grotorea

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by grotorea 3y ago
Maybe the previous poster is talking about when Google Search advertised for Google Chrome too.
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by grotorea 3y ago
I feel open source donations could be seen as an expense. They are sort of paying for the development of software they presumably find useful. It's at least a start on fixing the problem of the commons type issue of open source benefit
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by grotorea 3y ago
I what the previous poster said counts as social engineering not clairvoyance.
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by grotorea 3y ago
> I completely checked out of all of it, but it just kind of makes everything you loved seem so empty As someone who really agrees with the previous poster, this may be the crucial point. I can "disbelieve" the stuff that I thi
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by grotorea 3y ago
And isn't what you're calling "merchandise and commercial exploitation" art too? Is a movie not art just because it's licensed?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Interesting. Wonder if something like that can be used to make git cleverer about merges for example.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Interesting. I would get nervous doing that because I've had quite a few instances of failure to wake from RAM successfully, and I think it has something to do with graphics drivers and having games running. Nice that Valve figured it
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by grotorea 3y ago
I think the previous poster is talking about cultural left topics.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Am a biased person who also feels like the "common-sense" knee-jerk thinking books > games may not make much sense. But reading demands more imagination and patience. And literal reading skills. And it expects the reader to eng
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by grotorea 3y ago
Stupid question, but is sleep just normal PC suspend-to-RAM? Doesn't that work on normal PCs? I think I've had some games have trouble with it and graphics cards, did Valve fix that?
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by grotorea 3y ago
I also wonder if it's possible to go beyond this project and have git itself work on the syntax level instead of pure text.
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by grotorea 3y ago
I still can't believe that name stuck
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by grotorea 3y ago
That's fair enough, but it doesn't seem to be the most useful that it can be then. Low level to me could mean that we control all the details. But modern processors have microcode between transistors and the x86 machine code. And
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by grotorea 3y ago
> I realized that most recommendation systems are bad because they are optimized for the aggregate not the individual. That reminds me of something I'm not sure is the same, but maybe it is. Anyone also feels that a few years ago th
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by grotorea 3y ago
> Yes, this is how it works (which the article doesn't make especially clear). You add something to your 'steam wishlist' and steam e-mails you next time it goes on sale. As far as I'm aware, the wishlist has no other
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by grotorea 3y ago
Hmm, true for virtual memory, didn't think of that, but CPU caches are inside the processor, can even the kernel control it at all?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Wouldn't that just move the "magic" down to the kernel or the MMU which has to do the realloc and memmov hidden from the programmer instead of the programmer being able to chose when and how to do it?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Isn't it distant from how humans work? We can't really do parallel, can we? And programming is translating human instructions to computer instructions, and translation is harder between more distant languages.
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by grotorea 3y ago
There are some cleverer assemblers that allow to program in assembly while still being able to do stuff like loops without too much effort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language#Support_for_...
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by grotorea 3y ago
> It gives you low-level access to a machine that your real machine actually has to somewhat laboriously emulate Isn't C the language (x86_64) processors are designed to be fast for? Sure they added a large amount of abstractions bu
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by grotorea 3y ago
> C is low level for at least one reason: manual memory management. Especially with modern hardware, memory management is at the center of programming. Ok, but even with C we can't actually low level manage memory how the processor
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by grotorea 3y ago
Are on Linux? AFAIK it doesn't work on Desktop Linux.
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by grotorea 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFACQvL_8S4 has some statistics from Google, including a floor of 17% on password reuse.
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by grotorea 3y ago
I'm guessing it means you have to walk inside the bank branch, and show ID and your phone with the installed bank app to an employee who somehow authorizes the phone to use the app?
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by grotorea 3y ago
That doesn't matter for the client through. As long as the data can come in a single small file, for example the <3KB HTML file for the tab I'm writing this on, what the server is doing doesn't matter.
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by grotorea 3y ago
How often does O3 vs O2 enable the sort of optimizations that break code that is technically incorrect?
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by grotorea 3y ago
You heard of New IP? The Huawei/Chinese plan to reform the Internet that keeps getting criticized for a variety of reasons. I haven't had the times to read the proposals proper, but the stuff about build trust directly into the ne
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by grotorea 3y ago
Well, if someone had somehow gotten their house wires damaged in a way that causes brownouts to neighbours, wouldn't the electric company be justified in cutting off the house?
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by grotorea 3y ago
As much as I half-wish there was something like this, it does sound like email spam blacklists all over again.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Can't the thug apply the 20$ wrench to your face until you say your password?

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