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by jart 2y ago
Society is full of predators. In the beginning, people got eaten in the jungle, and today they get monitored to learn their desires and then shown pictures of things they want. How do you know you're not being manipulated? Getting you
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by jart 2y ago
It's not a problem if you don't go to the parts of the web that have ads. I spend my time online on places like GitHub that operate as ad-free commission-free gift economies. Environments that have ads, have nothing that I want. I
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by jart 2y ago
Underhanded? Why don't you tell me what it means to you? If someone asked me what the minimum money I'm willing to take is, then I guess I might think they're the kind of company that would ask me questions like, "what&#
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by jart 2y ago
Maybe that's true for some governments. Or maybe it was true a long time ago. In America I question whether our government is actually even the government. One thing I like about Google is they don't claim to provide services they
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by jart 2y ago
Why do people have this idea that it's the language's job to protect you? C is a small piece of a much larger puzzle. That puzzle includes things like the memory page protection in your CPU's MMU. It includes things like SECC
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by jart 2y ago
The colors tell you the confidence the model has in any given word. If you don't want the color coding then don't pass the -pc flag. Then it'll output plain text.
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by jart 2y ago
Do you really believe the government is what gives you your rights?
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by jart 2y ago
That's because Windows forces you to use special userspace libraries that account for memory and let you create "reservations" for large regions, without actually populating entries in the MMU (i.e. PML4t). Linux doesn't
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by jart 2y ago
Why? There are many innocent applications that consume lots of virtual memory with no intention of using it. Sometimes sparse algorithms call for that sort of thing. It can be a nice crutch when you're in a pinch for time. A good examp
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by jart 2y ago
It would be a lot simpler if cyberspace was declared a sovereign territory and Google became the official government of it, answerable to no other government on questions of digital affairs. That way they'd have the power to put all th
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by jart 2y ago
My bad, that's what I intended to say.
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by jart 2y ago
How is that screwing someone over? Maybe the company said that because the candidate was slightly underqualified for the role, and they would only hire if they felt like they were getting a deal and not taking too much risk. The low ball of
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by jart 2y ago
> Many programmers, including myself, have gotten out of the habit of doing this on modern systems like Linux, because a malloc() call always succeeds, regardless how much memory is available. Not if you use setrusage().
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by jart 2y ago
lool monorepo regulators are already checkmated 100 moves ahead. open sourcing it is the only way they'll break that monster up. doj clowns should go home they're out of their depth.
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by jart 2y ago
So what. In order to be a truly authentic goth you'd need to sack the Vatican.
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by jart 2y ago
It was probably a condition of getting funding. In the NGO world using or funding greenfield C/C++ is a great way to make yourself a social pariah I bet. A corporation wouldn't care, because they're driven by what makes dolla
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by jart 2y ago
> It makes celebrities of people like Andrew Tate By banning Indian school children and sucking the oxygen out of competing influences like Pewdiepie.
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by jart 2y ago
If you're poor you won't even officially have cancer, because no one will diagnose you, since then you'd be entitled to services. Someone who's actually been poor would understand this.
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by jart 2y ago
Do you really employ 200 people, all of whom don't know how to code? What kind of sweatshop are you running?
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by jart 2y ago
Which is why it would be so shocking if HIV received more research funding than all of them put together.
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by jart 2y ago
> Redundancy in HIV drugs is extremely important and significantly more resources should be applied to such drugs Does HIV prevention research get more resources than curing cancer? I'm looking through the NIH website and asking Cla
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by jart 2y ago
Paying for Kagi is worth it, just to have an LLM not pop up in my search results.
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by jart 2y ago
Have you ever run a website or online service? Whenever I've put something online, there's inevitably at least one person out there who's bored and unemployed with technical chops, who makes it their full time mission to abus
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by jart 2y ago
Influencers is such a better system. I think two things sealed the fate of gaming journalists: (1) the Internet killed journalism revenues, and (2) the Internet showed gaming journalists what their fans are really like. A lot of them couldn
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by jart 2y ago
Check out https://github.com/woodrush/lambdalisp which was written for my Blc VM.
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by jart 2y ago
Yeah per thread virtual memory is called a process. Within a process the memory manager has to maintain a single virtual address space. You could do it with a red black tree and a global lock. Or you could use potentially cleverer algorithm
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by jart 2y ago
I demonstrated in the blog post that SectorLISP can run real programs that John McCarthy and his crew wrote back in the 60's for his IBM 703 LISP 1.5 system. See https://justine.lol/sectorlisp2/proof.html where, w
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by jart 2y ago
Society is a great big machine that gives people the opportunity to be a part of building something greater than themselves. The pharaohs for instance would not have been able to build the pyramids without society supporting them and the ro
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by jart 2y ago
> How would you feel if you got an awesome 20% raise at work, only to find that the next day the top 10 things you most frequently buy at the store were all suddenly 20% more when you went to pay for them. This is how the California econ
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by jart 2y ago
You absolutely need to lock all the locks, because fork() kills all the other threads, so if any one of them was in a critical section while fork was called, then the new process will deadlock if it tries to acquire that lock afterwards. Ye

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