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resonancel

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About resonancel

A curious programmer

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    Comment #48004677

    I always think the determinism discourse on LLMs is off the point. The elephant in the room is semantic preservation. Compilers can most often preserve semantics across abstraction…

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    Comment #47960374

    You can think of comptime (as of zig 0.16) as an interpreter that evaluates code with very limited optimization. So yes, naive use of comptime can definitely grind compilation to a…

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    Comment #47915132

    Did Putin do anything meaningful to stop "NATO's advance" into the Baltic Sea? Maybe Putin was so pacifist that he let Sweden and Finland join the NATO with impunity.

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    Comment #47888714

    Come back when Americans are routinely jailed for rubbing their elites the wrong way (in some countries, criticisms aren't the only way to rub the leaders the wrong way)

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    Comment #47888667

    I believe China only got this huge because all its neighours couldn't help joining the peaceful middle realm \s

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    Comment #47884727

    IMO "level" roughly corresponds to the amount of runtime control flow hidden by abstractions. Zig is famous for having almost no hidden runtime control flow, this appears pretty "l…

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    Comment #47884657

    Then it's actually the immature zig ecosystem that rubbed the author the wrong way, not zig the language itself. Not that the ecosystem isn't important, but IMO a language only tru…

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    Comment #47871922

    Well, Xi Jinping and his lackeys are known for their poor educational background, maybe not quite well known in the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYQpaAI90A

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    Comment #47813443

    It's more like driving across country vs firing a missile with you being the warhead...

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    Comment #47713894

    Can't take this lib seriously when there're lots of gems like these in the codebase. // Open source directory dir_t* dir = open_dir(source_dir); // Find where dot is char* dot = st…

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    Comment #47700626

    C# is a perfect example of feature envy, but because "Java sucks" C# must be the best thing ever in the world of computing. Orthogonality and coherence be damned.

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    Comment #45339791

    The Swift ecosystem is pretty amazing too. I've made several PRs and got them merged into Swift Parser while exchanging ideas with Apple employees fruitfully. The only big caveat i…

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    Comment #45339703

    XCode evidently cannot keep pace with the rapid development of Swift. Instead of fully embracing community development, Apple maintains a proprietary (dated and divergent) fork of …