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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Turns out that I rarely need to know sizes or indices of a UTF8 string in anything other than bytes. If I write a parser for instance, usually, what to know is "what is the sequence of byte between this sequence of bytes and that seque
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
> Calling into C libraries from Rust is extremely easy Calling the C function is not the problem here. It is dealing with the big data structure this function returns in a Rust-friendly manner. This is something Protobuf does very well,
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
1980s: 1 packet per keystroke is too much, we must find a solution to bundle them together, for efficiency (see Nagle's algorithm, delayed ACK), also let's send everything in plaintext, including passwords 2020s: ha! with some adv
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
> Why does HN love analogies? Because HN is like a child and analogies are like images
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> BTW what makes you think writing their end in C would yield even higher performance? C is not inherently faster, you are right about that. But what I understand is that the library they use works with data structures that are designed
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What I find particularly ironic is that the title make it feel like Rust gives a 5x performance improvement when it actually slows thing down. The problem they have software written in Rust, and they need to use the libpg_query library, tha
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I certainly can't memorize Homer's work, and why would I? In exchange I can do so much more. I can find an answer to just about any question on any subject better than the most knowledgeable ancient Greek specialist, because I can
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
If there is no in-house storage to match, how does it help the grid? It is still needed for cold winter nights, where demand is high and solar panels produce nothing. Hydro can provide the power, but the grid will be running at full load.
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> One thing I like about JPEG-XL is that it supports all kinds of weird image formats. And it is probably the reason why browser vendors disliked it. Lots of complexity, it means a big library, which is high maintenance with a big attack
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What kind of pictures can starlink would take? When I look at pictures of starlink satellites, I don't see a camera. Maybe they have one, but if we can't see it, it is most likely useless for observation, except for taking pretty
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Maybe it has changed but Google doesn't look like it uses litigation as its primary weapon. It defends itself but rarely attacks. The are however more than happy to use technical measures, like blocking accounts. And because of their p
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Reinforcement learning. People like being told they are right, and when a response contains that formulation, on average, given the choice, people will pick it more often than a response that doesn't, and the LLM will adapt.
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Software tools are not really tools like a knife. They are more like cooking recipes. Traditionally, people don't pay for cooking recipes, they may pay for cookbooks, that is a nice packaging around the recipes, or they may keep their
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
> If they really care about security at this level then they should ban all non in person voting methods. Many countries do exactly that, sometimes with a few exceptions (ex: expats, disabilities, ...). One problem with internet voting t
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I remember some startups trying to install cryptominers in people homes, the idea was to use the electricity that would be spent heating the space anyways. The company would pay for the mining hardware while the customer would provide the e
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I remember at the time that donating CPU time was considered trivial. Not so much today. At the time of SETI@home, a typical CPU used maybe 20W at full load, fans usually ran at constant speed, and power management was much more primitive.
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
I think you are giving executives too much credit. All the people you cited are just business managers. Multi-billion dollar public companies are not startups, decisions are the result of comities, shareholder meetings, and consequences of
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by GuB-42 9mo ago
Yes, it is common knowledge, but you need to get that information from somewhere in the first place, and why not a LLM? And sometimes, common knowledge may be wrong, so it doesn't hurt to use LLMs, search engines and other sources to c
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While it is a "massive endeavor", it is not impossible, it essentially amounts to writing portable code. A computer is a computer, and most of the tech stack in US cloud providers is based on open source projects. Not depending on
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I consider the early years of 3d acceleration to be pretty bad days for the demoscene on the "high end" side. Problem was that fixed pipelines were seriously limiting. Most of the cool effects of software rendering couldn't b
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> many viewers focused on the chaos, the motion, and the unmistakable early MTV energy of the piece It certainly moves around a lot! It certainly looks like the tech and art style here are indissociable. Not only the use of Gaussian Spla
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And there is an entire discussion about that, a vote and 17 citations! https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276887484#Langua... When you can't eliminate bias completely, as I think it is the case here, the
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I also didn't expect that, but then I realized that's the work of a teenage boy with a catholic education! Teenage boys love badass, edgy stuff. And what's badass and edgy in Catholicism? Demons! As for the art style, it is t
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> The days when actual UI/UX innovation was a thing? There is more than enough of it. Now it is, of course, AI agents. Before that, Material Design was quite innovative. Interestingly, with the raise of search engines and later LLMs
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Is there a single source that is not manipulated on these topics? For example in Ukraine, it is very obvious that both western mainstream media and Russian mainstream media are little more than propaganda for their respective camps. The goo
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I didn't notice this, in fact, I still find Wikipedia to be remarkably neutral on controversial topics. It is very explicit about not being a news website, and yet, that's where I find the best coverage for hot topics like the war
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AI works well for one kind of documentation. The kind of documentation no one reads, that is just here to please some manager, or meet some compliance requirement. These are, unfortunately, the most common kind I see, by volume. Usually, th
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And that's exactly the same for coding! Coding is like writing documentation for the computer to read. It is common to say that you should write documentation any idiot can understand, and compared to people, computers really are idiot
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The thing with Cybertrucks losing panels certainly didn't help. A big part of the Cybertruck marketing was the robustness of its unusual design: exoskeleton! space grade materials! They smashed the door with a hammer and it didn't
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> For any electronic device you purchase a small tax is collected and used for the recycling and collection of the future waste it will generate. I call bullshit on these initiatives. It is a tax, period. The government collects money an

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