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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Not GP. But I read it as a transfer of the big lie that is fed to Ender into an AI scenario. Ender is coaxed into committing genocide on a planetary scale with a lie that he's just playing a simulated war game. An AI agent could theore
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
A day trip from Seattle into the cascades for hiking is a scenario that pushes EV range. I'm sure that I can't properly reach some hiking destinations. Going uphill into the Cascades eats battery range in a way that I still find h
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
European living in the US here. Around my mostly suburban area, I see mainly SUVs and crossovers with a few vans and pickups sprinkled in. Outside the urban areas, pickups and other monsters like nine seaters seem more common. I also see a
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Not really? All Samsung phones that we owned were at least as good - with the exception of a phone that we bought from a US carrier. The carrier mods on that one phone were total shit. But these modifications are entirely avoidable by buyin
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
So dark patterns to increase peer pressure and hard vendor lock in work then: exploiting networking effects and social pressure like green vs. blue bubbles, technically unnecessary hard requirements for other devices that are locked into th
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Long EV trips are possible amd convenient if there are enough chargers along the route. Sadly, this isn't the case on many routes in the US, at least. Europe is doing much better. I have no experience in other places.
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Don't forget that Apple is feeling sore and playing the petulant child in their PR regarding EU regulations, especially regarding the digital markets act. They don't want to appear to give in the EU, so I wouldn't be surprise
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Rust is almost git hyoe 2.0. That hyoe set the world up with (a) a dominant VCS that is spectacularly bad at almost everything it does compared to its competitors and (b) the dominant Github social network owned by MS that got ripped to tra
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
At least for a while, Eclipse seemed like an Architect Astronaut's happy fever dream: actual bits if implementations hidden behind 5 to 10 nested interfaces and facades wherever I looked. I remember that at one point that I wanted to d
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Well, Kate has been around as an KDE based advanced text editor for nearly 2 decades now - its base feature set isn't too different from a base VS Code installation. And there's also KDevelop as a more full featured IDE.
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
Jetbrains IDEs are all based on the JVM - and they work better than VSCode or the full Visual Studio for me. It's the full blown VS (which has many parts written in C++) that is the most sluggish of them all.
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by gmueckl 11mo ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature? US manufacturers are not widely known for technological innovations. Deviating standards are a way to keep them competitive in their domestic market.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
If it was a standard Windows dialog box by any chance, you could just have pressed Ctrl+C with the dialog in focus to copy the message. It's one of these subtle things that go almost completely overlooked.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
The problem here is that the law and order politicians world wide pretty consistently follow a pattern that starts by demanding surveillance tools to fight very serious crimes and those crimes only. Once they get that, they eventually start
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by gmueckl 1y ago
What is going on here is that modeling a mesh and rendering it are very different things. There are algorithms to edit a model that work best on quad based topology (e.g. selecting edge loops and others). That's why quads are preferab
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Not all code editing sessions are created equal. I dare you to deal with Unicode symbols in a vim session over SSH with a 1 second RTT, for example :).
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Bidirectional powerlines make the grid more stable for tha larger region around most countries because it makes it easier to route around the conflict as far as capacities permit. Not many countries span coast to coast in a way that couldn&
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by gmueckl 1y ago
This isn't going to happen simply because it would introduce enormous strategic vulnerabilities. The first act ina war would be to sever an opponent's grid connections to their neighbors because that would massively erode their ab
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by gmueckl 1y ago
My take on this is that telling a human reviewer to stick to a decision made by an automated process is actually against the law: some independence of the reviewer is implicitly required by the spirit of the regulation. Naturally IANAL and
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by gmueckl 1y ago
A human can understand and process arguments outside the bounded input domain of automated clssification systems.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I don't recall the full stack of EU rwgulations in detail, but a requirement that appeal to an actual human is possible after automated decisions is in there somewhere AFAIK.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Office has a particularly annoying dark pattern when saving a file. It hides the regular save dialog behind a tiny button in a confusing UI embedded in the main window that is designed to misdirect the user into saving files on OneDrive. Ma
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by gmueckl 1y ago
The only spec you need meet to get Perl or Python running on a new platform is the C spec. A compiler meeting that spec is enough to port and compile the interpreter for a new platform.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
How is this related to the fraud discussion in this thread? Illegal disckosure of confidential information is usually handled by a separate legal framework.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
If the last part was true, Autodesk and Adobe would have had to go under a decade ago.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
When CLion was launched, it only supported CMake. Support for other build tools has been bolted on to that and the seams are sadly very obvious IMO.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
IANAL, but all criminal definitions of fraud that I am aware of require an intention to harm to a victim. It's kind of hard to argue that sending money fulfills this criteria.
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Disasters can hapoen slowly. This one did, in a series of decisions from multiple actors. The main inflection point was allowing third parties develop for phone platforms. Then banks erc. went through a process that ended up forcing the use
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by gmueckl 1y ago
Sadly, your view isn't less paternalistic in reality. It effectively amounts to telling people who have better things to do than care about their personal IT security to just suck it up. Billions of smartphone users worldwide are in th
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by gmueckl 1y ago
I know that this is a controversial take here, but this sideloading crackdown is just fallout from the inevitable disaster that is mixing general purpose computing with high security and reliability requirements. There's just no way at

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