colonial

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by colonial 2y ago
We are in Hell. Ugh.
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by colonial 2y ago
Holy crap, is that why it's felt so syrupy recently? What was wrong with the old implementation?!
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by colonial 2y ago
I wonder what % of compiler bugs go unidentified due to the user code-massaging them away in some fashion.
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by colonial 2y ago
Not a kernel guy, but - what's stopping a microkernel from emulating the Linux userspace? I know Microsoft had some success implementing the Linux ABI with WSL v1.0. I suppose the main objection to that is accepting some degree of lock
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by colonial 2y ago
I enjoy some well-prepared tofu - I just had some last night, actually - but for most people, it is absolutely not an adequate substitute for eggs without seriously compromising on flavor and utility (i.e. baking.)
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by colonial 2y ago
You can turn a Rust library into a dynamic library w/ a C ABI - exposing the whole API would be tedious, even with tools like bindgen, but if you just want to provide a "render this char* to PDF" function (or whatever) then i
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by colonial 2y ago
Only because they're tired of you asking them the same thing over and over, or because they've picked up new knowledge/opinions since you last asked. "How many r's in strawberry?" "3." "How many
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by colonial 2y ago
There are coins like Chia that were built around "wasting disk space" proof-of-work rather than the "wasting {C/GPU|ASIC} cycles" PoW that Bitcoin uses (and Ethereum used to use.)
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by colonial 2y ago
I cooked up a Containerfile for it a while ago that takes care of all the Perl dependencies: https://pastebin.com/MKLUpgP1 You can build the image by just chmod +x'ing the file and running it. Then just do podman run -
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by colonial 2y ago
Are WASM and containers not fundamentally different things? At their heart, modern containers are a clever way to create something that looks like a Linux VM without the overhead of actual virtualization. Your application still executes &
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by colonial 2y ago
SpaceX wants to do that with Starship (they call it Earth-to-Earth) but I'm pretty sure even they acknowledge that it's something of a reach. Spaceflight is still where air travel was in the early 20th century - starting to beco
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by colonial 2y ago
This is exactly right. Before 9/11, hijackings weren't unheard of, but they were almost universally political stunts with some "hostage situation" to taste [1]. As a passenger, if you just played along, your odds of gett
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by colonial 2y ago
This attitude doesn't fix anything. Refusing to ever break an interface is how you get stuck with trash like C++'s std::regex, which is quite literally slower than shelling out to PHP - and it's not like we can just go and ma
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by colonial 2y ago
> Logic is inherently statistical due to the very nature of empirical sampling, which is the only method we have for verification. What? I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. You can make plenty of sound logical arguments in an empiric
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by colonial 2y ago
If I understand your idea correctly, I don't think a "pure" LLM would derive much advantage from this. Sure, you can constrain them to generate something syntactically valid, but there's no way to make them generate so
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by colonial 2y ago
Seconding the sibling comment re: Kotlin. I haven't worked much with it personally, but I've heard from plenty of people that it strikes a good balance between Java being... Java and Scala's floundering. Rust also checks your
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by colonial 2y ago
Off the top of my head: * Maybe 0.25 birds/square meter? There's ~12 total (we raise some for slaughter now, so it fluctuates) and they have a large enclosed outdoor area attached to the much smaller (6m^2, perhaps a bit more) ind
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by colonial 2y ago
Yup, bird flu moment. I'm very glad my family put up a chicken coop in our backyard years ago; we get a ~carton a day, and they last forever even outside the fridge due to the natural "sealant" still being intact. Hopefully s
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by colonial 2y ago
Have you considered Starlink? You might give up some speed, but it is a fantastic bypass for monopolist bullshit. All the providers in my hometown wanted to charge my parents five figures to run something that wasn't 20-down copper,
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by colonial 2y ago
You'd be surprised at how good you can get at sniffing out slop, especially when it's the type prompted by fools who think it'll get them an easy win. Often the actual content doesn't even factor in - what triggers my
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by colonial 2y ago
I wanted to like Go, but I could never shake the feeling that it was "just" a marginally better C. The runtime and tooling is excellent, yes, but the fact that it eschews obvious advancements since the 1970s (e.g. enums with act
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by colonial 2y ago
Perhaps this would be a good opportunity to test out asteroid deflection technologies? We've got multiple orbital refueling architectures (New Glenn, Starship...) slated to come online in the next few years, so it should be easier to p
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by colonial 2y ago
I recall seeing some complaints recently w.r.t. one of the heavily synthetic models (Phi?) - apparently they tend to overfit on STEM "book knowledge" while struggling with fuzzier stuff and instruction following. I'm not much
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by colonial 2y ago
Pissed. Almost everything I publish online is licensed, usually in a copy-left manner. These companies are violating that agreement for their own gain, and respond to any pushback by invoking bogus legal arguments and ridiculous machine ant
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by colonial 2y ago
Smart move. As a Verizon/Android customer, I'm a little miffed that my carrier is going with ASTS's quasi-vaporware over the proven Starlink constellation - baking support into the OS avoids unhappy customers and loaded *&#x2
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by colonial 2y ago
> Combined with his generally measured approach People sang similar praises of Sam Bankman-Fried, and that story ended with billions going up in flames. People can put on very convincing masks, and they can even fool themselves.
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by colonial 2y ago
Dario is the CEO of Anthropic. I'm struggling to imagine a more blatant case of motivated reasoning.
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by colonial 2y ago
Can confirm anecdotally. Even R1 (the full, official version with web search enabled) crashes out hard on my personal Rust benchmark - it refers to multiple items (methods, constants) that don't exist and fails to import basic necessar
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by colonial 2y ago
Funny, I didn't even know this was a debate. I didn't even notice when Fedora switched from X to Wayland by default - maybe because I'm still a 60hz plebian? I have experienced issues with my mouse input locking up/jum
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Show HN: Box – a script-based interactive container manager(github.com)
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