kryptiskt

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by kryptiskt 5mo ago
I find all those arguments unconvincing. The right 10,000 lines of code can be worth a billion dollars. The idea that it would be somehow uneconomical for me to take the time to get it right feels like utter nonsense. I don't have to h
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
Unbelievable, literally trillions upon trillions spent on all other kind of shit like warfare and utter corruption. And some people just can't get over that people fifty years ago spent a minuscule fraction of that to go to the moon.
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
You're positing the existence of a far more advanced lifeform than merely a clever monkey with pretensions, which then somehow created said monkeys. That's like saying that it's easy to become a millionaire, just start with a
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
Taking care of yourself is not a competition, nor a zero-sum game.
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
But you don't get the plain, cold, hard truth in the second case. You just get an LLM with output in that style. The model will still be as path dependent as ever, it doesn't output the truest answer, it selects the answer that be
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
Datacenter capex decreasing means that the chips have to go somewhere else, so it doesn't matter too much that the fab capacity has been spoken for, if the demand side is slacking prices will decrease.
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
I wouldn't call it optimized, since that implies that it gains performance due to the tail calls and would work otherwise, but the tail calls are integral to the function of the interpreter. It simply wouldn't work if the compiler
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
You lose in versatility, then you can't add user-defined operators, which is pretty easy with a Pratt parser.
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
The Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
All circuits are analog when physically realized, the digital view is an abstraction.
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
I don't see how this would help in the least, what kind of criminal would be dissuaded by paying a small fee to set an elaborate scheme such as this in motion? This is not a spamming attack where the sheer volume would be costly. It do
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by kryptiskt 6mo ago
Only because C code presents so many juicy security holes by default that it's completely unnecessary to subvert the projects to add them.
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
It's not a restriction born out of purity, notably uncompromising Haskell allows orphan instances.
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
That's actually a problem with Tahoe, it is not something new and bold, it's old-fashioned. Transparency already has come and gone as a UI fad, and it doesn't really make any big difference if you throw computationally expens
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
As if Google Play itself isn't a cesspool full of scammers, or Google ads, or Youtube. As long as Google get their cut they don't give a shit about scams. For a reality check, turn off your adblockers and you'll see how much
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
> If it did, corporations would just start crapping up Linux the way they've crapped up Windows. They do already, my work laptop runs the corporate spin of Ubuntu, complete with Crowdstrike, which goes absolutely crazy and chews all
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
Several of the lean GUI text editors are built on Scintilla ( https://scintilla.org/ ), which provides a cross-platform editing component that can be integrated in GTK, Windows or Mac GUI apps. Maybe that has too much bells a
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
> Could turn it around as "everything you can do in C++ you can do in C with a lot less language complexity". No, you can't, C is lacking a lot that C++ brings to the table. C++ has abstraction capabilities with generic pr
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
The simplest way to have no Korean war is if Kim Il-Sung decides that an invasion is too risky and concentrates on internal matters.
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
Traditionally it has been done because the last three bits in an object pointer typically are always zero because of alignment, so you could just put a tag there and mask it off (or load it with lea and an offset, especially useful if you h
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
One good use of "It turns out..." is to report negative results. Something like "You can overclock a Mac Mini to 8GHz using liquid nitrogen. It turns out this is not a stable configuration <picture of burning Mac Mini hook
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
> So it looked like the Mac but was infinitely worse. "Infinitely worse"? Some people really need to cool off the hyperbole. Having each window be a self-contained unit is the far better metaphor than making each window transf
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
People working with math or stats are often in an explorative mode, testing different things, applying different transforms to the data, plotting variables or doing one-off calculations. You need some form of interactive session for that to
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by kryptiskt 7mo ago
Go is a total non-starter, it's not interactive at all. The competitors are things like Matlab, Mathematica, R or Python (with the right math libs). If you're weird you could use something like Haskell, APL or Lisp in this role, b
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by kryptiskt 8mo ago
I don't see what the role of AI is in this. You don't need an AI to aggregate data from a bunch of sources. You'd be better off having the AI write a scraper for you than burning GPU time on an agent doing the same thing ever
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by kryptiskt 8mo ago
Sony made a water-proof phone long before fixed batteries became fashionable.
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by kryptiskt 8mo ago
Back in the day, a GHC release had a bug that deleted source files with errors in them: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/163 . Which is pretty harsh as diagnostics go.
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by kryptiskt 8mo ago
That guy has a history of harassment in Debian, and is not a credible source.
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by kryptiskt 8mo ago
Turns out SCO bought Xenix in 1987, but Microsoft was just a couple of years removed from being the biggest Unix vendor around at this point.
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by kryptiskt 8mo ago
That was back when there was "real" UNIX around, as well as a number of clones, including Microsofts own Xenix (maybe they had offloaded that to SCO by then). So UN*X was one way to indicate that it meant UNIX-like OSes.

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