atq2119

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by atq2119 21d ago
That's a feel good response, but there are also individuals who post a bit too much, but still fairly interesting stuff. A middle ground would be to have a "reduced follow" mode where you still have a chronological timeline,
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by atq2119 25d ago
Nothing in your link is evidence of a problem . It also doesn't explain the regional correlations. If immigrants are objectively a problem, why is anti-immigration sentiment highest in regions with the least immigration? Make it make
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by atq2119 25d ago
> the immigration issue that clearly is forefront on the minds of such AFD voters, Let's be real: this "issue" is a strawman. It doesn't really exist, especially in that part of Germany. Just like pretty much everyw
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by atq2119 1mo ago
It feels like this progression of increasingly drastic measures to circumvent the protections of a computer system ought to be enough to establish criminal intent and get some of the people running those crawlers into prison.
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by atq2119 1mo ago
This is ultimately about power. Democracy is built on the idea that people are equal and have equal rights. This is only sustainable if the power differential between people isn't too large. Corporations consist of people, yes, but the
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by atq2119 1mo ago
Assuming that summary is accurate: it specifically talks about businesses, so the requirements presumably don't apply to a personal website, which is what the post you were responding to was about.
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by atq2119 1mo ago
I want to agree with the sentiment. Then again, OpenMP has in fact used the term "team" in the this kind of sense for a long time.
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by atq2119 2mo ago
I suspect it's a similar phenomenon as people capitalizing visa when the topic is international travel / migration instead of payment networks.
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by atq2119 2mo ago
As a non-GCC compiler developer myself, there's a spectrum of AI use and the words "AI generated code" can mean different things to different people. At the extreme ends, nobody I know well objects to AI auto-completion in yo
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by atq2119 2mo ago
The sad fact of life is that too many developers are used to pushing PRs with unprincipled commits, and relying on squash merges. The approach that GitHub chose can show those people almost immediate benefits, which is surely the better pat
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by atq2119 2mo ago
Do you mean on Linux in a Wine/Proton context? That's different, so yes, I did mean DX12 driver. Again, not impossible, just picking your battles.
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by atq2119 2mo ago
In order to have a useful Windows desktop, you need a DX12 driver. So, in order to write their own KMD, they'd either have to also write their own DX12 driver, which they probably have no interest in, or reverse engineer the existing A
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by atq2119 2mo ago
I sort of see the point about undoing the changes to the clipboard, although it's not actually so simple. The clipboard is system-wide shared state -- what if another application changed the clipboard between the cut and the undo? The
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by atq2119 3mo ago
This is getting a bit off-topic, but there are certainly people who will still say that they built it. That is, in a nutshell, how people try to reconcile desert theory with the existence of the super-wealthy.
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by atq2119 3mo ago
Right. There is something interesting here that could be explored thoughtfully. The hard part is that we rely on compilers being correct, and they mostly are. We have no viable mechanism yet to get the same level of confidence if some LLM-b
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by atq2119 3mo ago
A dubious analogy. Factories are places for the mass production of identical or nearly identical widgets. There are some kinds of mass produced software, like the low value apps that lots of businesses want to have for some reason and that
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by atq2119 3mo ago
We can point out mistakes that feel rather grating without assuming intent behind them. I agree that their use of "he" is likely because they're not a native speaker, especially because they're arguing against the capa
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by atq2119 3mo ago
That's true, but it does mean that the LLM itself actually does have access to those thinking traces and could therefore, at least in principle, answer what it was thinking. They're probably not trained to do that, though.
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by atq2119 3mo ago
It could potentially be falsified by an encounter with really weird aliens. But I find it quite plausible because it feels like it's fundamentally "just" a restatement or a minor variation of the Church-Turing thesis.
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by atq2119 3mo ago
To expand on this, I've found that often, the best way to make a change is in two steps: First, make the change easy (the re-architecture). Second, make the change that is now easy. My best software development experiences have been in
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by atq2119 3mo ago
This doesn't actually seem to be true based on a quick googling, i.e. Germany has somewhat higher median income. But in addition to the raw numbers, you have to keep in mind that they don't account for cost of living and that diff
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by atq2119 3mo ago
The trick is to do something else in those 20 minutes (or, ideally, even longer). That's the main value I've been getting out of coding agents. I have them do (comparatively) simpler tasks or explorative tasks in the background wh
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by atq2119 4mo ago
That was probably not GP's point, but they can be. Sound-based weapons are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device Of course a lot of it is about the energy and overall exposure, and the
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by atq2119 4mo ago
Agree with most of this except come on. Facebook was born out of a misogynist precursor. The idea that its CEO had no malicious intentions is ridiculous.
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by atq2119 4mo ago
The straightforward solution to this is to allow the tax to be paid in kind, to be paid into a sovereign wealth fund. Owe 1M$ in taxes and have ownership stakes in a company worth 1B$? Fine, transfer a 0.1% share of ownership in the company
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by atq2119 4mo ago
Of course that is a feature, but at this point I have to suspect that you're willfully ignoring the point. The moral problems begin when writing that book gives you extraordinary power beyond what is healthy for society (which is extre
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by atq2119 4mo ago
Yes, the same is absolutely true for many other professions. And artists are probably more aware than most, at least on average, how much luck plays a role. But note that I have been very careful not to call the fund managers individually i
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by atq2119 4mo ago
Yes, you got it! It's because while for some people there may be jealousy involved, many more have realized or are now realizing how much power the ultra rich have, and how bad that is for our societies. Once a company becomes large en
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by atq2119 4mo ago
Part of it is work, yes. But consider. How much is your take home as a fund manager with 100M AUM? How much is your take home with 10B AUM? The work is the same, yet if the take home is different, you've proven that your income is not
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by atq2119 4mo ago
The sad part about it, and one that has become a bit of a theme with his postings, is that pg stopped being intellectually honest in his online writings at some point over the last two decades. His post here in particular violates the funda

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