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by gmueckl 2y ago
The ban always seemed weird to me. Not even a shred of a technical argument made it into public discourse when this was an issue. Governments just said "trust us" without giving any examples. This thread is the first time I read a
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The video also highlights how finicky that technique is to work with. Especially when working on film, where you have to wait for the developed dailies to check the quality of the work, any reliability issues with the effects processes comp
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Most of the machines for the rest of the process also come out of Europe. Building the factories wouldn't be all that hard. Actually developing and running a full production sub-10nm process is a different beast entirely.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Thanks for that correction! I had memorized COME FROM as part of the original Intercal. My mistake.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
COMEFROM is one of the many great jokes that form the Intercal language. I recommend reading the language specification. Of course, COMEFROM's grown up (and very real) sibling is ALTER GOTO in COBOL.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Files are always represented as lists of blocks or block spans within a file system. Individual blocks could in theory be partially shared between files at the complexity cost of a reference counter for each block. So changing a single byte
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by gmueckl 2y ago
You found the reason why Qt is popular.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Even the greatest of us are only human. Also, the way many discoveries are explained in a course is usually very streamlined compared to the papers that present them initially and defend them in detail on a limited number of pages.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
If a team had access to some licensed source code related the third party component (e.g. restrictively licensed/NDA'd sample code), clearing the engine source for release may involve a thorough code audit. Who is going to put in
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by gmueckl 2y ago
He was the public figure for TASBot and TASVideos for a while (see https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page ). TASBot is really a beautiful idea to help visualize what tool assisted speedruns are doing via the controller button l
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by gmueckl 2y ago
There may be a middle ground where, with some effort effort, a watered down summary of the redacted information could be given (e.g. if a name of a person is redacted, replace it with some sort of unique handle). As long as this is done as
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The ship hasn't been put into service yet. It's still with the shipbuilders, where I suspect that security is much weaker than on a navy base.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
You're mentioning the densities for solid bulk materials. I'd expect shavings to be quite loose and trap a lot of air. Depending on the exact type and shape of the shavings, I can imagine a huge volume increase compared to the bul
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Companies cannot really stand up to governments. Unless another government gets involved, Apple will have to follow UK law if they want to keep doing business in that country. By the way, the US is not a stranger to that kind of overreach,
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Siri mostly hit the expectations they themselves were able to set through their ads when launching that product - having a voice based assistant at all was huge back then. With an LLM-based assistant, the market has set the expectations for
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The primary market for such a product would be businesses. And Apple isn't particularly good at selling to companies. The consumer product focus may just be too ingrained to be successful with such a move. A beefed up home pod with a l
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by gmueckl 2y ago
A single payer system is politically impossible :/. But there are ways to get the system without overturning it completely. But they all come down to cutting or eliminating insurance profits in some way, I think. For example, prohibjt
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Calling human knowledge small is hyperbole. I cannot get any LLM even close to giving accurate answers related to the things I know. They simply do not know what I, a single human being, knows. That's simply because I'm a subjec
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by gmueckl 2y ago
The free market is preventing technical solutions. People generally buy based on features first and everything else second. This allows for a precarious situation in software market: the company producing the most bloat the fastest wins the
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Just because you can doesn't mean you should in production . If someone want to build horrific abominations in rheur spare time at home, I won't stop them. They might become better engineers through that experience. But don'
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Why is a single, scaled up backend required in products effectively have onky multi-tennancy? Software can be distributed onto client machines and be kept up to date. That was first solved with Linux packages managers more than 25 years ago
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Abstractions are only part of the whole issue. Maybe I focused too much on that. But I'll argue that point once more. How much complexity is actually required? What changed in software in the last 20 years so that the additional bloat
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by gmueckl 2y ago
"Destroying software" is broader than the creation of new, working software artifacts in the moment. The phrase refers to changes in engineering culture in software and it's long term effects, not the immediate successes. Wri
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Reformatting comitts still leaves the issue that you deprive yourself of any possibility to reliably diff across such commits (what changes from there to there?) Or attribute a line of code to a specific change (why did we introduce this co
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by gmueckl 2y ago
This is a rather well planned set of moves to gut the federal administration. There are smokescreens in the form of nonsense, distractions in the form of blatantly overreaching orders that exhaust opposition and then there are the rather we
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by gmueckl 2y ago
Wow, this is such a concise description of what has been going on with the far right in the US and Europe for the last decade! I'm glad to finally have a name for it. Thanks!
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by gmueckl 2y ago
But how do you tell them that the emperor has no clothes when they drown out your voice?
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by gmueckl 2y ago
A military moon base could lay waste to any area on earth that way. There will definitely be a new moon race once a permanent moon base becomes sustainable. I don't see how the existing space treaties can survive past that point.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I remember my mum (tailor) telling me that even different sections of the same roll of cloth wouldn't match color precisely enough on many rolls they worked with. Colors are deceptively hard.
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by gmueckl 2y ago
I feel that US companies are consistently more ruthless and cut-throat than companies in other countries I have visited. I see that as cultural rather than a pure economic issue.

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