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by gishh 11mo ago
> “If it compiles it’s probably correct” has always been a tongue-in-cheek pithy exaggeration. If you say so, I believe you. That isn’t how it comes across in daily, granted pithy, discourse around here. I have a lot of respect for you
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by gishh 11mo ago
Right. So the language that espoused to eliminate errors that took down large positions of the internet, failed. The specifics matter of course, but the mantra of rust as some safe language that should never have allowed something like this
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by gishh 11mo ago
What about “detect when the content isn’t correct and take protective measures so that a core service of the global internet _doesn’t_ crash?” Wasn’t that the whole point of rust? I’ll repeat again “if it compiles it is almost absolutely co
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by gishh 11mo ago
> unwrap() was only a symptom of an already bad state causing an error that the service couldn't recover from. This would have been as much of an unrecoverable error if it was reported in any other way. The mechanisms needed to eith
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by gishh 11mo ago
“Can I have your phone number for this order?” “Nope.” Already pisses me off that companies make a profile of me based on credit card numbers. I’ve had this number for decades. I’m sure you could build a complete profile of me based on my c
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by gishh 11mo ago
No no no, it’s all just the bullwhip effect, remember? Remember when prices went fucking nuts during Covid and then dropped? Oh wait, they never fucking dropped. Still waiting, all you bullshit, er, bullwhip truthers out there.
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by gishh 11mo ago
Roughly 2% of the US is vegan. About 5 million people. This would be why the meat industry “plods along” century after century. For every vegan there are 49 people who eat meat, and probably 35 people who feed their pets meat. There is actu
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by gishh 11mo ago
As an anecdote: late 30s male, mother was 5'6 father was 5'9, I'm 6'4. I have three kids with two different women. All 3 are blonde-haired/blue-eyed. I have brown hair and green eyes, my ex has brown hair and blue e
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by gishh 11mo ago
... If this happens, the next hacks will be context poisoning. A whole cottage industry will pop around preserving and restoring context. Sounds miserable. Also, LLMs don't learn. :)
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by gishh 11mo ago
> What would be a competitor to linux that is also FOSS? If there's none, how do you assess the success or otherwise of Linux? *BSD? As for large, successful open source software: GCC? LLVM?
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by gishh 11mo ago
Because, unless this changed, consoles are loss-leaders. At least back in the ps2/gamecube/OG Xbox, the systems were sold at a loss and the money was recouped on controllers and games. Can’t use a ps2 controller to play a ps2 game
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by gishh 11mo ago
All swans are white.
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by gishh 11mo ago
I completely agree with you. I also completely disagree with you. I’ve watched people scream at a room until they got their way. It was awful.
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by gishh 11mo ago
Sounds like you have unmet expectations. It’s not really fair to get mad at the author.
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by gishh 11mo ago
How many codebases besides the Linux kernel had you seen an intentional amount of use of goto?
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by gishh 11mo ago
Roger. The article was about the bridge. My apologies.
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by gishh 11mo ago
The World Wide Web is not even close to anonymous by default. You selling whatever you’re on?
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by gishh 11mo ago
Whatever right to privacy that may exist goes out the window when you’re posting on the World Wide Web.
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by gishh 11mo ago
> I’ve always wondered why someone else’s success triggers such rage and anger in certain people and I think it probably all boils down to the fact that the patriarchal society we unfortunately live in has successfully brainwashed us all
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by gishh 11mo ago
A hallucination isn’t a creative new idea, it’s blatantly wrong information, provably. If an LLM had actual intellectual ability it could tell “us” how we can improve models. They can’t. They’re literally defined by their token count and th
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by gishh 11mo ago
The consensus seems to be skimming won’t occur. I’d encourage people to research the corruption of elected officials in the Baltimore area.
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by gishh 11mo ago
I came across an article the other day, I wish I saved it, that had sentences which said things like “insert short sentence here” and “spacer sentence here” As a published article.
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by gishh 11mo ago
The date for bridge completion was bumped from 2028 to 2030 already. I assume it won't be done until 2038. It is absolutely murdering traffic in the Baltimore area, not having a bridge. I would be super interested in seeing where every
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by gishh 11mo ago
The irony of a rust rewrite taking down the internet is not lost on me.
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by gishh 11mo ago
To be fair, if you’re not “this tall” you really shouldn’t consider using goto in a c program. Most people aren’t that tall.
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by gishh 11mo ago
You’re so clever lmao
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by gishh 11mo ago
Can we chat? You struck a chord with me.
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by gishh 11mo ago
CBT is a TSA analogue for therapists.
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by gishh 11mo ago
Why does person with $job_title feel like they can write with authority on $subject_not_related_to_job_title? Is that your question?
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by gishh 11mo ago
One of these days I’ll figure out how to throw myself at the ground and miss.

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