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by jcranmer 1y ago
There's definitely a generational gap going in the US. Support for Israel is not popular among the younger generation in the US, and there's a good deal of voters in their 20s and 30s for whom support for Israel a red line in cand
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> English uses 26 letters with no diacritics, compared to other languages like Chinese (thousands of characters), Hindi (50+ letters), or French/German (latin with diacritics). The English language has diacritics (see words like naï
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> If they can do that, why do they repeatedly fail at Kerch Bridge? The bridge is approximately 3km long or so, which makes it relatively easy to maintain a continuous 24/7 armed presence to prevent sabotage. An underwater pipeline
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Biden never announced that he would blow up Nord Stream 2. What he said in effect, in a press conference after Germany grudgingly agreed to prevent Nord Stream 2 from going online if Russia were to escalate its actions in Ukraine, was essen
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by jcranmer 1y ago
They have demonstrated capabilities like blowing up the Kerch Strait bridge or several Russian oil refineries without US help, what makes you think Nord Stream is too difficult for them?
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by jcranmer 1y ago
This reminds me of the time I was a young, naïve idiot, and decided I would learn GTK by writing some basic app in GTK. In x86 (not x86-64) assembly. Like all of my other project ideas from that era, never went anywhere, and I horribly unde
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by jcranmer 1y ago
C and C++ are fundamentally memory-unsafe languages. That doesn't make them bad languages, but it is a reality that you have to face when you work with them. And one of the things we've learned is that building safe abstractions,
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> A retained mode GUI looks like a hierarchy to me, how do you say it isn't? The problem with retained mode GUIs is that, while the widget tree is, well, a a nice hierarchical tree, the widgets and the data model often need mutable
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> UTF-16 is both simpler to parse and more compact than utf-8 when writing non-english characters. UTF-8 and UTF-16 take the same number of characters to encode a non-BMP character or a character in the range U+0080-U+07FF (which include
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> these don't hold for floats even though most math formulas and compiler optimizations rely on these to hold. Most compilers have an option like -fassociative-math that explicitly allows optimization under the assumption of associa
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Rust's core object semantics are very nearly that of C. Really, the only major difference between Rust and C is that you can't violate mutable aliasing rules in Rust, even in unsafe, and C has a strict aliasing mode that Rust can&
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It literally is: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> It's not pro- public transit and better urban planning that bothers me. It's the anti-car "lobby". The absolute worst are the "war on cars" people. Not the people who are "anti-car", because whil
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by jcranmer 1y ago
If you look at pictures of cities from the early 1900s, one of things you realize is that even small towns of only ~20k people managed to fairly reliably have a streetcar line or two in them. (Actually, a lot of these systems still exist, t
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by jcranmer 1y ago
2025 is half done, and Tesla is down about $3B/quarter compared to last year already. If that trend keeps up, then 2025 will come in around $85B or so. (Although analyst expectations seem to be that Q3 and Q4 will jump back to 2024 lev
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It was the central article of the issue, the one that dictated the headline and image on the cover for the week, and came with a small coterie of other articles discussing the repercussions of such an AI. If it was disagreeing with AI maxim
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> x86 decoding must be a pain So one of the projects I've been working on and off again is the World's Worst x86 Decoder, which takes a principled approach to x86 decoding by throwing out most of the manual and instead reverse-
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I've seen a number of people complain about the change, and my first guess is that it is a change in methodology rather than an organic change. But if that's the case, why isn't YouTube coming out and saying it? Granted, it&#
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I've avoided using an adblocker because, as much of a pittance as it is for content creators, I don't want to deprive them of that revenue, and I also don't want to deal with the faff of getting a working YouTube ad blocker s
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Well, for starters, it would make The Economist 's recent article on "What if AI made the world's economic growth explode?" [1] look like the product of overly credulous suckers for AI hype. [1] https://www.e
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> imagine the board member saying the same thing about the PC, the internet, mobile computing, cloud computing… For the deployment of the PC, I think the vast majority of companies start from an environment where there were already termi
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> How is that legal in US? I am pretty sure that is not legal is many part of the world even if the sound was only on from 9 to 5. It's probably not legal, although this is an area of law that is generally delegated to the most loca
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> Standard US freight envelope doesn't even fit on the standard US freight line, famously there are tunnels and bridges in the East that prevent Superliner and other double-stack cars from getting into New York and other places. The
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> Just because it uses the same rail gauge as intercity freight doesn't require it to run on the same set of tracks. We're talking about BART, which uses a track gauge of 5'6" instead of the standard US rail gauge of
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by jcranmer 1y ago
MSVC appears to have dropped support for Windows 3.1 in 2003 and Windows 9x in 2008. It might still be able to generate support for Windows XP and Vista if you scrounge up an appropriate SDK, but the default CRT it builds with sure doesn&#x
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With Windows 3.1, you're probably talking about having to compile to the Win16 interface, which would be a bit of a challenge. LLVM's x86 backend doesn't really support 16-bit compilation (the best it gets to is supporting 32
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> It’s like saying “I drove a car and it was horrible, cars suck” without clarifying what car, the age, the make, how much experience that person had driving, etc. That's an interesting comparison. That kind of statement can be reas
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by jcranmer 1y ago
With all due respect, with a response like "What AI coding tools/models have you been using?" to a complaint that AI tools just don't seem to be effective, what difference does a reply to that even make? If your experien
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Near the end, they have the dreaded checkmark table--the table with a list of features and a list of implementations and there is exactly one implementation that manages to have all of features which just so happens to be whatever the paper
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> To your point the paper AFAIK wasn't debunked because someone read it carefully but because people tried to reproduce it. Actually, from my recollection, it was debunked pretty quickly by people who read the paper because the pape

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