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by john01dav 10mo ago
> I am tired of fighting my own OS. People cite bugs or incompatible software on Linux as a reason to avoid it and use Windows, but they fail to recgonize that Windows actively fights you. I'd take something that's slightly and
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by john01dav 10mo ago
US already banned Chinese EVs, even though, from what I've heard, they're excellent
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by john01dav 10mo ago
For now, such hardware is readily available. Every Walmart, for example, will have it. Amazon has it. Pcpartpicker lists numerous other places that you can buy it from.
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by john01dav 10mo ago
That would be a horrifying violation of bodily autonomy. This doesn't mean that it won't happen, but it does make it especially vile if it does.
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by john01dav 10mo ago
> - I like languages that let you decide how much you need to "prove it." Rust is known for being very "prove it," as you put it, but I think that it is not, and it exposes a weakness in your perspective here. In part
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by john01dav 10mo ago
The majority (Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintento, App Store, Play Store, and Kindle Store) have a captive market of developers (with varying degrees of enforcement, from end users demanding it (Steam) to it being impossible to use anything
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by john01dav 10mo ago
> Wherever LLM-generated code is used, it becomes the responsibility of the engineer. As part of this process of taking responsibility, self-review becomes essential: LLM-generated code should not be reviewed by others if the responsible
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by john01dav 10mo ago
He speaks of trust and LLMs breaking that trust. Is this not what you mean, but by another name? > First, to those who can recognize an LLM’s reveals (an expanding demographic!), it’s just embarrassing — it’s as if the writer is walking
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by john01dav 10mo ago
> it is presumed that of the reader and the writer, it is the writer that has undertaken the greater intellectual exertion. (That is, it is more work to write than to read!) This applies to natural language, but, interestingly, the oppos
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by john01dav 10mo ago
Does this violate anti trust law?
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by john01dav 10mo ago
Their absurdly high 30% cut combined with having the only otherwise decent store with real network effect driven market share is a very real criticism
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by john01dav 11mo ago
How often do big providers like Gmail, customers of whom you will want to communicate with, eat the emails? I know that this is common if you run your own email server, and often just gone and not even to spam. Google would probably justi
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by john01dav 11mo ago
I have been successful in getting non-technical people onto Signal. As far as a technical product goes, Signal is kindof shit (among other things: no support for non-Debian-based Linux forcing users to use sketchy third party repos when the
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by john01dav 11mo ago
Do you rewrite fundamental data structures over and over, like maps, of just not use them?
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by john01dav 11mo ago
I wrote something similiar (minimal nosql key-value DB) and it was less fast than (specifically lower throughput, I did not measure other metrics) Redis, despite some passing attempts to make it fast (like using async/await for all IO)
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by john01dav 11mo ago
Regarding Robot, I think that it's completely fine for what it is. I almost never interact with it, and instead just configure my server as I see fit over ssh. Hetzner's value proposition is extremely cheap no frills servers -- yo
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by john01dav 11mo ago
Another issue is that you could, in principle, build data centers in places where you don't need to evaporate water to cool them. For example, you could use a closed loop water cooling system and then sink that heat into the air or int
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by john01dav 11mo ago
> alternate keyboards can steal your password, alternate browsers can have adware / malware, alternate launcher can do many naughty things etc. etc. It's plausible that Google is done some of these things, like doing some sort
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by john01dav 11mo ago
The day that YouTube makes itself unusable with properly free tools is the day that I use Nebula and such instead
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by john01dav 11mo ago
I don't know about Ryanair, but I've had to reverse credit card transactions due to scams a few times and I've never been banned from other businesses.
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by john01dav 11mo ago
I'd probably pay the fee, take my flight, then charge it back with a reason like "Fee for not using app, app did not work. Fee advertised as optional was not, in fact, optional for me". Completely true statement.
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by john01dav 11mo ago
I wonder how these gate agents will react if I show their app throwing a hissy fit and refusing to work when it is blocked from any data mining. No permissions, no google play services, no safetynet, maybe no network. It is non cooperation
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by john01dav 11mo ago
Why does a boarding pass need a rootkit? ("anticheat" is usually code for root kits, and at least it has some positive trade off for users in the video game case) They can just check the scanned pass against their own database to
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Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more(lwn.net)
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by john01dav 11mo ago
> If a platform can't afford to hire moderation resources to do the job effectively (read: skilled resources in enough quantity to make effective decisions), then it's not a viable business. But, it is viable. Many profitable b
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by john01dav 11mo ago
Many elite engineering programs in the United States (I don't know if this is what you mean by "our") are elite solely due to social status (rankings need to publish rankings that feel right, or they're ignored, and they
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by john01dav 11mo ago
There's no game that I want to play badly enough to put up with DRM on consoles or rootkits (anti-chest) and DRM (windows) on my computer
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by john01dav 1y ago
It doesn't need to be reliable here to have the described effect. Instead, all it needs to do is point users in the right direction, which LLMs are usually quite good at. I often describe to one something that feels like it should exis
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by john01dav 1y ago
There are more options than using S3 or completely rolling your own on JBOD. For example, you could use a cheaper S3-compatible cloud (such as Backblaze) or you can deploy a project such as Ceph.
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by john01dav 1y ago
I find it easier to read code that uses Rust generics with trait bounds, since then I have a clear answer about what types it is generic over. Recently I was using a Thrust (CUDA library) function for the first time and I wanted to know wha

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