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Quite the greenwashing there. Those coal mines are quite literally the most dystopian thing when they are in operation.
Re:Spotifast: A native Rust Spotify client with Winamp skins on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:16PM (#49999516)
i love the idea, but it takes lit 30 seconds to load the home page :(
Whereas some people in tech are proud to post selfies with him, the actual monster.
Re:Reverse-engineered Jev-like model on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @05:43PM (#49733446)
https://x.com/harshagundal/status/2100044305536889015?s=20

> They were building in stealth for 2 years, I was building in stealth for 2 hours…

> Happy to open source Qwen-2.5-1B-RLCD, 5x faster on-device inference for JSON workloads that need to be type-safe.

Re:We accidentally built an LLVM compiler for Jax on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:14AM (#49142971)
XLA uses MLIR very much, the interface to it is StableHLO, which is a MLIR dialect.
Re:We accidentally built an LLVM compiler for Jax on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:13AM (#49142963)
> Plus, no need to build XLA using Bazel either! You’re welcome.

I don't get it, Bazel is incredible.

Re:Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:16AM (#48380922)
sidenote: it is possible to use Vulkan to map GPU memory to CPU space and even map it back to CUDA: https://x.com/steeve/status/2055042304344231978?s=20
consider it done
Weird, because we tried it. It doesn’t show anything?

We use the amdsmi to get metrics. I’ll investigate.

sadly, sandboxing is something that can't be upstreamed. this way, sandboxing is kept in zml instead of patching mesa.

as for nvtop, great program, but we missed a few features (such as sandboxing)

Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @07:21PM (#47343861)
hi, i'm the founder of https://github.com/zml/zml, very happy with Zig
Re:Zed will require age identification for its services on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @05:59PM (#47240325)
Misleading title. It's about using their AI service, not the editor.
we (ZML) have been back to following Zig master since std.Io was introduced. It's not that bad tbh. Also most changes really feel like actual improvements to the language on a day to day basis.
Re:Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:01AM (#46731046)
tldr: they replaced using protobuf as the type system across language boundaries for FFI with true FFI
i can't help but think of the scammy communication around this on X. and the actual need to be deceitful about it.

oh how low the mighty have fallen

Re:I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video] on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:54AM (#46730987)
very very cool !
Re:Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:41AM (#46588362)
This looks incredible, congratulations!
Re:Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig on Monday January 12, 2026 @08:41AM (#46588358)
the upside is absolutely worth it
because he was been sending me updates about it for the last two weeks

because we've been discussing architecture, optimisations and benchmarks

because it's not a 13h old project

he’s been working on it for 2 weeks, as he said somewhere else
sure, i hereby disclose that he left in September

i already said in another reply that i knew him personally

the way he came barging through the door doesn’t invite sympathy
well, bazel is by far the most reliable one so I'm not sure why you're complaining
and it would be terrible for hermeticity and reproducibility, nix tries very hard and gets mediocre results

perhaps, just perhaps, why people go through the trouble not because they are idiots but for actual engineering reasons

your lack of skills doesn't mean it is (it's not)
a single commit doesn't mean it's vide coded you idiot

1/ AIs are terrible at Zig

2/ I happen to know the author personally

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