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rdescarteson Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM

Could you mind to tell me what is your plan on proc-macros ? You said you have an idea to “will not require actual code execution”. On the other hand, RA current method of handling in Proc-Macros are very fragile.

rdescarteson Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS

Should it be named Shanghai solitaire Or Mahjong Solitaire ?

rdescarteson Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build

Why firefox in andriod is "more vulnerable to exploitation" ?

rdescarteson AGI is Mathematically Impossible 2: When Entropy Returns

From that paper:

    There exists a class of questions in life that appear remarkably simple in structure and yet contain infinite complexity in their resolution space. Consider the familiar or even archetypal inquiry: "Darling, please be honest: have I gained weight?"

rdescarteson Structured Outputs with Ollama

If you want to get a good result, the grammar should be following the expect output from the prompt, especially if you use a small model. Normally I would manually fine-tune the prompt to output the grammar format first, and then apply the grammar in production.

rdescarteson Structured Outputs with Ollama

If anyone needs a more powerful constrain outputs, llama.cpp support gbnf:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/grammars/...

rdescarteson Emulating an iPod Touch 2G using QEMU

I apologize for going off topic, but may I kindly ask how one might go about learning these things?

rdescarteson Extracting the abstract syntax tree from GCC (2015)

> Another reason I love Rust. It’s very statically analyzable.

Proc-macro in Rust is very tricky to analyze statically, some are even impossible (due to non-deterministic behavior)

rdescarteson 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]

Functional constituencies are part of the Hong Kong legislature. Imagine that half of the US Congress is appointed by the President of the United States.

rdescarteson 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]

> To keep this in context, the current Hong Kong SAR government is democratically elected[6] according to the provisions of an international treaty signed by the PRC and the UK which took effect in 1997[7].

Democratically elected ? Note that hong kong functional constituency system is fully controlled by CCP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_constituency_(Hong_...

rdescarteson How fighting games use delay-based and rollback netcode (2019)

Does anyone know how Fall Guy's net code was implemented? It's very smooth with 100 participants.

rdescarteson Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

unsafe { comp.lang.c }

rdescarteson 20% of requests for Wikimedia Commons are for one image of a flower

One of my friends used the same strategy to block DDOS from China : just put "Falun Gong" on there and it was resolved instantly.

rdescarteson More challenging projects every programmer should try

I would recommend choosing a long enough time (e.g. 3 months) to contribute an open source project you are using, especially you are not familiar to that domain. I learnt a lot from modern compiler stuffs by contribute to rust-analzyer.

rdescarteson Dietlibc – a Libc optimized for small size

However, I think it maybe a fake proverb.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/12/619140377/after-ivanka-trump-...

rdescarteson Goodbye, Slack. Hello, Spectrum

Seem like you can host your own spectrum service now?

https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum

rdescarteson Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?

How the last schematic works ? What is the purpose of 100 ohms resistor and diode in series for ?