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by hughw 3y ago
I hope somebody can elaborate on the licensing problem? I see a community edition...
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by hughw 3y ago
You're probably right but I fear the end of that road is a completely "re-terraformed" Earth we create to adapt to support our industrial society.
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by hughw 3y ago
But that’s my point. Without source code it would be hard to understand the program.
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by hughw 3y ago
Like Heroku? (disclaimer, haven't used Heroku in years, no idea what the state of it is now).
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by hughw 3y ago
To what extent did the source code enable NSO to find this bug? Had the code been blob-only, would modern decompilers have worked well enough to help them understand the code and find this obscure bug?
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by hughw 3y ago
Idea -- pump the whatwg specs through chatgpt to generate the Rust code.
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by hughw 3y ago
Is one second polling interval practical?
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by hughw 3y ago
Great content.
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by hughw 3y ago
I guess I'd be glad to have my type system designed by people well grounded in theory.
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by hughw 3y ago
It's possible for there to be far fewer humans without needing to kill anyone. So depopulation can be an ethical strategy, except that you'd need to influence human reproduction.
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by hughw 3y ago
It'd be interesting to compare the trajectory of ATI/AMD to NVIDIA and the decisions that got them there. From outside it looks like nVIDIA's huge emphasis on software, and supporting development, while developing GPGPU code
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by hughw 3y ago
A few years ago I asked a new hire to ssh to a certain machine from their new dev Linux laptop, and they said OK and began searching the web for PuTTY for Linux. Didn't work out with them.
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by hughw 3y ago
The MITM observation isn't any more dangerous than Trust on First Use. The attacker would have to identify you as a target and set up their MITM before you got around to setting up your own cert. Sort of like an attacker compromising y
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by hughw 3y ago
Some lawyers figured out how to legally steal IP from all the creators who have contributed to Linux.
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by hughw 3y ago
You must be talking about renting resources that run 100% of the time. AWS rents us gpu instances by the second. We have to run sporadic jobs throughout the day that take 50 seconds to two hours. Depending on customer activity we might need
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by hughw 3y ago
Be careful what you wish for.
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by hughw 3y ago
Founders soliciting investment, for one.
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by hughw 3y ago
Sure. But they didn’t have a model that understood f=ma or inverse square distance gravity. They didn’t have a causal model. So they couldn’t use techniques of predicting planetary motion to predict projectiles motion. Galileo and Newton ti
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by hughw 3y ago
Didn't the Islamic world preserve and develop math during that time?
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by hughw 3y ago
Seems to me only after Galileo introduced the idea that we could use mathematics to predict physical outcomes could modern engineering take hold.
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by hughw 3y ago
Cmon, man
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by hughw 3y ago
e.g. What keeps bicycles balanced with or without a rider is still an active area of research, and even the seemingly basic idea that, for a bicycle to be self-stable, it needs to turn the handlebars into the fall, has not yet been proven.
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by hughw 3y ago
Apple/Safari cannot seem to distinguish my various AWS Cognito identities from one another. Never stopped to look into it, but Firefox and Chrome seem to have no problem understanding the difference between xxx.awscognito.com and yyy.a
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by hughw 3y ago
I never encounter it -- so on some level, Twitter is managing it well. If people who don't want it aren't seeing it, and those who do, are, then it's working.
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by hughw 3y ago
Sure, maybe for tools that need to do one thing, I’d prefer opinionated ones.
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by hughw 3y ago
Ruby on Rails? Doesn't mean Rails sucks.. tons of people are very productive on Rails. It uses Ruby idiomatically in a way that I would wish to break out of, which would be difficult and counterproductive, because of its strong opinion
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by hughw 3y ago
I've learned to avoid software tools that proclaim they are "opinionated" which usually means it's their way or the highway.
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by hughw 3y ago
https://hughw.net
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by hughw 3y ago
Same vibe as the C++ compile-time ray tracers e.g. https://github.com/tcbrindle/raytracer.hpp
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by hughw 3y ago
Right, the potential energy due to stress in the crust could be released to kinetic energy by a falling feather or some cosmic rays, would be the idea. There doesn't need to be the same energy in cosmic rays as released by the earthqua

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