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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Personally I think genetics and evolution are highly fascinating topics and we should do much more research. I'd love to have some glow-in-the-dark tobacco plants in my yard. Why not?! But realistically there is just too much irrationa
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
On the other hand fertile GMOs will sooner or later mix into the surrounding nature, compete with local plants and undergo "normal" evolution. This might be undesirable. Another consideration is that optimizing one or two features
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Still waiting for the Bicentennial Man story to happen with an agentic LLM specialised in judicial tasks. The perfect chance for AI Harrison Ford.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
We're getting the Blade Runner future without flying cars :(
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
But who decides what is "worth" it and what isn't? Driving around in an electric car "generates" carbon credits while biking or staying at home doesn't. None of these activities remove carbon from the atmospher
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
We have a similar push for RTO here in Germany as well where the usual U.S. centric reasons don't apply (tax break law has not changed; we're still semi-ZIRP at 2%, no H1B visas, outsourcing is not a major trend either as many com
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Unfortunately games are the most common demanding multithread applications. Studios throw a binary over the fence and then get dissolved. Seems to be the way the entire industry operates. Maybe more ISA diversity will incentivize publishers
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
It's already big in esoterism. A relative of mine was reading some book which upon closer inspection turned out to be a direct ChatGPT printout (yes with the prompts included). Feels so wrong in physical book form.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Maybe that's why Servo got the boot?
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
The best language to handle unusual JSON correctly would probably be Python. It has arbitrary size integers, mpmath for arbitrary precision floats and good Unicode support.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
KDE is great! After Windows 7 I jumped to various Linux distros but the desktop UX/stability always felt like a downgrade until I ended up with Manjaro+KDE. It just works and gives me peace of mind. Once I was on a long-distance train
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
This has still nothing to do with the language or kernel exploits. Only code execution on a valuable host matters. You could make a malicious Rust crate that on installation runs a Python shell and injects JavaScript into your browser to ex
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
It's trivial to run an exploit shell from almost any language when you have non-sandboxed code running on the target machine.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
> The organization provides the incentives, shapes the data used in the decision process, [...] Exactly! And who sets those incentives? Imagine if Satya Nadella was an avid Windows power user that thinks having a vertical tab bar is the
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Wrong, there is always somebody responsible. It may not be an explicit decision but somebody let it happen. I've personally witnessed this at work and for lack of better terms call it "leadership by weakness". Initiatives to
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
They could make it configurable. You can have your cake and eat it too in this situation. I don't like KDE's default settings but it took me a mere seconds to get the desktop I like. Of course this is not a new idea and how it use
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Moore's law has slowed but it's still going. Future hardware will be an order of magnitude more powerful at the same price.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
So humans lost the fur to outcompete other animals through superior evaporative cooling. No big deal because we're all in Africa. Then we moved north and did not get enough sunlight anymore for metabolic processes. Easy solution, we ju
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Bit manipulation instructions are great for high-performance code, too, because they allow conditional computing without branching. Some real-world examples in simdjson: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.08318
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
It's just shorthand for "level 2 cache", "level 3 cache", "instruction cache" and "data cache".
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Online banking in the browser is hardly a new invention. It works fine, today. The only noticeable difference between most apps and websites nowadays is offline capability and deeper system integration. Native apps have been dumbed down so
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
There has to be a threshold where enshittification has been pushed so far that nerd software becomes the thing cool kids boast about running. Where a less restricted device can do cool things nobody else can do.
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Condor Computing's Cuzco, a High-Perf RISC-V Design at Hot Chips 2025(servethehome.com)
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Time for a Steam Phone. Or FirefoxOS reloaded. The general purpose mobile computing market must be sizeable. I cannot believe everybody just puts up with these increasingly draconic restrictions.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Assuming you don't have to carry your food... 4.1 million calories would be around 0.5 tons of olive oil.
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
An error is better than silent corruption, sure. But there is no silent corruption when you pass the data as opaque bytes, you just get some placeholder symbols when displayed. This is how I see the file in my terminal and I can rm it just
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Thanks for your reply. I understand that encoding the character set in the type system is more explicit and can help find bugs. But forcing all strings to be UTF-8 does not magically help with the issue you described. In practice I've
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> If you stuff random binary data into a string, Go just steams along, as described in this post. > Over the decades I have lost data to tools skipping non-UTF-8 filenames. I should not be blamed for having files that were named befor
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
Why not use utf8.ValidString in the places it is needed? Why burden one of the most basic data types with highly specific format checks? It's far better to get some � when working with messy data instead of applications refusing to wor
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by 0x000xca0xfe 1y ago
I'm not advocating for ASCII-everywhere, I'm for bytes-everywhere. And bytes can conveniently fit both ASCII and UTF-8. If you want to restrict your programming language to ASCII for whatever reason, fine by me. I don't need

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