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by alkonaut 1y ago
The key invention here would be to translate from idiomatic C to idiomatic - safe - Rust. That also sounds exactly like the kind of invention that would make me fear for my job and claim AGI has all but arrived. Just syntactically translati
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Yes but my point is: if I download the AVX version instead of the SSE version of a package and that makes my 1000 servers 10% _quicker_ that is not the same as being 10% more _efficient_. Because typically these modern things are a way of m
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by alkonaut 1y ago
If I recompile a program to fully utilize my cpu better (use AVX or whatever) then if my program takes 1 second to execute instead of 2, it likely did not use half the _energy_.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Making a complicated and powerful piece of software is difficult. Just slapping a user interface that _allows_ using all the power, is hard enough. With that interface, the simple thing is difficult, and the complex thing is also difficult.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
having feature/username/id-desc is good though. Because at least you can identify why the branch is there. That they are ephemeral doesn't mean that people actually clean them up...
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by alkonaut 1y ago
What's next? Asking hard questions, or follow up questions? If Trump says "I've ended 7 or 8 wars" or says "I've lowered drug prices 800, 900, 1000 percent" and no one says "Sir, how is it possible to
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by alkonaut 1y ago
This kind of boycott needs to happen for the WH press corps. If there is a fear of not being selected to ask questions, or being expelled from the room for asking tough questions, then everyone needs to walk. Immediately.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Yeah. I have a person that comes once every 2 weeks and does a cleaning. But even though this is that person's job, the house never looks so good. I don't want someone to have to clean up my mess. Vacuuming the floors is fine. But
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Is it seven or eight wars he ended this term? I imagine if he could just remember at least two then he’d be a favorite for the prize.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Next Monday also isn’t in this week so it all works out.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
You mean the biometric systems in India or geofencing in South Africa and the like? Absolutely no one ever used ”Digital ID” for those phenomena which is my point. TFA takes a wide range of dystopian tech and says ”these are digital ID, erg
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Has Amazon been forced to take responsibility for their third party sellers’ products anywhere yet (safety, environmental, counterfeit etc)?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> Can you show me the federal code that includes number of customers? I never mentioned ”number of customers”. The relevant law surrounding monopolies is the Clayton antitrust act of 1914 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscod
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I hate these fluff pieces that use "Digital ID" as some nebulous thing that represents everything from a social credit system to a mandatory id card to a location tracking device injected the spine of every citizen. Why is there s
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> Why are you on YC if you think free market tech is dead? I have been visiting this forum for 12 years. It took probably 5 years before I _heard_ about the "other" part of ycombinator - the startup thing. But I never really ca
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by alkonaut 1y ago
That would be the sensible idea in a free market. But that ship sailed LONG ago. Now there are apps and "markets" that are so important and dominating (Amazon, Facebook, ...) that the only alternatives are basically to split them
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by alkonaut 1y ago
So given that both the basic recipe for the 737 and A320 are pretty old by now, how much "better" could a new clean sheet narrowbody realistically be, given recent in aircraft design? And how much better would it _need_ to be, in
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by alkonaut 1y ago
How far out are we from doing this in real time? What’s the processing/rendering time per frame?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
This must be one of the least popular pieces of regulation ever.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
But politicians are - in general - neither evil, nor do they have any real incentive to ”control citizens’ thoughts”. It doesn’t make sense. They can be gullible. Non-Technical. Owned by lobbyists. Under pressure to deliver on the apparent
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by alkonaut 1y ago
> system under some very obscure set of circumstances that you are very unlikely to encounter in the real world. Is there any way to use HN karma? Like, can I sell my account on some shady exchange like people sell big twitter accounts?
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Yes. So a criteria that is below Turing Completeness but which wouldn't make markdown a programming language. Shouldn't be _that_ hard to find such criteria. E.g. "Has some form of logic/flow control". Can perform c
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I think "A language often involved in the process of making computer programs" is way too weak to define a "Programming language". A programming language at least needs to have state/expressions/logic. I'm
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by alkonaut 1y ago
You could make a separate graph with "platform" or "language family" so you do js/ts, jvm, .net/clr, C/C++ etc. That one is perhaps more interesting from an industry/jobs trend perspective whereas the
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Like canceling newsmax? Or quitting Rogan? I can’t. And I can’t vote. I can not buy a Tesla and cancel Disney but that’s it.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Even just the vague suggestion of bending the knee here is a massive mistake. It can’t happen. Even failing to speak up clearly _against_ ”censorship recommendation” is bad neigh that the business should frankly be cancelled to bankruptcy -
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by alkonaut 1y ago
I hope it cost them a few percent revenue at least. I’m not resubscribing any time soon.
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by alkonaut 1y ago
This whole article reads like normal desktop software or mobile apps are some strange edge case of software, rather than still being a super common way of delivering software. Doing local-first _in a browser_ still feels like taking all the
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by alkonaut 1y ago
Do Americans even want functioning bureaucracy? I'm starting to doubt they realize just how complex a modern democracy is, and how many moving parts need to work _just right_ for there to be jobs, money, media, law and order, free spee
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by alkonaut 1y ago
The description mentions side effects such as GetNextId(), but creating that object doesn't look like it has any side effects, so perhaps not the best example. As I wrote in another comment, ignored side effects are perhaps the one que

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