kibwen

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by kibwen 1mo ago
The article only lists 3 criteria, not 4, but if you're referring to the final one: "3. The change may require a change to all functions in the stack." That's a potential feature of effect systems. An effect generally
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by kibwen 1mo ago
"Function colors" are just effect systems, which are not a new concept while also being extremely useful and super nifty. I hope someday we can stop wringing our hands in a panic over "colored functions" just because som
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by kibwen 1mo ago
> Does it mean that? When the US government funded SpaceX, it was motivated in no small degree by a desire to not be permanently reliant on a geopolitical wildcard (Russia) for getting astronauts into orbit. Now that the US itself has
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by kibwen 1mo ago
It's not that simple. If a single random comment were enough to cause the agents to stop leveraging this technique against any specific site, then a single deliberately false comment naming the sites that they're actually using wo
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by kibwen 1mo ago
Energy density alone is a misleading metric, because what matters is how much energy actually gets delivered to the drive mechanism. It's actually not that hard to beat gasoline, because despite its excellent energy density, gasoline e
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by kibwen 1mo ago
I think that the incident itself is a stunt, even if it may not have originally been a deliberate choice on OpenAI's part. Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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by kibwen 1mo ago
Your first instinct should be to assume that anything released voluntarily by these companies is a stunt to boost their valuation. They haven't demonstrated being deserving of any more charitable treatment. This fact remains true wheth
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by kibwen 1mo ago
> Of course a drone swarm is not part of the proletariat, the same way a rifle is not part of the proletariat. A drone swarm is a tool in the hands of humans that belong to or are in service of a certain social class. Every rifle takes
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by kibwen 1mo ago
You seem to think that the pertinent property of being a "pet" is living a life of comfort. The pertinent property of a pet is that they are owned, and they live and die at the whim of their master. Do you think that what makes sl
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by kibwen 1mo ago
> There are other ways to estimate the number of active users The point of telemetry is not to estimate the number of active users, and focusing on "telemetry" is the wrong bogeyman. Things like crash reports are telemetry, a
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by kibwen 1mo ago
> Or google decides to suspend it while you're on the toilet? If anyone at Google is reading this, please answer urgently, my legs are starting to go numb.
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by kibwen 1mo ago
If you truly believe that being pets is something humans ought to aspire to, there's no point in continuing this conversation.
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by kibwen 1mo ago
In other words, people don't revolt, warlords revolt. Warlords in control of weapons which are decreasingly reliant on humans and increasingly reliant on remote and autonomous technologies. A drone swarm is not "the proletariat in
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by kibwen 1mo ago
Trustbusting is like weeding your garden. It's just a chore that must be done periodically to counteract the natural tendency of markets to degenerate into monopolies. It's not something you do once and then never again, it's
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by kibwen 1mo ago
Whether or not something is the last customer is irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion. Horses had an economic role, and the economy catered to them in turn. Once they became economically irrelevant, the money that horses wielded--
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by kibwen 1mo ago
In the era of governments with ubiquitous electronic mass surveillance, complete control over all communication channels, and autonomous suicide drones, humans can't revolt either.
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by kibwen 1mo ago
Careful. A large segment of consumers could vanish overnight and the system would continue chugging along. Horses also used to be "consumers", with entire industries dedicated to filling their needs, but when horses ceased to be e
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> learned that "missiles" are not spent "missles" I choose to believe that the author was channeling the spirit of Noah Webster as a deliberate champion of phonetic spelling reform.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Firefox's default DNS-over-HTTPS provider is Cloudflare.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I'd say that boxing large enum variants is itself an intermediate level Rust topic, and a well-accepted practice. Clippy will even point out places where you might benefit from boxing an enum variant: https://rust-lang.githu
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Rust supports arenas just fine ( https://crates.io/crates/bumpalo ), and if you mean the support for using custom allocators in the standard library collections, that's as stable as Zig is.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Yes, really. The design has been decided upon ( https://hackmd.io/nNHdKkp1TTK7jat0I-ABqA ) and the implementation has been updated to match ( https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/157428 ).
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I'm under the impression that one of the main selling points of JPEG XL is that it's backwards-compatible, so once everyone has a decoder implementation, every existing JPEG comes along for free without anyone having to reencode a
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by kibwen 2mo ago
In the glorious future where I can conjure a game with a snap of my fingers for the cost of a pack of gum, why would I ever choose to play Wyvern, the game tailored to Steve Yegge's tastes, when I could just make a game tailored to my
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Until proven otherwise via open-source audits and reproducible binaries, you should assume that all commercial photo editing software is embedding watermarks in any way they can get away with. This includes the professional software that yo
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> They are #1 and #2 best-selling EVs of all time! Unlike other car manufacturers, Tesla only has the two models into which all cumulative sales numbers accrue. This is a sleight-of-hand for the emotional support of Tesla stockholders.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
There's a difference between the people sitting at the table and the mice scurrying around catching the crumbs. Freedom is sitting at the table. The OP, sadly, is catching the crumbs.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
No, the flag would not exist simply for backwards compatibility, it would exist because build scripts are occasionally necessary and there are plenty of legitimate uses for them, even if they should be opt-in.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
This comment is both true and entirely irrelevant. The context of this subthread is not running a Cargo command in a checkout of a malicious git repo, it's alleging that `cargo add foo` runs the build script of the crate `foo`, which i
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by kibwen 2mo ago
And yet it remains true that, in fact, namespacing would not have prevented anything here. And I say that as someone who is in favor of namespacing.

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