josefx

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by josefx 5mo ago
> The experiment proved that even at a low price point ($8), a massive majority of the PC audience will choose "free" regardless of the developer's size or struggle. Several points: * A pirate can pirate infinity +1 games
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by josefx 5mo ago
Biological classifications are one gigantic mess. There are multiple ways to define what qualifies as a "species". One of them is procreation and viable offspring, going by modern human DNA and the Neanderthal fragments contained
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by josefx 5mo ago
Didn't some get exploited early on because electron made it trivial to load third party websites without any kind of XSS protection?
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by josefx 5mo ago
What process? Wasn't the default state of things to just let any random person of the street spam vulnerability reports without validation or quality control?
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by josefx 6mo ago
What makes you think that Googles AI experts are US citizens?
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by josefx 6mo ago
Except that Erdős problems are solved all the time, so many of them are already solved. Quite sure the last time I saw an article about an LLM solving an Erdős problem someone even tracked down a solution published by Erdős himself.
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by josefx 6mo ago
Dont they report an advantage based on simulating quantum effects every other year? I was promissed a quick way to decrypt my old harddrives decades ago, can we have that at some point before the sun burns out?
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by josefx 6mo ago
I love how just ordering a ticket is already a minefield for anyone not aware of how crappy german services are integrated. Pick one route, you will get a list of fully customized tickets that cover everything you need, pick another and you
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by josefx 6mo ago
A 10% goal would be a good first step. Now excuse me while I read some tea leaves to find out if my trains will be on time tomorrow ( spoiler: they wont).
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by josefx 7mo ago
Then why does your link claim the following? > While you type, the keyboard quietly records how you type — the rhythm, the pauses between keys, where your finger lands, how hard you press. > Nobody types the same way. Your pattern is
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by josefx 7mo ago
Could it be this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN-V3nUCvpI
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by josefx 7mo ago
> This is a Python specific problem caused by everything being boxed I would say it is part python being highly dynamic and part C++ being full of undefined behavior. A c++ compiler will only optimize member access if it can prove that t
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by josefx 7mo ago
Can't you check what threads are active at the time you fork?
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by josefx 7mo ago
Galileos notes where found in a 16th century print of The Almagest. If you copy the pythagorean theorem onto a page and cross it out, would you be "defacing an ancient text"?
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by josefx 7mo ago
> "don't let kids use a computer until they're 18" Ideally you would lock them up in a padded room until then. There is a significant amount of shared real world space that isn't supervised and doesn't requi
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by josefx 7mo ago
> r/credibledefense/ The rules they enforce on normal posts are so strict that they have to create daily "mega" threads with less stringend rules just to keep the sub on life support. A+ moderation, clearly a healthy
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by josefx 7mo ago
Given that nobody else banned it we can now blame Microsoft for taking down the only decent online community. Now we are stuck on hackernews and its ilk.
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by josefx 7mo ago
Within the context of this discussion portability was mentioned as key feature of the standard. If C23 adoption is as limited as the, possibly outdated, tables on cppreference and your comments about gcc, clang and msvc suggest then the fun
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by josefx 7mo ago
> GCC, Clang and even MSVC Well, if that is the standard for portability then may_alias might as well be standard. GCC and Clang support it and MSVC doesn't implement the affected optimization as far as I can find.
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by josefx 7mo ago
Doesn't that just describe low level file IO in general?
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by josefx 7mo ago
> non-standard extension and thus not portable Modern versions of standard C aren't very portable either, unless you plan to stick to the original version of K&R C you have to pick and choose which implementations you plan to su
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by josefx 7mo ago
These "edge cases" were required knowledge to get a license in my home country. You make room for any emergency vehicles, you don't try to score an ultra kill when passing a school bus and you certainly don't drive on ra
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by josefx 8mo ago
Wouldn't AI be trained on data using innerHTML?
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by josefx 8mo ago
> An ABI can't control whether one or both parties either end of the interface are honest. You are aware that Rust already fails that without dynamic linking? The wrapper around the C getenv functionality was originally considered
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by josefx 8mo ago
> ... position is silly and wrong. Both positions were build on top of aether, quintesence and Celestial Spheres. The result was silly and wrong no matter which one you picked.
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by josefx 8mo ago
Does it actually use voxels? I thought it was just a low poly, "voxel like" art style.
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by josefx 8mo ago
I actually wasn't aware of that language. It was more a reference to the overblown claims Pike made in the early days of Go, where he presented it as the c++ replacement for everything Google.
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by josefx 8mo ago
I heard they once created an entire language that would replace C++ in all their projects. Obviously they never rewrote Chrome in Go. > 10s of billions are spent to try to get Chromium to not have these vulnerabilities, using those tools
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by josefx 8mo ago
> A good example of that for arm would I guess be something like fingerprint or face id. So operations that are not performance critical and are needed once or twice every hour? Are you sure you don't want to include a dedicated clu
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by josefx 8mo ago
You leave out that they can keep it in a warehouse at the other side of the country for pickup and there is no law saying that it cannot be further away than the point of origin. Fun times. Sadly I rarely see an option for "place it wi

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