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What practical patterns are enabled by TCO in C? My impression is that every tail call can written as a loop much more naturally. Tail calls are important in functional languages w…

I recommend you install https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro... And take a look what DLLs have been loaded into your explorer.exe. Look for non Microsoft-si…

Deferred renderers work differently from compositors. They still build up the entire displayed frame in screen space, except they dont write into a color buffer like directly, but …

I'm pretty sure you have a plugin installed for Explorer that makes it crash - while Explorer is far from a perfect piece of software, its not even close to this bad, but it's pret…

One thing shared between old software rendered desktops and modern videogames is that they shunned these intermediate 'composited' screens. On the desktop, there used to be the scr…

Counterpoint: Nautilus is both slower and less stable than Windows Explorer on large folders, even though the Linux filesystem is much faster. These super-indexed desktop linux sea…

These apps have codebases going back to the 2000s when having 256MB ram total was a big deal, yet these apps could contend with that (while offering pretty much identical functiona…

Haven't read the article, but multiple times during my life I have had to research how to do things in a domain, and have come up against academia (both literature and people), who…

> Nobody _wants_ it, but in practice if all cars/TVs/smartphones break every two week. Certainly not true for me. One example is Linux. I've been sticking with Ubuntu LTS, and dela…

This isn't true. I don't think you or me would want a car/TV/smartphone that's cheap and flashy but breaks every two weeks. Sometimes people are strapped for cash that's why they c…

They do. Most economically viable software already exists today, most people's job is to make .1% improvements, and features on top. For this work it's obviously pivotal that any c…

In that case they should clearly label that this is a new benchmark.

Are you saying they are... tasteless?

I think the choices of these workloads are deliberate, considering this is a large core count CPU linked to a FP-monster GPU with a high speed, low latency datalink. The former imp…

There's no honor in being stupid, yet I must admit I am stupid, as there's even less honor in being stupid and pretending otherwise. A lot of people were super hyped about OpenAI's…

I'm just saying that this Task[T] pattern is completely alien to Go. If you want to have one-off ansynchrony, then just write it synchronously and start your work on a goroutine. I…

Imo that's a rather nihilistic take. My personal opinion is that despite ungodly amount of money invested, the web has changed very little from the 'static website +maybe jQuery' d…

> That car can be full time serving 4-10 units daily The problem is rush hour. You still will need some kind of minibus that can serve 4-8 people efficiently, and take up way less …

I am not an expert on LLMs, but what's preventing you from treating the context as 'virtual memory', and using the attention matrix to 'blank out' tokens which have very low weight…

Yeah another kind of a*hole who I've encountered on Reddit were the ones who would keep mouthing off to you (carefully keeping within 'letter of the rules' of moderation), trying t…

Yeah, one extreme case of this was on Reddit, where people DM'd 'kill yourself' messages to others. When mods started banning people for this, attackers switched to abusing Reddit'…

A bit of clarification: Thread is a layer 2 protocol, for the user, it looks like standard IPv6. Matter is application level, and just expect standard TCP/IP underneath. There's no…

Dunno, personally I have found HA + MoT to be strictly worse than Z2M. It's the classic case of the Douglas Adams quote: “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong a…

This is both good and bad, and no surprise its an American standard. Lower frequencies have higher range, which is good if you live in a house (because range), and bad if you live …

The whole idea of SPAs is just unfortunate most of the time. If you look at the list of the most popular websites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites Basic…