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by jerf 4mo ago
It isn't the same as travelling to truly remote cultures, of course, but odds are, your area has more stuff going on than you realize. My wife and I have taken to planning our occasional 2 week vacations with 2-4 days that we have plan
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I would be interested in a clear statement about how this scales. I've not used this workflow myself, but I've seen teams that did it. Whether they got huge benefits out of it I don't know, but I do know that watching them, I
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by jerf 4mo ago
"I’ve never understood the “if I don’t enable bad behavior, someone else will, so I might as well enable bad behavior” argument. Can you elaborate?" You are mentally approaching this as if you have an oracle that can be consulted
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by jerf 4mo ago
I wonder if it might make more sense to come at it from the opposite angle. Take pi as a sequence you want to compress with. But pi, being random, has redundancies in it that make it less than optimal. So instead, for a given size of block
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"Assuming that they've implemented eye-tracking based UI like Vision Pro, and I don't have to shoot tiny targets to click, which is hilariously bad UI." Assuming that the Steam Frame isn't accompanied by a complete
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Please Don't Start an Open Source Project, Join One(jerf.org)
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I don't like that aspect of emacs, but if you are a heavy-duty editor user it becomes difficult to arrange a consistent set of emacs shortcuts that aren't modal that don't conflict with anything else, because there's so
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"I've always hated stateful control. Always ripped out caps lock key from my boards (or later figured out remapping), same for insert mode" You want some real fun, try the Microsoft Surface keyboard. Maybe they've fixed
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It doesn't matter if Congress has 5% of them who are actually engineers when 95% of the vote must inevitably come from non-engineers. Not that "engineer" is even enough. Just because I'm an "engineer" doesn&#x2
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"Also from a legal POV you can't really argue that collecting all conversations for detecting abuse patterns is "unreasonable"/"unnecessary" or similar" It is also worth remembering that the entity th
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Which will work for the several weeks it takes for the other commercial providers to follow suit. The tides are turning. AI companies are IPO'ing. They've gotten where they are by selling $5 bills for $1, to update the old VC adag
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"This doesn't sound to me at all like how a democratic country is supposed to function." There is a family of interesting theories, or perhaps if you prefer, simply a way of looking at history in which you don't consider
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The limits of science, either experimental or observational, are not well taught. It is to the benefit of a lot of people to claim it can do a lot more than is actually possible.
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Have you been in static types the whole time? It's a really, really common failure state in dynamic programming languages, the Everything Function, that started out as something simple, but then someone added a flag to make it also d
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by jerf 4mo ago
Are you citing subsidized prices, or used prices? I can only find $80 Motorolas used or locked, e.g.: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D323V72S and that's 4GB 12GB seems to get up into $200+, and that's still a lo
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How do you carry your iPad mini? Does it fit in pockets?
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Sometimes the basic things missing in the programming world just shock me. How is anyone supposed to know what permissions to give in these systems that have literally hundreds of fine-grained permissions, many of which can also have scope?
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by jerf 4mo ago
You seem to persist in reading into my words claims that aren't there and then excitedly debunking them. I feel I'm extraneous to this process, though, so I think I'll let you carry on arguing with the guy in your head on you
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by jerf 4mo ago
Recurring revenue does you no good if it is in fact a recurring loss because your subscription customers use up more than you're charging them. Of course expecting the metaphorical Harvard Business School analysts to realize that is as
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by jerf 4mo ago
Who said anything about it being a "bad idea"? I also explicitly said this wasn't unsolvable. My point isn't about technical implementations or code, my point is that the casual "I want to share nothing about the pa
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by jerf 4mo ago
What "every other computation"? I seem to have a lot processing power at my disposal here, between my cell phones, laptops, gaming PCs, various other hardware devices. You're going to need to analyze the problem much more dee
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A thing that makes that complicated is that while you want that conceptually, you don't want that in reality. For instance, if the spawning process is in a container of some sort and it spawned a process that "shares nothing with
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by jerf 4mo ago
"We have checked our own environments thoroughly and found no traces of compromise. We suspect this may be part of the broader GitHub infrastructure breach carried out by the TeamPCP hacking group in May 2026: https://techcr
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Yes, I've already "abused" this a couple of times to get some docs written that we had needed for years but hadn't been written. All kinds of docs; code documentation, deployment documentation, overview documentation, ar
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by jerf 4mo ago
Most of the crazy names come from before "quantum" was co-opted by a lot of BS. I don't blame those physicists for naming things that way because the coopting was inevitable. However, we are now decades into that process, and
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by jerf 4mo ago
"It's not. It made me feel powerless. It put a sour taste in my mouth. It made them reek of desperation." Relatedly, I've been answering those dumb-ass "How do you feel about our product?" popups that Microso
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by jerf 4mo ago
For anyone thinking of this, I promise to be suitably impressed (defined as "upvoting it when I see it on Hacker News") if anyone does manage to get a true G-code quine in this sense. Go for it.
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Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to imply they could only "factor". But the things they can do that they get the big advantage over classical computing I find underwhelming when considered against the entire scope of computing probl
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At the moment, combining your statement "I’m not sure that I could distinguish them from a nice ray-traced scene" and adding "your graphics card can move through them in real time so cheaply that it can easily be used as a co
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by jerf 4mo ago
"A gun type" of nuke is sufficient to achieve most, and usually all, of the goals some small group building a nuke would have. We are all fortunate that as fc417fc802 mentioned, refining the materials proves to be quite challengin

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