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by bsder 1y ago
> so why create Wayland when we had X Because X11 had a lot of issues that got papered over with half-baked extensions and weird interfaces to the kernel. The problem is that Wayland didn't feel like doing the work to make fundament
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by bsder 1y ago
> if another geography has a comparative advantage everyone benefits. I don't necessarily agree. Outsourcing has a cost in that you also lose the knowledge of the entire engineering chain. That engineering chain has a LOT of valu
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by bsder 1y ago
Transactional like "password reset message".
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by bsder 1y ago
DDoS via AI bots doesn't have a straightforward solution at the individual level (Anubis-like solutions only neutralize the dumbest of bots). If you have a reference otherwise, I'd love to have it.
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by bsder 1y ago
> Society accepts that humans make mistakes and considers it unavoidable, but there exists a much higher bar expected of computers/automation/etc. There are a horde of bicyclists and pedestrians who disagree with you and are ho
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by bsder 1y ago
> I realized long ago that full unattended self driving requires AGI. Not even close. The vast majority of people have a small number of local routes completely memorized and do station keeping in between on the big freeways. You can see
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by bsder 1y ago
> Waymos still suffer from erratic behavior at pickup/dropoff, around pedestrians, badly marked roads and generally jam on the brakes at the first sign of any ambiguity. As do most of the ridesharing drivers I interact with nowadays
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by bsder 1y ago
> I often find myself guilty of not reading the article but only the comments here myself, so in case this is you: Go take the time and read it, even if it's painful. The problem isn't that we need another document showing how
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by bsder 1y ago
> A very short conversion time leads to a profitable business model where companies sell green cards to wealthy foreign citizens. I don't buy it. This is spectacularly easy enforcement. A company applying for H1-Bs over and over
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by bsder 1y ago
> Increasing the number of H1-B visas has very little support from both sides of the isle. A lot of us simply want the H1-B to green card conversion time to be 12 months to 24 months MAX and all the expense should be borne by the compa
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by bsder 1y ago
You won't save time, but, man, with the price of car rentals lately you will save a TON of money depending on how long you need to stay.
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by bsder 1y ago
> I think the underlying question is why move to Zig from a C variant? Null pointers disallowed by default. Slices. Superb cross-compilation. Easy C interop. Comptime instead of C preprocessor. There are lots more. The problem Rust i
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by bsder 1y ago
Don't forget clone()
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by bsder 1y ago
> Seasoned Rust coders don’t spend time fighting the borrow checker - their code is already written in a way that just works. I really wish people would quit bleating on about the borrow checker. As someone who does systems programming,
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by bsder 1y ago
And James Randi was a role model for Penn.
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by bsder 1y ago
They don't seem to do this anymore. Or, at least, not without paying some money. I think they have a "Hang with Penn and Teller"-like thing that you can buy VIP tickets for. The other thing to note is that Penn and Teller a
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by bsder 1y ago
> Here's the thing. Those first two things don't exist. You are 100% wrong on this. They exist all the time when I'm doing a hardware task. I need to test a new chip coming off the fab. I need to get the pins in the ri
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by bsder 1y ago
> I believe the lack of popularity is more of an economics problem. It's also a programming complexity problem. A local-first app has to run on a zillion different configurations of hardware. A cloud-first app only has to run on a
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by bsder 1y ago
> Those in power are failing the youth of today and tomorrow by engaging in petty squabbling and naked partisanship instead of practicing good governance. So maybe these unemployed youngsters will actually show up and vote for a switch
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A) Yet another example of why state machines need support directly in programming languages. B) Look at salary for software engineer in semiconductor company then look at salary for software engineer at FAANG. Then ask where all the decent
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by bsder 1y ago
I disagree. The quoted scenario is the absolute best for LLMs. 1) An easily defined go/no-go task with defined end point which requires 2) A bunch of programming code that nobody gives a single shit about 3) With esoteric function cal
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by bsder 1y ago
> It seems like from a language design perspective they've been made intentionally awkward Awkward relative to what ? Relative to C? Did you look at my link to Fastbufs? Take a look at that and then get back to me how awkward Zig
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by bsder 1y ago
> I find the IO changes to be strange Perhaps you just feel that way because of 10+ years of accreted expectations? To me, it feels like a reinvention of an interesting idea: Fastbufs https://www.ucw.cz/libucw/doc&#x
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> Most tutorials are not for non-developers, they’re for other developers who are also in the ecosystem. To me eye, most tutorial nowadays are so a developer can put "made public contribution to <X>" on their resume or qu
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by bsder 1y ago
> An X server selectively deprecating older functionality can be lean. Is that actually true? The big problem is that Xlib uses a lot of the dusty corners and the people using X11 apps expect those dusty corners to work. And Xlib is
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by bsder 1y ago
Sure. Most fixed angle sharpeners work to some degree, I just recommended one that isn't sold by "Random Letter Chinese Shop" and that I have bought and know personally works. In addition, for the moment, the stones used in
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> The worst are cucumbers, they stick to the blade Is this issue possibly that amateur knives are too "polished"? This doesn't seem to be a "professional chef" problem yet seems to be a significant "amateur
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by bsder 1y ago
> I always have to "figure out" sharpening process. Get the Worksharp fixed angle sharpener for about $70 (about the price of 2 decent stones). If you're really interested, get the leather strop add on for about $10. Get
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by bsder 1y ago
> I am curious, what is the reason behind introducing Rust in Git? More developers. Old C projects simply don't have enough incoming developers anymore. No one is clamoring to join the Git project and write C code. The Rewrite It I
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by bsder 1y ago
Wayback is really the only good step in the X11 space I've seen. They could use your help. It also has the benefit that if it gets enough traction, then you can displace the backend off of Wayland and go directly to hardware. Killing

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