Jweb_Guru

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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
"People who don't want KYC/AML checks" are not necessarily money launderers, and there are still plenty of people who just want to speculate. But money launderers are the people who need to send vast amounts of money
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
No. The entire crypto ecosystem requires a steady infusion of capital and an absence of regulations to prosper, since their primary use case outside of speculation is for handling money by people who can't get past normal KYC/AML
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
That was incredibly corrupt and many Democrats in fact "dropped [their] jaws." And it's not the only instance of political corruption like this, either (Bill Clinton notoriously did something similar). Neither of these case
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
The prosecution was not political lol, he went out of his way to support money laundering on the Binance platform. The reason he complied with the prosecution and pled guilty rather than try to fight it out in court was that they were ab
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
It just drives me nuts when I see people say things like "yeah I asked ChatGPT about this extremely famous open problem, wish me luck!" Like what do you expect to happen exactly with an engine that can't even consistently ke
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
I felt like I was going crazy when people uncritically accepted the original claim from OpenAI. Have people actually used these models?
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
"Lifetimes" didn't exist before. Region typing did, but it was not accompanied by a system like Rust's borrow checker, which is essential for actually creating a usable language. And we simply did not have the tooling
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Yeah I am also doing more "PhD-ish" stuff which I think is informing why I prefer Gemini. I think the reality is that most people aren't doing anything particularly novel so stuff other than the LLM's raw "reasonin
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
> Can you give an example? One that remained a low level language, and remained ergonomic enough for practical use? They can't, of course, because there was no such language. Some people for whatever reason struggle to acknowledge
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
It's definitely not just you. Gemini is the only one that's consistently done anything actually useful for me on the kinds of problems I work on (which don't have a whole lot of boilerplate code). Unlike the other models it
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
All these features sound really awesome and would also benefit many non-kernel cases (especially generalized projections). Very happy to see Linux driving the language forward.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Games have tons of opportunities for parallelism (outside of rendering which is obviously embarrassingly parallel) if they are designed for it from the getgo. Unfortunately, most game engines make decisions up front that force much of thei
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Gemini 2.5 Pro is okay if you ask it to work on a very tiny problem. That's about it for me, the other models don't even create a convincing facsimile of reasoning.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
It is.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
One of the most practically important papers out there, I wish it were better known (but fortunately I think the "right" people know about it).
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
People are allowed to have whatever opinions they want, sure. I've seen numerous advocates of Zig defend the idea that "in practice" it is about as memory safe as Rust, something that's clearly not true. That's th
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
People keep thinking that even though Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. with all the incentive and tooling in the world couldn't evade one of the few replicable results in programming languages (people can't reliably write memory saf
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
I agree with you in general, but we understand enough of the mechanisms for how selective pressure occurs that we know it is often not the deciding factor in population-level changes. For example, the smallest and most rapidly replicatin
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Entirely case by case. It's further confounded by the fact that a bunch of things that are bad for us don't exert strong selective pressure in the first place.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
I know that's not true because takeout containers certainly leak more than 5% of the time.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
SSI scales fine for most workloads as long as you correctly mark your read-only transactions.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Yeah the real answer here is that this is what AEADs are for.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
I agree that it seems like an extraordinarily difficult problem, but I don't find this particular dismissal convincing. It's much easier to reject something potentially unsafe than it is to generate something safe. That's t
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Yes, but unlike most of the proposed solutions to this problem, this one was (1) seriously considered prior to the release of Rust 1.0, and (2) wouldn't have caused major changes to the way most people write Rust programs in practice.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
`.clone()` is usually implemented in terms of `Copy`, but the real problem that I don't know how to solve without `Copy` is the use of references. Every time you call a function on a shared reference (including the one used by `clone`
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
I think a version of Rust in which catching panics is unsafe would be entirely justifiable and probably should have been more strongly considered.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
I'm actually unconvinced you could do without `Copy`. It's both in the core of the language and essentially required for stuff like shared references to work correctly. Copying could be replaced by a keyword instead of happening
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
Yeah embassy has improved tons recently. This is because embedded Rust is receiving a lot of investment from industry, embedded engineers desperately want a real C alternative there.
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
RocksDB diverged from LevelDB a long time ago at this point and has had extensive work done on it by both industry and academia. It's not a toy database like LevelDB was. I can't speak to the problems they're supposedly hid
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by Jweb_Guru 1y ago
C also has lots of undefined behavior that lets compilers make assumptions they have a very hard time proving in safe languages. C++ takes this even further with stuff like TBAA. Sure it doesn't give the compiler as much to work wit

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