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by 0x000xca0xfe 7mo ago
My personal theory is that the conditions for life are plentiful in the universe but it probably took an unbelieavable number of random chemical/mechanical events to form the first proto-lifeform. The discovery comes after these
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by 0x000xca0xfe 7mo ago
We could artificially create a sterile, large pool of the ingredients and see what happens. I've read about experiments like this but only at lab beaker scale.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 7mo ago
One longstanding theory is that life first began on Earth when asteroids carrying fundamental elements crashed into our planet long ago. I'm no expert but this sounds strange. Surely those fundamental elements would also form
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
Yes because unaligned load is no problem with SSE/AVX. On my RISC-V OrangePi unaligned vector loads beyond byte-granularity fault so you have to take extra care. AVX shift and shuffle is mostly limited to 128 bits unfortunately for his
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
Unaligned load/store is crucial for zero-copy handling of mmaped data, network streams and all other kinds of space-optimized data structures. If the CPU doesn't do it software must make many tiny conditional copies which is bad f
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
I don't know if it's sheer stubbornness or they're just wired differently. As a German I believe it's more about demographics nowadays. The country and all large companies are run by older people who only saw
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
If you don't keep and cross-reference documents it is really easy to circumvent, e.g. by kids asking their older siblings to sign them up. I don't think a bulletproof age verification system can be implemented on the server side w
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
It's a low clocked (2.1GHz) dual-issue in-order core so obviously nowhere near the real-world performance of e.g. Zen5 which can retire multiple 256-bit or even 512-bit vector instructions per cycle at 5+ GHz. But I find the RVV ISA ju
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
RISC-V chip designers at least seem to be more bullish on vectors. There is seriously cool stuff coming like the SpacemiT K3 with 1024-bit vectors :)
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
I've read many, many science fiction books of that era and they were brimming with an optimism that vanished in contemporary books. There used to be an underlying theme of "humanity will figure it out, even if we make mistakes&quo
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by 0x000xca0xfe 8mo ago
It's not that easy to beat evolution, some will still have kids while those who only care about the fun will die out.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 9mo ago
> We do not work in "trust me bro" territory when it comes to signing software, anymore. I am sorry/not-sorry to say. It is very important to have a chain of trust that goes up somewhere above "goldenarm @ HN". I
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by 0x000xca0xfe 9mo ago
Luckily this board runs with old DDR4 sticks. If you still have some lying around good for you.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 9mo ago
It's part of their secret strategy to turn oldschool Windows dinosaurs into enthusiastic Linux power users. Next they'll introduce middle click pasting.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 9mo ago
We have those maggots (BSFL) sometimes in our compost naturally and I would never eat anything made with them. The problem is not even the animal/maggot itself but the fact that it consumes ANYTHING. Old apples, coffee grounds, house p
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by 0x000xca0xfe 10mo ago
That number isn't very useful either, it really depends on the hardware. Most virtualized server CPUs where e.g. Django will run on in the end are nowhere near the author's M4 Pro. Last time I benchmarked a VPS it was about the pe
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by 0x000xca0xfe 10mo ago
After spending many hours optimizing some routines I now think performance optimization is a great benchmark for identifiying how generally smart an AI is at helping with some specific piece of code. Solutions are quite easy to verify with
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by 0x000xca0xfe 10mo ago
What's so fundamental about marriage? I don't think childless couples (of any gender) should get any societal advantages yet I have no problem working with people that disagree. Why has everything to be black-or-white, left-or-rig
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by 0x000xca0xfe 11mo ago
Sounds great because Zig folks do seem to have a history with rejecting existing tooling for fussy reasons and building their own (really good) stuff. If this forces them to rethink and build a better GitHub, can't wait.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 11mo ago
Notepad++ works pretty well with Wine, too.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 11mo ago
Renewables are cheap but storage isn't.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
If they resubmit you at least have proof that the conversation is completely braindead and the other side is happy to engage in uprofessional behavior and generally wasting time and resources. This should be convincing enough even for a non
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Fight slop with slop. Use an AI to review it in excruciating detail and write a lenghty justification for the rejection. Make sure to really hit a couple thousand words. Maybe getting their own time wasted will teach the submitter about the
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
The only question is now, what comes next. When those kids grow up the current state of affairs might well become the good old times they remember.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Exactly, this rude and insulting behavior is why many people shy away from open source. Not everybody has the time and mental capacity to engage in ideological battles about software architecture. We should really hold more value to keeping
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
But many users were relying on these features. Hence the bug report. This is literally the same as helping a relative to make their computer more secure by turning it off. Problem solved I guess? If you made a mistake by shipping insecure d
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Not just "still use", at least here in Germany our brand new e-invoicing system (mandatory since this year) is built on XML. And XSL is used to validate invoice documents.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
XSLT is not trendy technology but I doubt it's worse than WebBluetooth, WebUSB or WebGL from a complexity/maintenance/security perspective. This change definitely feels like moving a (tiny) step into the direction of turning
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
What a horrible mindset. I'll never understand this "security" argument. It is our responsibility to our users to provide them the most secure option possible as the default. Removing features is not the most secure
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Can you share any details? Like potential year of release?

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