galangalalgol

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by galangalalgol 5d ago
I think that was the point being made? Outlawing something does nothing if enforcement is not feasible. The music and movie industries didn't crush torrents, they switched business models to streaming with prices being determined mostl
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by galangalalgol 5d ago
I don't agree that the cheaper option is less good. I can admit that ai often (but not always) writes code with more attention to detail than I do, and much faster. Diffusion by itself does not produce human tier graphics (usually), bu
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by galangalalgol 8d ago
Quite possibly. But shaheds aren't the answer either. After Fukushima, the plutonium 240 fuel for the breeders they don't want to run anymore has been piling up. Not as good as 239, but that is what they should be looking at.
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by galangalalgol 9d ago
It does make one wonder how many nations off China's coast are taking notes on how to asymmetrically shut down waterways even against a giant modernish navy. Or Singapore and neighbors... If the world cops can't guarantee safe tra
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by galangalalgol 9d ago
The gp only mentioned Israel. Actual antisemitism is common enough that it is counterproductive to use the term so loosley.
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by galangalalgol 11d ago
It seems unlikely they would let any political divisions or legitimate grievances go unexploited. It is their cultural core competency for centuries. That does not mean the greivances being exploited aren't valid, or that the parties t
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by galangalalgol 13d ago
It does, and rustc nostd already supports a lot of places cpython can't run, but the other way around is just non existent. Rustc can't and will likely never support ti dsps because they own the compiler and a long is 48bits. Drea
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by galangalalgol 13d ago
I can't come up with any cases where cpython would compile that rustc can't target. There are some more niche interpreters that can run on embedded stuff with no rustc support, but they are also subsets of python so it isn't
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by galangalalgol 15d ago
If you think so little of them, then imagine what the people who pay $5M for a meal with him can convince him to do. Or what people who pay his son-in-law/iran-negotiator 25M a year can call and ask him to do.
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by galangalalgol 15d ago
The autovectorizer works quite well in llvm with all the aliasing guarantees rust gives it. Especially now fastmath hit so wide types aren't necessary anymore. I don't need unsafe or crates that use unsafe to beat the performance
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by galangalalgol 15d ago
Is voluntary piloerection really that unusual? I thought everyone could give themselves goosebumps?
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by galangalalgol 1mo ago
So anytime someone comes out with something efficient it will get bought and bloated?
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by galangalalgol 1mo ago
Depending on the relationship involved, asking the person why they think I behaved as I did often helps. Sometimes the reason they think I did what I did is more correct than what I would have put after but or and. And sometimes the answer
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by galangalalgol 1mo ago
The farther from average height you are the worse it is. If you are from some part of the world where the average height distribution is near the point BMI based itself you will perceive it to be so much better. I am only 6' and only a
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
How sure are we that isn't the case here?
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
I have aeen usb-c bent but I have never seen 3.5 break in decades of use. Walkmans then discmans falling. Shooting back out of my chair and snagging it such that the whole tower spins unplugging ps/2 mouse. But the headphones are fine.
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
If the difference between me getting to enjoy some solo developer's vision or not is whether they use the ai, I'll ignore it. Not everyone who can create a great gameplay experience can code, draw, or create music, and the margins
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Why is using it for code more acceptable than for art? I can't imagine we aren't already seeing tons of both in indie games. Maybe aaa too? Is there any ramification for leaving off the disclosure, or adding one? Personally if the
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
"αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐφέλκεται ἄνδρα σίδηρος." And the movie having just come out.
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Some reports indicate it is already to late for emission reduction, or even elimination, to halt the feedback effects that continue the trend. But it won't be too late for active climate engineering until the effects of the climate cha
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Is Gemini really that bad? I mean, I would always prefer anthropic for agentic coding, and apparently openai has the math thing cornered, but if I'm using ai like a search engine gemini does that just fine. That may be all they were ac
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
I would not have chosen the word governing for that sentence but I'm not sure what fits best. Plundering, pillaging, gutting, ransacking, Rick rolling, despoilng, or perhaps molesting.
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
I know this isn't /. but a car analogy seems appropriate here. A city is like a modern cramped engine bay vs an old one where you can sit next to the motor to work on it. Anything you try to fix or upgrade in a dense city causes l
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
The climate part is certainly an issue for dfw, but the superiority of dense urban areas from a financial or ecological standpoint isn't backed by data. Buses were better for fuel efficiency, but now the bus and robotaxi are both ev, t
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Lots of single user "busses" cause dramatically lower road wear and microplastics than a many user bus. Those scale with axle weight to the third and fourth powers respectively.
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
How does this relate to the topic? I'm willing to assume it does, I just don't get it. I'm probably overreacting because when Scott was writing this, tens of thousands of Scots living in poverty were being evicted via arson f
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
A good example is go. On linux you can use a from scratch image fairly easily because it only uses syscalls. But for windows or mac the moving target wasn't maintainable so they link against shared objects. Linus enforcing the don&#x27
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Even if you don't think about memory management, and do the naive thing in rust or rc in some other systems language, gc only comes out ahead in that many tiny objects case. Which is very domain specific. I don't ever run into tha
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Yeah, but its always a trade right? Heroin would kill me too fast for the upside. The trade on alcohol wasn't what I thought it was. I think there are better options. Says I as I lift a cider.
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by galangalalgol 2mo ago
Have the recent studies indicating just how dangerous alcohol consumption is made any impact. Losing a few neurons was one thing but some of the studies don't put it as much less dangerous than tobacco. New guidance in the US is there

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