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Simran-B··on The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
I don't get the sales pitch, spend 15 million dollars to win a 1 million dollar price?

Showing of the model's capabilities - okay, but it's not like it solved the problem on its own, and apparently not particularly efficient. Are there practical applications that justify the investment?

Simran-B··on The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Aren't business consulting firms even worse? They are explicitly for business and there are known cases where they shared confidential information of one of their customers with another one.
Simran-B··on The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Remote attestation?
Simran-B··on America has lost its war with Iran
… and let's not forget about Iran's Lego videos!
Simran-B··on Pozzo: A Fast Lucky Number Checker
> Motivation: […] After spending several hackathons making things like "Uber for dogs with hearing loss"…

A perfectly normal thing to do.

Simran-B··on Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code
I suppose it's not about patents or copyright but rather the fear that a re-submitted patch can't be trusted because the original patch is considered not trustworthy, or that the resubmission is carried out by the sanction person itself or a friend under an email address that doesn't fall under the sanctions. Either way, it could be seen as a liability.
Simran-B··on Bumsrakete: FreeBSD 15 CopyFail Style LPE – Many say the best
Certainly the most fun website about a security vulnerability
Simran-B··on Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig
In what general direction would the innovation be?

I'm not sure if it's actually needed - a lot of things have been tried and the paradigms that persisted you can choose between but it seems to be a matter of taste. I often feel that the real issue is the lack of maturity and stability. I rather want a complete UI toolkit including learning resources (not reference docs!), no matter how boring, instead of super clever implementation that is never in a usable state.

Simran-B··on Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Wondering if it's just the marketing that Noctua did, and the actual mold and process engineering left to some fab in China?
Simran-B··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Isn't it a dumbed down version of Azure Pipelines?
Simran-B··on Euro-Office
A fork of OnlyOffice with some big names behind it who want to make it easier to build and contribute to, great. Yet LibreOffice seems to remain the only FOSS office solution with native apps (although they aren't particularly good).
Simran-B··on JPEG Compression
My dog doesn't react to familiar voices over the phone at all. The compression and reproduction of audio, while fine for humans, definitely doesn't work for her animal ears.
Simran-B··on A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch
No image in the readme, bummer.
Simran-B··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Classic - brand new blog post:

> We’re hiring engineers.

Careers page:

> Sorry, no job openings at the moment.

Simran-B··on Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple
Zig has the concept of illegal behavior, of which a subset is unchecked illegal behavior - basically undefined behavior, but if evaluated at comptime, it results in a compile error. The documentation also states that most illegal behavior is safety-checked unless you use the ReleaseFast or ReleaseSmall optimization modes (and don't enable safety checks for individual blocks).
Simran-B··on Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple
Generics though
Simran-B··on C++26: range support for std:optional
I'm sensing a pinch of sarcasm
Simran-B··on Zig builds are getting faster
How does Zig's compilation and codegen compare to TPDE? The claim is that it's 10-20x faster than LLVM with -O0 but with limitations.
Simran-B··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Maybe a good use case for AI to help with a quick transition?
Simran-B··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I liked Zulip a lot until that Flutter rewrite. Maybe it's more accessible now but the new look is not for me. I believe the app navigation is largely unchanged, and still doesn't quite feel right. I love the topic-based model nonetheless.
Simran-B··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I'm pretty sure they want to lose all of the non-lucrative customers.
Simran-B··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Funny you would mention GitLab - I find it extremely clunky, especially compared to GitHub. Maybe GitHub is primitive in comparison, but it never makes me hunt for basic functionality and the search just works for about everything.
Simran-B··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Did they drop support for the YouTube app on very old TVs or ban a bunch of those cheap Android TV boxes with a lot of spyware on them by any chance?
Simran-B··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
My first thought when I read AI search was that people might use it for instructions rather than tutorials and troubleshooting videos.
Simran-B··on Kubernetes v1.34: Of Wind and Will (O' WaW)
Everyone keeps bringing up the YAML Norway bug but it has been addressed by the YAML 1.2.0 spec in 2009 (!). Blame the implementors that stuck to the 1.1 spec
Simran-B··on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)
Archived blog post: https://web.archive.org/web/20240719152109/https://www.prime...
Simran-B··on Inside Zig's New Writer
Thanks a lot, this was quite enlightening, like what "buffering in the interface" really means. A follow-up post would nice!

I'm also curious what preserve in rebase is used for in practice. Prevent drain from writing buffered bytes too eagerly? But if it can write more data in a single syscall, what benefits does it give you? If the end of the buffer could still change, then you wouldn't want to write it yet, but then drain would need a similar parameter to not touch the bytes at the end (and therefore write none of the data). But the bytes in the buffer would still move towards the front, so this makes no sense.

Simran-B··on Faking a JPEG
Then captions that are somewhat believable? "Abstract digital art piece by F. U. Botts resembling wide landscapes in vibrant colors"
Simran-B··on Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux
Flatpak considers to move from OSTree to containers, citing the well-maintained tooling as a major plus point. How would that differ from Apptainers?
Simran-B··on A new PNG spec
I doubt it can get anywhere near. What is even the point of a new PNG version if there's something as advanced as JXL that is also royalty-free?
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