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by josefx 1y ago
Counterpoint: The seahorse emoji. The output repeats the same simple pattern of giving a bad result and correcting it with another bad result until it runs out of attempts. There is no reasoning, no diagnosis, just the same error over and o
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by josefx 1y ago
One of the videos in the article mentions an accelerating moving walkway: https://youtu.be/CMlLPgAL2h0?t=240
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by josefx 1y ago
The page sets a cookie when you visit it from hackernews and will redirect you to the image until you delete the cookie.
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by josefx 1y ago
I think I ran into some display managers that do not start a new X session for every user. However I was trying out some rather non standard configurations at the time, some of which required root access for driver specific features.
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by josefx 1y ago
Is this the end of Debian as GNU/Linux? The main Rust toolchain isn't GNU, gccrs is still incomplete and most Rust rewrites of existing GNU libraries and tools use MIT or other non GPL licenses.
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by josefx 1y ago
The comments on that bug report mention several language runtimes getting broken. Preventing languages that are generally safer than C from working seems rather counterproductive to overall security.
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by josefx 1y ago
If you are accessing a global in a loop you might want to assign it to a local variable first. From what I remember that should result in a speedup in all python versions.
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by josefx 1y ago
Poettering would assert that the razorblade is a part of their vision and systemd only supports modern, razorblade resistant hands anyways.
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by josefx 1y ago
> This is not an exhaustive list of ways in which Rust is better than C. Which is why your first and only example is a bug from over a decade ago, caused by an indentation error that C compilers can trivially detect as well.
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by josefx 1y ago
The problem is defining what falls under those laws. Companies sell trading card boxes with random contents. McDonalds had its Monopoly game. There are many more examples of things that are gambling with money, accessible to kids and still
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by josefx 1y ago
I feel bad about the quantum guru, elder of the quantum village. He starts of his talk by complaining that people assumed "we would have 10 to 20 years" when news about quantum computing hit. The quantum computing hype was 10 year
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by josefx 1y ago
But it doesn't seek to block 4chan, it seeks to impose penalties.
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by josefx 1y ago
We also have SPAM, SPAM SPAM SPAM, eggs bacon sausage and SPAM. wikings: SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM ... Funny, complete and utter nonsense and probably a lot older than most of the people complaining about "modern" br
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by josefx 1y ago
> If only there were some way to release the source code for your userland programs so that the computing public could look at the code, then offer a fix for a bug such as this. These bugs are in the already open sourced kernel modules,
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by josefx 1y ago
Pay for one of the many SQLite Apps on the App Store, like Jobs intended?
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by josefx 1y ago
> but I don't think anybody at Apple is doing serious maintenance work on their OpenGL implementation In other words nothing changed. The OpengGL standard had been well past 4.1 for years when Apple released Metal. People working wi
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by josefx 1y ago
It also uses float epsilon and I don't think I have ever seen code where using it was appropriate.
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by josefx 1y ago
Are there even training programs for a potential crew yet? Or even the barest framework for what a crew would even look like?
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by josefx 1y ago
I think it should have landed on the moon one or two years ago? NASA keeps moving its target dates for the Artemis missions every time SpaceX fails to deliver.
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by josefx 1y ago
Python really seems like a bad fit for that. So your imports succeed, what now? Do they have all the functions or fields your program needs? Those are still resolved at the last possible moment. If you want to be sure your program actually
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by josefx 1y ago
From what I understand some of the bugs where in code the AI made up on the spot, other bug reports had example code that didn't even interact with curl. These things should be relatively easy to verify by a human, just do a text searc
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by josefx 1y ago
By verifying that each full line in the readme is exactly 80 characters wide.
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by josefx 1y ago
> How the hell does the government have the right to decide It generally owns more weapons than your average deluded shop owner.
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by josefx 1y ago
> Certainly not worth it for $10-20 item. Really? Adding a unique ID at the point of entry costs that much?
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by josefx 1y ago
Most of what I have seen came from technical debt aquired over decades. With some of the build engineers hired to "manage" that themselves not being treated as programmers and just adding on top of the mess with "fixes"
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by josefx 1y ago
What year? I remember Linux gaining some traction in the low end mobile device market early on because Micrsoft just released Vista and that wouldn't even run well on most Vista Ready desktop systems.
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by josefx 1y ago
> came from Mozilla Maybe they should stop wasting money on pointless, proprietary side tangents before they set out to break standards.
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by josefx 1y ago
> int x = bar + 1; // should be illegal: it can be hard to distinguish if `bar` is a local variable versus an instance member If it was this->bar it could be a member, it could also be a static variable. A bar on its own cou
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by josefx 1y ago
The description makes it sound like someone wanted to deploy a single static site and followed a how to article they found on hacker news.
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by josefx 1y ago
Perceived quality? They tried to pull an "everything 4k@60Hz" for their 360p@30Hz low poly Stadia content as well.

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