SoothingSorbet

That sounds fun. I tried to design an assembly game once, but found I lack the creativity to design puzzles/goals that are not just "implement this common algorithm in assembly language". The idea of bootstrapping a PC from virtual firmware and writing an OS sounds nice, though.

> It's uniquely inconsistent (many distinct toolkits with irreconcilable look-and-feel, even in the base system)

While I agree that Windows has long since abandoned UI/UX consistency, it's not like that is unique: On desktop Linux I regularly have mixed Qt/KDE, GTK2, GTK3+/libadwaita and Electron (with every JS GUI framework being a different UI/UX experience) GUIs and dialogs. I'm sure libcosmic/iced and others will be added eventually too.

I still find this explanation confusing because decoder-only transformers still embed the input and you can extract input embeddings from them.

Is there a difference here other than encoder-only transformers being bidirectional and their primary output (rather than a byproduct) are input embeddings? Is there a reason other than that bidirectionality that we use specific encoder-only embedding models instead of just cutting and pasting a decoder-only model's embedding phase?

I wonder, is there a good reason to use Dillo over something like Netsurf or Ladybird nowadays? They support far more of the Web (i.e. more likely to be useful) while still being lightweight.

> but sadly, the secrets of how I am doing it are in Intel’s proprietary cblas_sgemm_batch() function.

Perhaps you can reverse engineer it?

Please explain how you would solve the iterator invalidation problem using only C++ and RAII. Thanks.

> Java solved it with a JAR file

JARs still require a JRE to run, and the runtime needs to be invoked. The equivalent would probably be a Python zipapp (which are just Python files zipped into a .pyz the interpreter can run).

Static binaries are one advantage that languages like Go and Rust have though, yeah.

I love your idea of using it for compression.

I didn't notice a link to any code, would you be open to sharing the code? I'd love to take a look at how you did things and play around with it myself.

Ballmer also gave us the maligned Windows Vista and Windows 8. Microsoft has also been way more open source friendly during Nadella's tenure, whereas Ballmer was openly hostile to FOSS. I'll take Nadella, thanks (although he should fix his user-hostile spyware).

Why managed when it could be in Rust and have both performance and safety?

The Servo shouldn't have ever been laid off. Yes, I'm aware a team is working on it now, but it isn't up to the same speed and enthusiasm as it was when funded by Mozilla, is it?

> 1. non reproducible is there in the API

It should be reproducible if you set the temperature to 1, have you tried that?

> However, the telemetry of VSCode is non-personal metrics

I don't care, I don't want my text editor to send _any_ telemetry, _especially_ without my explicit consent.

> some of the most popular extensions are only available with VSCode

This has never been an issue for me, fortunately. The only issue is Microsoft's proprietary extensions, which I have no interest in using either. If I wanted a proprietary editor I'd use something better.