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by dafelst 10mo ago
Unreal Engine has a GC for its internal object graph, so GC is already in use in a ton of games.
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by dafelst 10mo ago
Yes! I had a Vizio laptop (the thin one ala a macbook air) and it was absolutely fantastic, probably the best PC laptop I have ever had. It was lightweight, powerful, had a good screen (for the time) plus some things that few other laptop
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by dafelst 11mo ago
Your argument was that XML compresses really well, which indicates that compression ratio is your evaluation metric. I just suggested a simple way to improve your metric. My position is that compression ratio is a largely meaningless metri
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by dafelst 11mo ago
Your argument was initially stated as "XML compresses really well", not "there is little benefit to a more concise format". However, on your latter point, I am in full agreement.
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by dafelst 11mo ago
If it were a more compact format, it is likely both the uncompressed AND compressed sizes would be smaller. By your logic, if you 10x'd the length of the XML tags in XMPP then it would be even better since you you would get an even fur
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by dafelst 11mo ago
Because it contains a ton of redundancy
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by dafelst 11mo ago
Often programs like this are subsidized based on income such that if they can afford it, it is subsidized less, or you do not qualify past a certain income. That is one method of managing the program's costs, while still benefitting t
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by dafelst 11mo ago
In some places (esp those with low access to birth control and sub-par sexual health education), there are too many unplanned children being born to people who do not have the means to comfortably raise a child without being in poverty. Fre
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by dafelst 11mo ago
panics are safe, what are you talking about? It is nothing like a null pointer.
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by dafelst 11mo ago
Germans sure love their Lüften
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by dafelst 11mo ago
What do you mean by a non-internet search engine, and what might be one that is bigger than Google/Bing?
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by dafelst 11mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly, and this is the core problem - many of the people evangelizing LLMs for a particular task (especially investors and AI gold rush "entrepreneurs") do not have enough expertise in that particular field to eff
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by dafelst 11mo ago
And believe it or not, a good proportion of us are not happy about that either.
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by dafelst 1y ago
Can you elaborate a little more on what structures and patterns those are? I have built some database like things in rust (lots of zero copy and slice shenanigans, and heavily multi-threaded) and while it was tricky in some spots I haven&#
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by dafelst 1y ago
I am the last person to ever promote perforce, but as of last yearish it has the option for binary delta transfer using fastCDC. Even without that, it is a just straight up a lot faster than git lfs. I know this because I benchmark it agai
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by dafelst 1y ago
Doesn't bitcoin use merkle-trees internally to create its blockchain?
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by dafelst 1y ago
Given today is Diwali, perhaps the reason everything went down is because the best and brightest from India were all on vacation and weren't there to babysit/roll back the deployment that broke everything?
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by dafelst 1y ago
What does AI have to do with anything here?
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by dafelst 1y ago
I worked on the front end of Bing (then Live Search) back in 2007, and even within Microsoft, IE6 was hated and rallied against, at least by any team doing web development. I remember that the former GM of the Internet Explorer 5 and 6 team
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by dafelst 1y ago
This is very cool, thank you. Spinning up a dedicated VM for this seems very heavyweight though, especially on client machines.
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by dafelst 1y ago
I am very impressed with Slint, especially once you jump through the hoops to enable the skia rendering backend.
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by dafelst 1y ago
I must be missing the point here, because this feels like bad advice. Calls like `panic` and `expect` and `assert` are there to uphold invariants, i.e. to deal with things that should never happen unless there is a logic error that invalida
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Ask HN: Open framework for generating thumbnails on untrusted files?
2 points by dafelst 1y ago|4 comments
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by dafelst 1y ago
You are describing a fuel cell battery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell Well established and even commercialized (Toyota sells fuel cell cars today IIRC), just not as cost effective in cars from a full infrastru
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by dafelst 1y ago
More people need to know how this, it is absolutely bonkers how much perf you lose for each file open operation to defender and its kin. Even excluding directories (like D:\MyProject) from defender isn't a full solution, the fs filter
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by dafelst 1y ago
Your phrasing is a little confusing to me, but just to be clear for anyone else reading, VMs and containers are different things.
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by dafelst 1y ago
Slack's user experience for chat is leagues better than Teams, they're honestly not even close. I say this as someone who worked at a company that was heavily invested in Slack, and was then acquired and forced into the Teams eco
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by dafelst 1y ago
Genuinely curious, why does profanity put you off a product?
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by dafelst 1y ago
From TFA > Materializing just two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Stark Industries Solutions became a frequent source of massive DDoS attacks, Russian-language proxy and VPN services, malware tied to Russia-backed hacking gr
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by dafelst 1y ago
I'm curious if anyone is tracking transactions against the wallet addresses in the malicious code - I assume that is essentially the attackers' return on investment here.

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