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by atq2119 2y ago
Even if you can't be punished retroactively for previous behavior, continuing to benefit from it can be outlawed. In other words, it would be compatible from a legal perspective to ban the use of LLMs that were trained in violation of
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's not that I know people who casually encourage bugs, but I know plenty of people who don't habitually do the kind of thing you describe in your first paragraph.
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by atq2119 2y ago
I don't think the distinction is about whether the organizations make money; the distinction is about entertainment . Professional sports are primarily a form of entertainment. Sports fans are a bit like music fans in that regard. The
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by atq2119 2y ago
Think correctly even if it may seem inconvenient, and thinking correctly becomes an ingrained habit. And then, a lot fewer bugs. That's the analogy to the author's story about their exam. (I'm pretty sure the "no bugs&qu
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> What they don't do, is waste time walking around looking for spare money that has been dropped. Because that would almost certainly be a waste of time. Why is it usually a waste of time? Because people rarely lose multiple bills o
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by atq2119 2y ago
Capitalism doesn't have a monopoly (heh) on market economies. Market socialism is a thing.
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It is common in universities in at least some parts of the world for the dean(s) of departments to rotate among the faculty. That seems to align somewhat with those ideas.
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It's much more than that. It also allows one thread to make progress while the other is waiting for memory loads, or filling in instruction slots while the other thread is recovering from a branch mispredict. Compilers tend to do a lot
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by atq2119 2y ago
In the same vein, better reviewability of series of commits. It's absolutely baffling to me that GitHub still doesn't support the original workflow for Git.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Interesting, but note that the first bug pointed out by Claude is probably a false positive. In the original version of the code, if a link is removed and it is the last link, then the condition `remove_idx == worst_idx` must be true, which
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by atq2119 2y ago
Right, but it's still German. So the statement "It's not German, but Alemannic" is just plain false.
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by atq2119 2y ago
Yep, same with overlapping unaligned loads. It's just fairly cheap to make that stuff pipelined and run fast. It's only when you mix loads and stores in the same memory region that there are conflicts that can slow you down (and t
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by atq2119 2y ago
Uhh... lawyers are doing quite well for themselves, aren't they?
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If McDonald's insisted on having a long sales phone call to sell me a burger, then yeah, I'd expect them to be able to provide me that information.
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by atq2119 2y ago
As a non-USian looking in, it seemed fairly average and non-horrible to me? I find it interesting to find several comments like this one here so prominently compared to the discussion thread about SpaceX launches.
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by atq2119 2y ago
I think it's a reasonable question to ask, and there's surely some churn that we could do without. But don't underestimate the effort that goes into device drivers.
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by atq2119 2y ago
The irony is of course that unionization of tech workers is bound to come, and I'd say it's a safe bet that it's going to come first in workplaces that are heavily RTO.
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by atq2119 2y ago
> I regularly have to work with other people's C++ where they don't have -Wall -Werror. To be fair, -Werror is kind of terrible. The set of warnings is very sensitive to the compiler version, so as soon as people work on the pr
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by atq2119 2y ago
It's only minutes for the inner planets. But of course that's already enough to require special treatment.
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Not sure what exactly you mean by "necessary", but I feel like the entire field of mathematics would disagree. Proving statements about infinite domains has a very long tradition.
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by atq2119 2y ago
This doesn't feel like a convincing argument. If you wanted to multiply uint8 * uint8, you'd naturally use an unsigned multiply with a uint16 result. That doesn't overflow either. I believe a better argument is to appeal to t
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by atq2119 2y ago
When you render a higher resolution natively, you typically also want higher resolution textures and more detailed model geometry.
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by atq2119 2y ago
As a European, I can confirm that wheelchair accessibility is traditionally better in the US than in Europe. I suspect it's a combination of getting relevant laws earlier (don't know that, just guessing), having less old infrastru
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by atq2119 2y ago
Regarding the first paragraph, I have the impression that gamedev and graphics folks have largely moved to Mastodon. There's a gamedev Mastodon instance.
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by atq2119 2y ago
The RSI thing is real. Until my late 20s I would type blindly with what I jokingly called 5 and a half fingers. But I did start to notice some strain, which is when I decided to finally teach myself "proper" touch typing. I don&#x
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by atq2119 2y ago
Maybe it takes less than 2 hours to add such a configuration knob?
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This is one those cases of "why not both"? I totally agree that we need technical solutions. We have no hope without them. But it's also naive to think that endless growth without lifestyle changes is possible. That said, if
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by atq2119 2y ago
Note that 14nm processes (which are quite old by now) are not the same as 14nm feature sizes. I'm not sure what these machines are capable of, since some details may well be lost in translation in this kind of publication. And I'm
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by atq2119 2y ago
"Nobody", really? As a bare minimum, many people can choose to take more environmentally friendly vacations. You don't have to go on a cruise, and yet that's a booming industry. You don't have to fly across an
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by atq2119 2y ago
Not in relative terms, which is what people usually measure. And yes, the gap has been increasing in relative terms. And I wonder what's behind that rhetoric twist in your second sentence. Was that on purpose or do you not even notice?

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