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Huge spikes over a short period of time are hard to deal with for anyone, and payment processors have their own infra whose scalability Steam can't necessarily control.

Some LLM APIs let you give a schema or regex for the answer. I think it works because LLMs give a probability for every possible next token, and you can filter that list by what th…

The design of generics in this one seems rather well balanced in simplicity vs power. The part about interface-typed values [1] is interesting. They do dynamic dispatch as a fallba…

I agree in the sense that answering "what really are qualia" may be as impossible as answering "what really are quantum fields". At some point we may be forced to accept "it just i…

> Even after mapping the entire visual cortex to all visual features, it just doesn't get us any closer to understanding that raw experience of "sight" that happens when you look a…

I agree. It's just quite a lot of verbose-looking XML. "I have to write that much XML" is probably not the first impression you want to give. I did scroll down and see that you don…

The rather prominent XML on the front page might scare folks off.

To clarify, dependencies significantly affect incremental builds too. Seems loading information about compiled dependencies into the compiler and/or resolving stuff about them can …

Compilation times depend very heavily on the amount/size/complexity of dependencies.

The linked github page has a link to a paper.

Excellent work, again! Your intros somehow elicit the best out of HN too: the comments are always full of interesting angles and variations. Wanna do quaternions next? :) Many have…

Does it / will it support retractions?

A fanless case would be real nice, and seems theoretically doable.

Several languages have or have had this behaviour. C# made a similar change to its 'foreach' loops a long time ago (but not 'for' loops for some reason). I suppose it's the natural…

https://neon.tech/docs/cloud/compatibility/ says "During technical preview Neon has restrictions on user ability to install PostgreSQL extensions. Following PostgreSQL extensions c…

This is a dynamically typed language. Null makes sense there. It also makes sense in a statically typed language with union types, think `string | undefined` in TypeScript. The ext…

System76 has done good work on Linux support for (seemingly) similar hardware: https://tech-docs.system76.com/models/lemp10/README.html - some of that might be reusable.

Some examples of high-level decisions: - which web framework? - which database? which ORM? which transaction isolation level by default? - will this game/UI be multiplayer? - what'…