krupan

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by krupan 3y ago
The mention of boingboing caught me by surprise, I haven't thought about that site in such a long time. Turns out it's still going, and the adds on it are /horrible/ :-(
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by krupan 3y ago
What are you even talking about? The amount of JavaScript and Python in the world has probably grown exponentially since that article was written. The article points out that there are ways to make dynamic languages faster and JavaScript
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by krupan 3y ago
It's crappy and evil, but it's a restriction on their service/support contract, not on the GPL code.
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by krupan 3y ago
I don't know, this kinda feels like RMS always complaining that we don't call it GNU/Linux. Like, yeah, I get it, you deserve credit for sure, but...really?
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by krupan 3y ago
Yes, Wintel was huge for desktops, but not for high powered engineering software like EDA tools, modeling, simulation, etc. (I think AutoCAD was the only Windows software that real engineers used). MacOS wasn't UNIX based until the big
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by krupan 3y ago
I'm afraid you are missing my point completely. Because they found a way to make money off of open source, us neckbeards have been able to continue using open source for the rest of our careers, and it just keeps getting better and be
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by krupan 3y ago
SUSE definitely deserves credit here too! But also SUSE doesn't get hated on like Red Hat
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by krupan 3y ago
The anger and resentment towards Red Hat in the open source world had always made me sad. Red Hat made linux mainstream. Before Red Hat, big expensive commercial software (engineering tools, databases, simulation software, network service
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by krupan 3y ago
I was a TA for the EE course that all the ME's had to take. They kept trying to understand Kirchhoff's laws and do circuit analysis using intuition, using water through pipe analogies, stuff like that. The problem is, electricit
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by krupan 3y ago
Sounds like we need to define "suffering" For example, if everything was known and easy, wouldn't we be completely bored? Is boredom not also suffering?
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by krupan 3y ago
Much better explanation, thank you
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by krupan 3y ago
Well, the fed ruined stock and bond prices with raising interest rates. You can’t just sit on a pile of dollars because rampant inflation will ruin its value. Real estate is probably all that’s left to invest in?
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by krupan 3y ago
I learned that powdered milk makes perfectly fine yogurt and after that keeping some as emergency storage hasn't seemed so depressing
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by krupan 3y ago
I don't think you deserve all the down votes. I grew up in the U.S. in the 90's drinking healthy 1% or skim milk, then lived in Europe for two years drinking probably 3.5% or 4% and I tried going back to low fat milk and just can
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by krupan 3y ago
Not understanding how many letters are in a word or exactly which letters are in a word reminds me strongly of the experience that I had when I tried to play hangman with chatGPT back around Christmas time
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by krupan 3y ago
I'm not parsing expert, but being hard to parse makes it harder to write tools that work with the language. Personally I find rust to be not easy at all for humans to read, and so it's interesting that it's also hard for pars
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by krupan 3y ago
The key challenge of rust for me: "Complex grammar. I've become somewhat infamous about wanting to keep the language LL(1) but the fact is that today one can't parse Rust very easily, much less pretty-print (thus auto-format)
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by krupan 3y ago
I'm afraid I have some bad news for you about governments
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by krupan 3y ago
That doesn't answer my question. To attempt to answer your question, you might be surprised to learn just how much Ada/spark exists in the world if you go looking. Most of it is not open source. I'm not sure they haven&#x27
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by krupan 3y ago
Honest question here (that I have every time I see someone talk about memory safety in 2023), are you aware of Ada/Spark?
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by krupan 3y ago
They are all going to do it, but governments have far scarier powers when it comes to what they can do with the information they'll learn from prism-llm
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by krupan 3y ago
The transactions are part of what is hashed, so they have to be chosen before the miner starts trying to win the block
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by krupan 3y ago
There was talk on Twitter during the height of this of inscriptions bypassing the public mempool and going straight to certain miners. I can't find it with quick googling, but miners are always free to choose which transactions they i
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by krupan 3y ago
This looks like money laundering. Someone had about $30 million in illicitly obtained Bitcoin. They set up a mining operation, paid themselves the $30 mil in mining fees to mint the NFTs, and now they have legitimate looking mining profit
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by krupan 3y ago
You are absolutely right, but Tesla is doing more harm than good towards making self driving commercially viable. Repeatedly making bold claims and then failing spectacularly to back them up is hurting everyone's perceptions big time.
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by krupan 3y ago
It's a page subscription. If you print a page with one dot on it, or a full color 8x10 photo you are charged the same, one page. It's not an unk subscription.
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by krupan 3y ago
This is still a net negative for AI. If all it does is regurgitate bad info at a higher speed than humans do, it's not a very useful tool is it?
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by krupan 3y ago
This sounds way more inconvenient to me when you figure in the amount of mistakes you are going to make creating keybindings in the fly. What might make perfect sense at first will seem really dumb once you've added 20 more shortcuts,
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by krupan 3y ago
Yep, tramp handles all that. It's pretty amazing
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by krupan 3y ago
Having used emacs for 20-ish years, this actually looks amazing. If you didn't RTFA, this is not another vi mode. This replaces holding down Ctrl with tapping comma to get all of emacs' keybindings. It is incredibly clever in t

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