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by atoav 1y ago
As someone who used em-dashes extensively before LLMs I can only hope (?) some of myself is in there. I really liked em-dashes, but now I have to actively avoid them, because many people use them as a marker to recognize text that has been
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by atoav 1y ago
As someone who was throwing the most popular parties in my hometown¹ during my youth probably the number 1 thing is finding the right mixture of people. Nearly the most boring thing you can do is only inviting people who know each other, id
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by atoav 1y ago
Being attractive can be helpful to get to know people. But it can also be a curse. If you know really attractive women (like international fashion model types) you will learn that it can be very hard for them at times to find friends that
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by atoav 1y ago
Could we please just agree not to use this "considered harmful" phrase to describe advice where the answer is "depends"? This kinda makes the author seem like he has lost the ability to consider what software is out th
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by atoav 1y ago
When I ask myself who in my friends circles has had the happiest, longest lasting relationships it almost never were the guys with the money. Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean the inverse is true and you score big time if yo
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Yes sure, but you got to engage with the arguments on the other side as well. The argument on the other side is that a rewrite is worth it because it prevents entire classes of memory leaks that are still to this day leading the exploitable
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by atoav 1y ago
> When inference gets 10x faster, maybe the question shifts from "how do we generate better code?" to "why generate code at all?" Because we live on a planet with finite resources and running certain problems in an LL
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by atoav 1y ago
I program mostly Python, C, C++, Javascript and Rust. Including on embedded (that goes for C, C++ and Rust) Most people nowadays who criticize Rust do so on a cultural basis of "there are people who want this so and it changes things t
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by atoav 1y ago
I am referencing one of the sound-effects contained in General MIDI. GM gives you many sounda of instruments like piano, harpsichord, guitar etc. But it also contains these (much to the fun of everybody who ever played around with a GM keyb
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by atoav 1y ago
Finally a realistic helicopter sound?
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Technically, sure.
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by atoav 1y ago
Well this puts them on my blacklist. And I am an educator in precisely the artschool they would profit off catering to. I refuse to teach my student tools that change the contract once you bought into them. Adobe is on that list too. The on
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by atoav 1y ago
There are legit use-cases for "fire-and-forget"-protocol. E.g. anything that is more about "hey, here is a new value, just like the past 100.000 I sent within the last second" than about "here is a critical command
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by atoav 1y ago
Go ahead and do that then. uv is not preventing you from putting 10 projects within one folder. It is still benefitial to not install stuff system wide, since this makes it easy to forget which stuff you already have installed and which is
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by atoav 1y ago
"Sideloading"? It is called installing where I come from and if you can't install your own software on it you don't own the hardware. The fact alone that they managed to establish "sideloading" as a term tell
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by atoav 1y ago
Not to criticize your friend, but it isn't as if things following his path is sn inevitable law of nature. Coincidentally I went from being an Audio consumer to a person that developes audio hard- and software, and mixes music in my sp
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by atoav 1y ago
In a similar way sometimes the best way to protect data is not to collect it of if you collect it not keep it around in its raw form. As for secrets, you sometimes need to have them for very good reasons. If you can reach the same goals wit
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by atoav 1y ago
Calibre comes with a ebook-convert command, that one might work
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by atoav 1y ago
Why? There are actually valuable takeaways from this. One would be that people are the weak point in your security system. If all your organizational security hinges on one guy not folding, that guy is the natural target. Whether a literal
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by atoav 1y ago
I mean theoretically ever the hardest encryption just buys you time. That time may be long past the lifetime of our own sun, but it just buys you time. The same is true for locks and safes as well. Being one of the few people who never had
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by atoav 1y ago
As a former VFX freelancer I think many people underestimate how effective cheap tricks like using image textures like that can be. You don't need real noise, it is enough to have a single texture that is a bit bigger than the input im
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by atoav 1y ago
Which is why we pepper and salt our hashes. If you store the blood type of a patient hashed, the problem is that there are only so many blood types. So the same blood type will have the same hash value and attackers could (1) just infer sta
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by atoav 1y ago
This can be anonymization, if you throw away the key. If you keep it, it worse than encryption since now attackers can also differenciate subnets.
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by atoav 1y ago
If you want to avoid overlapping runs simply simply have the task check for the existence of a lockfile, if not create a lockfile containing the start timestamp, run the task and delete the lockfile at exit or error. The timestamp gives you
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by atoav 1y ago
So of the 13.84 billion doses administered how many people have seen serious harm and why did I never hear of them? Note that 13.84 billion is a huge number, if every dose was a powerball lottery ticket we should see around 64 jackbot winne
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by atoav 1y ago
A bit over 70% of the world population has received covid vaccines as of April 2024. Over 13 billion doses. With the law of big numbers we can assume that nearly all of the worst things that could have happend with the vaccine have been a
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by atoav 1y ago
Yes, but as the pandemic has shown people are phenomenally bad at guesstimating the risk of vaccinations. The cool thing about medicine is that we get pretty good numbers pretty fast for everything. So in the end that choice would just be
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by atoav 1y ago
Exactly. But was it really the claim parent made that they don't? I understood the claim more like: Vaccines help, but economic divides will perpetuate the problem in different ways. And there is something to that claim. Because wh
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Youtube is one of those platforms I would probably never have used if my feed wouldn't be adjusted to me. There is real gold on youtube, like for example the math explainers by 3blue1brown. But if you ever tries opening a private brows
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by atoav 1y ago
If you read my comment with a little care, you may realize that I said nothing about replacing the software, I only spoke about writing it. In my own Distro I wouldn't replace coreutils with a Rust rewrite either at this point. On th

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