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skavi

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    Comment #49265245

    I'd assume Mojo does more complex transformations at the MLIR level than Rust does at its MIR level.

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    Comment #49250768

    I wonder if there's any way to get this to plan out a dag of tool calls? i.e. use the results from earlier calls as the parameters to later ones? I tried introducing a stack based …

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    Comment #49173958

    can you support those claims?

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    Comment #49173942

    why does involvement with EA imply being ethically challenged? i’m personally not involved, but on its face it seems better than not doing any kind of charitable work.

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    Comment #49152831

    https://www.pangram.com/history/125358dc-9f80-4fe2-8540-85a9...

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    Comment #49106116

    an unprompted LLM would not incorrectly add spaces on either side of their em dashes.

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    Comment #49087818

    > The real trick is to do demand-driven compilation starting from the actual final program's needs this is not so far off from hint-mostly-unused, no?

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    Comment #49016084

    Wow this is a really excellent and comprehensive overview. Just to calibrate my own intuition, would anyone who was mostly unfamiliar with these concepts be able to weigh in on how…

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    Comment #48579895

    it would suck if Chinese tech advanced medical care faster or made it cheaper.

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    Comment #48493146

    On the earliest web archive snapshot I can find [0], I do not see any mention of the safeguard/sabotage under discussion [1]. And to be clear, this isn't the safeguard where the mo…

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    Comment #48372349

    This is discussed in the post.

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    Comment #48164089

    see Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android.

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    Comment #48030485

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029540

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    Comment #47912968

    i assume it does not have the same goals wrt hermeticity as nix?

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    Comment #47907914

    where does this fit in with make, just, nix (devshell, devenv, ...), direnv, etc.

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    Comment #47727397

    i’ll take 3. we can be boring together

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    Comment #47717825

    doesn’t really feel like that much tbh

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    Comment #47621006

    to preempt a discussion emerging based on the title alone, here’s their summary: > While nuclear fusion power is often hailed as a future source of abundant, clean energy, current …

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    Comment #47619298

    this may have been what you were referring to with “ buggy GNOME extensions”, but in case it wasn’t: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/client/linux-systray

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    Comment #47512850

    Their suggestion is also zero runtime cost.

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    Comment #47507913

    wonder whether this will impact their funny little functional language.

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    Comment #47506674

    what was the security situation of whatever is now being protected by the IOMMU before it was enabled by default?

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    Comment #47411285

    also: 1. tcmalloc is actually the only allocator I tested which was not using thread local caches. even glibc malloc has tcache. 2. async executors typically shouldn’t have tasks j…

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    Comment #47407491

    on the OS scheduler side, i'd imagine there's some stickiness that keeps tasks from jumping wildly between cores. like i'd expect migration to be modelled as a non zero cost. compl…