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by Krssst 1y ago
I don't think an atomic operation necessarily demands a cache flush. L1 cache lines can move across cores as needed in my understanding (maybe not on multi-socket machines?). Barriers are required if further memory ordering guarantees
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by Krssst 1y ago
This is undefined behavior in my understanding, it just happens to work until it doesn't. I wouldn't be surprised if any null check against this would be erased by the optimizer for example as the parent comment mentioned. Sanitiz
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by Krssst 1y ago
From the standpoint of "hard to ban what's used by a large part of the population" this does justify legalization indeed. I don't have strong opinions on this, I was mostly a bit triggered by the parent's comment we
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by Krssst 1y ago
Despite some of the discourse there are some long term side-effects (though it seems mostly especially bad for adolescents where stopping consumption does not revert the impact on cognitive function): https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#
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by Krssst 1y ago
I fail to what hard choice there is to make. Choices are: * use it * don't use it * use something else * pay to change the picture Easy. > fetishes And what fetish would that be? That's just a picture of a girl (maybe? Not sure
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by Krssst 1y ago
That's too bad, I wonder what's so triggering about it. OSS projects are mostly done by people on their free time, they can do whatever they want with their mascots/branding/project. And those OSS projects tend to be sig
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by Krssst 1y ago
> some others would find triggering/improper I guess the main point is branding clash if you're a large company website (most companies care a lot about how their brand is shown, if they care about spacing/padding around t
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by Krssst 1y ago
They probably meant conhost.exe (it gets you the regular console on Windows 11).
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by Krssst 1y ago
I'd like to opt out of the post-consent world but this is the post-consent world after all.
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by Krssst 1y ago
Windows's strongest selling point is to run compatible software from the last 30 years with almost no issue. Nobody would accept ads and being continuously force-fed products they never asked for in their paid OS while it often reboots
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by Krssst 1y ago
> Accusing others of "harming" so you get to impose your bullshit unquestioned. It's always the same strategy. Pandemics do harm people and need containment. Virus don't care what we think or want.
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by Krssst 1y ago
So people should die of pandemix diseases for making sure that personal freedoms are never ever temporarily restricted, got it. One side seems busy with taking democratic institutions down, I wouldn't be surprised if freedom is next an
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by Krssst 1y ago
Most democraties have provisions for times of exceptional needs and counterpowers against that. Of course that's a weakness but a weakness that's judged better than mass deaths or complete fall of the country. Those have to be lim
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by Krssst 1y ago
They probably meant January 6th rebels being pardoned giving the example that extremists that aim at preventing democratic election results from going into effect can do as they want. Which is a much bigger problem than "stay home a bi
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by Krssst 1y ago
Souls don't exist so it's fine I guess. What's so bad about it? Production if often unethical and that's a problem but is there more? (and if production was the problem they wouldn't just put an age limit) Is this a
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by Krssst 1y ago
> Covid authoritarian policies were hugely successful and supported by mainstream people by and large. They were temporary and saved lives. Keyword here is temporary. Of course COVID denialists are angry at it but they won in the USA now
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by Krssst 1y ago
Individual people have to have access to those AGIs to put them to use (which will likely be controlled first by large companies) and need food to feed themselves (so they'll have to do whatever work they can at whatever price possible
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by Krssst 1y ago
A very cynic approach is why spend time and capital on robot R&D when you already have a world filled with self-replicating humanoids and you can feed them whatever information you want through the social networks you control to make th
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by Krssst 1y ago
> elimination of all human labor. Manual labor would still be there. Hardware is way harder than software, AGI seems easier to realize than mass worldwide automation of minute tasks that currently require human hands. AGI would force bac
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by Krssst 1y ago
Performance is worthless if the code isn't correct. It's easier to write correct code reasonably quickly in Python in simple cases (integers don't overflow like in C, don't wrap around like in C#, no absurd implicit conv
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by Krssst 1y ago
Israel is not a threat to Europe while it's hard to say the same for Putin. At least it matters if you live there.
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by Krssst 1y ago
There's no time to spend dealing with the many, many contrarians out there. Wikipedia is a good smell test. For climate I believe one source: https://www.ipcc.ch/
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by Krssst 1y ago
For reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Koonin > He later became known as a skeptic on climate change, publishing the book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It
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by Krssst 1y ago
> I took the vaccines and was pretty lucky to not suffer any major consequences. Lucky as in 999,990 chances on one million of being safe (myocarditis, see: https://labeling.pfizer.com/showlabeling.aspx?id=19542&form
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by Krssst 1y ago
Current interfaces are not aimed at being optimally useful. Padding everywhere as of today means more time scrolling and wasted screen space. Animations everywhere means a lot of wasted time watching pixels moving instead of the computer&#x
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by Krssst 1y ago
HN is very American, and somewhat half of America is pro-Trump (which often comes with being anti vaccine to some extent though they don't necessarily see it like this), is how I see it. I was quite surprised at first too. Large cities
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by Krssst 1y ago
The start menu opens Bing in Edge. Pressing Win+F1 opens Bing in Edge.
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by Krssst 1y ago
> It's nice to have an alternative to Apple, but that's the only good thing about it. Using Android reminds me of the old Windows. Very unstable. Full of spyware/bloatware. Being free to run whatever code we want as users
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by Krssst 1y ago
> They are optional while the previous major is still maintained. I don't think there is such a choice on Pixel phones but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. When the next major update is available the phone just asks to update t
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by Krssst 1y ago
Harmful divergence from nature: man-made climate change. Harmless divergence from nature: helping women have children.

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