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by Animats 5mo ago
There's a discussion of "delayed bounds checking", but not "hoisted bounds checking", where bounds checking is done early. Consider let mut tab: [usize;100] = [0;100]; ... for i in 0..101 { ta
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The decline of programming books removed a constraint on programming language complexity. At one point, the basic set of books for Java was six volumes. That's when language books broke down from sheer complexity. The combination of Go
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The antecedent to The Running Man and The Hunger Games .
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> but helmets are a fantastic example of reasonable PPE, not overactive safetyism. Especially with E-bikes, which are operated at higher average speeds.
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The classic phrase is "the heir and the spare".[1] That's why Prince Harry's bio was titled "Spare". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heir_and_spare
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> Time for me to go research the early history of electrification. Yes. Electric utilities were at one time quite powerful, around 1900 or so. Read up on Samuel Insull [1], the early history of antitrust, the Utility Company Holding Act,
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> If we focus only on contingencies, we risk letting the succession of emergencies dictate the direction of our path. That's a maxim for leaders generally. It's quite common for CEOs to spend all their time on managing crises
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Electricity. Eventually, it was everywhere, used by everybody, and a background to society. Electric utilities did not end up ruling the world.
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That's the optimistic viewpoint. It assumes Something Will Be Done. It's unlikely that much will be done in the US over the next few years, because the government is deadlocked and not oriented towards solving problems. The "
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> For me the main advantage of Go over Rust is compilation speed. Interestingly, Rust has quite good failed compilation speed. That's almost good enough. The usual Rust experience is that it's hard to get things to compile, and
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> “this dependency uses a different error framework”. Common in HTTP land. The HTTP system returns a different error type than the network I/O system, but they can be sorted out.[1] [1] https://github.com/John-Nagle&
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> It kept on saying that the "burn rate" wasn't progressing and "we" should refocus our efforts somewhere else. It sounds like a boss. How soon will it be?
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I could see migrating from C or C++ or Python to Rust, for various reasons, but for web back-end work Go is a good match. I write almost entirely in Rust, but the last time I had to do something web server side in Rust, I now wish I'd
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That may be the same problem seen when prompts try to force "alignment" or "guardrails". There's a performance drop. Seemingly, a big chunk of the potential solution space has been made unreachable. For example, if
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Or, in a more modern sense, it would be easy to give an LLM access to its own weights. But it would not be useful.
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> Is it possible even in principle for a conscious entity to have an instinctual understanding and awareness of every low-level detail comprising its design? Access is possible, complexity limits what you can do with it. It's like
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> The US is trending towards a Russian style oligarchy There's a step after that. There's an article in the current Economist about how the Russian oligarchs are being crushed by Putin's cronies and losing their assets.
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About 7.6%.[1] That's Changxin Memory Technologies. That makes them #4 in DRAM, after Samsung, Hynix, and Micron. They're still only a third the size of Micron, the last US manufacturer. They have a lot of scaling up to do, but t
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That was normal US B2B behavior until recently. A supplier that cut off their customers for no good reason would lose their reputation in the industry and have real problems selling. Then we got down to a very small number of major supplier
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This is another place where modern capitalism struggles in an area that requires large capital investment producing payoff after years of startup costs, and the buy side is volatile. We've seen this recently with rare earths, copper, a
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by Animats 5mo ago
There are other movies about the Manhattan Project where Gen. Leslie Groves is the main character.[1] "Fat Man and Little Boy" is probably the most Groves-oriented. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:F
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> Business Plot[1] ... Smedley Butler That's a movie it's time to make. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
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> And of course this will also need the display connection and the rest of the PC DRM'd to hell so can't trivially spoof any of this. That's already in place. That's how High Definition Content Protection (HDCP) works
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This is an alternative to use as a talking point against that.
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Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and dis
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Article needs a reference to whatever someone at Google said. It's a reply/rant only.
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That one, about a member of Congress, has a sex scene in a hot tub. It had movie potential. The Roy Krock movie worked because audiences understand McDonalds. Trying to explain the relationship between R&D policy and defense spending is
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> > But it is another good example that "AI" is just glorified search and there is not reasoning or thinking going on behind the covers. There is false decisiveness. Ask Google: "Is Blue Cruise available for the Ford Br
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"Finally, we are in planning to remove Google Cloud services from our data plane’s hot path, and keeping them only for secondary/failover." That's pretty clear. Google can no longer be trusted as a B2B service provider
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That's fascinating. The article points out that nobody made a movie about this guy. That's mostly because a movie about someone who's an expert at building organizations is boring. Nobody ever made a biopic about Charles Wil

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