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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
That doesn't make it just a compression algorithm, to me at least. Or to put it another way, to me it would be similarly disingenuous to describe e.g. dead code elimination or vector path simplification as "just a compression algo
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
"Clarify, reduce noise, and improve overall video clarity" is not "just a compression algorithm", what? Words have meanings.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Oh, I do have a fully-formed argument for this that I should probably write out at some point :) The gist of it is that Rust is (relatively) the French of programming languages. Monolingual English speakers (a stand-in here for the C/C
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Discussions about Rust sometimes feel quite pointless because you can be several replies deep with someone before realising that actually they don't know much about the language and their strongly-held opinion is based on vibes.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
I would expect someone who apparently feels so strongly about this to be able to do the bare minimum of looking up the publicly available statistics ( https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook ) on visa and g
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
It doesn't have to be easy to be factual. You simply are not owed entry into any country if you are not a citizen of that country, that is a fundamental part of what things like "citizenship" and "sovereign state"
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
I mean, you didn't just overstate, you flat out just made it up. The opposite of "illegal alien" is not "citizen".
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
It is rather disingenuous to backpedal from "you can easily block them" to "is that a problem? who even cares" when someone points out that you cannot in fact easily block them.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
> What's the "?" doing? Why doesn't it compile without it? I don't understand this line of thought at all. "You have to learn the language's syntax to understand it!"...and so what? All programmi
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
> there's probably not anything you can do beyond bombing out with a traceback... like `?` or `.unwrap()` does. `?` (i.e. the try operator) and `.unwrap()` do not do the same thing.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
...do you imagine a nice, orderly, milquetoast system of voting on suitably agreeable topics only has existed for all of human history? "History and politics" is very much the domain of people trying to do the impossible - to rewr
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
I for one simply cannot believe that a game with 4K+ textures and high poly count models is bigger than a game that uses billboard sprites which aren't even HD. Whatever could be the reason? A complete mystery...
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
On the contrary, I actually know that the median engineer at Boeing is working on much harder problems than the monumental amount of webslop that the median Google engineer is responsible for. And while the engineers at Boeing are not per
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Not sure what countries are supposed to have to do with anything but if that's where we're taking it, America is full of people who think all sorts of nonsense that is barely rooted in reality. I don't really see how the opin
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
> Smarter coworkers. Doubtful, we can see the products that come out of them these days. > Better engineering culture. Doubtful, we can see the products that come out of them these days. > Bosses with engineering chops. Doubtful, w
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
...yes? Is that supposed to be a hard question? No, seriously, literally what does Apple or Google have over Boeing as a company to work at? Compensation? If money is all that matters to you, then there are several Web3/AI/etc sta
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
What console line has had several generations of hardware iterations in the past decade? Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo have all put out two generations at best, with plenty of games still shipping to the "old" generation even now
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
I've found that it's quite futile to expect American citizens to actually understand how their own visa and immigration laws work. Unfortunately it doesn't stop them from having strong opinions about them.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
In case you have missed it in the middle of the navel-gazing about abstraction, this all started with the comment "Please stop comparing these things to biological systems. They have very little in common."[0] If you insist on con
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
> That's where you're wrong. Both objects reflect the same mathematical operations in their structure. This is missing the point by a country mile, I think. All navel-gazing aside, understanding every bit of how an arithmometer
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
That comment does not have anything to do with what we are discussing (i.e. R/DNA).
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
That's exactly the wrong way to think about it, and I'm surprised that so many devs think of it that way. We already have programs that works exactly like that (i.e. producing rich, complex output that would be many times the size
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
I mean...macOS can certainly be considered a Unix, and it is more popular than Linux as a desktop daily driver.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
> I’m not sure where you’re getting these conclusions from I'm not sure how to say this in a way that does not come across as rude, and I apologise in advance if it does, but I got those conclusions (in actuality, statements of fact
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Actually, the two accidents are only superficially similar, and there is no basis for saying that "this exact situation" should have already been fixed. And no, this is not just pedantry. A bulkhead fracturing from impact damage
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
There are several passenger trijets still existing - they are just not commercial airliners. Dassault for one is quite fond of the design; the Falcon 900, 7X and 8X are trijets, and I'm pretty sure the latter two are still in productio
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
...is this a bot comment? The accident you linked is very clearly of a Boeing 707, which has zero relation to a DC-10 and is most decidedly not a trijet.
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Ironically, PayPal is the only one of those services that actually works pretty much everywhere in the world. But of course, when people on here say "the rest of the world" they typically just mean "Europe".
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Bold of you to assume the service you use to manage your DNS was not also relying on Cloudflare just like you
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by filleduchaos 11mo ago
Whether the author uses any AI tools or not (to talk of using Claude specifically) is quite literally completely beside the point, which is readily apparent from actually reading the article versus going into it with your hackles raised rea

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