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by kragen 11mo ago
There are lots of Americans who go hungry, but mostly outside the USA. Starvation deaths inside the USA are almost entirely secondary to medical conditions that interfere with eating.
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by kragen 11mo ago
If we measure the value of the dollar against megabytes of RAM, well, in 01987, the difference between a StarBoard with "2 megs space" and a StarBoard with "2 megs installed" was US$484 ( https://archive.org&#x
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by kragen 11mo ago
Memory chips don't contain rare earths, and e-waste recyclers pay a tiny fraction of what used-hardware buyers do.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yes, that's a real problem. Probably moving to a content-centric networking or named-data networking system would help with it, while also creating difficulties for censorship, and IPFS and Filecoin seem to be deploying such a thing i
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by kragen 11mo ago
Even access to the private key doesn't permit a passive adversary to snoop on traffic that's using a ciphersuite that provides perfect forward secrecy, because the private key is only used to authenticate the session key negotia
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by kragen 11mo ago
Right, 40-bit export-grade SSL.
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by kragen 11mo ago
I think it was Snowden who made TLS the default. Let's Encrypt did great work, but basically having the NSA's spying made common knowledge (including revealing some things that were worse than we expected, like stealing the traff
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by kragen 11mo ago
My understanding of this is Crucial is going out of business because the alternative was raising their prices. Is that accurate?
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by kragen 11mo ago
Thanks! It does better than I expected on tricky input like [0, 1/2). It seems like there are a lot of special cases, though. It does indeed remove parentheses from the output in some cases but not others. Probably figuring out how
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by kragen 11mo ago
A thing I didn't appreciate the first time I read Spencer-Brown's book is that he actually cites Sheffer's 01913 paper, and proves Sheffer's postulates within his system in an appendix. This situates him significantly c
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by kragen 11mo ago
You mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138663 ? He said that he mixed up British and American English all the time, but didn't try to deny that the article was AI slop.
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by kragen 11mo ago
When you render it for proper typesetting, do the parentheses around dy/dx disappear? (Oh, I guess you've removed them in your edit.) If they do, it seems like an error-prone way to write your math. If they don't, it seems li
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by kragen 11mo ago
I don't think of distributing a static library as a particularly custom use case, but more as the default way to distribute a compiled library. I missed that LTO was a non-default option! Thanks for pointing that out. In that case I
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by kragen 11mo ago
That is absolutely a viable reading of what he wrote, yes.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Your first paragraph appears to be a sarcastic paraphrase of the article; please correct me if I'm misunderstanding that. What's the somewhat custom use-case, and what's the option that jacks up the size? I don't see a
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by kragen 11mo ago
Usually you'd have to write that as \sum_{v \in \{a, b, c\}} v; one of the ways I think conventional math notation could in fact be improved would be by separating the aggregate function of summation from the generation of the items, a
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by kragen 11mo ago
Misleading how? If your first thought on looking at a Rust-generated static library is that it's fucking huge, it's not misleading at all for someone to tell you that Rust-generated static libraries are mostly LLVM bitcode that y
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by kragen 11mo ago
If those newcomers are following a link from someone who was commenting on the earlier version, I think there is.
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by kragen 11mo ago
I agree with all of that.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Of course you're correct. I meant to say no GPL termination case, and I've corrected my comment to say that. By that I mean cases where the defendant had cured their breach of the GPL but continued exercising the rights the GP
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by kragen 11mo ago
At the time, ar existed and tar didn't. Tar came later.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Seems to be a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074222
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yes, it is. Although https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html says > All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions
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by kragen 11mo ago
> AGPL also doesn't necessarily mean you have to make the code publicly available, just available to those that you give the program to (I'm assuming AGPL is like the GPL in this regard). This is the crucial difference betwee
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by kragen 11mo ago
Attempting to tell LLM writing from human writing is usually a waste of time, but apparently not in this case.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Hmm, I'm not sure whether operator-like notation has any special advantage for commutativity and distributivity other than brevity. a + b and add(a, b) are equally easy to rewrite as b + a and add(b, a). Maybe there is an advantage
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by kragen 11mo ago
It sounds like you haven't configured Wi-Fi on Linux in the last 10 or 15 years. It just works these days.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Oh, thanks, I thought watwut meant archive.org. Is this diff also linkable on codeberg?
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by kragen 11mo ago
Oh, I see. I misunderstood you. Thank you for explaining.
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by kragen 11mo ago
This seems to be either LLM AI slop or a person working very hard to imitate LLM writing style: The key dynamic: X were Y while A was merely B. While C needed to be built, there was enormous overbuilding that D ... Why Forecasting Is Nearl

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