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by fsloth 2y ago
I would not call Crowdstrike ”non-malicious”. It’s incredibly incompetently implemented kit that’s sold to organizations as snakeoil that ”protects them from cybercrime”. It’s purpose is to give incompetent IT managers to ”implement somethi
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by fsloth 2y ago
Yes, but chatgpt will happily go browsing the web if needed or appropriate. I guess there is a reason why they haven't hooked up a symbolic math package to do the math when encountered, but feels weird it's not a feature yet.
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by fsloth 2y ago
What a beautiful example of abuse of C++ templates. I love it. But please don’t do this in production. What ever you need to do, use C++ templates as the last resort because you’ve figured out all other approaches suck even more. Maintainin
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by fsloth 2y ago
Totally agree on all points!
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by fsloth 2y ago
Agree there are not enough performance zealots. Modern architectures are almost magically fast if you get all of the tiny invisible things that kill your performance sorted out correctly. The fact that the knowledge of how to achieve this i
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by fsloth 2y ago
”covered countless times in textbooks” What’s your favourite textbook on the subject?
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by fsloth 2y ago
Julian Assange clearly was operating against the west, for the benefit of authoritarian powers. Had he done what he did to China or Russia, he probably would not be a alive. He is not a character worth celebrating. His liberty is a triump
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by fsloth 2y ago
"To me it seems like RNA is the processor, DNA is the RAM,..." Is there anything resembling a von Neumann machine in the biochemistry, though? Would Turing machine analogues be more useful?
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by fsloth 2y ago
I guess the only sane way to measure this is the age of the file content, not timestamp. In that case anyone with any non-trivial sequence of sequenced genomic data wins hands down (millions to billions of years).
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by fsloth 2y ago
If you want to show photogrammetric pointclouds of buildings potree db&algorithm is pretty good and if you don’t like the library for some reason it’s pretty easy to reimplement (potree.org). You just dump the pointcloud to a hierarchic
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by fsloth 2y ago
There are some domains where it’s really helpful to empower subject expert to develop their domain specific data flow, without them needing to learn the ins and outs of a language like c#. See for example Grasshopper for parametric architec
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by fsloth 2y ago
I would like a point for point critique as well, not all of us are experts in legal and commercial aspects of licensing. I’m embarrassed to admit my own working model is really limited as I’ve only worked in orgs where license issues were a
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by fsloth 2y ago
If the offering brings any value at all to development of a a commercial offering then 500 € is very reasonable. The point is it needs to improve something in your development flow that’s not available elsewhere, in terms of feature vel
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by fsloth 2y ago
IMHO the problems in the usability of the software go far deeper than simply switching the widgets. This is not to shit on Gimp! It's a completely adequate package of various image processing algorithms . However, this does not make i
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by fsloth 2y ago
Ted Chiang is extremely recommended to anyone who enjoys inventive fiction. His work borders fantasy and science fiction, switching effortlessly from one topic to the next, with absolute mastery, being thought provoking, sophisticated, yet
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by fsloth 2y ago
2024 and Gimp remains horrible (as it has always been). It’s cool it brings value to you and others but Photoshop replacement it is not.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Is the quoted range region specific or ”worldwide”?
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by fsloth 2y ago
Can you give references on the *reasons? Would love to try to do some maths reading in a long while.
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by fsloth 2y ago
If you can get kick-ass smoke and particles like that in Photoshop out-of-the-box please do tell me how.
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by fsloth 2y ago
What are the unique aspects of a sound? A lot of people look and sound stunningly alike. As a recent example Baldur’s Gate 3, Andrew Wincott voiced Raphael, an npc-antagonist, who to my untrained ear sounded exactly like Charles Dance, an
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by fsloth 2y ago
Absolutely true I think. My intent was not to be too cynical (but feelings do matter though, especially if all you have are weak signals meaning you have to call it by gut feel).
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by fsloth 2y ago
In the tweet the wrong date was not a red flag due to lack of detail as such, but because it signaled: a) they had been raising for a while now b) the recipient was not their first choice (ouch, you can hear the ego taking a glancing hit) S
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by fsloth 2y ago
With abombs for weapons systems design they needed people who just got huge kicks out of explosions (not kidding here). I guess it’s partially about personal internal motivations, and it might be more of a chance wether the thing you are in
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by fsloth 2y ago
Totally not expert on formal verification. If Rust’s base libraries get formally verified, and one does not use unsafe code, does that means all Rust programs that use the formally verified libs get de-facto formally verified quality regard
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by fsloth 2y ago
If we look at history of innovation and invention it’s very typical the original discovery and final productization are done by different people. For many reasons, but a lot of them are universal I would say. E.g. Oppenheimer’s team created
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by fsloth 2y ago
We’ve reached a stage, where it would be advisable to not release recent photos of yourself, nor any video with sound clips to public, unless you want an AI fake instaperson of yourself starting to reach out to member of your externally vis
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by fsloth 2y ago
There is a large range of things people are fully entitled to have a sane-but-politically-aligned opinion on between inconsequential matters of taste and the scientifically quantifiable quality of the world we live in. For example things su
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by fsloth 2y ago
No, the fact people can have different opinions is a richness. The point of political activity is to align these opinions.
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by fsloth 2y ago
Strong disagree. When there is sufficient political will complex policies can and will be enacted. What is missing in climate action is not some psychological deficiency of our species, it’s lack of strong enough political consensus. ”We
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by fsloth 2y ago
Also good at response. Ozone situation was fixed and now we actually track the asteroids.

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