GuB-42

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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is not utopia, it is my country, France. And while public healthcare looks better than in the US, it is absolutely not a utopia, from understaffing, bureaucracy and fraud, it is not without problems, even putting aside how much it costs
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I think what (may have) changed is that we now have "acceptable" labels. ADHD is fine, autism is fine, alcoholism, schizophrenia, not great, pedophilia, very very bad, even if you have never acted on a child. I don't remember
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Is it even "music" at that point? It has nothing that I associate with music: rhythm, melody, scale, etc... I don't mean these are unpleasant or uninteresting, but we are stretching the definition of music a bit here. For exa
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by GuB-42 1y ago
All products can be faked, but I thing that GP means "cannot be faked without being obvious". Obvious fakes are not as much of a problem since Amazon has a pretty good return policy. In the "cannot be faked" category, yo
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by GuB-42 1y ago
What is a "fake DSM-5"? It is a book, anyone can copy it, legally or not. Why would someone go out of their way to produce different content if they are going to violate intellectual property anyways, be it trademarks or copyright
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by GuB-42 1y ago
c is constant, the speed of light is not. c is the speed of light in a vacuum, but it is not really about light, it is a property of spacetime itself, and light just happens to be carried by a massless particle, which, according to Einstein
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by GuB-42 1y ago
The way I see it is that grain makes the film look more detailed than it really is, it can also hide compression artefacts and blurriness. I don't know the psychovisuals behind that. Maybe it adds some high frequencies that compression
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by GuB-42 1y ago
"xor ax, ax" is still in use today. The main advantage is that it is shorter, just 2 bytes instead of 3 for the immediate, the difference is bigger in 32 and 64 bit mode as you have to have all these zeroes in the instruction. Sho
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I love the comment that goes with the idea. Sloppy idea, cynical comment, what a perfect representation of Hacker News. Yes, I made a cynical comment, what did you expect? At least, it is mine, not AI generated :)
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is the opposite of the usual process, where workers on the field turn the architect plans into swear words.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
And how do you know it is a link? It is an interesting point, because in 2001, what is a link was usually clear and standardized: blue, underlined, often both, like on the article page. Now, just look at Hacker News, only the links in comme
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> I thought Turing's Test would be a good barometer of AI Depends on what you consider a "Turing's Test". Fooling unsuspecting humans is relatively easy, it has been done with relatively simple software and some trick
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It is complicated, but I think the big thing is that Apple is huge. Not a monopoly, but your may miss >50% of your potential revenue if you take the "other option" of not supporting the Apple ecosystem. But in this case, I stil
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> FAANG isn't going to be hiring at anywhere near the same rate they were before, because they won't need to. They already didn't need to. The reason they hire as much as they do is to keep their lead, essentially denying
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Who is an "AI guy"? The field as we know it is fairly new. Sure, neural nets are old hat, but a lot has happened in the last few years. John Carmack founded Keen technology in 2022 and has been working seriously on AI since 2019.
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Also lead from brass nozzles. I think the risks are overblown, but recommending anything that is not recognized as food-safe for use with food is a liability, better safe than sorry, as they say. There are food safe coatings though, these d
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by GuB-42 1y ago
> Idk how you truly solve this without code audits Idk either, but code audits are definitely a solution. Take Debian packages for instance. Debian has package maintainers, and while they may no do full audits, they will at least test it
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by GuB-42 1y ago
If programmers don't use a debugger, that's because the debugger is bad. For me, the ideal debugger is one you never leave. That is you are in a debugging session, maybe with your code running, or stopped on a breakpoint, and you
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by GuB-42 1y ago
You have "edit and continue" in Visual Studio (the real IDE, not VS Code). And I mentioned it as a downside of C++ on Linux, and I would expect a language that has "the best" tooling to have that. C++ tooling isn'
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by GuB-42 1y ago
How good is the debugger? "edit and continue"? Hot reload? Full IDE? I don't know enough Rust, but I find these aspects are seriously lacking in C++ on Linux, and it is one of the few things I think Windows has it better for
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I went to Japan in 2019 and 2024 and didn't notice a significant difference except for things that are clearly for tourists. The biggest one being the Japan Rail Pass, which almost doubled. An important thing to consider is that the ye
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Also note that the article is about a guesthouse . It is a business and you pay for the service. It is not about getting inside random people homes because whoever is living there is too polite to kick you out. The old lady in the article
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by GuB-42 1y ago
It more like a clarification. The rules regarding the origin of code contributions are rather strict, that is, you can't contribute other people code unless you can make sure that the licence is appropriate. A LLM may output a copy of
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Maybe that violence is just better organized now. Personal violence is declining (assault, murder, ...), but not organized violence (war, genocide, ...).
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I think it is a very underestimated aspect of how "simple" inventions came out so late. An interesting one is the bicycle. The bicycle we all know (safety bicycle) is deceivingly advanced technology, with pneumatic tires, metal tu
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by GuB-42 1y ago
This would appeal the privacy/security crowd, but it is not really Fairphone's market. There are better options if that's what you are looking for, such as the Librem phones. They probably don't want to position themselv
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by GuB-42 1y ago
There are some applications for a new image format, but I agree that what we have is generally good enough. We need good video formats however. Video makes up most of the global internet traffic, probably accounts for a good part of global
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Walmart is big enough to take on Amazon. B&N is no small fry either in the book business. That's what sytelus is complaining about. They (maybe) could do something that is beneficial to the customer and get an edge on Amazon, but t
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by GuB-42 1y ago
Git doesn't what you to have a clean history. Git just stores all the commits in a DAG structure, and then gives you a lot of freedom in what you make of it. The git UI however is notoriously terrible, so your complain about presentati
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by GuB-42 1y ago
I just looked at my water bill, I am at about 150L/person/day, which is about average for my country. It includes drinking, cooking and washing. So less than then the 200+20+2 estimate but not by that much, if you enjoy baths and

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