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by kibwen 3mo ago
It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't even want to be in the consumer desktop OS market anymore, they'd rather pivot to being pure B2B like IBM did. Likewise, it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ificatio
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by kibwen 3mo ago
While the potential for fires shouldn't be dismissed, for batteries designed to be stationary rather than mobile (such as in an e-bike), you can use a chemistry optimized for stability rather than optimizing for compact weight and size
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Free markets tend to produce monopolies. You know how economies of scale are a thing? That's another way of saying that small companies lose to large companies at scale. "Disruption" or "agility" is the only thing t
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Even being able to simply do the task isn't enough here. It also has to do the task while also never, ever, ever accidentally folding your toddler as though it were a towel. Having industrial-strength robots around inherently unpredict
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> With a robot housemaid, I wouldn't have to get dressed. :-P Well, as long as you don't mind the workers in the robot company's telemetrics department whacking it to your robot's video feed.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> I don't want a person I don't know very well in my space. In the humanoid robot scenario, you'll get a surveillance device with a built-in microphone and camera beaming every intimate detail of your space to the highes
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by kibwen 3mo ago
The more likely scenario is that the hucksters currently hyping the idea of humanoid robots will gradually move the goalposts so that, when we eventually get a big, soft, stationary cube with six inflatable robot arms they'll point to
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> No, you're missing the point, which is that you cannot write some common data structures in safe Rust (whether they're implemented in the standard library or in the compiler), but you can in Java (inside or outside the stand
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> gesture scrolling in a tmux/zellij pane is hard because the right events don't flow through I'm not sure what is meant by this, I can mouse over a pane in zellij and use two-finger scrolling to scroll only that pane wi
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> Look at how many basic data structures (in the standard library or outside it) require unsafe features in Java vs Rust. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how "unsafe" code relates to a platform's trusted comput
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by kibwen 3mo ago
They're already being judged for it by their bosses and coworkers, they just don't realize it yet.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
This is what my Steam Deck is for. There's no gap like air gap.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> I've encountered a few soundness holes in rust-lang in practice Indeed, I'm trying to be careful not to claim that merely fixing #25860 at long last would make Rust's implementation suddenly beyond reproach. For that,
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by kibwen 3mo ago
No, panics are not exceptions. Exceptions are a mechanism for resumable error-handling. Rust's `catch_unwind` function is a last-ditch mechanism for failure isolation (motivated by preventing UB via unwinding across FFI boundaries), no
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> Like why do I need to use `addr_of_mut!`? I'm sure there's a good reason, as Rust tends to think these problems through, but it's very unintuitive compared to returning `&mut`. That documentation appears to be out
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by kibwen 3mo ago
No, that's not how this works. The bug being utilized by cve-rs has such roundabout requirements that it's unlikely that anyone has ever triggered it without trying (to be clear, the Rust devs plan to fix it regardless). Meanwhile
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by kibwen 3mo ago
No, Rust does not have exceptions. Rust has unwinding, if you choose to compile your program with support for it, which you are free not to, and is trivially achieved by a single flag.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
This is a vacuous statement on par with characterizing setjmp/longjmp in C as "exceptions with bad ergonomics".
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Certainly, we should build into our threat model the idea that the implementation of Rust will have bugs that compromise safety until proven otherwise (merely fixing that one aforementioned bug won't alter that calculus). And the same
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by kibwen 3mo ago
> Man can make it; man can break it. Man can make mathematical proofs that will not be broken. Man is not going to disprove the Pythagorean Theorem. Software is just hifalutin math. There can exist software that, for a given mathematic
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by kibwen 3mo ago
It would be worth recommending a non-US-based registrar, since the Texas government just demonstrated that they can unilaterally suspend any domain managed by any US registrar.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Amusing how volatile these stocks are. In any case, my intent was not to boost Alphabet but to denounce the overheated state of the tech sector in general, so having the entirety of the Mag 7 fall below the baseline is no skin off my nose.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Are you asserting that there exists a time period to analyze that is not arbitrary and meaningless? If so, which? The reason why 2026 specifically is interesting is because it wasn't until late December of last year that AI models star
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Not sure where you got 3.33%, looks to me like GOOGL is +9.44% YTD while GOOG is +9.1%.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Somewhat on-topic, if anyone here's received their Framework 13 Pro yet (which I believe began shipping this month), I'd be happy to hear a first-hand review.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Keeping in mind that Alphabet is the only one of the Mag 7 stocks that has managed to outperform the S&P 500 in 2026.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
There's an equally valid hypothesis that a "good" CEO is just one that keeps their hands off the levers of power, doesn't rock the boat or fuck anything up, and quietly lets a good company perform; whereas a bad CEO is o
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by kibwen 3mo ago
You don't necessarily need to be near a small station these days, college stations can stream online. I listen to WXPN (UPenn) that way regularly: https://xpn.org/ (player at top of the page).
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by kibwen 3mo ago
Certainly, we can imagine other use cases for quantum computers. But just because something could be useful doesn't mean it will be developed; the cost still needs to be surmountable.

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