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by hansvm 1y ago
They exist, but they're not that common (give or take the "expected" numerical deviations based on the order of summation and whatnot, which can both be nontrivial and propagate error further). Something I recommend doing, th
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by hansvm 1y ago
Even framing it as a percentage is a category error. If they're providing services, we should be able to pay for the cost of those services. Beyond that, the app store is worth something in aggregate to app developers, but it's wo
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by hansvm 1y ago
Arc<T> has entered the chat.
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by hansvm 1y ago
> rent programmers by the hour That's much less efficient for big software projects. The knowledge built up over time is one of the core things making you effective, so you have a big productivity loss if you don't retain the s
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by hansvm 1y ago
It's a perspective issue. Amazon designs the first year to not "feel" toxic to most people. Thereafter, any semblance of propriety disappears.
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by hansvm 1y ago
That might say something about the understandability of the react framework/paradigm ;) Quality varies a lot based on what you're doing, how you prompt it, how you orchestrate it, and how you babysit and correct it. I haven't
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by hansvm 1y ago
The problem is that we're using "blame" to mean two different things: 1. In an ideal, fair world, which parties should have to change to make the outcome not happen? Scammers shouldn't scam, murderers shouldn't murd
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by hansvm 1y ago
Once the bot is stealthy (the current sub-thread if I haven't misread) they absolutely do. A couple examples where I've been flagged as a bot for normal traffic: 1. Discord's telemetry was broken on my browser, and on failure
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by hansvm 1y ago
Isn't it illegal now? That sounds like a cut-and-dry libel case.
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by hansvm 1y ago
IIRC, envelopes still use adhesives derived from gelatin. Maybe stamps have modernized at some point?
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by hansvm 1y ago
Given the normal process for making glue I wouldn't be so certain.
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by hansvm 1y ago
> now-malicious app that you never use Mildly off-topic, do you know of any good studies in the dangerous defect rate of auto-updating vs never/manually updating in a semi-sandboxed environment like Android?
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by hansvm 1y ago
The brain picks up on remarkably subtle things, especially when you can leverage its huge pattern recognition cores. I like the argument for having less clutter by default (i.e., prioritizing certain kinds of patterns over others), but it&#
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by hansvm 1y ago
The appropriated funds were only 4% of the defense budget, a lot of which still hasn't been handed out, and half of the handouts weren't even weapons and other military supplies. You could fund 10 Ukrainian wars at the same level
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by hansvm 1y ago
Bazel solves a ton of problems other systems don't, but it introduces a ton of its own. If you can afford (or are currently accidentally affording) 2-3 FTEs managing builds, that's all you need to scale Bazel indefinitely and solv
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by hansvm 1y ago
Man, at times in my life I would've killed to get a -47 dBm or better signal.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Yes. What I'm saying is that the pattern of data entering the mailbox lets you infer more about the contents than just the sender, especially when you can pattern match against known behavior for that sender.
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by hansvm 1y ago
That depends on how fine-grained the matrix multiplication is (and if that's actually the core workload). Past a certain scale you can't get away with brute force (and Moore's law doesn't fix that insofar as orders of ma
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by hansvm 1y ago
If the compiler forbade syntactic ambiguity from implicit multiplication and had a sensible LSP allowing it to be rendered nicely, I don't think that'd be such a bad thing. Depending on the task at hand you might prefer compositio
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by hansvm 1y ago
Thankfully, yelling like an angry foreman is more effective on LLMs than people. > Get your fucking act together, and stop with the bullshit comments, shipping unfinished code, and towering mess of abstractions. I've seen you code p
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by hansvm 1y ago
That does depend on GPUs being more efficient than CPUs for those breakthroughs.
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by hansvm 1y ago
You don't need fully broken encryption to gain useful information. Knowing how much data is transferred, to which servers, and when (especially with details like how various endpoints will inadvertently chunk up HTTPS requests based on
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by hansvm 1y ago
What idiot signed that bullshit into law?
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by hansvm 1y ago
A ton of ISPs use deep packet inspection for various kinds of filtering (and other shenanigans). When they get it wrong it manifests to the user as certain websites or access patterns being inaccessible and the ISPs customer support agreein
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by hansvm 1y ago
As soon as a bad actor has a single key the entire class is broken since the bad actor can impersonate that device, creating a whole cloud of them if they want.
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by hansvm 1y ago
*barely passable software while their competitors literally shit the bed, but I take your point.
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by hansvm 1y ago
Not in the slightest. Here it's the language getting the basics right rather than the user.
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by hansvm 1y ago
This is one of those things that's annoying to talk about, reason about, and legislate against because our intuition fails us when thinking about emergent behaviors. Some examples: 1. OKAY: Telling your boss that you saw his car with h
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by hansvm 1y ago
I really didn't mean to make this about Zig vs Rust. That was a mistake. My real point is that Zig is also a great language, even when you care about safety. That said, the things you asked about: 1. I suppose you might get away with l
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by hansvm 1y ago
You touched on the idea in your last paragraph. Comparing Zig to C using memory safety as a binary threshold instead of a continuous scale is apples to oranges. For one, Rust isn't even at the far right of the memory safety scale, so a

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