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New comment by rowanG077 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

rowanG077 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:10:46 +0000

Possible but the problem statement is generally way too large to throw into a SAT solver. You can do local problems with SAT though.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

rowanG077 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:59:37 +0000

It is of course the lowest bar. The main point is that the lowest bar in Rust is already a really a high bar compared to go lowest bar.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

rowanG077 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:17:59 +0000

I agree, this is why you need to tell students a realistic outlook. And of these two I believe Wozniak is in fantasy land and Schmidt is closer to reality.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

rowanG077 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:42:50 +0000

TBH this is also how I feel. There is no way to put the AI genie back in the bottle. There will be sweeping changes in society because of it. Fighting against it is seems like a fools errand imo.

New comment by rowanG077 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

rowanG077 — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:17:30 +0000

> The extent of misery and destruction is directly proportional to the level of technological advancements.

By statistics of war, poverty rates etc this is trivially false. I think you are really, really underestimating how hard life was pre-industrial revolution.

New comment by rowanG077 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

rowanG077 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:33:03 +0000

This is really not an acceptable reply. How about actually engaging with the point the commenter made instead of stamping your foot and throwing a tantrum.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

rowanG077 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:48:28 +0000

What you are describing is implementation defined behavior. Using that is perfectly safe and reasonable. Undefined means this programs is malformed.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

rowanG077 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:49:37 +0000

I think he is saying that if you are against AI you are against progress and so "America will no longer be the country that ambitious people want to come to". I don't think there was a point there about immigration being somehow equivalent to AI, that would come out of nowhere.

New comment by rowanG077 in "GenCAD"

rowanG077 — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:46:11 +0000

Yeah, that fails for even moderately complex models...

New comment by rowanG077 in "GenCAD"

rowanG077 — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:15:30 +0000

How can I convert openSCAD models to true STEP files? As in no meshes. I Literally have wanted that for years.

New comment by rowanG077 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

rowanG077 — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:11:37 +0000

This was 20 years ago from what I can find. Beside that Linux now is a vastly different codebase than it was 20 years ago. That effort also did not compile Linux unmodified, it required several changes: https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot_readme.html.

New comment by rowanG077 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

rowanG077 — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:08:30 +0000

Well then as you say a 10-50KLOC C compiler is workable. Could you show me the C compiler that does manage to compile a modern Linux kernel that is of that size?

New comment by rowanG077 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

rowanG077 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:16:14 +0000

The compiler that claude made went way beyond workable. It could compile the full linux kernel afaik. That is much further even beyond standard C.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Futhark by example (2020)"

rowanG077 — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:50:48 +0000

Optimization algorithms. The build in automatic differentiation is great!.

New comment by rowanG077 in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

rowanG077 — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:35:41 +0000

It's fast for sure. But not 5 years of dev time compressed into 30 days fast.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Futhark by example (2020)"

rowanG077 — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:56:10 +0000

Futhark is pretty great! And I have to say that the maintainer is insanely quick. It has happened on more than one occasion that I reported a bug and it's solved within the day. I have been using Futhark in prod for two years now and never had serious problems.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

rowanG077 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:49:24 +0000

> 2. Immutability. Right now distributing games on Linux isn't distributing games "on Linux." It's distributing games to 12 different distros with a hundreds different configurations and a thousand customisations. This is impossible to support. When SteamOS gains traction, developers will be able to target exactly one distro with fixed configurations and limited customisations. Valve will set the standard for other distros.

Steam has already solved that problem. You target steam (not steamOS) and all other distros will do the work for you.

New comment by rowanG077 in "Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics"

rowanG077 — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:30:20 +0000

If you are going to be pedantic, at least be fully pedantic.

New comment by rowanG077 in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

rowanG077 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:15:11 +0000

That's after you have installed their entire build infra + dependencies. They ship their own cargo subcommand.

New comment by rowanG077 in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

rowanG077 — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:37:53 +0000

That's awesome, I didn't know that!