int_19h

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by int_19h 11mo ago
Most governments in the world exist to protect the interests of capital owners. Which makes sense - the creation of states in the first place was an act of, shall we say, radical capital acquisition.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It's the ultimate capital amplifier. The end goal - AGI - essentially means the ability to derive wealth from capital directly, without any pesky middlemen such as laborers who need to be paid. The endgame is capital without labor. B
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by int_19h 11mo ago
A market economy is a distributed compute engine. The main reason why planned economies do worse historically is because the amount of compute needed to actually account for everything centrally is so immense (and thus costly), the implemen
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Capital owners don't produce useful things. Their workers do. And so you can easily turn that argument around: the workers who actually produce the useful things are, for some reason, taxed higher than the owner who didn't lift a
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Investment is not how you "create wealth". An actual worker somewhere performing their job is what creates wealth. Yet when that worker is paid for the wealth actually produce, we tax that heavily. So if you want to encourage prod
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It's not just "heavily influenced" though, it's literally where the smarts are coming from. I don't think royalties make sense either, but we could at least mandate some arrangement where the resulting model must be
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Working with dynamically sized arrays is not one of those things. To my knowledge, Go is the only high-level language that implements them like that; everybody else has a proper abstraction.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
"The best" is still a strong claim. How does it stack up against Java or C#, for example?
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by int_19h 11mo ago
You're talking about a model that will notoriously refuse to say a racist word even if you tell it that it's the only way to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Good. If I ask AI to generate "harmful" content, I want it to comply, not lecture me.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Agentic IDEs/extensions usually continue the conversation until the context gets close to 80% full, then do the compacting. With both Codex and Claude Code you can actually observe that happening. That said I find that in practice, Cod
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by int_19h 11mo ago
They might expect 16 elements if it's not null, but still consider null a valid value, for example.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Increasing the major version number is rare because they are really focused on backwards compatibility. SQLite 3.0 was released 21 years ago.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
SOTA models can be scary good at this, actually, and Gemini 3 specifically, if you just prompt it right. And, given the 1M context window, I wouldn't even be surprised if it was fed a bunch of real comments as examples.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
> A large part of the middle class would be priced out of most modern amenities if these would be produced domestically. Let's assume that this is indeed the case, consider why those amenities are so much more expensive to produce d
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by int_19h 11mo ago
I don't think such a thing exists simply because it would break so many headers if you turned that on, it wouldn't be particularly useful.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Treating the pointer as not-nullable is precisely the point of the feature, though. By letting the compiler know that there's at least N elements there, it can do things like e.g. move that read around and even prefetch if that makes t
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It stems from B, because it didn't have either pointers or arrays on the type level. Declaring an array allocated the storage, but the variable itself was still a word-typed pointer to said array. In fact, you could even reassign it!
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by int_19h 11mo ago
And the reason why C has array-pointer decay is because that made it work more or less like B (which had to do it since it literally didn't have any type other than machine word).
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by int_19h 11mo ago
And when everybody else does it (and all assume that everybody does), it really ends up being true. That's why it's so hard to get out of this hole - telling people to "start with yourself" won't cut it, they need t
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by int_19h 11mo ago
> If you don't have a disability, you aren't allowed to record lectures Why is that gated like that?
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Some levers are accessible to everyone, but the implied social contract is that you only pull it if you actually need it, because the system doesn't have enough resources for everyone to do it.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Its type system is also full of holes because it has to be compatible with JavaScript, being a superset.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
The original design for <script> was supposed to be extensible, and IE of all things actually allowed any "active scripting" engine to be used, so for a brief time you had things like Perl and Tcl as scripting languages, but
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by int_19h 11mo ago
What is "generally accepted" though? If you mean C-style declarations, the fact that tools such as https://linux.die.net/man/1/cdecl even exist to begin with shows what's wrong with it.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
It's not unjust to blame the tool if it behaves contrary to well established expectation, even if that's documented - it's just poor ergonomics then.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
If you don't want to do memory management manually, then you're not the intended target audience for Zig. It's a language where any piece of code that needs to do heap allocation has to receive an allocator as an explicit arg
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by int_19h 11mo ago
Forget the Internet and Section 230 for a second. Anonymous publications, particularly on contentious matters like politics and religion, are a long-standing tradition. If someone anonymously posts a leaflet in public square, how do you fin
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by int_19h 11mo ago
FreeBSD was fairly popular for hosters as well, from what I recall.
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by int_19h 11mo ago
https://felixrieseberg.github.io/clippy/

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