl-t opens fzf and pastes any selected files onto the command line. If you choose to abort you end up back at the prompt after ` `.
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Comment #31230858
You might enjoy Semantle: https://semantle.novalis.org/
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Comment #19534543
I use a strip of electrical tape.
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Comment #8246958
What's the reason for 'asm("");' in 002.c (and other c codes)? All I can see that doing is intentionally breaking the compiler's ability to optimize over loop iterations, which put…
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Comment #8212137
Shouldn't it be 'float * restrict a'? When could one get into trouble thinking that "restrict == this will not alias"? If X is never modified during B it seems like aliasing wouldn…
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Comment #7895555
Nah, I'd just like to take a look at it, but you might be able to get someone else to use it on ARM compilers if you release it.
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Comment #7894372
Have you or will you be releasing code for Orion?
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Comment #7539820
It should be alternating lines with red, black and blue not greys, it's to increase reading speed: http://www.beelinereader.com/
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Comment #7504020
Aliasing information is one place the programmer can help the compiler. The 'restrict' keyword in C/C++ is a great example of this. Also information provided by 'const' can be very…
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Comment #6908543
It's visible in view source: "The requested document is no more.", 'No file found.', "Even tried multi.", "Nothing helped.", "I'm really depressed about this.", "You see, I'm just …
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Comment #5457597
In level 9 rank (among contacts and global) is shown, but percentile would be more interesting.
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Comment #4913929
Here's how I did it: https://bitbucket.org/teoryn/image-approximation For converting the polys to pixels I render it with OpenGL and then extract the resulting image. I use ppm for…
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Comment #4789256
The faster version looks like it might not be numerically stable; if sum(l_quantity) is greater than the maximum value that can be represented it would overflow and give meaningles…
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Comment #2978093
Naive fibonacci is a much more interesting example for memoize than factorial: fib = +lambda {|n| return 1 if n
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Comment #2947627
I fully agree it's satire or a really bad survey, but that doesn't disqualify Ubuntu from being an operating system.
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Comment #2947007
How is Ubuntu not an operating system?
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Comment #2860240
From the problem definition: Q: What if there are multiple valid segmentations? A: Just return any valid segmentation if there is one.