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by jchw 3mo ago
The main reason I assumed you didn't is because you linked to Hanlon's Razor and explained it in a way that made it seem like you didn't think the other person knew. I think it's true to some extent that a lot of the bac
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by jchw 3mo ago
If you're using Kryoflux or a similar controller solution (and they mention several) it should bypass this problem since then the drive doesn't show up as a normal floppy drive at all. So in this case it shouldn't matter.
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by jchw 3mo ago
Pretty sure the point was to invert it. :)
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by jchw 3mo ago
You have now created four accounts to make basically this post, but the point is unclear. All of the highly automated theorem provers have some limitations to what they can guarantee, some of which comically strict. You are not really expla
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by jchw 3mo ago
First of all, can you just simply not speak in gotchas? I don't even like engaging with this sort of thing. It's a valid question to ask how VCS is the source of truth in this case, but the way you're responding suggests you&
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by jchw 3mo ago
What's unique about Go is the lack of a centralized package repo. You are saying "I could point NPM to another registry". I am saying, Go doesn't have a registry and you can't really point it to one. I hope it is ap
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by jchw 3mo ago
To be honest with you, I don't know what you are suggesting. Piper is a more scalable Perforce clone. That's cool and all, but I don't see how it solves the problem that hosts can be unreliable and that data fetched from the
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by jchw 3mo ago
Sure, you can tell your other package managers to pull a module from VCS, usually with some limitations and negative side effects. The Go module syste is not the same model. You can, for example, run an NPM proxy that caches locally, but
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by jchw 3mo ago
People keep replying seeming to miss what makes Go's solution so good. I think it deserves more attention. In many cases I think it's impossible to avoid the pain that comes with decentralization without defeating the point. It&#x
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by jchw 3mo ago
IMO a lot of these problems come down to the same root cause: we are not fully enumerating and reasoning about failure cases. Let's say you want to retry a network request. It's... A bit more complex than it seems, right? Firstly,
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by jchw 3mo ago
Knowledge should be free, but that can't be treated too literally. Not a unique case of this kind of phrase. If we're doing capitalism people have to be paid somehow, and when people say "free" they don't mean &quot
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by jchw 3mo ago
There will always be more suspend/resume bugs to work through. It varies a lot per device. I feel it's necessary to paint the picture for people who are curious what it means for it to be a crapshoot, so indulge me while I share m
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by jchw 3mo ago
I think that article is rather a copy of the original Google Doc, judging by the included go link.
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by jchw 3mo ago
Unfortunately, it would seem the majority of dems are just jealous that they don't have the chutzpah to be so flagrantly, blatantly corrupt, and stick to less lucrative and more established corrupt practices. See, discussions like this
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by jchw 3mo ago
American AI company status: We are now bragging about how bad our models are unironically. Okay.
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by jchw 3mo ago
Sure research rigor and reproducibility are known issues but if we're gonna complain about the study design it may as well actually take into account the study design. Seems like the biggest complaint W.R.T. study design is just the la
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by jchw 3mo ago
Should be close enough, at most a few milligrams IIRC, certainly less than a can of coke. Does coffee actually contain any other stimulant in more than trace amounts?
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by jchw 3mo ago
Well obviously, the study could be bunk, but decaf essentially contains no stimulant, so this isn't really enough to explain the results.
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by jchw 3mo ago
After having used GLM 5.2 and Opus 4.8 for enough time, I'm very unconvinced of the benchmark maxxing claims - if anything, GLM 5.2's rather lackluster performance on benchmarks compared to Opus 4.8 paints the opposite picture whe
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by jchw 4mo ago
A lot of the neighborhoods where Flock is being deployed aren't even bad by higher standards, so I'm not sure what this has to do with anything.
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by jchw 4mo ago
The reason this is a worthwhile point is because it means games on Steam are not automatically DRM-encumbered and the steam apps folder for the game may just work as-is. How big of a difference this makes definitely depends on the kinds of
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by jchw 4mo ago
Well, the Steamworks DRM simply poses no threat: a skiddie can crack that one. There are tools that can do it automatically. For stuff that depends on the Steam API, you can probably keep a copy of one of the popular emulators; normally it&
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by jchw 4mo ago
AFAIK Steam really has three things you could consider part of the DRM strategy. - The Steamworks DRM, which is a lightweight EXE packer. Seems about as simple as UPX. Presumably it goes and checks that you own the app ID via Steam RPC on s
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by jchw 4mo ago
Sony can only take it away because you didn't own it. I digitally own SimCity 3000 Unlimited from Gog. The copy lives on my NAS. The NAS could break, sure, but so can a CD. Can I hold it? Well, sort of. The same way I can back up my ph
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by jchw 4mo ago
It seems our government still has a lot to learn.
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by jchw 4mo ago
> Frankly who cares about [sex stuff] when ... Don't ask me. I think the focus on sex things is utterly insane. However, even on Hacker News many people definitely seem extremely concerned at least about people under 18 having acces
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by jchw 4mo ago
Hey, let's be fair, a number of politicians and ultra rich psychopaths care a lot about children, it was covered in those documents...
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by jchw 4mo ago
Based on the fact that Claude Opus 4.8 decided I needed a cybersecurity exemption to debug a stupid pure virtual call bug (basically virtual method called inside of destructor) that I had already found, oh boy, I sure would love to have m
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by jchw 4mo ago
My guess is that the humans they had in the loop for RLHF just simply preferred the code because it looked superficially tidier. I have the strangest feeling that they didn't always have top notch engineers in the loop at all steps. I
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by jchw 4mo ago
Since everyone is vibe coding everything anyway I fully expect there to be a Windows 3.x display driver that works this way soon. I'm sure people in the retro computing hobby feel a certain way about this, but it's definitely also

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