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Conscat

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I'm a Silicon Valley girlie into C++ metaprogramming and close-to-metal software. :3 Dabbling in computer graphics and nightly Clang from time to time.
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Conscat··on Flipper Zero Zig Template
The point here is that these examples need to be updated because @cImport, the syntactic feature of Zig, is being deprecated and removed. That there exists an alternative isn't relevant.
Conscat··on Nvidia Cosmos 3
These demos honestly look pretty good to me. But it is objectively true that this and similar technologies are used at huge scale by every leading autonomous vehicle manufacturer, so we can inductively reason that it _is_ good enough for that use-case. I don't work on Cosmos, but I am currently working on a superficially similar non-open technology at Nvidia used by many of these leaders which, in my opinion, produces similar quality. Some of the open research for it is here:

https://github.com/nv-tlabs/3dgrut/

https://github.com/NVIDIA/harmonizer

https://github.com/NVIDIA/instant-nurec

https://github.com/nvidia/ncore

Nvidia also is integrating Gsplat into at least what I work on and contributing upstream.

https://github.com/nerfstudio-project/gsplat

Conscat··on KDE at 30
Does anyone else miss KWrite? I had it configured as a very slightly more advanced Notepad.exe clone. I really enjoyed opening it for quickly writing out thoughts that crowd my ADHD brain, and I feel like the full Kate takes much longer to open up and looks much much heavier and emotionally oppressive for what I want to do.
Conscat··on Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust
These are some very extreme examples of this that push the feature's limits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256810

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495059

Conscat··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
Fwiw, nobody has ever suggested to me that I employ token compression in my daily workflow. I don't pay full attention in all the AI workflow demos I'm supposed to attend, but I don't recall that even being discussed. Is this an Nvidia blog or tweet you're referencing? I'm actually interested to see what they have to say.
Conscat··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
I'm not, I work higher level products. I've talked to a few people who do but I don't recall if they have different standards.
Conscat··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
At Nvidia, we have no limit for Anthropic or Open AI models (for now) and are heavily encouraged to use them as much as possible.
Conscat··on Greek Alphabet Cards
I learned to read Devanagari by putting generic Google images cards on my phone's wall paper.
Conscat··on Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
I had never heard of low background steel. That's a fascinating problem it solves (and I love the analogy).
Conscat··on Cisco workforce reductions
In the bay area, I've met relatively few NRIs who don't know Hindi well, even if it's not their first language. Most of them that I've met are not even Kannadiga, Mallu, Telugu, or especially not Tamil. Sample size of at least several dozen.
Conscat··on Cisco workforce reductions
Studying Hindi has felt very rewarding to me, and it impresses people disproportionately to my actual skill, but I don't feel it has affected my ability to communicate with coworkers whatsoever.
Conscat··on Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
Any media company which deliberately rids itself of everyone willing to speak vaguely positively of transsexual people may not be attracting the most free thinking writers.
Conscat··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
That feels reductive. It's actionable to get OCI, renounce US citizenship, and become Indian after a decade. It's just not very practical for most people. I know many people who don't work their dream job, but switching to a favorable company isn't currently practical for them.
Conscat··on Mojo 1.0 Beta
My understanding from speaking with a few Tile IR devs on dates is that its primary motivation was providing better portability for programming tensor cores than PTX offers. Nobody ever told me they saw it as a response to anything other than customer feedback.
Conscat··on Mojo 1.0 Beta
Every reasonable language has a Python interop story. All it takes is C FFI. But what Mojo promised early on was the eventuality of compiling a large amount of Python code if not entire wheels as Mojo.
Conscat··on GitHub is having issues now
At least it doesn't go down as often, I guess. I think most users do want a centralized forge that gives them discoverability and star graphs.
Conscat··on Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed
An under noticed ninja feature I adore, which was implemented relatively recently, is the ability to configure how its build progress is printed. In my fish config, I have the `NINJA_STATUS` envvar:

    set -x NINJA_STATUS "STEP: %f/%t  
    [%p / %P] 
    [%w + %W]
    "
Which prints the time elapsed and projected in a readable multi-line format.
Conscat··on C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
Rust cannot take a const function and evaluate that into the argument of a const generic or a proc macro. As far as I can tell, the reasons are deeply fundamental to the architecture of rustc. It's difficult to express HOW FUNDAMENTAL this is to strongly typed zero overhead abstractions, and we see where Rust is lacking here in cases like `Option` and bitset implementations.
Conscat··on C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report
> Why, for example, is printing the source-code text of an enum value so goddamn hard?

Aside from this being trivial in C++26, imo it isn't actually that tricky. Here's a very quick implementation I made awhile ago: https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat/blob/3f54e47f0ed182771fce...

Conscat··on C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma
Simply by asserting "we support MSVC", most `exciting` C++ will never be touched in a codebase.
Conscat··on C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma
No offense intended to your perspective, but I do find it a little amusing that C++23, which was generally considered a disappointingly small update due to COVID complications, was the breaking point in complexity.
Conscat··on C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma
PyCuda 2024, used fairly often in certain industries, still contains `auto_ptr` ;-;
Conscat··on U+237C ⍼ Is Azimuth
That's become of the most memorable threads on Hacker News to me. I definitely think about it at least once most weeks.
Conscat··on Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++
> An interesting perspective. Could turn it around as "everything you can do in C++ you can do in C with a lot less language complexity".

C can't parameterize an optimal layout fixed-length bitset with zero overhead, nor can it pragmatically union error sets at scale.

Conscat··on My “grand vision” for Rust
My understanding is that Scala 3 came with many large breaking changes that made adoption difficult. I at least hadn't heard users complain that new features weren't desired.
Conscat··on My “grand vision” for Rust
> I understand that Boost is now deprecated.

Huh?? Boost is used basically everywhere.

Conscat··on Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
It's not merely a matter of detainment or deportation. Racial minorities, not just immigrants, face intimidation tactics. These guys are walking into schools, they're walking into social security offices, and courthouses. They stand around menacingly just to scare people. They harass random passerby's on the street, or in the grocery store. You would feel unsafe and stressed if this happened to you, no matter your circumstances.
Conscat··on Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
Even if you're not likely to be deported from a foreign country, you wouldn't want to face frequent gang intimidation tactics, would you? Simply feeling threatened isn't fun, even if nothing truly terrible will happen to you (not to speak of the real risk in being detained regardless).
Conscat··on More cows, more wives
This feels like a false dichotomy to me, and if anything, it might invert cause and effect. Europeans pillaged most of the countries that you're contrasting to, and under intense economic pressure, traditional values (especially misogynistic ones) usually emerge as a coping mechanism. Such as child marriage. Liberties are typically the result of relaxed economic conditions, like what Europe achieved after plundering the textiles of South Asia. As economic conditions worsen, we now see conservativism rising in the west.
Conscat··on More cows, more wives
Statistically, fathers who ask the courts for joint custody almost always receive it. Occam's Razor dictates these men you know most likely prefer to complain about their divorce rather than to do the arduous work of parenting. They can also renegotiate this circumstance if they feel like it.
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