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kovarianceon Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

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YAML as a programming language is something I consider as an anti-pattern (see AWS Step Functions). Very difficult to read/debug/test. It's better to use a real programming language that compiles into a DAG (e.g. Temporal, Dagger.io).

kovarianceon Parting ways with our Julia simulation after 100M miles

Chris Rackauckas gave a thoughtful comment here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gspuMS1hSQo&lc=UgybMqt_1cv76Q5aT...

Here, he mentions how ahead-of-time compilation may be an essential feature to allow Julia to integrate well with embedded systems.

AoT compilation has been a hot topic for quite a while since the lack of it (albeit partially supported in 1.12 with significant limitations) limits the ability to deploy Julia in many environments (embedded, serverless, browsers).

kovarianceon Towards LaTeX in the Browser

I have found KaTeX to be the best currently-available solution. In particular, it can be rendered without client-side javascript.

kovarianceon NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbidden now

This is why open source drivers are important.