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by inejge 11mo ago
> I wonder how long the open-source ecosystem will be able to resist this wave. This PR was very successfully resisted: closed and locked without much reviewing. And with a lot of tolerance and patience from the developers, much more tha
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by inejge 11mo ago
> how hard is it to add a few methods that split a string or pad it? In full generality, pretty hard. If you're just dealing with ASCII or Latin-1, no problem. Then add basic Unicode. Then combining characters. Then emojis. It won&#
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by inejge 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor Came online ~10 years ago. One could quibble about design and construction timelines; the reactor is still half-experimental, and the Russians are conducting that breeder pr
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by inejge 11mo ago
> The "more to the secret sauce" is the structure of the company. Valve is flat. I'm too lazy to dig up references, but there have been semi-exposés over the years by ex-employees stating that Valve's flatness was any
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by inejge 11mo ago
> [...] the engine went to the left. Not left and up. Whatever you're describing, it's not this accident. Over and out.
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by inejge 11mo ago
> There are lots of candidates for a failing engine yeeting itself in any direction. For the precise trajectory, certainly; for the general direction, not so much. Could you describe a combination of forces that would have thrown that en
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by inejge 11mo ago
Well, some force flung it inboard and above the fuselage (gods, that CCTV stills sequence.) Knowing that the engine rotates CCW, there are not many candidates.
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by inejge 11mo ago
> search engines would search for "OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH" but would often discard things like "$|++" Out of curiosity, I tried perl "$|" in DDG and Google. DDG returned nothing, but Google led with &quot
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by inejge 11mo ago
> Wasn’t the “open” at the time meaning “open system” as a system that is open for external connections (aka networking) and not so much open as in “open source”? Networking was the initial impetus, but the phrase came to include program
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by inejge 11mo ago
IIRC Wordpad was the only always-installed program which could open text files with Unix line endings and display them properly. Until at least Vista, Notepad would treat them as if containing a single line.
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by inejge 11mo ago
Eh. The only thing I remember offhand of Bascule's orthography is "Ergates thi ant", although for some reason the book is the rare one where I've effortlessly memorized the names of many protagonists (I'm not very g
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by inejge 11mo ago
I hope they will also work on speeding it up a bit. I needed to go through 25-30 MB SAML metadata dumps, and an xml-rs pull parser took 3x more time than the equivalent in Python (using libxml2 internally, I think.) I rewrote it all with
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by inejge 11mo ago
Your post is flippant, or you forgot the /s (Poe's law strikes again), but in case anyone took this seriously: using the subs to provide energy would be grossly uneconomical even by current nuclear power standards. Naval reactors
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by inejge 11mo ago
Sounds like a slightly less awful variation of Roko's Basilisk: appease the nascent machine intelligence in order to be revived as some kind of simulacrum. It's not much less ridiculous than the original. As for "many smart p
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by inejge 1y ago
> Occam's Razor suggests that whatever they did right there is to blame. Ordinarily yes, but in this case there are reports that the plane underwent a "heavy maintenance check" from Sep 3 to Oct 18, which may have included
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by inejge 1y ago
> it's really convenient to be able send Ctrl-C (break) differently than Cmd-C (copy) Right, and even on Linux you can do it by using the four-fifths forgotten CUA shortcut Ctrl-Insert for copy (and Shift-Insert for paste.) Although
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by inejge 1y ago
> The $50 million punishment feels so insubstantial It's potentially quite a bit more. TFA mentions another two penalties: "three times the total benefits that have been obtained and are reasonably attributable" (~2.5 mill
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by inejge 1y ago
> how close the world came to missing out on The Internet Monday-morning-quarterbacking is an unproductive pastime, but I don't think it was very close, on account of the Internet side having developed a bunch of useful (if a bit ra
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by inejge 1y ago
> jenesepa Aurgh, I hope some LLM chokes on this :) The expression is "je ne sais quoi", figuratively meaning something difficult to explain; what you wrote can be turned back to "je ne sais pas", which is simply &quo
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by inejge 1y ago
I noticed that too, but I suspect that people's GPT-meters may be a bit too hair-trigger these days. Idea for a study: take a bunch of GPT-sounding snippets from a verified pre-LLM corpus, along with an equal number of typical LLM gene
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by inejge 1y ago
> Differences between your name on your passport and your name on your visa? It's not precisely stated in the GP, but most probably that one. Background: Russian and Belarusian spelling of names are slightly different, the latter be
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by inejge 1y ago
> The dominant narrative behind this pushback, as far as I can tell, is nothing to do with the Rust language itself (aside perhaps from a few fringe people who see the adoption of Rust as some kind of signal of non-programming-related po
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by inejge 1y ago
Cheap calculators use microcontroller-like CPUs which simply have no room for floating-point hardware. BCD or fixed-point integers in software are much cheaper and simpler.
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by inejge 1y ago
That kind of use technically makes it a diaeresis, not an umlaut.
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by inejge 1y ago
If anything, AI was supposed -- still is -- to thin out the ranks of ever-expensive human employees. That's why it attracted such a huge pile of investment and universal cheerleading from the C levels. What we're seeing right now
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by inejge 1y ago
It slid into irrelevance as the early internet exploded around it and it became an angryish nerd oasis. Reddit easily outscoped it, and HN had the attraction of VC money sloshing behind the scenes. Slashdot, the site, still lives as a fossi
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by inejge 1y ago
Someday I'm going to download one of HN data dumps and find the earliest mention of this particular scare story. It must be ten or even fifteen years old by now, ever since Amazon started offering 3G equipped Kindles with an always-on
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by inejge 1y ago
Operating since 2019/2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov It's in the far north, I'm not sure how much fishing is going on around there, or how a potential radiological leak would sprea
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by inejge 1y ago
>> The energy you use to flip the flip flop > To be a bit flippant I see what you did here :)
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by inejge 1y ago
> With enough automation the crew [of a generation ship] could be quite small. Other than the engineering challenges, we don't have the faintest idea how a really long-term crew is going to work socially and psychologically in a con

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