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by kbenson 3y ago
I think to have meaning the AI would have to work both as generally and usefully as a human, and fit entirely within a human size profile (not offloading compute remotely). What makes humans competing against each other even remotely wor
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by kbenson 3y ago
> gaiaId (Google Accounts and ID Administration ID) Wow, someone at Google is undoubtedly proud of coming up with that for what I assume is essentially a Google world wide unique ID, and for good reason.
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by kbenson 3y ago
> it sounds like they made it mainly to please themselves, and were then forced to accommodate the actual users and actual users I think it's less that than that there were real advances they were after, which they delivered (Poette
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by kbenson 3y ago
That's because some features are targeted at different audiences. End users want simplicity and ease if use. Admin also want those, but they are secondary to determinism, consistency, and ease of tracking changes. I find the best way t
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by kbenson 3y ago
If you think I'm talking about rust vs C and not just using them as stand ins for any language pair, you're not understanding my point. Possibly because you're too focused on one language in particular, as I'm not focusi
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by kbenson 3y ago
That may be true but it doesn't help downstream users know what they're opting into. Knowing that a rust library can use no unsafe code is not the same as knowing that that library did use no unsafe code, in a similar way to
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by kbenson 3y ago
Exactly. Presumably there are some opt-in tools that are very strict about the inline assembly uses you have in C. I don't have any experience with them, but I'm sure they exist. That's the whole point, it's less about
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by kbenson 3y ago
I too was once very excited that OpenAPI specs I had access to would save me untold hours in implementing an API for a service since I could pass them through a generator, only to find once I tried everything seemed somewhat broken or the i
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think what's being noted is slightly more nuanced than what you're responding to. The analogy is slightly flawed because a few additional indicators remove a lot of the ambiguity, which is possibly not the case at all with mode
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by kbenson 3y ago
I discount the early days because I don't think most professionals would rely on a language pre-1.0 that advertises it will stabilize at 1.0, so regardless of whether it spends 6 months or 10 years pre-1.0, with regard to wider adoptio
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by kbenson 3y ago
My point is really not about the code you write yourself, but the code you need to include in your project. Rare is the professional programmer that always gets to finish their project using only code they wrote themselves, and for many pro
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by kbenson 3y ago
Methods such as these for C and C++ are interesting, and needed, but only solve a part of the problem. As others have noted before, they do little good because they're opt-in. I think there's a bit of nuance to that which needs to
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by kbenson 3y ago
> it's taken 17 years to get to this point Yes and no. Rust went through quite a bit of changes early on, ro the point that it's not really that similar of a language, and 1.0 was released in May 2015. That's still quite
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by kbenson 3y ago
Red Hat adds to the open source projects, they didn't write them from scratch (in most cases). Using freely provided software and building your business on it is perfectly acceptable, whether it's us using Red Hat's sources
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think I've interpreted your comment three different ways so far , and gotten additional insight each time. Well done. :)
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by kbenson 3y ago
To be clear, you're less likely to get stuck like that. There's plenty of bugs open that Red Hat doesn't fix because it's either too problematic or affects too few people. Sometimes that's eventually solved with
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by kbenson 3y ago
I've never really used Debian in the past, so can't comment on the reality, just what I've heard, and even my Ubuntu experience is lacking. I'm running it as a virtual desktop now, but I try to keep my use of it to an M
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yeah, we were late on CentOS 8, and had just put 3-4 systems and VMs into production when the Stream announcement hit, which made us stop in our tracks. We eventually accepted Rocky and started actually getting newer systems in place once
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by kbenson 3y ago
It's hard to tell without more context of your own whether you're supporting what I said, or refuting the argument that Red Hat are freeloaders, which is an argument I did not make.
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by kbenson 3y ago
When you're not at the top you want competition, since you are competition. When you're at the top you want to choke competition and gate as much as you can. It's a story as old as trade itself.
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by kbenson 3y ago
We're the same, but a little larger. Don't let anyone convince you you're a freeloader. If you're a freeloader, then Red Hat are freeloaders for relying on the Linux Kernel and all the open source software in their dis
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by kbenson 3y ago
I had a meeting with our RH reps last week, as a followup to Red Hat Summit and to talk about a potential purchase with them. I had a discussion about how we use free RHEL derivatives, and have for almost 30 years (when Red Hat itself was
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by kbenson 3y ago
The testing and verification is key. It might even be they were trying to lean on some work done by the navy on the Xbox 360 controller and that got switched along the line for the Logitech, losing one of the main reasons for using the orig
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by kbenson 3y ago
Eh, only if you accept the hype and hyperbole of those that not only hold them to a standard that nobody achieves (which is fine, it gets them closer to that standard) and then use that as a reason to tell people that they should products t
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by kbenson 3y ago
> If you do your best thinking taking a shower or a 20 minute walk in the sun, that's fine, because you're working, not fucking around. This ignores all the evidence that stepping away and doing something entirely unrelated c
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by kbenson 3y ago
Which fairly closely mirrors the conspiracy theory about antivirus vendors...
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Even that is a sufficient level of understanding to correctly determine that a motorcycle is not an airplane. But are we talking about airplanes, or are we talking about "flying"? Airplanes fly, motorcycles don't. Do hot
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by kbenson 3y ago
So, Oracle thinks they've changed their culture? I'm not even sure you really can change a culture that's ingrained and core to the company, at least not without sacking 80% of the prior staff that has internalized it. Has Or
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by kbenson 3y ago
I don't have problems scrolling in Firefox mobile that I've noticed, and I don't run flagship phones (I'm running a few years old Galaxy A51). I do run uBlock on Firefox Mobile though, which I'm sure helps immensely
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by kbenson 3y ago
They're offering paid API access. Do you think they're only expecting non-profits to use it? If nobody can make your pricing work and offer a product, then you're losing out on that revenue. I'm not saying they should be

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