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its a lesser-know fact that LLMs are SOTA at lossless string compression

This isn't strictly correct: you probably mean wrt compressed size. Compression is a tradeoff between size reduction and compression and decompression speed. So while things like Bellard's tz_zip (https://bellard.org/ts_zip/) or nncp compress really well they are extremely slow compared to say zstd or the much faster compression scheme in the article. It's a totally different class of codec.

Oh no even the nobel prize has become politicized :(


I will never update to tahoe. if it becomes forced I'll switch to linux idgaf


skill issue


maybe the issue is that you site bigtop.co.za literally does not load


I'm not


Why not? Cost? Inexperience? Bad outcomes?


try gemini voice chat


its called dataclass


This is great because it means someday (possibly soon) Linux development will slowly grind to a halt and become unmaintainable, so we can start from scratch and write a new kernel.


You can start from scratch and write a new kernel now! Nothing's stopping you.


Ideally in Rust.


Or you can take this as a sign that the linux kernel adapts modern programming languages so that more programmers can contribute :)


> the linux kernel adapts modern programming languages so that more programmers can contribute :)

I'm eagerly awaiting the day the Linux kernel is rewritten in Typescript so that more programmers can contribute :)


even with 90% of c++ features banned, the language remains ~5x larger than every other programming language


Check C# 10, Python 3.14, D, Haskell,...


I don't consider C# a very large language. Most of what has been added removed boilerplate code. Swift, a much younger language, is way more complicated IMO


Someone doing maintenance work on C# project might find code going all the way back to C# 1.0.

Also improvements to low level programming, being done since C# 7, a few semantic changes, aren't for removing boilerplate code.

Then since a language is useless without its standard library, there have beem plenty of changes on how to do P/Invoke, COM interop, development of Web applications, and naturally knowing in what release specific features were introduced.


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