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by legulere 8d ago
Memory unsafety in C/C++ is a big portion of security issues, but it's not everything there is.
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by legulere 10d ago
Would you tell a human that just tried doing an illegal move that they did "a really good job of playing chess"? The probability for such mistakes is greatly reduced but still far from negligible, which proves the point that guard
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by legulere 10d ago
One advantage of percentages is that you can multiply them if the outages aren't related. If you rely on 10 systems with a 99% uptime each you end up with roughly 90% uptime in total.
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by legulere 10d ago
That is not what I'm saying. There can be a lot of disagreement about a lot of things but there needs to be widespread agreement to not start wars and to use strong non-war mechanisms to stop war mongers. I know that it is far off from
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by legulere 11d ago
You need to get a critical mass of people to despise war so much that they are ready to have disadvantages themselves to make a war free world a reality. E.g. complete stop of trade with countries starting a war or supporting such a countr
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by legulere 11d ago
LLMs certainly can interpolate between information found in its training set vastly faster than humans can find similar code on GitHub and stack overflow (or in math papers). It's certainly a tool that can be used when programming. On
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by legulere 19d ago
> that's only going to happen if splashed urine is the determining factor in how frequently a bathroom gets cleaned If you believe in the broken windows theory, there's not one determining factor: Splashes of urine make the ba
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by legulere 21d ago
> But certainly not in the 70s and 80s. Some already developed even earlier and most ideas were already there in the 80s. The problem was just that the field was growing so fast that it was filled with people without formal training or f
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by legulere 26d ago
Any text/program/formula describing a real number can be represented as an integer number, therefore there's only a countable amount of real numbers that can be worked with.
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by legulere 1mo ago
A new technology being able to do something better than humans does not mean it’s intelligent though. A calculation program is not intelligent just because it can remember more digits than me, work more than me
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by legulere 2mo ago
Depends on the false-positive rate of the test. With a high false-positive rate testing a lot of people leads to a lot of unnecessary treatment
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by legulere 2mo ago
The problem is that the grid can’t get built out fast enough. You’ll probably see most AI data centers switch to grid power in the coming years using mostly wind and solar because it’s simply cheaper as well
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by legulere 2mo ago
No, Germany imports massive amounts of fossil fuels. Renewables and electrification help reduce that. Electricity-wise Germany is a net exporter again
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by legulere 2mo ago
There are indeed bidding zones in Europe. France is one bidding zone and Germany and Luxembourg is another one. Market prices are indeed pretty comparable. Taxation and cost for the net are very different with a higher price for the connect
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by legulere 2mo ago
The actual article explaining the use for fountain codes in this use case: https://divan.dev/posts/fountaincodes/
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by legulere 2mo ago
An inch is 1/36 yd or 1/12 ft or 6 pica or 72 pt. There is no power of two whatsoever in this.
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by legulere 2mo ago
With imperial you have weird fractions instead of decimals. To know that 3/4“ is larger than 1/2“ I have to actively think, decimals come pretty naturally (which was probably different in times before people went to school and lea
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by legulere 2mo ago
There are enough standards that don’t have non-metric alternatives like the square drive of socket wrenches or a lot of bicycle standards. It’s very unlikely that they will get replaced
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by legulere 2mo ago
Microsoft is in the same situation as IBM decades ago. „ nobody ever got fired for buying IBM“ used to be a common saying. If at all you’ll see a slow decline.
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by legulere 3mo ago
I really like the concept of novelty budget: keep most parts boring and use new stuff only where you can gain an advantage from it.
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by legulere 3mo ago
> in just under one hour. I wonder what the survivorship bias is though. How many other problems did they try but fail? Did they try to solve this problem but with another prompt? Still very impressive though.
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by legulere 3mo ago
You need to write some unsafe code in a kernel, but most of the code does not have to be, which allows you to eliminate memory unsafety from almost all code and give more scrutiny to the parts the compiler cannot guarantee for you. I don’t
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by legulere 3mo ago
I guess the problem is with the price of the sensors. Just look how expensive the Aranet 4 home shown in article is. There are worse devices for less like the IKEA alpstuga. I also don’t know how much electricity they pull.
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by legulere 3mo ago
You can build gas power plants on site at your data center and don’t have to wait for the grid to be upgraded. In the long run gas will be replaced by cheaper renewables
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by legulere 3mo ago
Housing suffers from being based on a naturally scarce resource land. Markets drive prices higher but new land cannot be created
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by legulere 3mo ago
Part of Elon Musks strategy seems to sell some kind of hype that does not materialise or at least won't for long (Mars, autonomous Cars) The vast amounts of money collected are then used to develop products that are still a significant
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by legulere 4mo ago
It generates tokens by estimating what the next token is going to be. Sure it cannot think like a human, but given it's input, it should give a good statistical answer (approximating not of how long it actually takes, but what a human
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by legulere 4mo ago
The Chinese Government isn't like Russia where power is mostly legitimised by having power, like the law of the jungle. A big part of its legitimacy is from economic growth and lifting people out of poverty.
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by legulere 4mo ago
The examples in Clean Code show that Uncle Bob himself misunderstood heuristics as strict rules that are to be taken to the extreme. There's nothing to not misunderstand.
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by legulere 4mo ago
With fixed you do pinning on GC memory, which can have a negative performance effect. You can also do unchecked pointer arithmetics on references with the Unsafe class, which avoids that. A lot of the methods of Span use that internally.

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