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by gspr 2y ago
> This argument could be made for every level of abstraction we've added to software so far... yet here we are commenting about it from our buggy apps! No. Not at all. Those levels of abstractions – whether good, bad, everything in
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by gspr 2y ago
Oh I agree. I'm just saying, either way that discussion goes, it just's not even the same order of severity magnitude as a corrupt authoritarian takeover.
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by gspr 2y ago
I love how this subthread devolved into arguing about Europe's attached bottlecap regulations and that the GDPR has resulted in lots of very annoying cookie banners. So in the US you have a corrupt, authoritarian takeover of a society
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by gspr 2y ago
> My # 1 issue with wayland is it is Linux Specific, not protable. Of course it's portable. Your complaint that it hasn't been ported a lot of places may be well-placed, but it's a different complaint. > I am hoping the
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by gspr 2y ago
And then comes all the latency _jitter_ inherent in a shared resource like 5G, and on top of that shenanigans like (transparently) MITM-ing TCP streams on a base station by base station base.
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by gspr 2y ago
> New car sales in Germany have generally declined significantly since last summer. The last thing Germans worry about is a new car. The 2023 to 2024 year-on-year decline was 1% [1]. Compared to that, a 60% drop for a single brand is cat
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by gspr 2y ago
Tell you what: if it wasn't, then any sane person doing it would be mortified of the accusation that it was, and would do their utmost to emphatically ensure everyone that it wasn't. So either it was, or Musk is simply not sane. O
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by gspr 2y ago
All of the answers given at this point seem to rely on intuition and how things "should" work. Intuition like that is great , except when trying to approach something that seems like a paradox when applying just intuition. An exp
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by gspr 2y ago
> 1. The USA will likely address climate change directly through technology (geoengineering) vs rapid degrowth (the only two plausible means of stabilizing the climate) That climate change can be addressed through technology is of course
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by gspr 2y ago
Yes. "They thought they were free" is the main title. "The Germans 1933-1945" is the subtitle.
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by gspr 2y ago
This is one of the best books I ever read. I picked it up pretty randomly a few years back. It changed me. Before reading it, I was firmly of the opinion that good people (like me! and everyone I like!) will (mostly) resist a fascist takeov
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by gspr 2y ago
Exactly. I've used the free tier a bit. I'd say it's never worse than Google, and sometimes significantly better. I'll happily pay a bit for this. But no way am I paying a single cent for anything where a significant par
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by gspr 2y ago
You are obviously a far more knowledgeable person than I am, so please don't take the following questions as dismissive of your expertise. I'm genuinely trying to learn. > for example calling directly from Rust into C without a
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by gspr 2y ago
But then again: for a language as bare-bones as C, what more is there really to a good FFI system?
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by gspr 2y ago
> I like Rust, but my worst experiences with Rust are interop with C. Could you elaborate? I find the interop to be quite nice. I mean, obviously, interop between any two languages cannot ever be "better" than the least good la
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by gspr 2y ago
As a mathematician by training who does a lot of programming for a living: This is the biggest misconception about math I see coming from programmers. There's frequently a complaint about notation (be it that it is too compact, too obs
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by gspr 2y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that that's how you should do it. I was explaining what the situation is like here in Norway.
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by gspr 2y ago
Shared (either private or public) parking very often has chargers. You swipe a tag to sort out billing by user. The cost at these chargers is typically electricity cost + maintenance. Plus lots of employers offer charging at work (usually n
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by gspr 2y ago
> And places you can park your car outside your house, unlike the UK. This is a common misconception that probably stems from Norway's low population density. However, much of the country is very sparsely inhabited, and the urbaniza
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by gspr 2y ago
> Don't forget hydro, I think it's 40+% of production in Norway. Hydro is the first row in the table at [1], so it's 84% by capacity (second column) or 87% by typical annual production (third column). [1] The Norwegian Wat
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by gspr 2y ago
> Eventually everyone has a phone number, and very few have ways to create multiple. I agree that having a phone number often comes with a paper trail in many jurisdiction, but surely it's not common to make it hard to have multiple
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by gspr 2y ago
> Its a give and take. If you allow for anything beyond latin, then you have to accept that there will be a class of software that will be difficult to interact with. For whom? Presumably people won't choose a username themselves th
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by gspr 2y ago
My preferred login name, and in fact also my legal name, are ASCII safe. I've never personally had to fight computer systems built with ridiculous assumptions (in the domain of names, at least). What I'm exhibiting in this threa
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by gspr 2y ago
You're moving the goalposts here. You started off with saying that there's no value to login names beyond ASCII, and now you're (a) insinuating that anyone who would wish to have login names beyond ASCII are too heavily inves
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by gspr 2y ago
Perhaps nothing of value _to you_. I'll hazard a guess that your preferred username can be expressed in a small subset of ASCII? And to hell with everyone else?
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by gspr 2y ago
I do miss several of the things you list, too, especially (safe) self-referential data structures. But Rust is a fantastic compromise solution if your number one priority is to match the performance (or rather, performance possibilities) of
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by gspr 2y ago
Finland is fairly flat and has _excellent_ LTE coverage. Being in Norway myself, which isn't flat, but still has fantastic LTE coverage for political reasons, I do often find myself thinking like you, and need to be reminded of how aby
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by gspr 2y ago
> So blowing up North Stream was fun, but this somewhy isn’t. I’m very often puzzled by the logic and morale in the West. North Stream was blown up by the desperate defender in a war of aggression. These undersea cables were (likely) sev
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by gspr 2y ago
I think async Rust is far from entering the kernel. Edit: I realize my comment might come off as a bit snarky or uninformative to someone who isn't familiar with Rust. That was not the intention. "Async Rust" is particular fr
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by gspr 2y ago
I don't understand this take. If LLMs will be the end of open source, then they will constitute that end for exactly the reason you write: > Large language models are used to aggregate and interpolate intellectual property. > Thi

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