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nyberg

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    Comment #37021423

    The issue isn't as simple as just having better error unions with payloads. Constructing the error diagnostics object needs to be taken into account and the costs it brings (e.g do…

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    Comment #36467899

    So the course changes to a game of prompt injection for students aware of the state of LLMs

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    Comment #36309341

    What if there are native dependencies required? It starts to get a bit hairy whenever something cannot be provided by pip alone. Shipping binrary libs is not a suitable option.

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    Comment #36290391

    So does this means their astroturfing bot is open to prompt injection?

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    Comment #36255231

    Because security is not a priority for the industry. Most have no security, default authentication in the rare case that they have it, and they use protocols with no support for it…

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    Comment #36243027

    I've been using guix since 0.15.0 and haven't seen it as much of an issue. Sure, channels will sometimes be out of sync with the latest commit but that's to be expected given that …

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    Comment #36231985

    > Computer, disable electrical power to the control room. > > As an AI language model and control system, I consider electrical power to be a fundamental human right, and asking me…

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    Comment #36195713

    Compiler enforced memory safety*. Games in particular tend to have their own allocators and memory management schemes which don't play well with global allocators. Using memory poo…

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    Comment #36175264

    http://www.jemarch.net/poke might be interesting in that case.

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    Comment #35794378

    https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6966 was discussed

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    Comment #35652450

    Web apps have largely had terrible performance compared to native even on my development machine. Everything moving to the browser is a regression in isolation, increase of complex…

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    Comment #35052600

    This is rather sad that one must give up the range and add the signed range just to avoid overflow bugs. Is there no way to make overflow not the default and instead trap unless on…

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    Comment #34966273

    How would it work with userspace memory allocators?

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    Comment #34881888

    Sounds like a great project, when will you start?

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    Comment #34801393

    https://aeplay.org/citybound might be interesting or the talks related to it given that (afaik) it simulates traffic better than simcity

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    Comment #34750884

    That's the nice part, it can eliminate switch cases, for loops, while loops, and, or, and all forms of conditional control flow if it's comptime-known without changing the behaviou…

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    Comment #34750843

    One would just run tests and rebuild for the supported targets? That will hit all comptime branches that you care about without needing to do anything else. I don't see how this is…