Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
> But often enough when I find a root cause of a bug, or some sort of programmed limitation, the client wants removed. I always refuse until I can find out why that code exists. Nobody puts code in there for no reason, so I need to know
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by Karellen 3y ago
I always thought that "confabulate" would have been the best word to describe what LLMs do: > Confabulation is distinguished from lying as there is no intent to deceive and the person is unaware the information is false. Althou
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by Karellen 3y ago
I suspect GP commenter meant "replication study" rather than "peer review". ;-) (Peer review doesn't check if your data is correct. They check your data collection methods make sense given the hypothesis you're
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by Karellen 3y ago
Hey! How do you know how to do that? Nobody can start this car but me, butthead!
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Stuff gets thrown into various orbits. Most of the debris will deorbit quickly, but a small percentage can get a substantial kick and go higher. Only at apoapsis. But, any item thrown into an orbit with a significantly higher apoapsis
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Same rules as the article. The runtime prints Hello World without any input at all. Sorry, I don't understand how the OS decides to load your "helloworld" runtime, instead of e.g. the .NET Framework 4 runtime, to go with
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by Karellen 3y ago
You'd still need a file header (or at least a magic number[0]) that the OS will recognise in order to launch the runtime with your binary. e.g. you'll need an initial "#!" or "\x7fELF" or "MZ" to have
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by Karellen 3y ago
I think the parent commenter's point was that if you change stickers, you can't solve the cube, even if you twist corners. But if you twist corners, you can still "solve" the cube by changing stickers. i.e. changing stic
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by Karellen 3y ago
It shouldn't be. If the fastest way to implement a particular `switch` in assembly is with the equivalent of a set of `if`s, a reasonably smart compiler "should" be able to output the assembly to do that. And I thought that g
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by Karellen 3y ago
Isn't that what groups are for? Facebook has groups, right? You and your mates create a private group for pics of each other acting stupid, and that's where you post them. How is the leakage risk different from using a different w
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by Karellen 3y ago
OK, I'm just old and don't understand the draw of walled-garden social media, but why do people need different walled gardens for (micro)blogs, pictures, and video? Or, why doesn't Meta make the Facebook platform better at do
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by Karellen 3y ago
But also, interestingly: > The Narrator finds redemption at the end of the film by rejecting Tyler Durden's dialectic, a path that diverged from the novel's ending in which the Narrator is placed in a mental institution. > A
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by Karellen 3y ago
https://adversarialfashion.com/
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by Karellen 3y ago
But if you don't trust Mozilla, what made you think that further integration wasn't already going on without you knowing?
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by Karellen 3y ago
Is that a show on ESPN The Ocho?
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by Karellen 3y ago
Lots of English speakers consider "could of" to be acceptable, and have similarly done so for a few decades now. That doesn't make them right ;-)
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by Karellen 3y ago
Use the local clone that I already have, given that `git` was always intended to be usable offline.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Yes, but people haven't been using it incorrectly for long enough for it to be considered acceptable, by the very citation you've given: > This does raise the question of why we don't enter this sense of jive , even thoug
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by Karellen 3y ago
But `localhost` is also an alias specifically for the loopback address (typically `127.0.0.1`), so "serve on localhost" can reasonably be interpreted as "serve on 127.0.0.1" which will only be available to other programs
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by Karellen 3y ago
I guess that makes sense. It's weird how different industries work - even if they're both creative ones. If a customer under-specifies what they want, and I just make what I think will wow them rather than what they were thinking
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by Karellen 3y ago
What sort of response were they looking for with that? "How would you like it - boiled, poached, fried, scrambled or turned into an omelette? Or a meringue maybe?"
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by Karellen 3y ago
Or fizzbuzz
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by Karellen 3y ago
Reminds me of this bit of dialogue from The Doctor's Wife : Rory: What is this place? The scrapyard at the end of the universe? 11: Not end of. Outside of. Rory: How we can we be outside the universe? The universe is e
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by Karellen 3y ago
> This looks like a global variable in a codebase (something we generally try to avoid). Aren't they more like global constants than variables? Loaded at startup, and never change during that run of the program. (With the exceptio
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by Karellen 3y ago
What if the content is good, but the titles and thumbnails are just annoying? ...and not because the creators want to make clickbait titles and OTT thumbnails, but because that's what everyone else clicks on, and is therefore what Th
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by Karellen 3y ago
But that change isn't in upstream XFCE. It's in the OpenBSD ports CVS tree, as can be seen by the fact that it's adding the file `x11/xfce4/xfce4-session/patches/patch-xfce4-session_xfsm-shutdown-fallback_
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by Karellen 3y ago
"Some other software" that uses/adds users and groups on the system, is not part of the implementation of users and groups in the system.
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by Karellen 3y ago
The compiler copies a part of itself directly into the new compiler binary (i.e. it is a type of quine) If a bug causes that copy mechanism to make the "part to be copied" one byte larger than it should be, then each time the comp
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by Karellen 3y ago
I thought the project was implemented by private agencies? Article says MCI and Caracal. Isn't that supposed to be how the government gets the best results with the greatest efficiency under neoliberal capitalism? Subcontract the priva
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by Karellen 3y ago
I'm not familiar with that many details of USA political history, I didn't really know who Daniel Ellsberg is (the name sounds somewhat familiar, but I might be getting them confused with someone else?), and I didn't know wha

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