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by WJW 1y ago
It works fine as long as it doesn't break, and it's cheaper to buy than an equivalently sized system that does have back ups.
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by WJW 1y ago
Isn't pretty much everything in the world like this? I have no idea who built my house, designed the road network in my city, programmed the driver for the keyboard I'm typing this comment on. Even for "big" projects, I
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by WJW 1y ago
Depends. Several central banks are working on exactly that, see for example the recent speech by the FED and the whole GENIUS act regulation framework. But to be honest where I am (northwest Europe) we already have subsecond person-to-perso
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by WJW 1y ago
It might be like the dot com bubble, where eventually a few winners emerged that went on to be hugely valuable. It could also be like the tulip bubble, where eventually prices collapsed and never recovered. Or for a more modern example, t
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by WJW 1y ago
Well stablecoins by design cannot really fluctuate a lot in value (unless they collapse), so speculation on them is pretty much out. It's still pretty unclear to me why you'd actually want a blockchain for managing it though, rath
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by WJW 1y ago
Good documentation also contains the "why" of the code, ie why it is the way it is and not one of the other possible ways to write the same code. That is information inherently not present in the code, and there would be no way fo
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by WJW 1y ago
No, you can do that without branching. See https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/pipelining/branchless/#predi... for example.
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by WJW 1y ago
Haven't tried the latest stuff yet but I've been on PopOS for a few years now and it's pretty seamless.
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by WJW 1y ago
The original quote doesn't say anything about COBOL, or about mainframes for that matter. It speaks about "systems only one or two people understand", which seems normal enough. You can write incomprehensible software in any
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by WJW 1y ago
That's kind of the point of politeness rituals in the first place, isn't it? To see who can be bothered to spend some extra effort to fit in and who doesn't care enough about the tribe to make the effort.
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by WJW 1y ago
The things Trump does *also* make sense if you assume he's not a Russian puppet. He also wants to divide Europe against itself, keep the world hooked on (US) fossil fuels and to undermine threats to his rule. He doesn't need Russi
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by WJW 1y ago
There are plenty of other explanations that fit the facts. This whole "Trump is a foreign agent" thing is just like the "twin towers were brought down by the CIA" conspiracy: people don't want to believe their own c
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by WJW 1y ago
Seems legit. There can't be all that much spoken Iranian in the training set(s) of these models, so it makes sense they don't know how to do it.
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by WJW 1y ago
This makes me wonder if, 7 centuries ago, people thought the same about the designer of the Notre Dame.
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by WJW 1y ago
> or you can't use it commercially or for safety-critical things The license for libxml2 (like the license for almost any kind of open source software) already states "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANT
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by WJW 1y ago
There are, and if you really have the workload that you need to cook stuff 24/7 (what in gods name is OP cooking btw?) then you should definitely get one of those. Maybe not even secondhand but just a new one. The cheap consumer grade
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by WJW 1y ago
The Porsche quote reflects a wider design philosophy that says "Ideally, all components of a system lasts as long as the design life of the entire system and there should be no component that lives significantly longer. If there is suc
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by WJW 1y ago
Fair point's's, I'll use my standard excuse of not being a native speaker. :)
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by WJW 1y ago
Your post doesn't address anything that I said but still complains I'm wrong. Try to be more precise too, thanks.
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by WJW 1y ago
Burrito's compose surprisingly well.
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by WJW 1y ago
> You're just gonna have a kilometers long "wire" to control a drone? Yup. Fiber optic cables are lightweight and thin, so you can stick 10 km+ in a spindle on the drone that unwinds as you fly. > I'd much rather j
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by WJW 1y ago
Solar flares are not anywhere near their peak. The NOAA indicates the peak activity was actually in August 2024 with a total of ~245 "flux units". Activity for this month is predicted to be only around 167 units, so almost a full
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by WJW 1y ago
Football is really big in Spain dontcha know?
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by WJW 1y ago
I wonder if there's ever a point at which you could run a thread at very low "niceness" that just slowly keeps compiling more and more methods into native code as the program goes on. Surely this would be worth it for long li
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by WJW 1y ago
Short answer: no. Slightly longer answer: no, because Ruby as a language isn't designed to be JIT friendly. Any web request in my rails app could theoretically add new functions to any other class, in ways that would just not work in m
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by WJW 1y ago
It really is a neat language. Sort of like the smaller more elegant language that has been waiting to break out of Haskell, but combined with Erlang. Definitely not the "standard" programming language but very very nice. The core
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by WJW 1y ago
Seems like either a huge evolutionary advantage for the people who can exploit the (sometimes hallucinating sometimes not) knowledge machine, or else a huge advantage for the people who are predisposed to avoid the attention sucking knowled
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by WJW 1y ago
In that case what does it matter if they release news of aliens or not?
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by WJW 1y ago
This premise fails right at the start. Why would "they" lose their power when people know about aliens? All the reasons why the current batch of political leaders are in power remain valid if aliens exist, whether they're dem
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by WJW 1y ago
My workflow is probably 20% coding, 50% thinking about how to code whatever needs fixing, 10% looking at metrics and 20% getting distracted. AI has proven almost entirely useless for the type of disentangling spaghetti code that makes up mo

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