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nulltype··on I don't like passkeys
I think this is probably one of the reasons people have very different passkey experiences. Hardware passkeys are great and software ones appear to be less great.
nulltype··on I love LLMs, I hate hype
Maybe he meant to link to Colossus: The Forbin Project
nulltype··on Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
For the implemented formats, wuffs is safer and also often faster: https://github.com/google/wuffs
nulltype··on Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
It’s hard to say that one needs unused variables.
nulltype··on Bugs Apple loves
“The bugs are real. The math is not. All estimates are made up. Your frustration, however, is valid.”

I’m pretty sure it’s way less than 2%, but I definitely notice running into the same bugs many times.

nulltype··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
I think the point was that people care about ppd, not ppi. 218 ppi would be too low if the screen is 1 inch from your eye or too high if it’s 100 inches from your eye.

Retina probably means 60 ppd.

nulltype··on Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
Isn’t it somewhat common to say something like “slow this down by a factor of 2”?
nulltype··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Looks like it's probably https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...
nulltype··on Ask HN: How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
> What do you mean 10 years?

Didn’t the DGX-1 come out 9 years ago?

nulltype··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
Where do they use quotes for the official drivers?
nulltype··on Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP
Which H100 and how much over 1500 TFLOP/s?

The datasheet for the H100 SXM seems to indicate that it can only do ~1000 TFLOP/s peak.

nulltype··on Go: What we got right, what we got wrong
Looking at https://ant.apache.org/ivy/history/latest-milestone/ivyfile/... I don't see how this is the same as minimal version selection.
nulltype··on How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
I suspect they mean it’s a secondary source not a primary one
nulltype··on So You've Decided to Move from Unity to Unreal Engine
ua6oxa! Is this like an unreal engine blueprint alternative you are working on?
nulltype··on A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)
I think this is one of the main things Rust users don’t promote enough (I don’t see this in the article for instance).

let lock = Arc::new(RwLock::new(1));

This plus a few unwrapping things is enough to get you almost std::shared_ptr and then you can fight the borrow checker some other day.

nulltype··on B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want
A similar thing actually happened to me. I was receiving a small package (probably a phone case) about once every few weeks while living in a rental house.

The seller had put my address as their address, so all undeliverable mail came to my house.

I brought a bag full of these packages to the post office, explained the situation and gave them the packages. The entire pile of packages ended up back at my house a few days later.

I found the seller on Amazon and messaged them:

———

Me: I haven't ordered anything from you. I have received 6 packages that you sent but ended up at my house because the return address that you used is my address, not your address. Could you use a different return address?

Seller: Dear nulltype, We're sorry about this, we can't change the address at the moment because of the cumbersome policies on Amazon, but we'll change it when we have a new production facility. Please forgive us. You are free to use the packages. Sincerely,

———-

The packages continued to arrive after this.

nulltype··on Many in the AI field think the bigger-is-better approach is running out of road
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[0] http://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/

nulltype··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
Ah I see that he is claiming it’s Steve Huffman via all the use of “you” there.
nulltype··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
Yeah that part says it’s Steve but where does it say it’s Steve in the phone recording? It just says “Reddit” in the transcript.
nulltype··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
It seems a number of people believe that the recorded call has Steve Huffman talking, but I don’t see this claim anywhere in the original post.
nulltype··on Tiktoken: OpenAI’s Tokenizer
What a great name!
nulltype··on Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
How hard is it for me to have a commit stack be represented as a series of PRs on Github?
nulltype··on Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
So your claim is that GitHub would be equally successful if their website was just information about how to push to a git remote hosted by them?
nulltype··on American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class
If you use house price index instead of consumer price index, it’s in line with that OP said: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USSTHPI
nulltype··on Whipping up a new Shell – Lash#Cat9
Great to see someone rethinking what running command line programs could look like! Too often the shell or terminal is just replaced with a reimplementation of roughly the same thing.

Warp seems to be the most serious attempt in this direction but takes a more conservative approach and doesn’t reinvent as much.

I can think of a couple of interesting possible variants of a shell such as this:

1) The text grid is probably not necessary for the shell itself to use, so you could have the input box be a normal text editor with mouse support for instance. You could even potentially manage running and completed programs via a more conventional GUI.

2) I often deal with remote machines, it would be nice if the shell had support for running commands on remote machines (reconnecting if the connection is dropped, running the same command over a set of machines, etc)

Great work on this new shell!

nulltype··on Zig, the Small Language
For operator overloading you can do something like this: https://github.com/christopher-hesse/tenet#interesting-featu...

You have to specify the names more times but you can also do any syntax you want.

nulltype··on Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
I think they've been saying "We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it." since 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130410000959/https://golang.or...
nulltype··on OpenAI Retro Contest
The challenge is using all 3 Genesis games.
nulltype··on Competitive Self-Play
https://vimeo.com/84443645
nulltype··on Image-to-Image Translation Demo
It's because it's server side, it was using a Google hosted Tensorflow service that I disabled since it was breaking things. The amount of telemetry that is not on here would blow your mind.
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