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by chipdart 2y ago
If you bother to spend a couple of minutes looking for it, you'll quickly stumble upon a high volume of posts unmasking LLM-powered bots, which even respond to prompts to clear previous prompts, output their own prompts, and even gener
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It sounds like we’re converging on the same Twitter workflow over time, which is to just never use it at all, haha. True, it boggles the mind the extents to which some people twist and turn to salvage the usability of a system that&#x2
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I doubt there are even real humans behind some posts. The topic of Russian bots pushing all sort of propaganda designed to destabilize western countries is a well known problem. There are already multiple discussions on stunts like bla
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> Gosh you're totally right, the article has pitched this as a problem unique to Twitter, but of course Facebook and Tiktok et al (...) Why do you think this is relevant, if the subject is Twitter's algorithm? Your comment read
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by chipdart 2y ago
> If a $600 Mac lasts 5 years and still worth $150 and another machine loses all its value in six months (...) Your hypothetical scenario is so absurd you didn't even noticed your catastrophical scenario falls well within any warran
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by chipdart 2y ago
> From my experience, TCO on most apple products ends up being roughly the same when you factor in resale value. This reads like the epitome of Apple's reality distortion field. I mean, you're trying to convince yourself that a
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by chipdart 2y ago
> You may just not be seeing the visual artifacts on your screen because you don't know what they look like, or mentally adjust to what that screen looks like. Does any of that matter, though? Who bothers with the existence of hypot
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price Not really. Do a quick googling for cheap miniPCs from brands such as minisforum or Beelink. Years ago they were selling Ryzen5 and Intel i5 with 16BG of RAM fo
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by chipdart 2y ago
> But wow, 16’th page of Google, that really is uncharted territory. Would it make a difference if instead of querying google he was at the library of a Mexican organization for environmental monitoring reading obscure reports?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> So does the frontpage of WSJ (...) Apples and oranges. Reading the WSJ is a kin to subscribing to a specific Twitter user: you know what content to expect, and you are interested to read more. Being force-fed political content you expl
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Oh, please. Nobody is saying that Rust is perfect (...) This is the kind of fallacies that dominate Rust fanboy's discourse. You start off by mindlessly commenting on "constant stream of CVEs", but when you're faced
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Well, that depends on information you haven't provided. Maybe your system does have an extra 900 MB of memory hanging around; That's not how it works. You cannot make sweeping statements over how something is bad when you fai
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The constant stream of CVEs (...) It's a function of popularity and widespread use. The only languages that do not feature CVEs are the ones that are not used. Eve Rust started to feature in CVEs, including memory safety problems
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Rust is the only mainstream language with an ergonomic modern type system and features like exhaustive matching on sum types (...) This reads like a parody of Rust's fandom.
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Given that compute is often priced proportional to (maximum) memory usage, (...) Let's look at numbers. Hetzner sells vCPUs with 4GB of RAM for less than 5$/month, and 8GB of RAM for less than $10/month. https:/&#x
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by chipdart 2y ago
> I think the experience of building something atop a framework should absolutely have bearing on how to build the underlying framework. You'd be wrong. If your job is maintaining a framework then your focus is on internal details,
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Flutter is the best thing that happened to UI development since Qt. Most people don't realize how many apps written in Flutter they use daily, simply because it's impossible to tell. Electron-based apps are also everywhere an
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Even whatsapp had about 50 members when they were handling billion users I would add that running a service deployed to N regions is considerably more demanding and work-intensive than working on a releasable software package. No one w
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This could explain a lot. Only if you're oblivious to the day-to-day activities of a software project. They work on building a framework, not on using said said framework to build something entirely different that has no bearing i
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> A bare metal systems programming language can be used for web backend development. Let that sink in. Hand-roled assembly too, and even brainfuck. What an epiphany. Meanwhile this cargo cult is invested in toy projects to meet the bandw
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There is no reason data isolation should cost you 100x memory usage. It really depends on what you mean by "memory usage". The fundamental principle of any garbage collection system is that you allocate objects in the heap at
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by chipdart 2y ago
> There's no good reason to pick C/C++ over Rust in most of these cases... What leads you to believe in that?
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Or, in other words, it's the unavoidable result of insisting on using a language created for the frontend to write everything else. I don't think this is an educated take. The whole selling point of JavaScript in the backend
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by chipdart 2y ago
You should see the stuff that comes from Reddit.
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Fediverse observer: Lemmy daily stats(lemmy.fediverse.observer)
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> (...) the new Raspberry Pie Pico 2 is both orders of magnitude more capable than the chip used here and also around half the price. That's cool and all but what are the tradeoffs?
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Looks like a non-issue, and nothing left to debate. I wonder why anyone would be trying to make a storm in a tea cup.
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> I think one could claim that the editorial department was trying to make a decision that could/would be interpreted as a company stance, rather than a department stance, to the average person. This makes no sense whatsoever. It is
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> I think the implicit argument is that he wants to avoid more canceled contracts, along with other forms of retribution like personal attacks he experienced a few years earlier. That makes no sense at all. If the primary concern was avo
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by chipdart 2y ago
> AWS provides latency numbers between regions, AZ's and within an AZ in network manager. AWS also provides dashboards that shows what regions/services are down, and history tells us those are not to be trusted for precisely th

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