captainmuon

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by captainmuon 2y ago
> [...] readers [...] are inclined to reject the immutability of a described reality that contradicts their own preferences. I think it is almost the opposite. People (readers or the people making the stories) are increasingly unwilling
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I think this is really interesting work, and as others have said it is a herculean undertaking by Sean Baxter to try to rework C++. That being said, I'm not sure I like the direction. C++ is already more than complicated enough. And I&
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I'm really surprised that the first example doesn't work. I would have thought that it decides which overload to use only when instantiating the template, and then doing argument dependent lookup (or whatever it is called) to pick
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I think often people don't put in the extra mile to make things resource efficient or snappy (they may or may not have good reasons not to of course). It starts with choosing the right algorithms, using an index instead of doing a line
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by captainmuon 2y ago
A blast from the past, I used to work in particle physics and used ROOT a lot. I had a love/hate relationship with it. On the one hand, it had a lot of technical debt and idiosyncrasies. But on the other hand, there are a bunch of thin
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Does anybody know why, when you use Google Maps in China, your GPS location matches the map and not the satellite image? I would assume the maps being in GJC-02 and the satellite images being in some other global coordinate system. So you
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by captainmuon 2y ago
After recently switching to an iPhone, the thing I miss most is a consistent back button. Second would be a better keyboard, but you can install Gboard and almost get there.
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Seeing the fast development of AI in the last couple of years, it's incredible how stuck AI assistants are. Basic things like "Hey Google, turn up the volume" don't work. Just imagine what a good AI assistant could do wi
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I feel people don't understand what inheritance and (object orientation in general) is useful for, misuse it, and then it gets a bad reputation. It's not about making nice hierarchies of Cars, Fruits, and Ovals. For me the main po
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by captainmuon 3y ago
That's probably to prevent the most obvious workaround of creating a new shell company for every million users. (Which would be not so ridiculous as it sounds, there is plenty of software you cannot buy directly but only through a rese
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Just do what the German Facebook clone StudiVZ did back in the day. Find a couple of people in every college town and make them multiplicators, who invite other people and spam every place with flyers. Spend a few hundred thousand $ if necc
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by captainmuon 3y ago
From that statement, it's not clear to me what is going to change. I'm still in the "I'd love to donate camp". They mention corporate strategy and AI, and somewhere I read they are going to refocus on "privacy&
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I'm a bit late to answer but... I've used a bit of XAML and it is not at all what I have in mind. XAML, SwiftUI and QML all have the same problem, in that they mix structure and presentation. A typical XAML app is not easily theme
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Nowadays most GTK apps look very simliar. A sidebar, some actions in the titlebar, a details view. (Same story for Mac apps, 'Modern' Windows apps, Mobile apps.) I wonder if a UX toolkit could be completely declarative and seman
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I guess for me it depends on what the law considers "social media". Is something like the bulletin boards we used to have around the late 90s/early 2000s social media? What about chat rooms? Local social web sites for the sch
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Funnily, I disagree with almost every point in the most upvoted answer. For me (as a physicist by training), the f' notation is a shorthand, and df/dx is the more clear notation. Because especially in physics, you often deal with
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I'd say it is even debatable whether Unity is really re-distributing in the sense of the LGPL or merely hosting. Redistribution is something between licensor and licensee, your web hoster or your telecom is not involved. But I guess th
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I can give you a right, but that doesn't mean you're neccessary able to excercise that right. I can allow you to drive a tank on my property, but you probably can't afford one, and it would be banned by laws. I'm curious
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I've never understood the problem with (L)GPL code on iOS devices. Sure, users don't have the possibility to replace the code on that platform. But the restriction is not imposed by the people distributing the code, but by externa
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Exceptions are not non-deterministic, although the control flow can be a bit non obvious of course. I think if you disallow exceptions you run into other problems. How can a constructor fail now? You need to have some kind of flag showing i
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I see it, but on a different "channel" than my main vision. It's like this old idea where there is a little humunculus in your head viewing the output of your eyes on a screen - imagine a second screen for imaginations beside
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Yeah I mixed up the terms but I was talking about things like autopilot. My point was even if you don't have "door-to-door good as a human driver really fully self-driving", the main feature of self-driving is that you should
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by captainmuon 3y ago
So it's basically lane assist + cruise control but stops working if you look away? I'm not going to pay 7500 €/$ for that. The whole purpose of self-driving for me would be to be able to stretch my arms or do something small
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I don't think it has been conclusively decided that model weights are "just" a database. On the contrary, they are likely a derived work from millions of different sources for which the creator doesn't have a license or
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Yes exactly. You'd enter your password once at boot. Then the OS remembers whatever key it needs to access your keychain. The OS becomes the arbitrator to allow who accesses the keychain. Similar to how BitLocker works, I assume. Windo
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by captainmuon 3y ago
There are protocols that you can use to authenticate the fingerprint scanner [1]. When they are not used you can indeed just shim a fake scanner and unlock the PC [2]. This all assumes that nobody can break into the secure silicone of the t
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by captainmuon 3y ago
Couldn't you have a small (meaning auditable) priviliged daemon store the keys in RAM when the keychain is unlocked once? The daemon would then release the keys when it determines that the fingerprint is correct. You would have to comp
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by captainmuon 3y ago
They write "Logo fonts are indeed beginning to converge" but I think the minimal sans-serif has been the style for some time. I wonder if you could get ahead of the curve and use fonts like Garamond in the old Apple ads. Maybe tha
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by captainmuon 3y ago
I wonder if it could be a background source that we don't understand. Maybe some freak coincidence where particles come in in exactly the right angles to fake a hyperenergetic photon. Or somebody messing with laser pointers. Or birds o
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by captainmuon 3y ago
IMO the root cause is that the fingerprint sensor is a black box and just sends an "OK" to the OS. So you have to take extra care to authenticate the sensor or you are open to attacks like this. The developers were trying to be ex

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