Arainach

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541.
by Arainach 11mo ago
To avoid the advent calendar, this may be more useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Exempt temporarily. Very temporarily. This is a standard boiling the frog playbook: * No more remote hires * Mandate non-remote employees into office (Instagram is here) * Mandate remote employees who live within X miles of office return t
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by Arainach 11mo ago
If you want human readable, there are text representations of protobuf for use at rest (checked in config files, etc.) while still being more efficient over the wire. In terms of human effort, a strongly typed schema rather than one where y
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by Arainach 11mo ago
What issues did you have? In my experience, most things that could be called painful with protobuf would be bigger pains with things like JSON. Making changes to messages in a backwards-compatible way can be annoying, but JSON allowing you
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>Castles and cathedrals and city walls and the like don't fall down unless you intentionally ignore or obfuscate a ton of cracking a slumping and things moving, etc, etc. There are many failure modes other than gradually cracking an
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by Arainach 11mo ago
It was often neither intuition nor improvisation, but rules. Bill Hammack's "The Things We Make" goes into a number of examples. For a slightly more modern example, take European Gothic Cathedrals. People weren't guess
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by Arainach 11mo ago
You'll never see cheats banned in real time - that provides an enormous amount of data to cheat developers to allow them to quickly learn to evade your detection. Bans after the fact in large batches are the only sustainable way to go
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by Arainach 11mo ago
When full disclosure of the truth means that people will panic and cause bigger harms, you have to take the good of society into consideration. "Ducking and covering" isn't going to do anything in a nuclear strike, but if tel
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by Arainach 11mo ago
At no point did "democracy" or its principles come into this discussion. Democracy does not mean universal disclosure. It never has. If your claim is that giving people access to "all the information" will allow them t
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Yes, when the alternative is "our entire healthcare system is collapsing because an incredibly contagious disease infected a significant percentage of our healthcare professionals and more patients because the healthcare professionals
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by Arainach 11mo ago
The TP hoarding was indicative of known trends, not a shocking revelation about the state of American culture. Hoarding and gouging bottled water during hurricanes, ticket scalping at arenas, high frequency trading - our entire society is
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by Arainach 11mo ago
You're adding words that aren't there. If in the past they could do 98% of their job without political influence most people would describe that as being free to do their jobs without influence. If there's now political hacks
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by Arainach 11mo ago
This is the same society that was already hoarding *toilet paper*. There is a very strong streak of selfishness in American culture, so telling people "here's all the information, now be nice and don't ruin things for everyo
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by Arainach 11mo ago
"largely" does not mean "completely".
555.
by Arainach 11mo ago
It didn't for decades until bad actors spewing lies worked to spread distrust in the system.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Not while it's mounted. This is akin to complaining that on Linux if you unplug a flash drive and plug in a different one that second drive could "steal" /mnt/sdb1 or whatever.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Isn't a publicly advertised private leaderboard - especially with cash prizes - against the new guidance? Certainly the spirit of the guidance. >What happened to the global leaderboard? The global leaderboard was one of the largest
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by Arainach 11mo ago
It's often easy to blame the humans in the loop, but if the UX is poor or the procedures too complicated, then it's a systems fault even if the humans technically didn't "follow procedure".
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>Yeah, but we can self-host them Who is "we", and what are the actual capabilities of the self-hosted models? Do they do the things that people want/are willing to pay money for? Can they integrate with my documents in O
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>Yes code and capital are both "tools". But you can't just right some code and install cameras at every corner. You need some political influence to do so. And capital buys you this influence. You absolutely can. Tiny twe
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by Arainach 11mo ago
>How come people are able to use the capital to influence life of other people in all ways possible to their liking? This sentence applies to "code" as well as to "capital"
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by Arainach 11mo ago
You've misunderstood the point of historical absentee analysis and rhe banality of evil. It is comforting to think that there is a group of "evil people" who are innately different, but most evil is done by people similar to
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by Arainach 11mo ago
What in that article makes you think a generation is shorter? * Turing: September 2018 * Ampere: May 2020 * Hopper: March 2022 * Lovelace (designed to work with Hopper): October 2022 * Blackwell: November 2024 * Next: December 2025 or later
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Eh. Their messaging is immature here, but you don't need to be on the biggest thing - especially when you have a limited set of contributiors, not millions. It is deeply unfortunate that Git won instead of Mercurial and even more unfor
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by Arainach 11mo ago
It's not even appropriate there. Ventilation should be determined by the fan, not the aperture. Even in Miami, I don't want the entire bathroom floor flooded, and I want to be able to close the curtain/door and increase the
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by Arainach 11mo ago
This is nonsense. Among other things, the YouTube app on Apple TV is superior to the one on Android TV. No loud startup sound, the back button exits the app rather than popping up a menu asking "if I'm sure" or if I want to
567.
by Arainach 11mo ago
I regularly edit (RAW) photos from a Nikon Z8 on both a M2 Macbook Pro and a Windows Machine (either desktop with good monitor or Surface Laptop Studio 2) and do not notice a difference.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
8 bits and no transparency is good enough for many 9s worth of the photos people take. I have a calibrated HDR monitor. I have a camera that can shoot in 12bit color. And what HDR support does is just cause me pain. I don't find it b
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by Arainach 11mo ago
A local maximum by definition cannot be a global minimum. A local maximum has to be higher than things around it, which are part of the global space.
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by Arainach 11mo ago
Old doesn't mean outdated. TCP is ancient and we still use it for a bunch of stuff. JPEG is good enough, not encumbered by IP concerns, and universally supported. That makes it better than an alternative that is "better" in

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