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Stephen Toub, a Partner Software Engineer at MS, explaining that the maintainers are intentionally requesting these PRs to test Copilot: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pul…

Please don't make us link the infamous Dropbox HN comment ;)

I'm pretty sure that at least a few of those are implemented in modern x86 / ARM CPUs? As an immediate example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set …

Notably, Lilian did not explain diffusion models simply. This is a fantastic resource that details how they actually work, but your casual reader is unlikely to develop any sort of understanding fro…

The assembly is easy: the part sourcing less so ;-)

The optics on the Vision Pro are... well, they're not fantastic. It's a challenge to blow up displays that small to meet your field of view. Peripheral vision on the Quest 3 is far better, b…

This is a real problem, but it's fine for most VR use cases as you're usually looking at content that's rendered at a distance greater than the focal plane. The problems start to occur …

The latest and greatest is often not a significant enough improvement over used hardware to merit the price delta. Just because we can throw money away doesn't mean we necessarily should. (Also, …

There's a whole blog post explaining that. Try clicking through!

It's the best possible headset that could have been built with the technology at the time, but the technology at the time was insufficient for the experience that it's designed for. It still…

To add to this: I have a Vision Pro and a 34" curved ultrawide. The latter is much more usable in this regard, because the effective resolution per degree is higher, which means you can keep your…

There are people who have bought MBPs with broken screens and deleted the screen to use them with the Vision Pro. Works quite well! See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUa_pPUbpGQ .…

They more-or-less improved the keyboard immediately after the SP3. The SP4 is a night-and-day difference to the SP3 (to the point where I was considering getting a SP4 keyboard for my SP3 when I still…

You can get quiet mechanical switches that are comparable to laptop keyboard switches in terms of noise. There's a bit of art to the selection, but there are definitely options.

I do the same, but I find looking at my laptop to be quite distracting; I mentally "lock in" to my laptop, which defeats the purpose, and also ends up being ergonomically challenging much of…

It's not too difficult to actually assemble - you just need some displays, a display driver, and the optics - but getting optics fabricated to meet your requirements might be challenging.

The microdisplays are usually fixed in place (and sometimes the display and optics are a single package), so it would likely be a bespoke solution.

It's a theoretical result to help determine what they're capable of, not a practical solution. Of course you can write the code yourself - but that's not the point!

There seems to be some bad blood between ikawrakow and ggerganov: https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp/discussions/316 …

Yes. Scroll through his recent feed: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk (Man, I'd blocked him years ago. I hadn't realised how bad it'd gotten.)…

Because as long as they don't name them, there's still a chance they'll pay up or self-host. As soon as they do name them, any chance of a meaningful business relationship will disapp…

> There's a reason Lua has a smaller audience than assembly. I don't think that's true. It's a very embedded language. Its use in video games and video game modding alone woul…

Happy ten-year anniversary to the only systems programming language I actually enjoy! Here's to many more years :)

Very nice, but it is confusing to name a library for using a language the same thing as that language. I suppose this is meant to be a temporary state of affairs while Lua (the library) gets merged in…

That's certainly more helpful, yeah! My biggest complaint is that that's really not particularly obvious from the home page; I didn't realise the highlighted words in the lead were link…

What?