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by SR2Z 11mo ago
> No, I just realize these for what they are - reasonable projects at the exploitation (rather than exploration) stage of any industry. I get that bashing on Google is fun, but TensorFlow was the FIRST modern end-user ML library. JAX, a
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
I have a hybrid. If I remote start it, generally the engine doesn't start - and even if it does, it's extremely quiet because it's an Atkinson-cycle model. I have to be within 10 feet of the car to hear it running in a quie
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
All indications are that selling tokens is a profitable activity for all of the AI companies - at least in terms of compute. OpenAI loses money on free users and paying the absurdly high salaries that they've chosen to offer.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
Or more accurately, it will be resolved in the inevitable AI refactoring.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
It's not even typesetting. It just formalizes the semantic parts of any well written long document. It holds people back because it's not meant to be a typesetting tool. It's mostly meant to look good in its raw format.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
> RAM gets 50x cheaper and some devs think it's fine to use 50x as much of it making their app work? That's awful. That's ABSURD. > That's why computers are still unresponsive half the time despite miracles of chi
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
...so if you spend an extra $4 on your computer, you can get an extra GB of memory to run Electron in? Here's the other unspoken issue: WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED SO MUCH MEMORY FOR!? When I use a computer, I am in the minority of users who
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
> Besides, IDEs don't "win" by having more users. The opposite could be argued, actually. The most successful IDE of all time is ed, which is enthusiastically used by one ancient graybeard who is constantly complaining abo
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
> they push into total dominance with the help of sleazy methods Ah, yes. The famously sleazy "automatic security updates" and "performance." It is amazing how people forget what the internet was like before Chrome.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
If they have time to write nice software, they generally can only afford to do it once. Lots of Electron apps are great to use.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
The political theory definition of "state" is "a group which claims a monopoly on violence in a given territory." It's 2025 so we expect that violence to be done in accordance with the law and the will of the people
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
You'd really hope that an AI IDE would know to respect .gitignore
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
> tiny incandescent bulbs behind plastic covers… Not too disagree with the bulk of comment, but this sentence is not true. They're 90V neon indicator lamps, a technology that's really cool but also so inefficient that people ri
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
Why the hell do you think that only the rich can deploy chemical weapons? It's extremely easy to build chemical weapons out of household cleaning supplies. You might even have the ingredients in your house already. The reason why using
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
I think that MS provides these extensions as plugins. The core of VSCode is OSS, it's the extra bits that have a different license.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
Electron apps will win because they're just web apps - and web apps won so decisively years ago that they will never go anywhere.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
If you're building something new you'll need some skilled people around
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
Political loyalty is not bad (to a degree) but it is never good when it replaces actual competence as the main qualification, or when the required degree of loyalty is unreasonable.
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
The meaning of the word "efficiency" is highly contextual. Operation Warp Speed rapidly developed and distributed a totally novel COVID vaccine to billions of people in just two years, but was extremely costly. Was that efficient
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
Isn't the point of using atomics that there is virtually no performance penalty in single threaded contexts? IMO "zero cost abstraction" just means "I have a slightly less vague idea of what this will compile to."
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by SR2Z 11mo ago
To be fair, that's an important qualification for the job regardless of who is president. It's just the political loyalty that's a bad requirement.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
We don't need new meatpacking plants, we need factories to do high tech manufacturing. Unfortunately small towns in the Midwest aren't nearly as attractive for that.
473.
by SR2Z 1y ago
It would certainly be a less useful tool if all the videos it produced got you legal threats every time you tried to share them :)
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by SR2Z 1y ago
So you don't have a line, you just want to move the goalposts and keep moving them?
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Only if you subscribe to the "if we stop testing, the number of cases will drop!" philosophy.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
That's not a choice. You can decide if Google files bugs like this or not, you can't force them to fix them.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
I have read the article. The expectation for a tool like ffmpeg is that regardless of what kind of file you put into it, it safely handles it. This is an actual bug in submitted code. It doesn't matter that it's for some obscure
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Look, I know you're being snarky, but YES. All of the viable open-source video codecs of the past 10 years would not have happened without Google. Not just for technical reasons, but for expensive patent-related legal reasons too. Giv
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Google is a major contributor to open-source video, to the point where it would not be viable without them.
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by SR2Z 1y ago
Where do you draw the line? Do you want Google to just not inspect any projects that it can't fully commit to maintaining? Providing a real CVE is a contribution, not a burden. The ffmpeg folks can ignore it, since by all indications

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