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by int_19h 1y ago
They should have called it OCP, the Omni Control Protocol.
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by int_19h 1y ago
We aren't doing it because most people want to suppress (some kind of) speech, meaning they don't want others to hear it either.
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by int_19h 1y ago
From what I've seen in large tech companies, if they bother to do anything at all, you get a token "open source fund" which is then divvied up between different projects, often according to employee feedback. However the mone
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by int_19h 1y ago
They don't have to play the game. It would lead to less profits, sure. But we're talking about companies already sitting on tens of billions of unused cash.
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by int_19h 1y ago
It did become popular because it was decentralized, but the specific features that this enabled were less about not depending on a central server, and more about being able to work with the same repo locally with ease without having to be o
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by int_19h 1y ago
C and C++ standards demand atomic access to individual chars . It is not a given that a C/C++ char is a "byte" in the conventional modern understanding of that word, though. sizeof(char)==sizeof(bool)===sizeof(int)==1 is a p
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by int_19h 1y ago
The problem is that it's still a nominal type system, so each empty struct is still a different type. A proper unit type has a single value of that type, and it's the same throughout the entire program.
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by int_19h 1y ago
Why couldn't you malloc them? Malloc doesn't care about types, it just wants the number of bytes, and 0 is a perfectly valid value to pass to malloc. Now, it's unspecified whether malloc will give you back a pointer distinct
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by int_19h 1y ago
This goes all the way to early BASIC, and it's signed because the language didn't have any unsigned numbers to begin with. The main reason for this particular arrangement is that, so long as you can rely on truth being represented
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by int_19h 1y ago
To be fair, there was no shortage of apps (especially in Win9x era) that did ignore system colors. Which actually took some effort to do, and almost invariably the result would be a gaudy eyesore, but the "it's branding!" p
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by int_19h 1y ago
It's already happening for all the seniors who got hit by the layoffs ("because AI make code go brrrr") in these past two years, too.
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by int_19h 1y ago
> This forum is 100% a benevolent dictatorship and it works really well. Part of the reason why it does is because there are so many other places to go to. But that is exactly the decentralized model in practice - it's not really an
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by int_19h 1y ago
Yeah, no, that's how we got the Satanic Panic back in the day. (and, in many cases, the people who promoted that are the same ones that we're talking about here)
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by int_19h 1y ago
I'm well aware of this, and I do use AI. Nevertheless the point remains that the net effect of industry-wide forced adoption of AI is not a "level up" but rather "more slop".
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by int_19h 1y ago
The very existence of dark matter is postulated by us based on those very laws of physics that include the speed-of-light limit as a foundational axiom. If general relativity is not really true, then there's no basis to infer the exist
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by int_19h 1y ago
I can't speak for China, but when it comes to Russia, take it from a citizen: yes, it is that bad, and the reason is that it's an empire that can't stop being an empire without falling apart (much like Ottoman Empire -> Tu
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by int_19h 1y ago
At best that tells you that humans are like that for the past 10k years or so, which is a blip even in our own species' history, never mind some more advanced aliens.
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by int_19h 1y ago
I notice that there's not a single reference in that entire response. How do you know which parts of it are hallucinated and which aren't?
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by int_19h 1y ago
> Inability to share memories. That is literally what language is for (well, and also sharing ideas).
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by int_19h 1y ago
> not even US citizens seem to benefit from this, i mean even y'all get swindled. As the old Soviet joke goes, "everything for the citizen... and I've even seen that citizen!"
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by int_19h 1y ago
They weren't "relatively rarely seen". If you have seen a Word document, chances are good that it had em-dashes in it simply because it would often autocorrect to that. In the Apple ecosystem, this sort of autocorrect is prov
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by int_19h 1y ago
It's very easy to type on macOS, not to mention auto-substitution that many apps have (and these days this extends to web browsers).
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by int_19h 1y ago
Let's be clear about one thing, though. LLMs are simply tools, which can be used for good or for bad. It's specific people who do and promote the latter - top management of tech companies, for example. It's those people w
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by int_19h 1y ago
I do a fair bit of "prompt honing" myself, but there remains a fundamental difference between that and traditional hacking of yore: the latter is predictable . The system may be very complex, but you can map it out step by step,
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by int_19h 1y ago
It's both. Speaking as a user, software quality was already declining before AI coding, but AI seems to have put that process on a fast track now (not the least because of all the top management drinking the Kool-Aid and deciding that
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by int_19h 1y ago
It is much harder than it used to be, and the big reason why is because we've meekly accepted the slow enshittification of our craft in the past.
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by int_19h 1y ago
This is hacker news, supposedly. And vibe coding is pretty much diametrically opposite to the hacker ethos.
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by int_19h 1y ago
It's not an either-or. Doing the replacing with AI means that you're ripe for being replaced yourself. Indeed, what you do until then is likely to have a side effect of training the very model that eventually replaces you. The rea
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by int_19h 1y ago
The problem is that "code delivers what we need" usually translates to "shovel crap as fast as it sells". Combined with heavy monopolization of the software market, where users have very little recourse to being force-fe
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by int_19h 1y ago
You don't need a degree to learn CS theory, though. Many of us who are self-taught, have learned about that as well (yes, there are people reading SCIP as a hobby). And conversely, a CS degree doesn't necessarily mean that the per

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