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meisel

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    Comment #47962968

    Another more practical issue with using LLMs for Zig is that it’s a quickly changing language, meaning LLMs may generate code for an older version of the language.

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    Comment #47911925

    Yeah the author really should’ve taken some responsibility here. It’s true that the services they used have issues, but there’s plenty of blame to direct to themself

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    Comment #47786508

    Gotta love starting the y-axis above 0

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    Comment #47233193

    What % of users actually care that much about local LLMs? It appears to still be an inferior (though maybe decent) service compared to ChatGPT etc., and requires very top-end hardw…

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    Comment #47156236

    Yeah show me the 5-line HTTP server

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    Comment #47068488

    Why did Ladybird even attempt this with Swift, but (I presume) not with Rust? If they're going to go to the trouble of adding another language, does Rust not have a better history …

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    Comment #46989862

    I wonder what the internal conversations are like around memory safety at Apple right now. Do people feel comfortable enough with Swift's performance to replace key things like dyl…

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    Comment #46977301

    If you're doing enough divisions with the same divisor, it'd be faster to do what compilers do for division by a known constant, where they multiply by an integer reciprocal and sh…

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    Comment #46903651

    I wonder if their "5.3" was continuously being updated, with regenerated benchmarks with each improvement, and they just stayed ready to release it when claude released

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    Comment #46875788

    My experience with AI with its predecessor, Xcode 26.2, was _really_ bad. One bug made it objectively unusable, and there were lots of fun issues/huge functionality gaps on top of …

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    Comment #46870771

    > Julia emits light, over an ever-changing spectrum Haven’t heard of this feature in Julia lang, must be new in v1.12.4

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    Comment #46863120

    > It’s kind of like enabling LTO (Link-Time Optimization) across the libc boundary, except it’s done properly in the frontend instead of too late, in the linker Why is the linker t…

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    Comment #46829890

    > Gas Town has illuminated and kicked off the next wave for everyone That sounds pretty hyperbolic. Everyone? Next “wave”?

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    Comment #46798429

    This all just sounds like problems we see when making new features, of any sort, for customers. A feature is never objectively done, there are many opinions on its goodness or badn…

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    Comment #46725758

    To be clear, is AI actually at play here, aside from the fact that the repo is for Gemini? It just looks like two simple rules that interact poorly, that we could've seen in 2015.

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    Comment #46633409

    The real solution is that as soon as you need square brackets, switch to a better language than bash

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    Comment #46594689

    Looks like it beats everything in the large text compression benchmark for enwik8, but loses to several programs for enwik9. I wonder why that is.

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    Comment #46544381

    How much less? Their companies clearly have access to the latest GPUs.

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    Comment #46499379

    What is with the annoying snow going over the text? That is a pretty “arbitrary” graphic element

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    Comment #46421001

    > Responses to my publication submissions often claimed such problems did not exist I see this often even in communities of software engineers, where people who are unaware of cert…

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    Comment #46412377

    I'm curious what objects do/don't survive at the water pressure. I guess bottles are strong enough

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    Comment #46395803

    What does this sort of language complexity mean for future changes in Rust? In C++, its existing complexity makes new changes so much more difficult. Is Rust reaching a similar pla…

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    Comment #46369032

    I think only a small percentage of users care that much about running LLMs locally to pay for extra hardware for it, put up with slower and lower-quality responses, etc. . It’ll ne…

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    Comment #46306234

    Is mining via CPU even worthwhile for the hackers? I thought ASICs dominated mining

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    Comment #46099982

    It wouldn’t be surprising if cars also record audio of conversations to use for ad targeting. It has already been conclusively shown that TV companies have done this.