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871.
by Someone 1y ago
> I thought the original article included the strongest objective data point on this: recent progress on the METR long task benchmark isn't just on the historical "task length doubling every 7 months" best fit, but is tren
872.
by Someone 1y ago
> Indeed you can't be sure. But on the other hand a bunch of the commentariat has been claiming (with no evidence) that we're at the midpoint of the sigmoid for the last three years. I haven’t followed things closely, but I’ve
873.
by Someone 1y ago
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Contextual_Sensitivity : “There are additional complications in certain languages, where the comparison is context sensitive and depends on more than just single characters com
874.
by Someone 1y ago
The only definition I know of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language . I also think that is the commonly accepted definition. Taking that as the definition, this definitely is not the first formal language lea
875.
by Someone 1y ago
How come this only surfaces now? Surely large companies such as Microsoft and Slack apparently tested their products that use Electron with the public betas?
876.
by Someone 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar... : “On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the Soviet nuclear early warning system Oko reported the launch of one intercontinental ballistic missile wi
877.
by Someone 1y ago
I know about nothing about PyPy internals but case float_abs(_): - return float + return float.with_range(low=0, high=None) to me, looks like a risky change. I would fear this could introduce a bug when computin
878.
by Someone 1y ago
> Apple making their “never leaves Apple servers or goes to third parties” claim true, As far as I can tell, the article being discussed made up the ‘fact’ that Apple made such a claim. I googled the ‘quote’ from the article This raises
879.
by Someone 1y ago
So, you want to develop an AR/VR device, and start shopping for hardware. You’re not a mega company (yet), wanton get to market fast, so you want to focus on the AR/VR features, not on getting an OS, drivers and libraries for (3D)
880.
by Someone 1y ago
> remember that Apple was sticking + on the end of their model names 6 years before the Amiga existed. Did they? AFAIK, Apple always used “Plus” , not “+” (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus , https:
881.
by Someone 1y ago
“Rust lifetimes can be chore, so use a C-like language that requires you to manage them in your head” Weird that they don’t consider other options, in particular languages with reference counting or garbage collection. Those will not solve
882.
by Someone 1y ago
FTA: Xml is noisy and annoying to write by hand
883.
by Someone 1y ago
I think one factor is that other companies (rightfully or not) think they have to offer a range of products that uses lots of different hardware. Looking for a laptop at dell.com, for example, they seem to offer a choice of 7 different CPUs
884.
by Someone 1y ago
> We can categorize things: > IMMEDIATE words used here are : ( if then ; `:` normally isn’t immediate > First up is `:`. `:` is an IMMEDIATE word, so the compiler just calls it now `:` gets executed because the interpreter, whe
885.
by Someone 1y ago
That something is clearly specced doesn’t imply all developers actively know it. Even given that it compiles, I wouldn’t exclude it being a runtime error. But the big problem isn’t that it behaves as advertised, it’s that it is way too easy
886.
by Someone 1y ago
I wouldn’t rate those as very serious issues for this project. They’ll only be triggered if there are over MAX_INT lines or depth levels in the input. Yes, an attacker might be able to do that, but you’d have to put that input in a memory b
887.
by Someone 1y ago
For the basic processes, why wouldn’t they? It’s not like adding an amount of money to an account while simultaneously subtracting the same amount from another account has gotten out of vogue or that the algorithms to do so have changed. FT
888.
by Someone 1y ago
> The choice of Go has strengths like simple syntax, fast development cycle, built in support for concurrency, and good infrastructure. At the same time there are compromises like weaker memory control compared to C and some runtime over
889.
by Someone 1y ago
> The fridge then contacts all the local fast food restaurants and supermarkets you use, to prevent you from buying any more food until you lose a few pounds. Where’s the money in that? They’ll tell them to bombard you with weight loss a
890.
by Someone 1y ago
I think there’s plenty of evidence that they’re better in jet fighters (where users are well-trained), possible also in automotive (where they have been sold for decades; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_hea
891.
by Someone 1y ago
Why? A new framework gets you new bugs instead of the old ones, but not necessarily fewer or less severe ones. It’s more likely that things will be reversed: the old, battle-tested framework may have bugs, but it’s is less likely to have
892.
by Someone 1y ago
No, it isn’t. The OP isn’t questioning whether the file changed, but asking what changed to the file, not what changed visibly. The visible effect shown could be due to a change as small as a single bit flip. It also could be that large par
893.
by Someone 1y ago
> Pre MacOS X was a 90s style OS and had major limitations that were a problem for every user, starting with no real multi-threading, and I think no protected memory. Technically, the last “classic” Mac OS had memory protection and a ful
894.
by Someone 1y ago
> I wasn't expecting to see so many tall buildings. Ancient Rome already had lots of tall buildings. https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/roman-skyscrapers/ “But where the population is increasi
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by Someone 1y ago
https://sourceware.org/glibc/ says “The GNU C Library is designed to be a backwards compatible, portable, and high performance ISO C library. It aims to follow all relevant standards including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, a
896.
by Someone 1y ago
> I count four different corner radius sizes currently on my screen, which is maddening. I don’t see the mere fact of having multiple radiuses alone is a good criticism of the UI. If seeing multiple corner radiuses infuriates you, how do
897.
by Someone 1y ago
Or chose not to fully implement it. Speculative execution has its share of security issues, so they may have chosen to be cautious.
898.
by Someone 1y ago
The rewriting: quite believable, but it will take a looooooooooooooong time, and their goals may change looooong before they get there. It not being Swift: unlikely, IMO. They’re spending lots of resources on Swift-C++ interoperability, add
899.
by Someone 1y ago
This is about Apple not selling the Daily Mail in their newsstand, not about them not allowing the Daily Mail in the iOS App Store. I think Apple should be allowed to do the former. Certainly, they should be allowed to block some content fr
900.
by Someone 1y ago
https://bullfincher.io/companies/apple/revenue-by-geography says $167B in the Americas, 43% of global revenues in 2024. That is across all products but the gap to 50% is so big that I don’t see the fraction for iP

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