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Interesting to compare this to the in-progress project https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/frankensqlite Which aims to match SQLite quality and provide new features (free encrypti…

Current frontier agents can one shot solve all 2024 AoC puzzles, just by pasting in the puzzle description and the input data. From watching them work, they read the spec, write th…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu In 2018, Google replaced Goobuntu with gLinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian Testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLinux

The study points out, “Python and Rust are the two most popular languages used by Advent of Code participants. This may explain why Rust fares so well.”

Here’s a study that found that for small problems Gemini is almost equally good at Python and Rust. Looking at the scores of all the languages tested, it seems that the popularity …

In my application, code generation, the distilled DeepSeek models (7B to 70B) perform poorly. They imitate the reasoning of the r1 model, but their conclusions are not correct. The…

The DeepSeek R1 paper explains how they trained their model in enough detail that people can replicate the process. Many people around the world are doing so, using various sizes o…

College degrees from reputable colleges used to serve this purpose, but grade inflation has greatly weakened this signal.

Thanks for explaining! That’s quite different from the US English (and RFC English) meaning of “should”.

“You should consider using this in your requirements” implies that this is not a hard rule, it’s just an ignorable suggestion. It would be interesting to audit gov.uk web pages ove…

I remember seeing the PERQ at trade shows. The best thing about the PERQ was its monitor, which was unusually sharp for that era. It used a yellow-white long persistence phosphor. …

They identify 6 bugs/mistakes, of which, not doing staged releases, was the final mistake. They stop short of identifying the real root issues of running at kernel level, and of no…

A tool for updating bazel build target dependencies. It inspects build files and source code, then adds/removes dependencies from build targets as needed. It requires using global …

That’s certainly how it seemed from the Android side at the time. The Linux side was hoping that they could adapt the desktop Linux stack to work well on mobile devices, without in…

https://opengoal.dev/ has reverse-engineered a compiler and runtime for the non-GC lisp GOAL that Naughty Dog used for the Jax and Daxter action adventure games. They have decompil…

You can see them throughout Southern California. They are strikingly beautiful when in bloom. Not mentioned in the article is that the blossoms exude a sticky nectar that makes an …

Comparing the App Store listings, it looks like this app has a much simpler interface and far fewer features than Draw Things. Some users might prefer the simplicity of this app. (…

The potential for overlapping numbers was the thing that tripped up many developers. But a simple “find the first number searching from each end, just like the puzzle instructions …

The Computer History Museum oral history interview with David Cutler is also very good: Part 1: https://youtu.be/29RkHH-psrY Part 2: https://youtu.be/SVgSLud50ss

The original Dart language designers gave Dart Smalltalk semantics with JavaScript syntax. But Dart’s users rebelled and forced Dart to adopt a more compile-time-type-checked type …

For completeness, Apple’s consumer GPUs currently max out at 64 GB - OS overhead, so about 56 GB. But you are limited to 1 GPU per system.

Under US accounting rules, it is much better for a landlord to leave a property unrented at a higher price than to rent it at a lower price. If the property is unrented, the landlo…

Mixed reality is a VR headset with cameras that pass through an approximation of outside reality. The hope is that gets you most of the vision benefits of AR. But you still get mos…

Heh, you may have been lucky. I worked at Apple during the middle part of the no-Jobs era, and I remember there was plenty of political intrigue between teams. Mac vs Apple vs Newt…

As I understand it, Apple is expected to only introduce a VR headset this year, like the new Sony VR headset or the high end Oculus. Apple’s AR headset is still many years away.