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by colonwqbang 1y ago
Crazy, that's a very acclaimed game which won multiple awards. The story alludes to past rape but nothing is depicted in the game. Many of the books we read in school would be banned if these people had their way.
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by colonwqbang 1y ago
A parser is supposed to reject invalid input, not generate semi-arbitrary outputs.
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by colonwqbang 1y ago
There have been many such cycles, but the XML hysteria of the 00s is the worst I can think of. It lasted a long time and the square peg XML was shoved into so many round holes.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
They can’t just undo it but they can challenge it in court. But you are right, in a way the FTC is appealing their own decision [1]. US politics can be quite mad at times. [1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/p
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Project Runeberg seems to be still going after 30-odd years.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
The point of an RW lock is that it supports multiple concurrent readers. Why is it weird to expect a non exclusive lock operation to be non exclusive?
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Sure, microsoft isn’t going to foot the openai bill for every idiot with a pirated windows installation. I’m sure nobody is really surprised to hear that. The fact that somebody at Microsoft saw fit to add AI integration for notepad.exe in
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Can’t rust do safe simd? This is just vectorised multiplication and xor, but it gets labelled as unsafe. I imagine most code that wants to be fast would use simd to some extent.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
This is anti-systemd FUD. Implying that applications which work without systemd are going to stop doing so. Suggesting that Linux distributions adopted systemd because it's good for distributors and not because users actually want it.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
I thought the same thing. "Hazel" sounds like a play on words, a "Hazy Haskell"? Or is it because hazels and elms are trees.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
A relatively generous interpretation is that they want to keep down the price of the entry model. They make their own silicon now, only three different sizes so it's not viable to differentiate on compute power. The easy way out is to
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
I agree that keeping pets is probably immoral. But even if we accept that, there are multiple problems. - There may not be much of a "wild" left to release animals into. - Some animals have been bred for hundreds of generations an
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Indeed. It's also amusing how it produces a multi-page essay on the bug instead of submitting a pull request with an actionable fix.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Classic machine learning researcher trick: just select your test example from the training set! It certainly saves a lot of effort.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
I appreciate state TV content and watch it regularly. But this argument just doesn't hold water. The service is so wonderful that they had to make it a criminal offence not to be a subscriber? And surely an "independent" TV s
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Shouldn't it be "forth love if honk then"? Or am I not getting the joke.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
It sounds like all old bindings to the value stay the same. So you have a "cell" inside which a reference is stored. You can replace the reference but not mutate the values being referred to. If so, this sounds a lot like IORef in
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Function calls are also blocking IO then because executables and libraries are mmapped.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Genericity is not really the issue as I see it. The basic K&R macro using ?: is fully generic. The problem is that C has implicit conversion between essentially any numeric types. The main point of the kernel macro was to prevent such c
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
> But the main reason for its decline, paradoxically, was its strength. Glass retailers who play by the rules of the market live off the fact that their products break, so they can sell more. A glass that didn’t break was a threat to pro
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Yes it's a thing people do. We tax oil and cigarettes and people understand it makes people not want to buy oil and cigarettes anymore. Tax something good like working in SF, people don't seem to understand it has the same effect.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
This is the least suitable market for AI that I can think of. People love writing summaries for TV shows and movies. They do it for free. Why not focus on making AI do jobs that humans don't like. I also don't think people actuall
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Ok, what's the device to get now if you're looking for a chromecast experience? Who will take my money now that Google doesn't want it?
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Nice, does this mean we can have const-generic accesors now? I.e. &s->somefield and get a const pointer if s was a const pointer, but a mutable one otherwise? I guess we still need to define two functions though, but that can probabl
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
Twitter now demands log in to view tweets in many cases. This immediately turns off people who aren't regular twitter users - something to be aware of.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
A public demo of some kind is necessary. I saw nothing that was available to view without registration. This made me lose interest very quickly. Even a quick screenshot would be better than nothing.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
> Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Is this a paid ad we are reading, or a n
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
I see. However, 32x32->64 multiply has been common on 32-bit processors since the mid 80's. It would be interesting to know if somebody is still building new products on (32-bit) processors that lack it.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
It seems that OP assumes you are already targeting a career where maths will be useful to you. If so, I disagree. Everything in school becomes much more fun when you understand what you're doing.
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by colonwqbang 2y ago
I agree that 2^32 is better, but the reason is not that division is too expensive because OPs algorithm after standard optimisation does not need any division. Clearly choosing a base type that is fast on the machine, is key. But I feel eve

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