Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
> the one that caught my attention is how the arcades are getting paid: gamers only pay for the number of games lost, But that does kind of mirror real-world arcade play. In single-player, you play on one credit until you lose (or beat t
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by Karellen 3y ago
I suppose we'll just have to respectfully disagree about which precursors are "finer points of evolution" and which are "major foundational cornerstones" of Open Source.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> First, let’s take a look at how we got here. > Open source eats the world (and needs some Tums) > Early software was written by researchers and academics, and open by default—it couldn’t even be copyrighted until 1974. We didn’t
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by Karellen 3y ago
I think the part of the article that the parent comment is disagreeing with is: > “It is certainly much more than a stochastic parrot, and it certainly builds some representation of the world—although I do not think that it is quite like
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by Karellen 3y ago
It's a nice idea, but it totally ignores literally decades of existing use of the word "robot" (or its abbreviation "bot") to describe pure software that accesses internet services. e.g. web crawlers (googlebot), ch
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by Karellen 3y ago
> For example, the "Law & Order" franchise [...] is mostly police procedural I think it's worth making more of a distinction between the different shows in the franchise. One thing I really like about "classic&quo
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by Karellen 3y ago
I reckon quite a few countries with English as an official language will have "cop" as a nickname for "police" - even in places where their police culture might significantly different from US police culture.
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by Karellen 3y ago
This comes from about half-way through the article, in the section headed "There are no generic types": > We can have a `Bunch[int]` or a `Bunch[string]` or a `Bunch` of elements of any other specific type. What we can’t have i
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by Karellen 3y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26217488/what-is-vendori...
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by Karellen 3y ago
Remember, the nickname "Browser" was invented after the fact, to describe the program that loads URLs and displays them to the user. The proper name of such a program is "User Agent". It is a program that acts as the age
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by Karellen 4y ago
For context: > For days a blistering heatwave has hit the country with temperatures 10-15C [18-27F] warmer than expected for April.
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by Karellen 4y ago
OpenBSD doesn't have a Rust compiler in their core system. Having a core utility written in a language that isn't buildable with tools in their core system is a non-starter. Once they have their own Rust compiler, or are able to i
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by Karellen 4y ago
> What's the use of arcane knowledge about prime numbers if you are not mathematician, and even then, one should question its importance? Because learning for its own sake can be intrinsically rewarding, and even fun ? > I often
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by Karellen 4y ago
> YOU don't have a wikipedia entry. I'm not claiming to be "one of the absolutely most valuable and greatest tools available" though. (Well, maybe the "greatest tool" part ;-) And if someone else claimed tha
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by Karellen 4y ago
Also: - The scammers - how many well-meaning people can we use an LLM to build meaningful (to them) relationships with, to the point where they're willing to just send us money? - The griefers - how much discord can an LLM create, for
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by Karellen 4y ago
> godbolt is one of the absolutely most valuable and greatest tools available for software developers who work in compiled languages. That's a bold claim for a tool that doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry. Edit: or a subreddit
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by Karellen 4y ago
Notably, we have the technology to provide everyone on the planet with reliable access to food, clean water, and shelter, right now . And probably the tech to provide access to education and fairly decent healthcare too. We just... don&#x2
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by Karellen 4y ago
Sorry, I'm not reading 1100 words of privacy policy to get a chance to read whatever that is.
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by Karellen 4y ago
I had a quick look and it appears that the Linux backend is GTK-3 based? (Requires gtk-3-dev to build.) Pity. For a moment I was briefly excited that someone had created a Rust binding for EFL/Enlightenment (aka "E").
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by Karellen 4y ago
Not parent, but not a rust programmer: > If I write a Rust program which relies on this for a constant, it works fine, because it is constant, but if I try to compile it with Rust 1.68 (from earlier this year) it won't work. How wou
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Either you're security-conscious or you do random changes based on anonymous forum posts, I just don't really see an overlap. I think there's going to be a not-totally-insignificant minority of people out there who are b
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by Karellen 4y ago
I'm a fan of LWN.net's[0] business model. (Enough that it's the only news source I actually subscribe to). Links to external news articles are free for anyone to read, and for all account owners (paid or not) to comment on. F
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by Karellen 4y ago
I tend to go with "No, thank you, I'm fine." It kind of re-frames their request as if they were offering to do me a favour, which I then politely indicated I don't even need. I've found that it either cuts off most
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by Karellen 4y ago
> I don't think we're not talking about individual end-users here. Are you sure about that? From TFA: > Lots of Windows users everywhere runs security scanners on their systems with regular intervals in order to verify that
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Aah, the good old days when the BBC was un-biased. I'm curious, around when do you think that changed? And was there a specific story they reported on (or didn't report on) that really solidified the change for you?
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by Karellen 4y ago
> I don't even know who else to blame for this. The people who told them that deleting system binaries would fix their problems? > I have been pointed to responses on the Microsoft site answers.microsoft.com done by “helpful volu
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by Karellen 4y ago
> Probably the xx in the domain. According to the `considered-18` post linked by a sibling comment: > It shows that this filter is for this specific host name only [daniel.haxx.se], not for the entire haxx.se domain. So, even more of
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by Karellen 4y ago
I think that's part of the issue. Once you're using a text file, adding "one more feature" to the text file implementation is always easier than switching to a database. So you add your tab-separated value. Then you find
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by Karellen 4y ago
I did once see someone who claimed to have knowledge of Windows internals say that "Windows subsystem for X" was a general naming convention for Windows subsystems, e.g. the code that implemented the audio architecture might have
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by Karellen 4y ago
Costa del Lex, Luthorville, Marina del Lex, Otisburgh... Otisburgh?! OTISBURGH?!!

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