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Get-Shit-Done

github.com
14 points·by mpartel·hace 6 meses·3 comments

Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust [video]

youtube.com
1 points·by mpartel·hace 8 meses·0 comments

FI Framework Laptop 16 – Prototypes and scrapped ideas [video]

youtube.com
3 points·by mpartel·hace 11 meses·0 comments

SpacetimeDB

spacetimedb.com
5 points·by mpartel·el año pasado·0 comments

Physicists Create a Wormhole Using a Quantum Computer

quantamagazine.org
1 points·by mpartel·hace 4 años·0 comments

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mpartel
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Huge spikes over a short period of time are hard to deal with for anyone, and payment processors have their own infra whose scalability Steam can't necessarily control.
mpartel
·hace 10 meses·discuss
Some LLM APIs let you give a schema or regex for the answer. I think it works because LLMs give a probability for every possible next token, and you can filter that list by what the schema/regex allows next.
mpartel
·hace 2 años·discuss
The design of generics in this one seems rather well balanced in simplicity vs power.

The part about interface-typed values [1] is interesting. They do dynamic dispatch as a fallback when the function is too polymorphic to be be specialized.

In Rust terms it's as if it picks between `dyn` and `impl` automatically. It looks convenient, but also a bit of a non-obvious performance pitfall.

[1] https://shader-slang.com/slang/user-guide/interfaces-generic...
mpartel
·hace 2 años·discuss
I agree in the sense that answering "what really are qualia" may be as impossible as answering "what really are quantum fields". At some point we may be forced to accept "it just is", but that doesn't mean we can't make meaningful progress first, just like in physics.

For instance, either new physics is involved or it isn't. Finding solid evidence for or against it does not seem impossible, and it would definitely constitute meaningful progress, at the very least by ruling some theories out.
mpartel
·hace 2 años·discuss
> Even after mapping the entire visual cortex to all visual features, it just doesn't get us any closer to understanding that raw experience of "sight" that happens when you look at something. It's not the same thing.

Seems plausible that a detailed enough mapping of correlates one day uncovers a single thing/feature/location/architecure/pattern/whatever that is present only when qualia are, and absent in all other processes. That would at least point us in a concrete direction.
mpartel
·hace 2 años·discuss
I agree. It's just quite a lot of verbose-looking XML. "I have to write that much XML" is probably not the first impression you want to give. I did scroll down and see that you don't actually have to write such XML by hand, but many will not.
mpartel
·hace 2 años·discuss
The rather prominent XML on the front page might scare folks off.
mpartel
·hace 3 años·discuss
To clarify, dependencies significantly affect incremental builds too. Seems loading information about compiled dependencies into the compiler and/or resolving stuff about them can take significant time.
mpartel
·hace 3 años·discuss
Compilation times depend very heavily on the amount/size/complexity of dependencies.
mpartel
·hace 3 años·discuss
The linked github page has a link to a paper.
mpartel
·hace 3 años·discuss
Excellent work, again! Your intros somehow elicit the best out of HN too: the comments are always full of interesting angles and variations.

Wanna do quaternions next? :) Many have tried..
mpartel
·hace 3 años·discuss
Does it / will it support retractions?
mpartel
·hace 3 años·discuss
A fanless case would be real nice, and seems theoretically doable.
mpartel
·hace 4 años·discuss
Several languages have or have had this behaviour. C# made a similar change to its 'foreach' loops a long time ago (but not 'for' loops for some reason).

I suppose it's the natural way to do it when implementing a language and not thinking about it too much. It makes a for-loop equivalent to a simple while loop with the loop vvariable initialized outside of the loop.
mpartel
·hace 4 años·discuss
https://neon.tech/docs/cloud/compatibility/ says "During technical preview Neon has restrictions on user ability to install PostgreSQL extensions. Following PostgreSQL extensions come pre-installed: [..]"