KerrAvon

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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   Fonts are not trivial to parse; 900 fonts also isn't a lot in a professional environment. If you're looking at every font every app launch it's definitely a problem in itself.
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   Note that the Graphing Calculator story is not something that could work after approximately the turn of the century. Security tightened up considerably sometime around then.
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   I thought we understood that Cringely's work is riddled with hearsay. Don't put too much stock in this.
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   First, there has to be something capable of matching human performance at a much higher cost. This is still just spicy autocomplete.
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   There are different forms of power. Pretend you could switch off AWS completely tomorrow. How much of the internet would disappear?
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   Yes. Firing someone should always be a last resort; generally it means either that the person is hopelessly, irredeemably unfit for the job, or that you are incompetent at leading people. If your hiring processes are worth anything, the for
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   Did someone invent working LLM-based moderation? Serious question; it'd be interesting.
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   > It needed to be able to handle multiple processes simultaneously, including interfacing with the systems, maintaining settings in the database, monitoring the system as well as support for both local and remote access to the system sim
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   by KerrAvon 3y ago

   How did they manage that? GenX wasn't generally subject to the onerous student debt mess. For everyone over 50, college was much cheaper and easier to get into. If nothing else, the population was smaller!
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    This is how you wind up with fundamentally slow systems that can’t be easily sped up. You need to take some account of performance in systems design. Just don’t micro-optimize too soon.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    You’re literally arguing with someone advocating for consumers to be provided with enough information to be able to make decisions for themselves. They’re not saying they want the government to ban these practices, just to make them non-dec
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Multiple monitor support had caveats, IIRC, that contemporary Macs did not. Possibly the bit depth of all of the monitors had to be identical, or you'd get dithering on some?
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    I only have experience with OpenStep 4.x on PC hardware, but I feel like you may be vastly underplaying the speed gain from then to now, unless NeXTstep on black hardware really felt that much faster than on one of the blessed 486 configura
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    I would be wary of copying this code and using it in my own project. Generally speaking, it's best to avoid rolling your own thread primitives. Even the smartest professionals sometimes get it subtly wrong (and sometimes it only become
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Translation: it’s vitally important that you be able to say the N-word or post depictions of child/adult maximally intense love (let’s not use terms like CSAM; that’s mean) on X. Also, pay fealty to Musk with a tithe every afternoon at
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    serious question: how can you trust Amazon to provide non-tainted medication? they sell used razors as new. they sell counterfeit devices. they sell used pet drinking fountains as new.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    I'm skeptical that Singapore's policy is working as opposed to driving the drug trade underground. Draconian drug restrictions haven't worked in the US, and the death penalty wouldn't do anything here.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Counterpoint just because someone has to go against the pro-nuclear orthodoxy here: economy of scale won't fix nuclear power. You will never get the cost (or risk) down far enough with existing technology, and none of the advanced tech
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    TFA says: > Unlike most Mastodon servers where you can sign up for a personal account, we're only using this instance to host BBC accounts; it’s a place for us to publish in the Fediverse. If you have a Mastodon (or other ActivityPu
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    USB mini/micro B ports can break off the PC board when they’re not anchored solidly.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    I’ve had lots of USB mini/micro B ports do this on various devices (not C so far). I’ve never even heard of it happening to a Lightning port, and I’ve been through a lot of iDevices over the past decade.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Came to see some Python zealot use the term “monkey patching” and was not disappointed
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Has Python launch time gotten faster? It used to take a second to start up, where Ruby would be instant on the same machine.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    I assume there's a thread there that elaborates? Can't see threads anymore if you're logged out of Twitter/echs.
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Single window apps came in with NeXT. I heard a theory early on in the NeXT/Apple merger that it was because the window server buffering was so heavyweight on early hardware that multiple windows just made things too slow. While I pers
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    Paywalled, but the article's first sentence is "Critics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argue he has gone too far in trying to root out 'wokeness', but look to California to see what happens when academic groupthink is left
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    I don't buy any of the excuses, honestly. If the software can be that easily fooled by slightly broken white lines, it's not ready for release. That area of 101 simply isn't that difficult to parse (for humans). If it can&#x2
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    > It's an inference to the best explanation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abduction/ No empirical evidence conclusively proves its true explanation, but the best available explanation is the most lik
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    It's true that the need for all of this right-wing adulation didn't really blow up until Grimes left him for a trans person, but he was always this person. Ask Peter Thiel. Remember, the entire point of this X exercise is revenge
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    by KerrAvon 3y ago

    So it sounds like (among other things) they're adding 3-address integer instructions to an instruction encoding only used for vector instructions today. I was not familiar with the AVX vector instructions at this level of detail. http