Cool language! What language and library is this?
Looks like a lisp? Here's the library I think they're using (and wrote): https://github.com/ianthehenry/bauble
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foota commented on Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph ampcode.com/news/amp-inc... · Posted by u/pdubroy
I’d love to know the internals here. Is equity being split? Seems like a legal minefield to split a company like this.
Amp was built by Sourcegraph, so I assume all investors and employees of Sourcegraph now get equity in Amp?
I have no insight, but I would assume it's a 1-1 sort of split, that is that everyone that previously had one share of sourcegraph now has one share of sourcegraph and one of amp? That seems like the least legally fraught way to do it.
foota commented on Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables nkinternet.com/2025/12/08... · Posted by u/Bezod
My understanding is that there are three mobile networks in North Korea: the normal one used by the citizens (they have smartphones made specifically for North Korea), one used by the government/military and one for tourists (requires a local SIM card only available in a specific hotel in Pyongyang).
The last one is connected to the internet and this is why you can see (or at least before the pandemic could see) Instagram posts from North Korea.
I have no idea if this information is still or ever was completely true though.
There's a somewhat dated but very interesting AMA on Reddit by an American teaching computer science in Pyongyang:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ucl11/iama_american_...
Reading about the internet knowledge possessed by North Korean students, I'm always surprised how they supposedly also manage to be some of the most cunning and evil actors when it comes to hacking.
Re: "I'm always surprised how they supposedly also manage to be some of the most cunning and evil actors when it comes to hacking."
I sort of suspect this is just the result of a nation state that is willing to be a pariah. That is, I think nearly any large state could do it if they didn't mind burning bridges.
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The Wikipedia redirect is apparently dead (https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Shadow_clone&redirect=no) and the main page for Naruto doesn't show anything about shadow clones.
Care to explain the reference? Do people dress up like a character from the TV show and help out people or what's going on?
It's an ability from the show: https://naruto.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Clone_Technique.
foota commented on CATL expects oceanic electric ships in three years cleantechnica.com/2025/12... · Posted by u/thelastgallon
Is it possible that this phenomenon is specific to people with those mental illnesses? A wider general population study resulted in the inverse effect:
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/6/1354
I only did a postgraduate degree, so I don't have the practice reading scientific studies to determine which is true. Maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in?
Idk about the op study, but I could imagine confounders with instant coffee consumption.
foota commented on MinIO is now in maintenance-mode github.com/minio/minio/co... · Posted by u/hajtom
You would be incorrect, LWN tracks statistics about contributor employers for every Linux kernel release and their latest post about that says that "(None)" (ie unpaid contributions) beat a number of large companies, including RedHat by the lines changed metric, or SUSE by the changesets metric.
Well yes, but the vast majority of changes (~95%, by either changes or lines) seem to be from contributors supported by employers.
foota commented on GSWT: Gaussian Splatting Wang Tiles yunfan.zone/gswt_webpage/... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
This is neat and I don't want to be too snarky, but I had to chuckle as the specificity of "However, extending 3DGS to synthesize large-scale or infinite terrains from a single captured exemplar—remains an open challenge.".
> based on pure vibes
The tweet gives their justification; CUDA isn't ASIC. Nvidia GPUs were popular for crypto mining, protein folding, and now AI inference too. TPUs are tensor ASICs.
FWIW I'm inclined to agree with Nvidia here. Scaling up a systolic array is impressive but nothing new.
Sure, but their company's 4.3 trillion valuation isn't based on how good their GPUs are for general purpose computing, it's based on how good they are at AI.