People who complain about Rust's build times have never worked on a big C++ project.
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People who complain about Rust's build times have never worked on a big C++ project.
plasma-desktop, 44KLOC C++, 32KLOC QML. 7 minutes on my 12-thread machine.
rustc, 610KLOC Rust, ??? more KLOC of Rust in dependencies, 4m20s (nice) on the same machine,
Non-incremental release build for both.
Even if we assume that ~300 of rustc's dependencies brought in 0 additional code, while QML expanded 10x when converted to C++, this is still approximately twice as long for 2 times less code.
rustc, 610KLOC Rust, ??? more KLOC of Rust in dependencies, 4m20s (nice) on the same machine,
Non-incremental release build for both.
Even if we assume that ~300 of rustc's dependencies brought in 0 additional code, while QML expanded 10x when converted to C++, this is still approximately twice as long for 2 times less code.
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Понимаю
Сегодня зима началась. Наверное логично, учитывая, что на днях солнцестояние было.
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В этом году ИТМО каким-то образом умудряется стабильно оставаться без свободных крючков в гардеробе, хотя его вместительность в последний раз меняли уже несколько лет назад.
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SCP fanfiction or Epstein files?
This was SCP fanfiction. "There Is No Antimemetics Division," to be precise.
It's pretty good. Like "Memento" (the Nolan's one) but on steroids.
I have no idea why pretty much the entirety of this chapter got the Epstein files treatment in the PDF I was reading, when this is where a lot of world-building takes place, and, imo, really crucial pieces of it.
But whatever. I had actually read several pieces of it a few years ago, on the SCP foundation website itself. Namely, two SCP entries related to this. And they were one of my all-time favorites, so I'm glad there turned out to be more similar stuff out there.
For comedic effect, I should make this post again in a few days, as if I don't remember ever writing it.
It's pretty good. Like "Memento" (the Nolan's one) but on steroids.
I have no idea why pretty much the entirety of this chapter got the Epstein files treatment in the PDF I was reading, when this is where a lot of world-building takes place, and, imo, really crucial pieces of it.
But whatever. I had actually read several pieces of it a few years ago, on the SCP foundation website itself. Namely, two SCP entries related to this. And they were one of my all-time favorites, so I'm glad there turned out to be more similar stuff out there.
For comedic effect, I should make this post again in a few days, as if I don't remember ever writing it.
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This also means that the number of books I've read in the last 5½ years is now 3. And all 3 of them were in English.
Namely, an English translation of "Neverending Story," because I don't know German (yet?) and couldn't find any Russian translation that would have red & green ink color like the original German publication. Absolutecinema literature, btw. I highly recommend it.
And the other one was Azimov's "I, Robot." Not sure if I ever posted a review here, but it was pretty cool. Of course, being a book from the 1940s, not all its predictions were on point with how things eventually turned out to be in real life. Most notably:
1. In real life, we don't have any human life outside of Earth (and the International Space Station, yeah). No Moon colonies, no Mars colonies, no resource extraction missions on other planets. Oh well.
2. Severely underestimated population. If memory serves right, the number given was about 3B (roughly pre-WW2 Earth population) for the entire Solar System.
3. The sheer scale of real-life computer systems. In the book, robots that are way more capable of reasoning than any LLM we've developed up to this point, are more similar to a car than a computer. They consist of several hundreds of parts, each with its separate responsibility, can be disassembled, each part can be tested (not a fast process, considering there're hundreds of them, and still requires quite a bit of mechanics qualification, but still feasible even for a team of several people to perform in a span of a few days). Meanwhile, real-life computers have not hundreds, not thousands, nor even millions, but billions and billions of transistors the size of which can be measured in atoms, and on top of that quantitative difference there's a whole new distinct layer of so-called "software" with its own quirks, properties, and challenges.
Namely, an English translation of "Neverending Story," because I don't know German (yet?) and couldn't find any Russian translation that would have red & green ink color like the original German publication. Absolute
And the other one was Azimov's "I, Robot." Not sure if I ever posted a review here, but it was pretty cool. Of course, being a book from the 1940s, not all its predictions were on point with how things eventually turned out to be in real life. Most notably:
1. In real life, we don't have any human life outside of Earth (and the International Space Station, yeah). No Moon colonies, no Mars colonies, no resource extraction missions on other planets. Oh well.
2. Severely underestimated population. If memory serves right, the number given was about 3B (roughly pre-WW2 Earth population) for the entire Solar System.
3. The sheer scale of real-life computer systems. In the book, robots that are way more capable of reasoning than any LLM we've developed up to this point, are more similar to a car than a computer. They consist of several hundreds of parts, each with its separate responsibility, can be disassembled, each part can be tested (not a fast process, considering there're hundreds of them, and still requires quite a bit of mechanics qualification, but still feasible even for a team of several people to perform in a span of a few days). Meanwhile, real-life computers have not hundreds, not thousands, nor even millions, but billions and billions of transistors the size of which can be measured in atoms, and on top of that quantitative difference there's a whole new distinct layer of so-called "software" with its own quirks, properties, and challenges.
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