im3w1l

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by im3w1l 5mo ago
Unlike with steam, things can appear disappear from your iTunes library if you move countries. At least music can.
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
> Do you think terrorists are really going to name their Bluetooth speaker "bomb"? Yes. Not every time. But some of the time. Like imagine someone likes to stay organized and they have a bunch of bluetooth devices and gives the
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
I don't think this can be the case given that the program will keep working in reduced functionality mode. This wouldn't be possible in the situation you describe.
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
Intentionally overshooting can be a legitimate strategy.
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
Having studied control theory I think it makes perfect sense. When trying to make a system target a new level it's quite natural for there to be overshoot that needs to be reigned in. It's also natural for the correction to go too
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
The big issue with NFT's is that can't use them to flex on people as easily.
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
Knowledge doesn't diffuse perfectly and instantly through an institution.
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
A shill gets a paycheck. Without one, I would call it activism or something.
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
Those decisions also make a lot of sense from the C-as-macro-assembler point of view (passing parameters puts values in the places defined by the calling convention, and taking parameters pulls them out) that has of course gradually faded o
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
"The purpose of a system is what it does". Dangerous principle to apply too literally but almost always worth considering. In this case, the purpose of abstinence-only education is to increase teenage births and the purpose of mod
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
In C, acceptance is "I will write UB and it will eventually lead to something bad happening"
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
Still I think it's easier to avoid the need for more people than necessary. "Just lie" sounds like the easiest solution but on closer inspection maybe it is not?
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by im3w1l 5mo ago
One person can tell a lie, but a company consists of many people. You must ensure that only few people know of the logging or there will be a risk of a leak.
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
Let's say you have two indices into an array: a and b. You want to know how much earlier a is than b so you compute b-a, but as b was in fact the earlier one you get a negative number. You can deal with this by casting before doing the
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
A few gigs of disk is not that expensive. Imo they should allocate every paying user (at least) one disk cache slot that doesn't expire after any time. Use it for their most recent long chat (a very short question-answer that could ea
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
Cornering the market with the intent to flip the goods is not quite the same as cornering the market because you actually want the goods and intend to use them yourself.
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
There are quite a few options. Many of them look dated though. I think that's the usp of electron.
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
I think you misunderstand my question. int 80h is an alternative legacy way that a program can issue syscalls. So without handling that your system may miss some syscalls. Which may be fine, I'm sure they are not that common. But if so
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
What about int 80h?
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
As that's a pretty long video would you mind giving a short summary of what happened? Was it a world record in a game?
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
Sometimes you don't want to open stuff in a pager.
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
I think the problem is that 1) You want to be able to write arbitrary bytes, including shell escape sequences into files. 2) You don't want to accidentally write terminal escape sequences to stdout. 3) Stdout is modeled as a file. Cons
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
Ideally, self hosting shouldn't be like building your own devices, vehicles, furniture and pipes. It should be like owning your own devices, vehicles, furniture and pipes. Go to a store exchange money and it runs itself with minimal ma
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by im3w1l 6mo ago
You are correct that training is necessary, but that isn't the knockout blow you think it is. It goes for many of the specialized tasks (e.g. visual processing, auditory processing, motor skills, spatial awareness) done in the brain. Y
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by im3w1l 7mo ago
Consider a computer with a cpu and gpu. The CPU is a general purpose computer. It can do literally anything. Including software rendering. But the GPU is purpose designed for graphics so it will be much more efficient at the job. These days
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by im3w1l 7mo ago
Money has a time value. It's better to build things just before you need them than decades prior.
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by im3w1l 7mo ago
As someone living in neither country 50mbit is good enough for me and I have several times that already. I wouldn't wanna pay more on my bill for a rollout of newer tech when I'm perfectly happy with what I have.
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by im3w1l 7mo ago
Everything that happens in politics happens because someone managed to assemble a powerful enough coalition. Maybe some people wanted to repatriate gold before, but not enough to make it happen. Now suddenly, there are enough people.
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by im3w1l 7mo ago
I think it's like they want to have it on the books now so they can use it later. If they try to emergency legislate during wartime people will protest and/or flee the country the day before it starts applying.
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by im3w1l 7mo ago
A big part of skill aquisition in humans is moving tasks from system 2 to system 1, to free up the very scarce thinking resources for ever more complex tasks, that can then in turn be internalized and handled by system 1.

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