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by kinghajj 3y ago
I'm curious, what's the use case for CUE in a WASM environment? So that web apps can compile configuration at runtime?
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by kinghajj 3y ago
Didn't the law that created the PPP program have explicit language to forgive the loans if certain conditions were met?
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by kinghajj 3y ago
Eh, in this case it's a tool created by Rust programmers for generating documentation for the Rust language, and has particular features for validation of Rust code snippets in said documentation. I think in this case, mentioning Rust
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by kinghajj 3y ago
The Wayback Machine has entries that look extremely similar going back to 2007, and ones mostly similar back to 2005. It might be real. Looks like the AI part was added in 2022.
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by kinghajj 3y ago
It's not that uncommon. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/memcpy https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/byte/strncpy https://en.wikipedi
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by kinghajj 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better Go is a language made by Googlers, so its design helps with Google problems. And many of Google's problems are ones of scale. * Go is straightforward to read. Any reas
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by kinghajj 3y ago
The `?` at the end of the Rust example expands into the equivalent of the Go `if err != nil` idiom.
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by kinghajj 3y ago
AZs don't really help when it's AWS' own services across the entire region that break. Anecdotally, we have had customers accept outages that were out of our control without penalty.
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by kinghajj 3y ago
Why not, and what problems would it cause?
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by kinghajj 3y ago
AI is a great example of hyperstition in action.
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by kinghajj 3y ago
Scylla has "tunable" consistency[1][2][3], so it's possible to get consistency without too much of a performance hit, and still be resilient to some failures. [1]: https://www.scylladb.com/glossary/eventu
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by kinghajj 3y ago
`amd64` is still what Debian and Kubernetes use.
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by kinghajj 3y ago
This might make me finally upgrade to Windows 11.
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Ha, I've tried zsh, but never got quite comfortable with it. Recently I've been using bash with starship, which has enough bells and whistles for me.
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by kinghajj 4y ago
The most recent FSD beta update from a few days ago finally started using the interior camera to track driver attentiveness, according to the release notes.
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Cool, now I can add this to my `~/.bashrc` and easily view the whitepaper whenever. btc_wp() { open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Why wouldn't I want my offspring to live in a world where dangerous, monotonous, degrading labor is no longer required to live?
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Hashrate doesn't matter if nodes don't accept their blocks. So while you're right that a powerful government could severely strike Bitcoin by taking down miners, they can't force the community to accept invalid blocks, n
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Convince the Fed to buy failed banks' loan assets at the exact price required to make depositors whole, but not a penny more. Shareholders and bondholders in those banks get hosed, but depositors at those banks (and more importantly, d
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Isn't the program announced by the Fed over the weekend intended exactly to prevent the risk of this spreading to other banks?
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by kinghajj 4y ago
I'm not at all the target audience for this post—I'd label myself the polar opposite of an AI doomer—so it was really striking to see such a different perspective. I mean, right off the bat, the opening line > Some people are w
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by kinghajj 4y ago
"Maybe the aliens really are coming, because they realized that we're on the verge of AGI!"
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Well, the biggest roadblock to that would be securities laws and their enforcement agencies. I doubt the SEC and its analogues in other nations would just sit and watch that happen. Maybe a black-market "corporation" like a drug-s
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by kinghajj 4y ago
It's breaking $21k right now, though the market isn't deep so it's swinging wildly in the past five minutes. Exciting, nonetheless.
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Even assuming that's the case, isn't the counterargument "Fine, then governments need to subsidize investment into nuclear power plants, just as we do with other green technologies."
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by kinghajj 4y ago
AMD hasn't had their own fabs since they were spun off as a separate company, Global Foundries. They still use GF for some things, like the I/O dies on their recent chips.
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by kinghajj 4y ago
We started seriously looking for houses to buy in April, and got a rate of 5.125% later that month. We were really hoping for something <5%, but I'm grateful that we didn't wait too much longer. Of course, now the "worry&q
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by kinghajj 4y ago
Why stop there? Doom on the Analytical Engine!
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by kinghajj 5y ago
You should look into the Mill CPU architecture.[0] Its design should make microkernels much more viable. * Single 64-bit address space. Caches use virtual addresses. * Because of that, the TLB is moved after the last level cache, so it&#x
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by kinghajj 5y ago
Yeah, but it's doing that at 3.2 GHz versus 4.9+ GHz that the top-end Intel CPUs need to run at to get equivalent single-core performance.

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