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I think HOMM2/3 is pretty well known to mid thirties.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:23AM (#50003206)
They don't owe me anything, but cutting off intel support the moment apple doesn't release the newest OS feels to soon for me.

Thanks to LLMs I just vibe my own package management system based on debian packages and have my own registry now with stuff that I care about

Re:Zig v0.17.0 on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:30AM (#49945149)
I reported a bug and waited for a year. one day it was merged. the thing is that there are a looot of bugs and the team is small, so your turn might not have come up yet
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:08AM (#49518524)
the commits are very fine grained and the text is unusually not AI.

I mean you can beat AI to do anything nowadays, but this looks not that bad

Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @01:58AM (#49518452)
until someone comes up with a non vibe coded one ill be happy having at least a fast option
LLMs are black boxy, its not like I can inspect the used weights of a prompt and judge the source of those weights.
Re:Reverse-engineering is cheap now on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:21AM (#48988732)
I'm currently writing a compiler (forever garage project) the speed at which Claude is able to debug with gdb what was wrongly generated is insane. I had not much prior expertise so maybe a professional in the field would be able to do it faster, but now people new to the field are able to debug at a very fast pace as well. It looks at ask code generated, understands llvm, can read and instrument gdb, all for 15$ a month
Re:LLM Networking with MikroTik on Thursday July 16, 2026 @03:58AM (#48931553)
How big is your TF state on your routers?

Yeah, TF is slow if you have thousands of configs and batching not integrated in the provider.

I recently just referenced the selective applicative functors paper and let it write me an implementation in scala. There is one already available in github, so I can't judge if it really just read the paper and implemented it, but the result was so minimal quick and amazing.
whats keeping you from upgrading?
Re:Changing How We Develop Ladybird on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:51AM (#48411723)
mitchell hashimoto https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch implemented this idea
how is duckduckgo using us?
if they succeed nothing will change for you
maybe its tokens instead of time now? bun has access to an unlimited amount of it
Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants on Thursday April 30, 2026 @12:33PM (#47964954)
Can we get one in Lithuania?
> False, it creates consumer demand for inference chips, which will be badly utilised.

There are so many CPUs, GPUs, RAM and SSDs which are underutilized. I have some in my closet doing 5% load at peek times. Why would inference chips be special once they become commodity hardware?

Re:Apple Just Lost Me on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:46AM (#47518031)
Worst part about liquid glass changes is that it was probably rushed so they could cover for lack of AI features that they promised a year ago
Re:Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:07AM (#47335757)
I think zig is striving for language minimalism, make it minimal as possible then if a feature optimized multiple places use cases benefit
Re:Ghostty – Terminal Emulator on Sunday March 01, 2026 @11:53AM (#47208380)
Once he fixes the past he will have more time to fix the future
Re:Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:33PM (#46888766)
js string builtin in wasm is a thing now, might be sharable across runtimes with special compile flags
Re:Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak on Saturday January 10, 2026 @05:37PM (#46570623)
Only contrast I see is that he thought it was much more of a corner case which turned out to be not that true anymore since everyone started using claude code.
Re:DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @03:38PM (#46223457)
Can't they do it here? or will the authorities go after these kind of upgrades?
Re:The RAM shortage comes for us all on Thursday December 04, 2025 @04:00PM (#46152994)
on one hand they are loosing profit, on the other hand they are gaining on market share. They will probably wait a short while to assess how much they are willing to sacrifice profits for market share
Re:The RAM shortage comes for us all on Thursday December 04, 2025 @03:38PM (#46152709)
Just like the GPUs.

NVIDIA started allocating most of the wafer capacity for 50k GPU chips. They are a business, its a logical choice.

> knuckle-draggers claiming that "Linux sucks because it can't play games"

they still do it because you can't play all the multiplayer games with kernel level anticheats

"We will make linux a viable gaming before we increment that number to 3!"

But I totally agree, I still install windows for gaming on my machine, but it looks like that for my purpose of gaming I can stay with Linux (I play mainly older games or indie games).

Re:How to use Linux vsock for fast VM communication on Saturday November 29, 2025 @09:44AM (#46087929)
> This is a weird article. It’s titled “how to use vsock” but 95% is how to set up Bazel, gRPC, and building a C++ project.

This is just what happens when you use bazel to quickly set up your project.

maybe merging patch files was a thing way before git?
you can just point a shotgun at your foot and pull the trigger, isn't that covenient?
Just profile the slow parts and rewrite them in rustm, easy.

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