debugnik

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by debugnik 6d ago
You can add an existing HTTP download as a "web seed" to a torrent, so they don't actually need to do anything for people to share it as a torrent.
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by debugnik 6d ago
I don't think that's the reason. From the linked site: > The European Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Platform is discontinued as of 20 July 2025
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by debugnik 8d ago
I'm not sure how you thought that comparing them to HN, Twitter and a fringe branch of Christianity would make them sound less insular and clique.
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by debugnik 10d ago
Does it really count as non-aligned if the observer states are very much aligned?
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by debugnik 10d ago
The outrage about Gemini Nano in Chrome was the surprise extra 4GB download plus their attempt to expose it as a non-standard browser API, IIRC.
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by debugnik 10d ago
I can confirm this is the first episode, which I just watched since I had no idea about Numberwang until a minute ago. So I guess a true Numberwang fan would know that.
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by debugnik 13d ago
I assume that part was for entertainment, this wouldn't fly in court. But they also show the dark patterns used to make you consent to it, and how certain features seem unaffected by these choices or send one last request when revoking
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by debugnik 14d ago
Except most people that get actually good at a field do so through their day job. By removing mathematician as a viable job, most can't afford to spend the necessary hours to become a good mathematician at all. We're going back to
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by debugnik 16d ago
We thought your Rust.NET comment was somewhat in jest. No, Microsoft isn't porting Rust to .NET, they barely try to support anything other than C# on it nowadays, but the article mentions an internal adapter for MSVC codegen. The proje
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by debugnik 17d ago
I think Minecraft gets it right by using procedural generation to add depth to the existing content rather than making different content. There's a fixed set of biomes and notable geographical features designed by the devs, so there&#x
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by debugnik 17d ago
I assume the fear was an uninterrupted burn until the gas depletes, as in the Darvaza gas crater but atmosphere-wide.
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by debugnik 18d ago
Windows downloads the driver first, then the driver itself uses an AddSoftware directive to install a companion app. Which is ok when the app is a GPU control panel or similar, but here it was clearly abused.
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by debugnik 18d ago
Keeping up with competition is part of trying to stay in the frontier. If they stop training the profit disappears in a few months.
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by debugnik 19d ago
Last time my city had a water cutoff due to a broken main, the city hall posted on Twitter (and I think Facebook?) where and when to queue for drinking water sooner and much more often than on any other channels, their own website included.
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by debugnik 22d ago
Turing never proposed that test as an actual benchmark of machine intelligence. On the contrary, the whole point of his thesis was that passing the test only shows the capability to pass that test, which only matters as far as we find that
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by debugnik 24d ago
A professor at a vocational training degree shared us a VM for a class project. Filled with dozens of porn bookmarks. He eventually realised and stayed after class to delete the VM from every class computer, deleting all the work of classma
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by debugnik 24d ago
Off the bat, you said that there shouldn't be expectations of privacy, not just that there currently isn't, which is not the exact same thing. I've never used company equipment for anything personal beyond a quick Google se
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by debugnik 24d ago
Since you can't really go buy the same work translated by a different publisher, voting with your wallet means boycotting it. I agree it would be the right option to punish publishers, but people find it frustrating to miss out on both
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by debugnik 25d ago
It's impressive how bad it is even for machine translation, I've seen examples. You're imagining them using a good LLM and a decent harness, but I'd bet it looks more like an intern copy-pasting snippets through an LLM o
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by debugnik 25d ago
I've got some heavy reader friends and they keep complaining that many of Spains's fantasy book translations are ridiculously bad and blatantly machine translated now: Senseless terms that require looking up the original to unders
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by debugnik 26d ago
I remember having more visual thinking until preteen, but then it gradually turned into a monologue and I hate it, because I can tell I got slower at mundane thoughts even if it helps me think through complex stuff.
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by debugnik 26d ago
Unluckily for us, and the author at the time of writing, we're in 2026.
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by debugnik 29d ago
The text you linked simply says that for individual analysis instead of bulk one, there will be false positives. I already acknowledged that, and I still need some filter anyway whether you want me to have one or not. Mistaking your blog po
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by debugnik 29d ago
Why? Does TFA rhyme, repeat itself, use archaic language or otherwise looks adversarial? It doesn't, so we can assume Pangram's usual false positive/negative rates apply. Yeah there's a chance it's wrong, and they&#
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by debugnik 29d ago
Legal would remember to pay the fee for their abandoned works, just in case, while the rest of the company does nil with them. I'd rather address the issue directly and expire the copyright after X years since it was last published. Th
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by debugnik 1mo ago
> and when I asked why it did that even though I expressedly asked it not to Just be clear, it can't know, and by asking you're just making it roleplay as someone excusing themselves. It's very unlikely that the choice to
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by debugnik 1mo ago
And who seeds it? If you're going to pay a host to seed it, they might as well just provide HTTP and let you add them as a web seed to your torrent, which we could be doing already. But if you don't pay a host to seed it, either t
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by debugnik 1mo ago
> I have not heard any one say they avoid syntax high-lighting. Here's one of the Go creators "explaining" why the Go website lacks highlighting. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJH
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by debugnik 1mo ago
Torn reads are probably coming as a separate attribute to opt-in. It's technically already there but not stable, and I don't think it does anything yet to unbox values on fields/arrays.
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by debugnik 1mo ago
Right, I didn't mean those are bad things! Just that value classes don't change the semantics of regular objects as much as value semantics do in other language. I like that the remaining features will be orthogonal and opt-in. Go

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