We recently wrote about Torvalds' atypically subtle and nuanced position on the use of LLM bots in coding. It seems that the reasons have suddenly become a little clearer.

Google's Antigravity LLM has been winning other friends of late, including Register columnist Mark Pesce, who wrote that "vibe coding will deliver a wonderful proliferation of personalized software." Some other big names in the world of FOSS have also come out in favor of LLM coding assistants recently, including Redis creator Salvatore "Antirez" Sanfilippo, who wrote "don't fall into the anti-AI hype." Said hype is, of course, a subject about which Torvalds opined previously.

Torvalds' position has been more moderate, which is not entirely like his former self. He is famed for his outbursts at Nvidia, GitHub, third-party companies, and kernel contributors. We could go on, but you get the picture.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/856407

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Im on windows i would like to have a .exe file which is a 3d viewer, similar to blender.
Which language do i code it?
Which libraries would i need to use?
Note: when i mean creating my own 3d engine i mean that i would do myself the maths, i dont want a prebuild one Thanks

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/848064

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/41409887

I've been building a bytecode VM in Rust and recently implemented NaN boxing for value representation. Sharing here for anyone interested.

I needed all VM values (booleans, integers, string pool indices, bytecode references) to fit in 64 bits (stack is Vec).

My implementation encodes 5 distinct types using a 3-bit tag and 32-bit payload, all within a single u64. It also has 15 unused bits, they may be used later for types expansion.

I'm using a 64-bit layout:

• Bits 63-51: Quiet NaN signature (0x7FFC...)
• Bits 50-18: 32-bit payload (integers, string pool indices, etc.)
• Bits 17-3: Unused/ (15 bits)
• Bits 2-0: 3-bit type tag

So it allows me to have 5 tagged types: TRUE_VAL, FALSE_VAL, STRING_VAL, CALLDATA_VAL, U32_VAL

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Is it even possible? It seems every third-party tool that did it is abandoning the feature and I can't get the deprecated but still present feature to work in Detekt or ktlint. I didn't realise the biggest challenge with Kotlin would be detecting unused import statements so I can easily remove them.

Edit: Thanks for the help everyone, but I could not get anything working so I eventually just did it manually with a little help from the android linter.