Gazoche

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by Gazoche 1y ago
Agreed, coming from Python it's one of the main things I miss in Rust. You can achieve something similar with the builder pattern or with structs + the Default trait, but it takes much more effort.
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by Gazoche 1y ago
Looks like the fake recovery scams have leaked out of X and into HN.
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by Gazoche 1y ago
Oh boy, HSBC. I have never seen a bank with such a byzantine and convoluted login process.
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by Gazoche 1y ago
I heard that was a well-known trick at my old uni dorm. There was a single thermostat for the whole floor so once people figured out where the sensor was, the ones who lived closest to it would often leave packs of frozen food on it.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Called it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42698137 I'll make another prediction: their ultimate goal is to start charging a subscription service for Windows.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Running modern games on Linux requires Vulkan, which has iffy support in MacOS at best (and MacOS isn’t officially supported by Valve’s compatibility tools).
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Ha, I floated the same idea in a random HN comment a few months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40756196
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by Gazoche 2y ago
I wonder how it's even possible to evaluate this kind of thing without data leakage. Correct answers to specific, factual questions are only possible if the model has seen those answers in the training data, so how reliable can the ben
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Oh this is perfect. I was just looking for exercises to practice my SQL, and detective games are my jam.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
There’s no way this will happen any time soon. I work at a billion-dollar EU company that’s balls deep in Azure after a very, very long migration away from on-prem datacenters. Cutting off US-based cloud providers would be chaos of biblical
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Step 1: add online login as an option Step 2: make online login the default option Step 3: make online login mandatory, leave an escape hatch for technical users <we are here> Step 4: remove the escape hatch
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Yeah, venv is really the best way to manage Python environments. In my experience other tools like Conda often create more headaches than they solve. Sure, venv doesn't manage Python versions, but it's not that difficult to instal
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Reminds me of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2115/
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Oof, I'm tired today. Yes I was missing a few zeroes, thanks for the correction :)
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by Gazoche 2y ago
We don't need to go that fast, Voyager 1 is only travelling at 6% of the speed of light. UPDATE: 0.006%, not 6%
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by Gazoche 2y ago
As I started reading your comment I had a hunch it was France - and sure enough. Short train connections are a gamble here, and worse still that risk isn't properly communicated to travelers as the official SNCF trip planner will happi
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by Gazoche 2y ago
> From Paris most of the operators for some distance are part of Railteam and will allow you to travel on the next available train given proof of delay. But that does not help you much if every train for the day is already booked out.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
I don't know, it's just my personal experience. I used the "OSS Code" fork for a few years on Archlinux but Python intellisense kept breaking when I needed it the most, often with one cryptic error or another. Sometimes
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by Gazoche 2y ago
I used to work for a company that makes smart watches with real (software-driven) mechanical hands, and had to write a very similar computer vision program to read the time from those watches and automatically calibrate the position of the
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Compatibility can be iffy though. I eventually switched back to the official VSCode application because I was fed up that extensions kept breaking randomly. I'm worried that Microsoft is succeeding at making the semi-proprietary versio
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Please don't use ChatGPT as a primary source. There's no way to tell if it's making up those facts or not.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
I grew up in a South Pacific country that served as an advanced American base during WW2. A few years ago a massive stockpile (over a hundred) of artillery shells was found at the bottom of the capital's port, right under the dock of a
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by Gazoche 2y ago
> I agree 100% with this sentiment, but, it also is a decent description of individual humans. But humans can be held accountable, LLMs cannot. If I pay a human expert to compile a report on something and they decide to randomly make up
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by Gazoche 2y ago
This is the kind of idea that definitely started with the pun and then was worked backwards from there. Pretty funny. Tip: you can click on the canvas to "disturb" the flies
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by Gazoche 2y ago
And similarly, for Rust: https://github.com/smoltcp-rs/smoltcp I've been using it in a toy OS project and it works brilliantly.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
Until the day they remove the option to create a local admin account. Or force you to login into your online account every XX days.
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by Gazoche 2y ago
> The space race cost hundreds of billions in today's dollars, and AI could do a lot more for/to humanity than put a flag on the moon. That's a weird comparison. The goal of the space race was never to make money, and it w
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by Gazoche 2y ago
> How many games actually only phone home and have been rendered unplayable for that reason? The entire Xbox Series catalog, for starters. You can't even setup the console without phoning to Microsoft's servers. Meaning units
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by Gazoche 2y ago
> The risk of spaceflight is still very high. Wiki [1] lists 676 people as having traveled to space, of whom 19 have died in accidents as a result of that travel, meaning that going to space has about a 3% chance of killing you. But 14 o
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by Gazoche 2y ago
To be fair, there's not as much effort spent on them than, say, Linux desktops, because they will never be suitable as daily driver for the vast majority of people unless full Android compatibility is achieved m.

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