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New comment by soamv in "What I Learned from Reimplementing 40 Multi-Agent LLM Papers"

soamv — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:14:34 +0000

Well, the headline was great. I'd love to read a non-slop version of this article, if anyone were ever to write one.

New comment by soamv in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

soamv — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:43:46 +0000

Which clients?

New comment by soamv in "After delays, Egypt set for lavish opening of grand museum"

soamv — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:13:46 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x73PkUvArJY

New comment by soamv in "Corrosion"

soamv — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:08:46 +0000

> New nullable columns are kryptonite to large Corrosion tables: cr-sqlite needs to backfill values for every row in the table

Is this a typo? Why does it backfill values for a nullable column?

New comment by soamv in "Tracking Copilot vs. Codex vs. Cursor vs. Devin PR Performance"

soamv — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 02:17:17 +0000

This is a great point! But there's an important tradeoff here about human engineering time versus the "learning in the open" benefits; a PR discarded privately consumes no human engineering time, a fact that the humans involved might appreciate. How do you balance that tradeoff? Is there such a thing as a diff that's "too bad" to iterate on with a human?

New comment by soamv in "Litestream: Revamped"

soamv — Wed, 21 May 2025 02:06:29 +0000

Yes, but: https://sqlite.org/wal.html

New comment by soamv in "One Logo, Three Companies"

soamv — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:08:14 +0000

This leaves me with more questions than answers, how did these three companies come up with the idea of using that logo? Did they just independently arrive at same design (seems unlikely)? And how did the trademark registration process go for the second and third companies that registered it?

New comment by soamv in "Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines (2005) [pdf]"

soamv — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:41:10 +0000

It might have, I remember attending a talk by Peter Chen when I was at VMware around that time, and I know there was some kind of collaboration. (I wasn't involved in record-replay at VMware, but I was interested in it due to some ancient work I did with userspace record-replay debugging, https://lizard.sf.net).

rr is fantastic work, mad props! And the multiprocess stuff in pernosco looks super neat.

New comment by soamv in "When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE"

soamv — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 15:03:20 +0000

> Just accept the grief and venting

Maintainers do not owe you this, in addition to maintaining the software that you can use for free. You're entitled to be upset, and they're just as entitled to say "please go somewhere else to vent, we're busy".

New comment by soamv in "CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management"

soamv — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:14:17 +0000

I think you'll get a different distribution of answers to this question from managers and ICs :)

New comment by soamv in "Meta's serverless platform processing trillions of function calls a day (2023)"

soamv — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:30:54 +0000

Here's a link to the actual paper: https://tangchq74.github.io/XFaaS-SOSP23-Final.pdf

New comment by soamv in "An artist fights Midjourney"

soamv — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 02:13:45 +0000

Well, it may be legal to create such a painting, but (depending on details) it may be a derivative work, in which case the original work's copyright still applies.

In other words, in your example, the painter is not necessarily free to distribute their painting while ignoring the original image's copyright.

New comment by soamv in "Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo"

soamv — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:42:51 +0000

Great question. I tried it and I got `elephantmouse`. I was surprised by this, but FWIW I've never encountered this edge case in actual usage.

New comment by soamv in "Show HN: SwaraNotebook – a notation editor for Indian classical music"

soamv — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 00:38:22 +0000

Nice app! How did you source the sounds? Are there permissively licensed tabla and santoor samples somewhere?

New comment by soamv in "Ship Shape"

soamv — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:42:57 +0000

People here testing out the example on this page and reporting errors seem to be missing the fact that this demo is "trained" on one example. The linked paper[0] goes into error rates, and they get better pretty quickly with a few more examples.

[0]https://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/pubs/uist-07.01.pdf , page 8

New comment by soamv in "Alvis: Never Get Paged Again"

soamv — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:35:10 +0000

Yes, and rather nicely done I think. The tagline in the footer is "Give ChatGPT root in prod. What could possibly go wrong?"

New comment by soamv in "Companies That Don't Use AWS Made More Money"

soamv — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 06:12:24 +0000

It's an interesting claim, but the post doesn't even try to support it with any kind of data.

New comment by soamv in "How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bit-level magic (2022)"

soamv — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:33:42 +0000

A chess position, not a game (still very interesting though!)

New comment by soamv in "Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]"

soamv — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:18:59 +0000

The link in my comment is a long read but links to lots of original sources.

New comment by soamv in "Tokyo by Train (2016) [video]"

soamv — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:55:23 +0000

They are privately operated since the 80s, but the vast majority of their initial development was government funded.

As far as I understand the privatized companies are monopolies-- these companies were formed from the JNR by geographic area served (hence "JR East", "JR West" etc.)

The bloomberg story is really light on details for why and how the privatization occurred; for a much more in-depth view, see S.Y. Lee's Substack, for example this post: https://seungylee14.substack.com/p/the-death-and-privatizati...

(An interesting fact is that most of JNR's debt at the time was retained by the government while the assets and revenue were privatized)