cbsmith

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by cbsmith 6mo ago
It sort of doesn't matter. Bottom line is it isn't an effective platform for them.
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
If you think it is "essentially zero cost", I'm going to respectfully suggest you do not understand what you read. If you think they reached 13 million people on X last year, you do not understand social media. They have made
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
It's really weird that the EFF would post something on their own site to speak to their supporters, and that it would employ "identity-group-affirming language". Just because they issue one post that is targeting their suppor
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
The "de minimis" at the end is a pretty sick burn.
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
You might want to read their post before commenting. They seem very much aware of the need to reach people who aren't supporters and have always actively engaged with the platforms they are critical of. It's just that X isn't
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
AFAIK, the Go runtime is pretty NUMA-oblivious. The mcache helps a bit with locality of small allocations, but otherwise, you aren't going to get the same benefits (though I absolutely here you about avoiding execve overhead).
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
Maybe? I wouldn't count on it. The US may be a net petro exporter, but it's about 1% of GDP. The other 99% are not going to do well with inflated energy prices. So exports might net go down .
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
...and of course the US has a lot of other industries that are hurt by this: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/26/g-s1-115240/iran-war-strait-h...
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
Short term, you might be right. However... higher oil prices also increase energy prices across the board, and China's energy sector is dominant in renewables. I think they're more than happy to have the competing energy sources b
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by cbsmith 6mo ago
That doesn't exactly limit the impact of cutting off the supply. It's a global trade market. If China buys on the global market from other places instead of Iran because that oil isn't available, that still creates a shortage
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
Yeah, once the fab is gone it's too late.
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
Surprised Optane wasn't kept on life support by hyperscalers and kicked in to overdrive as the demand for AI memory spiked.
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
From the article: "These chemicals are not just additives; they may be migrating from the headphones into our body," said Karolina Brabcová, chemical expert at Arnika. "Daily use—especially during exercise when heat and sweat
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
Doesn't matter. Under the US Court of Appeals ruling, the agreement to the terms of GPLv3 would apply, at which point all associated software would be subject to GPLv3 terms. Even if one remade everything from scratch with an AI, one w
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
Might be fun to take some BSD or MIT licenses and send out e-mails updating them to GPLv3...
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
> LLMs won't add information to context, so if the output is larger than the input then it's slop That doesn't align with my observations. A lot of times they are able to add information to context. Sure it's informat
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
Yup. The comment about the LLM generated PRs is telling. The complain is the LLM generated PRs don't describe design intent. You know how to avoid that? Tell the LLM to provide intent, and if need be, give it the intent. A PR which doe
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
One could almost imagine the article was intentional self-parody. Almost.
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
I think it mostly demonstrates that people don't read laws before criticizing them.
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
Yes. I'd recommend reading the bill if you have concerns.
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
That's a bit of a stretch. They split apart when he was 5 years old, and his dad was a Pakistani diplomat.
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by cbsmith 7mo ago
He was a Pakastani-American, so I'm not sure that really explains it, nor do I recall that being the case.
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
Except that there are tremendous advantages to constant-time execution, not the least of which is protection from timing security attacks/information leakage (which admittedly were less of a concern back then). Sure you can get the one
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
Because then you have the inherent issues that come from open, federated systems. ;-)
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
They make more of their money from transaction fees and selling transaction data. The interest is a nice bonus.
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
Yeah, I kind of understand the answers... and yet, it seems crazy. Just insane.
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
Not to take credit away from Andrew for his ideas and writing, because at least he came up with the idea and wrote about it, but I don't understand how that idea of Jepsen style testing of package managers is a novel idea. Like... what
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
...and unfortunately it is letting them go at a substantially higher rate than the public workforce.
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by cbsmith 8mo ago
I have yet to hear a criticism of academia where it sounds like we're better disproportionately losing people with PhDs than without them, particularly since most of those people got their PhDs quite a while ago. PhDs seem to be quite
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by cbsmith 9mo ago
I've been using container-use to do something like that: https://container-use.com/introduction

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