FartyMcFarter

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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
> They were so close to getting it right. The philosophy of C++ is to not introduce unnecessary overhead, and to trust the programmer. This design choice is prevalent throughout the language. They were never going to make an exception, e
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Programmers are notoriously nitpicky, and avoid making absolute statements in most cases (wait, I'm doing it too!). This is because we've been trained to be humble by the machines we work with. Computers expose a lot of our mistak
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
That still doesn't make it a good comparison. The salt emitted by desalination plants is already in the sea now, it's not salt that went somewhere else.
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Why is it akin to that? Doesn't the salt come from the sea in the first place?
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Yeah. Worrying about salt in the sea is like worrying about oxygen in the air. Can too much oxygen in the air sometimes be a problem? Yeah, in some corner cases. Is it a major problem that we can't solve? Not at all.
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by FartyMcFarter 4mo ago
Android Java apps' memory consumption is definitely a relevant concern.
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
I may have missed this in the article, but: What was the net effect of the optimisations? How much faster did it get?
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
The mindset of law breaking probably carries across jurisdictions.
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UK's rudest chalk figure gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain(bbc.co.uk)
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
As long as there's an RPC connection established and a partially sent request, I think it would count.
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
If any company announces that they use token consumption as an employee performance signal, for me that's close to a red flag to stay away from that company. No company with good engineering leadership should act like this is remotely
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
Everything about this story is so satisfying, that if I read it in a lesser source I would be doubting it. The person finding the baby was the person who eventually adopted him. The judge asking the guy to adopt the baby was the same judge
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
https://archive.is/0wi6J
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
Both of them contained a search algorithm that explored some moves from each considered position, usually not all moves. Both of them contained logic (learned or programmed) to evaluate moves and/or positions. The differences between t
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
Yeah, and back then people moved the goal posts too, saying Deep Blue was just "brute-forcing" chess (which isn't even true since it's not a pure minimax search).
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
> One in three employers spent more on restaffing than they saved from the original layoffs. That is not efficiency. That is a wire transfer with extra steps. Well written :)
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
It seems this particular company makes a payment for completing those tasks, so it might not be that bad.
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
As someone without strong feelings on Linux vs Windows (I've used and developed on both about equally): this kind of news, along the way Windows has been changing has me wondering if I should change my primary desktop environment at ho
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
That's true, but I don't know if this one was ever a good measure in the first place. People use AI differently and they can be equally productive with a variety of token usage quantities. Also, different kinds of work are differe
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
> The old open-source bargain had a positive feedback loop. You pick Python because it’s easy. You find a bug in a dependency. You fix it. > Agents broke that loop in a specific way: the unit of contribution shifted from the patch to
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
Thicc floppy disk. The "Oomerd" button is probably the debugger by the sound of it?
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
It got to the point where people were sarcastically posting "An update on <myself>" when sending goodbye emails.
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
The FOMO is real with execs and AI.
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
$1000 budget doesn't mean you spend $1000 if you use nothing.
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
If you type 2 asterisks it's rendered as one, it's an escape character mechanism: This text has one asterisk on each side *This one has two on each side*
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by FartyMcFarter 5mo ago
AGI - Ad-generated income.
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by FartyMcFarter 6mo ago
It's not another story, the quality of the reasons for scrapping / upgrading devices is the most important thing here. If the reasons are " the current devices are insecure or likely to become insecure " that's very
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by FartyMcFarter 6mo ago
> It's not even possible to pass too few arguments to a function in C unless you go out of your way to write bad code. This article is exclusively about undefined behaviour. "Bad code" is already baked into the assumptions
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by FartyMcFarter 6mo ago
The sooner we start making devices ready for better encryption systems, the fewer devices will be wasted.
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by FartyMcFarter 6mo ago
I said this about LLMs a few years ago, and now here we are.

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