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by alkonaut 5mo ago
It brings tooling that is a LOT easier. Just things like dependency management, test running and so on is so much better in Rust than in C, even if you happen to write the exact same code because you basically write unsafe code and hand rol
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Surely 100% of these low level features are availale in rust too? I understand it is a massive undertaking and builds off the previous codec(s) but writing these things by hand such as inline assembly seems to be as easy if not easier in Ru
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
How is this data storage even legal? I mean having cameras out that will sound an alarm if one of N specific wanted cars pass by is one thing. But do these cars just store stuff for later use and abuse? Who approved that?
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Would be interesting to know what exactly went wrong. How obvious was the mistake? How necessary was the change? What is wrong with the test suite that didn’t capture it?
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Where is this panic? In the US? I don’t hear anything about it (in Europe).
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
> you could do your taxes with the 1040EZ form, a pocket calculator and 10 minutes. Shouldn't the correct way to file simple taxes be to just accept (sign) a value? Why is any arithmetic needed at all? Doesn't the tax authority
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
How could an api for number parsing ever be designed to return 0 for invalid input, for a function where 0 is also a common (perhaps the most common) return value for a valid input? This wouldn't even pass a cursory sanity check of the
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Devs not having read access to all code seems like a massive org smell. What’s worse, in many cases not having access doesn’t just prevent you from seeing it it also prevents you from knowing it exists. Now you don’t know what to ask for, w
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
That's a software developer's main job. Saying no. Or in rare cases saying "yes, but". If there is a "hierachy" where product managers are seen as superiors to software development, i.e. where product managers
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Yes absolutely. Sadly I think that ship has sailed. Now if you ask 100 people in the street what "algorithms" are, I bet a majority among those who answer anything at all will answer it's something related to evil social medi
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
No one _ever_ even considers "algorithms" in the CS sense here (such as "sorting"), and even bringing that notion up would be deliberately dumbing down the discussion (yet it keeps happening in this thread over-and-over-
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Can everyone just please stop saying "well ackshually sorting is done with an algorithm" and just assume at least not-idiotic-intent here? No no one will ban "algorithms" or suggests anything of that kind. Yes it's
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
> Any ordering is an algorithm technically, so yes just "banning algorithm" doesn't wor Algorithm in this context (and presumably in any proposed legal text) is about personalization and purpose. No one worries about prese
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Yup so all they need to do is only allow that content feed for anyone under X years in some specific countries. Seems like they'll survive this, and it won't even be very expensive to fix.
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
> Hacker News is a site that presents data by algorithm Does it though? I mean by "algorithm" in this context we mean "personalized algorithm meant to maximize engagement and retention". Not e.g. "sort by upvotes
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
I think that's still mostly fine. Youtube is already not an app but a web site (It has apps too but I think it's less app centric than e.g. instagram). Obviously we need the ability to regulate also global options. Typically if th
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Not sure what confiscation would accomplish that regulation couldn’t? I mean we’re all aware that if regulators target TikTok then a new app would pop up and take its place. But the thing about regulation is that it doesn’t need to be water
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Where mortgage interest is a deductible expense (usually the case if savings interest is a taxable income) then one simple fix is to limit that to one home. Second homes or homes bought in speculation using borrowed money are at least les
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
In the case of Instagram: You show the videos from the people you follow on instagram, then no more short videos at all. Possibly a search box. If you search on youtube then it can rank any way it wants, just not use e.g. anything from the
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by alkonaut 5mo ago
Agreed. Even if Python or JS was the language I knew well, even if the platform ecosystem is the one I need, I'd _still_ make very sure to use at least strong types (even if not static) for anything an AI co-creates and is maintained l
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
If I run WSL it’s because I try to avoid Linux - but I want to run something that needs a Linux environment. I think the argument about what’s avoiding what is pretty strange.
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
Wine is a great thing on Linux too…
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
Mac chose another path. You buy a pc and OS and the same vendor makes both. You can’t choose but at least you also never need to wonder whether your laptop and OS work together. Microsoft took a more difficult path. They have close contact
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
This is the one thing I want from an OS: I want it to work for the hardware I have, and the hardware I get tomorrow. Without having to google whether it will, or what hardware to buy. Without having to google some workaround or configure an
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
WPA3, DNS over HTTPS, WSL2, Windows Sandbox, Per monitor DPI scaling, QUIC, DirectX 12. The list can be made pretty long.
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
Yes "If" spending is cut or "If" taxes are not cut then you might have a balance. But just implement balanced budget goals. Accept at most a deficit of 1% in the budget or whatever. Allow for a deviation from this to do
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
> > I really need some politics-free scholarship > The Freakonomics podcast Yikes.
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
The bar for entry for any of these solutions is 1) require no app installs (at least beyond those you already have). 2) not require the same network Most solutions fail one or both of these. Of course AirDrop isn't perfect (It doesn&#
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
But we still have CVE's for trivial things? I mean just a medium sized test suite for "rm" alone should probably be many thousand test cases or so. And you'd think that deleting "." and "./" resp
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by alkonaut 6mo ago
Oh so the earth density is merely the motivation for the experiment? I read it as the earth mass actually being used somewhere in the formulas within the setup itself which was what confused me. He uses his experiment to calculate G based o

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