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New comment by desmaraisp in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

desmaraisp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:23:44 +0000

That's definitely super-enthousiast territory. Paying 80 bucks a month for AI is more than 99.99% of people would be willing to do

New comment by desmaraisp in "git's –end-of-options Flag"

desmaraisp — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:34:15 +0000

In this specific case, the oop nature of powershell doesn't actually matter, just the fact it uses structured input instead of raw string.

It's like passing a struct to a function instead of a badly serialized representation of a value

New comment by desmaraisp in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

desmaraisp — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:31:08 +0000

That's an interesting viewpoint, but one I've noticed is less prevalent in other languages.

The c# guys at microsoft created an enormous stdlib, and the overwhelming majority of it is pretty good. The outliers being of course older stuff they've never really had time to upgrade. And they don't seem to be afraid to deprecate stuff, every major version brings a couple of minor breaking changes. But it all seems to work out just fine somehow

New comment by desmaraisp in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

desmaraisp — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 18:05:49 +0000

They are in the RNA: https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages/associations-deta...