alkonaut

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by alkonaut 2y ago
This looks more like rules for C development. In order to make reliable software in C (which is honestly pretty brave to begin with once you get past a certain complexity treshold).
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Depends on how many people just refuse to ever click such a video on principle, or never start a youtube subscription so long as the thumbnails are like that. All you need to wait for is for that group to be bigger than the group of people
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I don't mind continuous redesigns or small tweaks. I like it when products and apps I use subtly but constantly change. Form and function are one, it's not form over function if it's done well. But for YouTube I wish they rea
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I intend to make sure people know how to use my email. With that, and my phone, they should have access to all accounts indirectly via password resets through that email address. I won't bother with a long digital will or handing over
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Doing audio-to-text requires having a statistical model for what word or phrase a piece of sound is most likely to be. Without context, you can't do better than ranking the most likely candidates where a common word is more likely than
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Something I find annoying with automatic transcriptions and summaries, like the one built into Teams, is that they lack the context necessary to properly interpret what's being said. Example if I have a meeting discussing products, abb
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yeah I’m aware the interest rebate is just a rebate like any other but the cost of such rebates is much higher if the baseline interest is 4% than if it’s 1%. The difference between 0% and 2% is as expensive as the subsidy between 7% and 5%
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by alkonaut 2y ago
A lot of this was down to the huge sales of the Model Y in Europe in the past year or two with subsidized loans at rock bottom rates. The lowest I saw was 0%. Obviously today that's no longer the case. Also the MY is due to be replaced
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Can you elaborate? Outside of AI workloads, almost all computations on GPUs are single precision. Double precision is pretty rare, and smaller precision is mostly useless outside AI (and obviously irrelevant for trig precision)
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Has there been any company that has laid off even a nontrivial amount of programmers and replaced them with AI? Here I mean, where developers at said company actually say the process works and is established, and the staff cuts weren't
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I think you mean double precision?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
\o/ McDonalds!
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I wish there was a good way of knowing when an if forces an actual branch rather than when it doesn't. The reason people do potentially more expensive mix/lerps is because while it might cost a tiny overhead, they are scared of ma
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I unironically think maybe you should maybe add some banned words to your own list
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by alkonaut 2y ago
There is only one way to respond to this. You just do not comply with this. If you are Apple you withdraw from the UK completely if necessary. But a better option is probably to just take the punishment for not complying while you appeal. T
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I think this is unnecessarily defeatist. The UK is still a well functioning democracy. Using scare quotes around proper democracy just blurs the line to authoritarians and dictators. We elect our politicians. We demand they stop serious cri
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What are you trying to say exactly? What kind of reform are you suggesting they make impossible? And how?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
There's always competing interests, but I like to look at it as a glass half full. It's the focus on rights that has ensured it's still not passed.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Seems to work again. But how does this happen in the first place. How could someone possibly have thought "hey I have an idea, let's put in a list of english words and just silently stop working if we have see even one of them i
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by alkonaut 2y ago
You could still just proxy everything through a single endpoint. I honestly don't know why people would run software that phones home to function, yet are worried that it phones home...
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Do you mean windows telemetry, or telemetry for other products? because I think this is a per product affair
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by alkonaut 2y ago
There's telemetry in adobe products that you can't just disable in the app instead of blocking it? And if there is telemetry that they don't want people to be able to disable for whatever reason, then why would they even sepa
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yeah I think programming is both ”thinking about what code to write” as well as actually typing it in. One can’t meaningfully separate any steps like ”design” or ”architecture” from programming.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That you must design the system before you type it down as code. Once you make the wrong assumptions or wrong abstractions no amount or skillful coding can save you. You risk solving the wrong problem perfectly.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I just quit Twitter and changed to Bluesky and all the bots and spam and outrage just disappeared.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If they don’t fulfill their end of the agreement (paying until the date in question) then surely any agreement to quit in return for X months pay would be broken? So you’d still be employed unless the pay out is made? This is where I go ”I
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by alkonaut 2y ago
The problem is finding who to invite. Does the article even say what the pool of people you invite from is? Everyone in my phonebook isn't enough. Everyone with an apple id isn't enough either. Apple doesn't have a list of my
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes that condition I understand. But that seems orthogonal to the code size issue. Having no panics in code where the stdlib is riddled with panics for exceptional situations (allocation failure, for example) seems like a situation where yo
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Why worry about the code size if the code size is up to the library consumer (through their choice of panic handler)? If the consumer worries about code size, then their application has a minimal panic handler. If the consuming application
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by alkonaut 2y ago
It's not the solution itself that is interesting to me, it's first finding out whether the person can go through the motions of solving it. Like reading instructions, submitting solutions etc. It filters out those who can't c

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