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by creshal 2y ago
> You identify that in fact humans have literally evolved to be cooperative and socially helpful, but you decide this is just "machievallian" and a trick of some kind? Psychopaths trying to reverse engineer regular human behavi
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by creshal 2y ago
> The farther you go with RAGs, in my experience, the more they become an exercise in designing a good search engine From what I've seen from internal corporate RAG efforts, that often seems to be the whole point of the exercise: Ev
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by creshal 2y ago
Well, clearly your first problem is that you want it to be that large in the first place. 30cm ought to be enough for everyone, if it's good enough for TSMC it's good enough you.
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by creshal 2y ago
Easy: 1. Build a quartz crucible inside an inert argon atmosphere 2. Heat it to 2600F/1400C 3. Melt your highly pure silicon in it 4. Add in a seed at the top that the rest of the silicon can crystalize around 5. Now comes the tricky p
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by creshal 2y ago
It's astonishing how many people defend a clear lack of basic math knowledge.
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by creshal 2y ago
I really wish support for direct kernel boot was more robust. It's there , but there's very little infrastructure support (to get the proper images in the first place, to mass replace them for updates, etc.) and you have to handr
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by creshal 2y ago
mod_python was supposed to be that, it's a real shame it never got enough traction.
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by creshal 2y ago
The article would be a lot better with examples - PHP has (had?) a history of implementing good features in very un-ergonomic ways (classes/namespaces). It'd help to demonstrate that all these improvements aren't like that.
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by creshal 2y ago
But they already ship pkexec together with systemd anyway via polkit, why are they again reinventing a wheel they already reinvented? Unit files are a neat concept I don't want to miss again, but everything else done by Lennart seems
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by creshal 2y ago
> I'm convinced it has a place - the number of single file projects over the past few years can't be a coincidence. The human soul yearns for the simplicity of php or cgi-bin hosting, without the horrors of PHP or C
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by creshal 3y ago
Limestone is generally made of dead corals and marine animals, this batch just included a slightly wider variety of species than average.
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by creshal 3y ago
> You couldn't even use input type="date" until a couple of years ago because of Safari support. God, that was such a pain. I recently ripped 20k(!) SLOC out of a project that was finally allowed to drop support for thos
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by creshal 3y ago
Wasn't there a paper yesterday that turned context evaluation linear (instead of quadratic) and made effectively unlimited context windows possible? Between that and 1.58b quantization I feel like we're overdue for an LLM revoluti
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by creshal 3y ago
> I doubt it's a new phenomenon -- presumably in the past people bought sneakers because some celebrity wore them or recommended them. Ancient Romans bought specific brands because gladiators advertised it, and their most parasocial
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by creshal 3y ago
> Every purchase you have ever made is likely influenced by marketing. Which is why it's so important for it to be as transparent as possible. Marketers can't brag about being able to brainwash people and then get mad when peop
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by creshal 3y ago
It takes a surprising amount of effort to kill a human body through these drugs. It's how their abuse got so popular in the first place, since their damage only becomes really apparent over decades of excess.
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by creshal 3y ago
You also have to be careful that the cold side doesn't get so cold that water condenses around it and into the CPU socket. That was an expensive mistake.
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by creshal 3y ago
Yeah, the comparisons seem to be fairly… one-sided. The people who love C# for being better than "everything else" seem to only have dealt with JS/TS/React and C(++), and not any of the actual competitors to C#.
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by creshal 3y ago
Seems more like an oversight, since you have to stitch together a bunch of suboptimal non-default options?
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by creshal 3y ago
Is MMX even still present in silicon, or just shunted away to some microcode?
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by creshal 3y ago
For some obscure reason, consumers preferred working compilers and higher performance hardware.
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by creshal 3y ago
It's been blurry for over 20 years at this point. ARM has had "cisc-y" complex instructions for almost as long as x86 has been splitting instructions into "risk-y" micro ops.
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by creshal 3y ago
Wayland and snaps/flatpaks were more overly complicated mistakes, the alternative will be to go back to drawing board and not come back until there's a solution less stupid.
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by creshal 3y ago
Honestly just a wrapper that makes it easy for programmers to have RPC over unix sockets (spawn multiple with different ACLs for fine-grained permissions, if you really need to - but usually you don't. cap delegation is overrated). And
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by creshal 3y ago
There's still/again some C# apps for Linux desktops, like Pinta, but the dotnet sdk experience with it so far has been a lot rockier than with mono back in the days. Performance is great, ergonomics for end users not so much.
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by creshal 3y ago
C# on Linux still has some warts, the runtime is massive and most distro-packaged software pulls that in its entirety. (And for extra fun, sometimes multiple versions.) All that overhead sits between your code and GTK, and something like
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by creshal 3y ago
Also heavily used in the industry are toolkits like sciter, which give you HTML/CSS UIs without an entire browser engine underneath. I suspect those will be eating the remaining market share for 'traditional' toolkits, simp
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by creshal 3y ago
DBus is really quite a magical place, I'm sure if you actually dig through how open source projects use it, you'll find that the vast majority of projects don't really interact with most of its features and just do the bare m
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by creshal 3y ago
Polkit is entirely redundant (dbus has its own permission system, not that you need it) and it's trivial to build a linux desktop without it. (None of my systems have it installed, e.g.) Dbus is harder to replace, since the complexity
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by creshal 3y ago
Good(?) news: Even ten years from now, you'll find machine tools and other industrial applications running 16 bit software in prod.

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