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by fidotron 1y ago
They have enough problems keeping the people they currently have in the military on the same page. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-caf-charges-terrorism-... The general response to this was amazement that th
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by fidotron 1y ago
The most damning thing about this is the Canadian gov would struggle to find 300k people in the rest of the population that it would trust with skilling up in those ways. Federal public servants will be the last bastion of the values they t
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Of course, there are numerous ways in which this role (Mark as Millennial spokesman) is both pretty unfair and highly inappropriate. It is unfair because this much of a burden should not be placed on any single person; and it is inappr
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by fidotron 1y ago
Yep, as a brit abroad I tend to think the brits end up on the side of excessive tightfistedness too often for their own good. Their approach also does not scale up well, since they optimize at too small a size. One big upside of UK business
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is fairly clearly Google trying to get Epic to stop the case before they're forced to tolerate having F-Droid continuing to distribute things they don't approve of.
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Google and Epic reach proposed settlement to open Android app store access(pocketgamer.biz)
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This is interestingly designed so as to only be useful defensively. It's all too easy to imagine an AI agent security researcher that is the other way round.
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's definitely a sad end, though I still think that what happened with Xara was the real tragedy. (A friend of mine is still bitter about Freehand too). Someone should investigate why the 2D vector graphics space is such a repeated du
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by fidotron 1y ago
> How can we keep getting away with this? A large part of that is the Google-are-super-geniuses PR effort. Anyone pointing out that Google's products don't reflect this to their boss faces having their own credibility reduced i
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by fidotron 1y ago
> So just the simple fact of "existing" on the Internet now costs money. Not only that, with their ads, you can target competitors search names. So you need to outbid your competitors so that your users don't get directed
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by fidotron 1y ago
> it just causes developer busy work with no additional value. Anyone remotely familiar with Google as a third party developer will notice the pattern: this will ramp up until it is almost your entire job simply dealing with their change
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by fidotron 1y ago
Is this the new term for analog VLSI? Or if we call it analog is it too obvious what the problems are going to be?
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by fidotron 1y ago
JBQ redeemed: https://www.greenbot.com/jbq-is-quitting-aosp/ (yes, 2013) I regret having wasted a good part of my career supporting Google with the Android enterprise. They had some very good (technically and intention
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by fidotron 1y ago
5-15 years. The key steps will be going beyond just the neural network and blurring the line between training and inference until it is removed. (Those two ideas are closely related). Pretending this isn't going to happen is appealing
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Project Cybersyn: How a government almost controlled the economy from a room(sustema.com)
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Microsoft can now independently pursue AGI alone or in partnership with third parties. The question is does this reflect an increase or decrease in confidence at OpenAI wrt them achieving AGI?
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by fidotron 1y ago
RVA23 hopefully. It looks a lot like Zeno's paradox of RISC-V implementation.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> However I've been exploring AArch64 for some time and I think it has some very interesting ideas too. Maybe not as clean as RISC-V but with very pragmatic design and some choices that make me question if RISC-V was too conservativ
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by fidotron 1y ago
Is this native as in "not web" or native as in actually using native text entry and scrolling widgets? There is quite a huge difference as the Java world discovered.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Are there any major corporations using NetBSD today? I know in the past things like the network stack had been repurposed to other mainstream products.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Relatedly, Asbestos used to be a place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val-des-Sources Attempts to reopen the mine and sell asbestos to the developing world under a new brand caught the attention of the Daily Show leadi
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Now we live in a world where software is nothing but service contracts and more closed than ever. Indeed, and that software ends up optimized for service contract billing potential over usability.
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by fidotron 1y ago
The elephant in the room: piracy.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I thought a huge part of the perceived value of ChatGPT etc. is the ability to bypass the work of designers. The whole dream of AI is not having to deal with what someone else thought the solution to your problem was, and instead just skipp
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Nobody has ever walked past a photograph because they can't inspect its digital authenticity hash Nit, but there are reasons Canon and Nikon will sell you cameras that sign the pictures with their keys already. Even if they have b
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by fidotron 1y ago
CRDTs really provide a nice formalism for reasoning about design choices in this space, almost more so than being a practical solution in and of themselves. For your example operational transformations have long been used as the way to go.
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by fidotron 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti%E2%80%93Corn_Law_League In case it's not obvious (because it's not mentioned on the page) the Economist started as a newsletter of the ACLL which most definitely was a curio
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by fidotron 1y ago
China is the idea-mine for western services these days too.
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by fidotron 1y ago
The fundamental thing the Economist and so on are in denial about is Trump is doing what he's doing because China have been comprehensively winning every trade engagement for decades, largely because western governments have underestim
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by fidotron 1y ago
Many people have this illusion that home computer games were written on the systems they run on, but the more serious devs/publishers had setups like the one here with a host PC. There were stories of Sinclair game devs using CPCs in a

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