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by eska 1y ago
That’s a common fallacy. I suggest you make a plot of failure rate vs amount of components that can fail, any one of them failing leading to a total failure. You’ll be shocked by how quickly you get terrible numbers.
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by eska 1y ago
It’s on the wrong layer for that. MCP is akin to putting GraphQL over an old and crufty SOAP interface. There’s some “intelligence” in the GraphQL layer, but it doesn’t fix flaws in the lower layer such as side effects that shouldn’t be the
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by eska 1y ago
Study 1: “In the first study, college students…” Study 2: generate 40 words, after 10, ask whether they want to switch to a different letter and restart from 0. The researchers expect people to 1) know that there are more words in their lan
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by eska 1y ago
Pets and young children also give you unconditional love. If you’re mad at them, they think it’s their fault. If you need somebody to depend on you (the AI also does), then you have some soul searching to do. Ask yourself why an individual
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by eska 1y ago
Making a website is what made me interested in programming as a 10 year old during the dot com bubble. Even back then I realized very quickly that webdev is a cargo cult and I switched to C and assembly to learn how to program “real” progra
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by eska 1y ago
You can still get a private onsen room.
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by eska 1y ago
In Beppu you’d mostly find Korean tourists who come by ferry, rather than the wrecking ball tokyo-osaka-kyoto tourists.
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by eska 1y ago
While I ask people whether they actually mean REST according to the paper or not, I am one of the people who refuse to just move on. The reason being that the mainstream use of the term doesn’t actually mean anything, it is not useful, and
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by eska 1y ago
They claim to protect from illegal content and unsafe communities, but those sound like desperate grasps at straws that are easily disproven. They also misrepresent the basic demands of the petition, as online only games are still allowed.
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by eska 1y ago
As a bachelor thesis I created a HoloLens 1 app that communicated with Rhino3D to place waypoints for a 5 axis robot arm to cut with a plasma cutter after calculating and previewing the robot arm movements and confirming. In my day job I oc
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by eska 1y ago
FWIW I distribute HTML with embedded images instead of PDF usually.
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by eska 1y ago
That’s fair, but I would never point out a single individual over this, even if they were really mean about it. It’s just not a good look. Together with the other paragraph with the bashing of the competition this just looks like your compa
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by eska 1y ago
Missed opportunity for the AI pivot: Taiger Data. I'll see myself out.
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by eska 1y ago
> “While I appreciate PostgreSQL every day, am I the only one who thinks this is a rather bad idea?” – top HackerNews comment on our launch (link) I know it's popular to bash the HackerNews hivemind, and often it's honestly des
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by eska 1y ago
True. The size assumption is mentioned in the article however. The simd library by agner makes the same assumption and demands that the user over-allocates their data
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by eska 1y ago
The swar algorithm has UB because it casts the 1 byte aligned data to 8 byte aligned. Perhaps it suffers some performance issues from unaligned loads?
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by eska 1y ago
I think it’s important to add that nemawashi is not some concealed manipulation. It is used openly and explicitly in Japanese companies. It is even taught to employees as a procedure. This makes it very different from some of the concealed
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by eska 1y ago
It’s a common theme in science fiction that an AI becomes something divine, because of the appeal to authority. The AI knows best. Who are you to question the AI? The AI wants the best for us. But all the fun is of course in that turning ou
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by eska 1y ago
This isn’t a memory leak though, is it? I think the general solution to avoid this kind of stuff is providing your own memory allocation functions to libraries (don’t know if this library supports that). That way one can limit, track and is
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by eska 1y ago
A lot of games don’t let you leave such interactions anymore. LAN is removed, split screen is removed, online matchmaking with random team mates and opponents is forced upon you. You will only see the people you played with one time.
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by eska 1y ago
That’s unfortunately what’s so wrong with Unicode, while I do appreciate a lot of its improvements. It’s not enough to have a global locale, but even a local per-string locale is not enough. The locale should be in-band, i.e. part of the te
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by eska 1y ago
I’m a programmer who speaks English and Japanese as foreign languages. My colleagues have access to LLMs, and before that google translate and DeepL. Yet still I am asked a lot about my cultural opinion on how to approach the Japanese side,
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by eska 1y ago
I think the opposite. The social sciences should not try to find out how to live etc, but find factual information that each person may use to answer that question for themselves. After all there is not one objective answer to those questio
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by eska 1y ago
It’s more like I have to actually think about where the program options are. Or that on firefox nowadays I have to snipe a tiny small spot on the title bar to move the window, instead of clicking some button that doesn’t look like one. When
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by eska 1y ago
In my experience people have to first figure out what the hell numpy is and how to get it (venv, conda, pip, uv, uvx, …) because python arrays are shit, and so people fix that wart with an external C library. Then they notice that some othe
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by eska 1y ago
That’s not his opinion, that’s the standard technique in systems programming. It’s why there’s software out there that does in fact never crash and shows consistent performance.
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by eska 2y ago
Oh wow that’s actually amazing, I’m glad to hear it! This was going on for so long
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by eska 2y ago
Nvidia does the same thing for their geforce experience tool. For a tool that shouldn’t require an account. Bait and switch.
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by eska 2y ago
If you really care about performance, then you should consider using technologies other than js and python, instead of asking hardware vendors to run their implementations faster.
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by eska 2y ago
auto is a historic artifact for porting code from the B language to C, when everything was implicitly int but int did not exist yet. It had absolutely no use afterwards, which is why it was repurposed in C++ as well. In C23 this is done bec

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