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Comment #49246941
Very well said. A 62.5g Mars bar is a hefty boy and it's only righteous that its size was minused and divided.
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Comment #49045128
I'm tired boss
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Comment #48972204
LLMs catch memory bugs quite easily in my experience. All of this is just a (succesful) marketing stunt by Anthropic.
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Comment #48871267
We should reintroduce chef's hats back in the control rooms. Switching with real finesse!
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Comment #48857162
> This is just so weird to me, because I would say the same about Zig. I think you missed his point. He's arguing against homogeneity of (cyber) culture. For example, programming l…
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Comment #48794491
Not being sarcastic but genuine because I do not know: are there any previous languages that have a build system like Zig? I found really cool that you have a bunch of options to c…
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Comment #48791588
Sounds like you've never built something. Even with small products you have to keep correcting yourself as it's hard to foresee how each component interacts. Now try building a sel…
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Comment #48728654
If you are going to write your own allocators, I think it doesn't matter too much which Zig version you are on. Most drastic changes since 0.15 are done to the standard lib and the…
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Comment #48697650
Storing numbers as arrays of u8? That doesn't make sense
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Comment #48566413
I did this half a year ago and it was fine for me. One of the benefits is of course privacy. For instance, I noticed that ads get completely out of touch which proved to me that I'…
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Comment #48550834
Also cluster migrations are required pretty often in my company. Having state on a cluster means migrating that as well, which is a complex and time consuming operation. Having you…
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Comment #48526653
Lol I already have this at €20 a month. And I feel like I am using it too much.
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Comment #48349761
I also thought obsession was decent. Spooked me a bit like horrors used to do when I was little.
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Comment #48335016
I like that you have more freedom. You can play around with some idea but once you want to do something "serious" you can break into it directly. I start simple but sometimes blip …
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Comment #48334723
After having used Zig for a couple of months now I am convinced it is a fantastic tool language. You just pick it up to hack some idea together freely. Every time I hit a wall, I f…
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Comment #48264123
Does everyone at OpenAI vocal fry like that?
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Comment #48255124
Yes and one step further: it is attention, ultimately to extract wealth. Trump is a distractor and can make a whole country forget about . Passing a judge is a minor detail here. O…
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Comment #48255122
Yes and one step further: it is attention, ultimately to extract wealth. Trump is a distractor and can make a whole country forget about . Passing a judge is a minor detail here. O…
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Comment #48249369
My bad, I was not aware that expats read this. I had never heard of it before. But still, as far as I can tell, they just translate the news from platforms like nos.nl and perhaps …
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Comment #48248875
More like an uncivil engineer
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Comment #48247040
Sorry, but "dutchnews.nl" is not a source I take seriously. Please link a publication on an established media outlet because this smells like misinfo.
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Comment #48210952
Apparently it's the same as the Dutch payment system but in some languages that "iDEAL" had wrong associations.
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Comment #48166741
Don't let the best be the enemy of the good. I got amazing performance for swapping for-loops with some simple SIMD patterns. Moreover. By doing this. I noticed that the codebase s…
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Comment #48083070
I found the deep lacquer luster a bit lackluster