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It's really been a joy using Firefox from source with gentoo for so many years. Every so often I'm reminded by a friend about all the crap Mozilla does with new Firefox versions on the Windows side, especially apparently when it c
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That's long been my favorite Android version of klondike too. But my favorite favorite remains the old Windows 95 Solitaire. I keep a copy around even on Linux through wine to play sometimes on PC. The main reason? I still love the end
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There's also immense resistance to figuring out how to code something if an approach isn't at once obvious. Hence "magic". Sometimes a "spike doc" can convince people. My favorite second-hand instance of this w
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A late reply but it's worth addressing one way of doing this. First, your concern about object not being a valid function or macro isn't relevant at read time. Second, note that Lisp already has similar syntax: '(1 . 2) is es
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> Presumably twisting makes things harder to understand and having more things requires a greater effort at understanding? This is exactly the presumption that is wrong. Sometimes it's right, but often it's not. Programmers are
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I don't think it's fair to dismiss criticism because of skill. I said I think it's a bad book, and my most disliked, but it's not worthless , and if it's all someone has, they can indeed learn things from it even i
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Complexity: things twisted together. You can count the things, and count the twists. When a set of things has fewer twists (or even knots) than another set of things, it's simpler. When you pull on something, if it's attached to o
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Here's mostly from what I wrote down after reading it. Indeed, the "reasonableness" is part of the problem. What's agreeable is mostly only so because it's such a straightforward platitude. "Things that are not
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He also works with a lot more students, with student-sized projects and problems and code lifetimes. He's used his book for classes, I think it's on a level appropriate for a freshman. Both books are bad, but APOSD is my most disl
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Having faster flights could also increase the frequency of such flights, which lowers the impact of a missed flight, which lets people be more loose with getting there early enough.
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Indeed, especially because Krita is terrible for a lot of what I think of as "image editing"; I'd much rather use Gimp for work like that. Though I do quite like the recent AI stuff available to Krita at the moment; e.g. ther
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53104 Maybe dang can change the URL to one of the sources at the bottom, this is too obviously and annoyingly AI-written...
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I'm not so convinced it's that dangerous, but part of that is a naive sense that if they keep doing more dumb lawsuits, that just means it's more likely for a handful of defendants to actually fight them (as here) and win, wh
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https://archive.is/Svzfz Paywall schmaywall
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I don't think that's a great example, as I never heard of "range anxiety" until EVs started to become popular, and it was applied to and admitted by exclusively owners of EVs and also E-bikes. But it's 2025, it was
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It's possibly the most normal successor name they've ever chosen. I like it. I'm picturing someone suggesting "Switch U" and getting thrown out the window like in that meme comic, even though he's often used as
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http://oyhus.no/QuantumMechanicsForProgrammers.html gives a flavor of one possible shape of things. It's pretty intractable to actually compute anything this way.
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I left in 2020 before a bunch of the new dev processes were made and enforced, from what I've heard since the replacements aren't better and at least half sounded insane. Wouldn't surprise me if core teams have lost more than
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To me it seemed like he tried to justify its price as if it were a small part of a $10k setup with lots of RGB lighting but for some reason mainly for watching movies. No one has one just for watching movies, and it's likely more than
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If you don't want to live your own life, you can live it for others. If you get tired of living for others, you can live your life for yourself. There are a lot of philanthropic pursuits that could really use an extra million or two pe
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There's several funny stories of their hiring oddities on HN going back at least 10 years... For myself, I only talked to them about a back-end SWE role, not avionics, but they were the only company to ever ask about my college GPA. (N
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Some, probably not all. Same thing with the dark forest idea: some may buy into it, hard to argue none ever making a grab for more. Having so much more stuff seems like a pretty robust dominant strategy against a bunch of smaller terrifie
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It's "old news" I guess at this point, but the AI Minecraft demo (every frame generated from the previous frame, no traditional "engine") is still the most impressive thing to me in this space https://oas
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It's in gentoo's default portage tree
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The next best time is today. Fortunately for Wyoming, a new nuclear plant started construction just this year. Kemmerer isn't that far from Casper. https://energycommunities.gov/terrapower-nuclear-plant/
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Not exactly, but it's worth the experiment in trying things anyway. Say you currently have a release once every few months, an ambitious goal would be to get to weekly releases. Continuous enough by comparison. But 'lower risk&#x2
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For me it reminds me of Insight, which was my favorite GDB front-end and worked great on Windows back in the cygwin era. Unfortunately it's definitely no longer maintained. https://sourceware.org/insight/screenshot
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Yeah, so it's impressive if this repo does what it claims and is robust to such manipulations. I tried to run it but of course it failed with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 with CUDA capability sm_89 is not compatible with the current P
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I stopped myself from making the printer analogy, but of course it's relevant, as is the fact that few seem to care. I personally hope some group strikes back to sanitize images watermarked this way, with no more difficulty than removi
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Various previous attempts at invisible/imperceptible/mostly imperceptible watermarking have been trivially defeated, this attempt claims to be more robust to various kinds of edits. (From the paper: various geometric edits like ro

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