GuB-42

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by GuB-42 2mo ago
First thing is that Facebook makes money by showing ads, not by selling the product shown on the ad. Second thing is that besides a small minority of people who refuse to buy advertised products out of spite, some would be blockers still do
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
I guess someone complained about memory safety and they intend to rewrite hepatitis in Rust. Not everything has to be rewritten in Rust! Hepatitis is a virus, C is much better suited for that kind of project, Rust is for fungal diseases, no
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Why not just stop buying Sony instead? Consoles have been a captive market since after the video game crash of 1983, and that's in part what has help the industry come back on track, by having manufacturers keep crap out of their platf
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
The time we live in is a bubble. Cursor, a company that developed a fork of VSCode that uses AI models they don't own on hardware they don't own got bought for $60B, compare with JetBrains, a company that actually makes some of th
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
I don't disagree, but Mistral is hardly a "rich player" in the current AI bubble. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and X are each valued at a trillion or more. Mistral is valued at $20B, 50x less. Even Deepseek is several time
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
C is not "extremely concise". Lisp, and especially APL both predate C and are more concise. To me, the "killer feature" of C is UNIX, we can't really separate them, C won because UNIX won and vice versa. Other than
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Only working memory (the writable part) has to be isolated between users of a shared component. Modern OSes and MMUs do it well. 2 processes using a shared OpenSSL library won't be able to peek at each other. At best, one process may b
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
I am not on Windows 11 so I can't really tell. And even if I did, I may be in a different situation than yours, we may not be running the same apps so what is shared can be different. As for the "piggybacking" it is not reall
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Putting aside the fact that it is horribly bloated. Accurately measuring RAM usage is tricky, there are several measurements, and no "right" one. It is clear from the article that what eats up so much RAM is not the weather app it
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
In short, a titanic event...
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It is not a very energetic event for its size. The iceberg is floating, it can't accumulate a lot of potential energy before flipping, so when it happens, there is not enough to make big waves. The center of gravity of the iceberg bare
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It certainly is a problem for the guts of some people. There is a hilarious Amazon review describing the effects of sugar-free gummy bears in rather graphic details. https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1kt
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
What I was trying to say is that if no one is available to make an arrest, you can't make an arrest. Why do you think people get away with minor traffic offenses all the time, something right in front of an officer? There simply isn&#x
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
I am playing devil's advocate here, but mass surveillance can also save you. Let's say your just broke up with your girlfriend, shortly after, her house get burgled and a bunch of jewelry is stolen, including some you gave her whe
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Firefox mobile supports extensions, including uBlock Origin, there are also some ad-blocking Chromium forks. But I agree, on mobile, there is significant friction, for instance, I don't know any of them that can sync with your Google a
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It is called the halo effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect More generally, if someone is good at something (here, basketball), or even just because he is tall, attractive,... we instinctively assume that h
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
With the difference that casual unprotected sex is enjoyable. That ad blockers improve security is a side benefit, most people, me included install ad blockers because ads are annoying. Ad blockers are one of these rare cases where security
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Certainly not in news (as in newspapers). There is a reason we are saying "no news is good news". And it is not just because of the negativity bias. Things that work as they should don't make the news. I mean, take Ukraine an
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Same idea with Stack Overflow solutions before that. But I don't just retype that code verbatim, I rewrite it in my style, add or remove comments, add or remove some checks, sometimes even tweak the algorithm. I want to own the thing.
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
I have heard this news many times, technically not wrong, but each time with a different metric. This time it is production over a year. It reminds me of the Voyager probes that left the solar system half a dozen times, each time taking a d
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
Raku worked on this. As the Perl successor, they gave regex a lot of attention. The result still look like regex, but more powerful and with a more consistent syntax. They also made "/x" the default, which ignores unescaped w
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
For the first questions, I think the reason most people answer like they do is that when you ask a question in the form "if we change A, what happens?", the implication is that no other relevant variable has changed. And sure enou
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
> Vim is one major exception to the automatic update problem. Except for one thing that pissed me off a great deal. I am not a true vim user, though I use it from time to time, because it is everywhere and it works through ssh. At some p
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
To me, that's a totally normal way of using computers. Repeating tasks is what computers do best, AI or not. Take chess engines of the "deep blue" era for instance. These engines are stupid, trying millions of moves that are
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
From a return on investment perspective, it is not great. Bank accounts are convenient and safe, but you pay the price with low interest rates. But if you don't intend to touch that money for 18 years, you don't need the ability t
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
But is there a not-simple metric? The advantage of "publish or perish" is that it is based on something concrete. The system is gamed, for sure, and even more so with AI, but still, a paper which is cited a lot tend to be useful a
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
While I agree with the idea, the math is misleading. Going 1mph faster on the 100-foot turn may be faster overall than going 1mph faster on the 1/4-mile straightaway if the speed difference is large enough. Ex: - 1/4-mile at 100 m
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
It is actually the opposite, RTGs use plutonium-238, which is much more radioactive than the plutonium-239 used in bombs. And it is a problem because it will blow up before you can assemble enough of it to make a big nuclear explosion. In a
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by GuB-42 2mo ago
The problem with the stuff that powers mars rovers (RTG) is that gives off constant power. If your RTG gives off 100W, you will always get 100W, no more, no less, until it progressively decays on the scale of decades. You can't even tu
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by GuB-42 3mo ago
Reading the title, I expected something about mounting fans to the headset. An effect of the heat wave, maybe.

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