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I see beginners trip over themselves when they get obsessed with allocation (never mind they're coming from like, Python) but in a language like Rust (or C++) you are writing programs with the intent to control how memory is managed. S
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> you will use 10GB to do nothing. You don't pay for stack space you don't use unless you disable overcommit. And if you disable overcommit on modern linux the machine will very quickly stop functioning.
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All of those examples are web apps, two of them started on the web itself, and none of them transformed anything about how we used our computers (slack replaced a number of competitors, spotify is iTunes for the web, and VS code is a smalle
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These statements seem to be in contradiction > The short version: Ars Technica is written by humans. AI doesn’t write our stories, generate our images, or put words in anyone’s mouth. > Our creative team may use AI tools in the produc
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Something I know nothing about is whether the depreciation on server hardware outpaces the value it creates for a business, creating a tax incentive to own your own metal.
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When Americans describe themselves as "Christian" they are effectively talking about a different religion than the "Christian" in CDU. Americans that do fit into that same bucket use words that describe the so-called &
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon him not understanding it
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I've had to replace the chassis, the mainboard, the trackpad, and the keyboard. I bought it because it's repairable but I didn't realize that meant I was going to have to repair it more than any other device I've purchas
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> it's literally a battle of what side can make the most compelling argument So it's exactly as I characterized it, a racket. It's not science. Almost all forensic tests are bullshit, and forensic experts simply cannot det
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> Forensics never relies on a single piece of evidence An uncharitable characterization is that forensics relies on many pieces of _stuff_ that cops and attorneys can reasonably convince a judge meets the rules of evidence and a jury tha
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The rest of us have to suffer with a lot of bullshit because a tiny fraction of the population engages in blatant antisocial behavior.
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I think you're looking far too narrowly at technology if you view it only through the lens of a smartphone.
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I cannot express concisely how deeply I disagree with all of this. It is not just uninteresting that computer programs can be written to accomplish information tasks, it's intellectually dishonest to anthropomorphize machines and alg
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I was going to make a sarcastic comment about how everyone in Russia shared the risks and costs with Nicolas Romanov but then realized it was true. If politicians sending kids to kill and die shared the risk and cost of war then they wouldn
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Uber and AirBnB lied about their model as an end run around regulation.
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But barbecue sauce with it absolutely is
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Worcestershire sauce is a fish sauce that's used all over American cuisine, especially BBQ.
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I think if you believe that you're either lying or experiencing psychosis. LLMs are the greatest innovation in information retrieval since PageRank but they are not capable of thought anymore than PageRank is.
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I'm suggesting people shouldn't lie to sell things because their customers will believe them and this causes measurable harm to society.
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No, the problem is the people building and selling these tools. They are marketed as a way of outsourcing thinking.
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There are a lot of things that I would expect to hurt Dubai's "brand" but people still travel there. I don't understand why anyone would travel there in times of peace, let alone during war. You don't even need it f
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> if you're building on top of these models as a bootstrapped founder This is going to be blunt, but this business model is fundamentally unsustainable and "founders" don't get to complain their prospecting costs went
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The Jan 6 insurrectionists in my county were turned in by their neighbors after bragging about it. Cell phone data was used to convict them.
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The problem is that most of the time when you want "atomic changes to files" the only safe API is copy the file, mutate it, then rename. That doesn't factor in concurrent writers or advisory locks. If that kind of filesystem
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The same way we do now, checking their voter registration. Voter fraud isn't prevalent enough to require overhauling major systems and policy.
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> I've never dug deep into why The wealthy people that run insurance companies bribe our politicians to keep it that way.
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It's very clear to me that you're not interested in discussing things in good faith, so I'm choosing not to engage with you.
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I don't know how many times this needs to be iterated, but voter ID has absolutely nothing to do with election security. It has everything to do with voter suppression, just like poll taxes and literacy tests. It gives poll workers dis
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I think you have a very warped understanding of municipal government, policy, and how it relates to law enforcement. Because nowhere in the US that I'm aware of has a city council that can "tell the DA" anything.
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Two points. First: that's not what a "sanctuary city" is. That term specifically refers to cities that don't let their local law enforcement and courts assist ICE/CBP. The idea is that local crimes happen to everyon

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