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whatagreatboy

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    Comment #45179579

    Even Jim Keller says that instruction decode is the difference, and that saves a lot of battery for ARM even if it doesn't change the core efficiency at full lot.

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    Comment #45102210

    It's very difficult to determine if the length is due to the font being used or due to actually being hyphen or emdash.

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    Comment #45083951

    Was there any attempt at making rules for experimental features looser than other filesystems? That seems to be the biggest bottleneck here.

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    Comment #45048656

    Em-dashes are very confusing to me, can never figure out if it is a emdash or a hyphen, so I avoid them altogether.

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    Comment #45048648

    Are you worried that ChatGPT will give you wrong words just because they look natural? (And yes it does)

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    Comment #44680633

    Consumer protection can still be separate in this case. That's not a problem at all. The only reason it is not prevalent in these countries yet is because they in general have lax …

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    Comment #44680619

    India has UPI. China has something. It is only a good thing that this should spread everywhere.

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    Comment #44645332

    How much time do you spend resolving merge conflicts between multiple team members?

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    Comment #44645279

    Poor people will always want to move to richer neighborhoods. The advantage to their kids from this is much higher than the stress and bad effects especially as early in kids life …

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    Comment #44602085

    Only legal requirements can change it. Nowadays, the mokutil is good enough that linux users can build a good tool around it to automate registration at boot that should ease some …

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    Comment #44531637

    I use it very routinely to generate tikz diagrams. It is obviously wrong and I need to manually tweak a little bit. But the hardest part is often to get something working at first,…

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    Comment #44531621

    It's kind of true. I only use it for simple stuff that I don't have time for. For example, how to write a simple diagram in tikz. The Ai does the simple and busywork of providing a…

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    Comment #44386118

    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3126908.3126925 This paper might help

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    Comment #44364810

    No. It's not competitive. You'll spend previous time (which should be spent on prototyping an design) on solving bugs and writing infrastructure code. Reverse engineering has not b…

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    Comment #44280954

    the real ability of intelligence is to correct mistakes in a gradual and consistent way.

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    Comment #44277772

    I found all the jokes funny as well. Thanks for the blog post. Extremely nice read. I love the approach.

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    Comment #43982832

    It's very similar to people getting scared about SKylab so, you are not alone.

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    Comment #43878496

    Not treating math as just another language for expressing your thoughts is a weird position to take. I cannot take this position seriously.

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    Comment #43779819

    I think this is a good experiment. 25.10 is not an LTS, people who want stability are using LTS anyway.

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    Comment #43779784

    That is more on the fact that less investment is made in C++ compilers nowadays. Companies are migrating away from C++ and it shows in compiler development.

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    Comment #43287663

    Then you suddenly want a Nvidia GPU on the side and you need more power.

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    Comment #43192085

    > Fil-C is currently 1.5x slower than normal C in good cases, and about 4x slower in the worst cases. I'm actively working on performance optimizations for Fil-C, so that 4x number…