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by hnfong 3y ago
I apologize for the tone. I'm learning how to not offend while getting my point across. I must re-emphasize that in many people's experiences, meditative practices could have powerful effects on one's mind (potentially positi
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by hnfong 3y ago
It wasn't any disrespect, at least I don't have any spiritual practice to disrespect, but rather the cavalier attitude against a reasonable warning. Imagine somebody warns you about "don't open random email attachments&q
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by hnfong 3y ago
FWIW, fosspatents was one of the first commentators to side with Oracle on the claim that APIs are copyrightable (according to existing copyright law). The tech community at large seemed to think fosspatents was a shill blog hired by Oracle
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by hnfong 3y ago
> what license was Java provided under In addition to other commercial licenses, Java was released under GPLv2. Yes, the Oracle v Google case was technically a GPL case. (The tech community talks a lot about GPL being tested in court, bu
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by hnfong 3y ago
Please do. Although I'll probably never write C in that style, most of us here will probably learn a few things that will eventually prove useful. (And it probably will also serve as a historical document of a "skill"(?) that
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by hnfong 3y ago
There are a lot of things we don't know (eg. how does steak dry-aged in honey taste like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOqK60u1zco ), but it doesn't mean they're all worth doing. That's why I said do
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by hnfong 3y ago
The case was subject to a lot of FUD and misunderstanding. This is one of them. > The supreme court ruled[0] that copyright (and thus copyleft?) does not apply to APIs. That is what they specifically stated was not the case. The text of
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by hnfong 3y ago
This is already mostly achievable on Linux with ptrace It's not a popular thing, but there are ptrace-based sandbox implementations. I've written one myself 20 years ago for a very limited use case (sandboxing of programs that are
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by hnfong 3y ago
Interesting you mentioned GPL proven to work in the Linux story. It was specifically GPLv2. I feel the GPL lost a lot of momentum with FSF's GPLv3 push. Linus was publicly against it. Not only for Linux, but generally and philosophical
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by hnfong 3y ago
The bugs are shifted into the spec, or the proof.
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by hnfong 3y ago
The results will be "bad", which you have acknowledged as a possibility. Why do it then? LLMs trained "merely" on just either wikipedia or reddit are probably going to be very limited in capability since there's not
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by hnfong 3y ago
This thing is literally cheaper than the 2 bedroom 400ft apartment I'm renting... I mean, I'm living in the more expensive part of Hong Kong, but still.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Piracy was literally the national occupation of the Brits during the 18th and 19th century. The difference was just a matter of scale and whether your ship was sanctioned by the government.
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by hnfong 3y ago
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem It feels the CAP theorem was more talked-about in the years of NoSQL frenzy. It is of course still highly relevant. Despite being widely known and discussed, I think it fits
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by hnfong 3y ago
Yeah, this is not precisely a "CS fact", but " you will git-blame a piece of shitty code and find a N-year old commit with your own name on it " is probably an unintuitive fact of programming that you only get to experie
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by hnfong 3y ago
Seconded.
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by hnfong 3y ago
What are you talking about? Fine tunes are basically just more of the same training, optionally on selected layers for efficiency.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Most software doesn't really handle memory allocation failures too well. malloc() can fail, everyone knows this in theory, but assume you're the programmer handling the malloc() error -- you know the system is likely to have alrea
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by hnfong 3y ago
The abstract seems to make the concept more profound than it actually is... and I daresay is prone to confuse the uninitiated. For one I don't think there's understood to be an implicit physical principle in Church-Turing thesis.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Quantum computing makes a couple algorithms faster but doesn't allow solving problems that we don't already know how to solve with a classical Turing machine.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Presumably because today is already 31 Dec 2023, and almost 2024. It's going to age even less well in a couple years.
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by hnfong 3y ago
FWIW Crossover has also integrated Apple Porting Toolkit: https://www.codeweavers.com/blog/mjohnson/2023/9/27/crossove...
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by hnfong 3y ago
Gotta have that "gluten free" label.
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by hnfong 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermented_bean_curd It doesn't "melt" in the sense that it softens and becomes stringy when heated (eg. Mozzarella), but you can "dissolve" this kind of tofu in wa
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by hnfong 3y ago
> I don't know of any that did bother and decided it was flat (and would really like a pointer) 天圓地方 (literally: sky round, land square) was a serious core idea in ancient Chinese cosmology that was most popular 2000 years ago aroun
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by hnfong 3y ago
Can you elaborate why you don't want to convey the programmer's intent in the code? I mean, sure, pure functional code doesn't need variable names (or even legible function names), but why would you want to write in that st
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by hnfong 3y ago
> Is the reader's brain like a compiler? No. Compilers are very literal. Readers' brains build an imagined world from the hints given by the author. Code is mainly to be read by a person. Otherwise there is no reason to keep
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by hnfong 3y ago
With only +1,722 lines added, even if the commits were eventually squashed upon landing, I'd consider it good etiquette to tidy up changes to maybe a handful of logical commits instead of pushing 404 raw commits. Or maybe it's ano
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by hnfong 3y ago
Here's some advice - don't give unsolicited advice.
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by hnfong 3y ago
Maybe the *term" "software engineer" is not an established thing. But these points raised by GP... are basically self-evident. > - Deciding what to write yourself and what to take from a library > - Identifying high-qua

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