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by lioeters 11d ago
> The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives created in 1938. Their goal was to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of
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by lioeters 11d ago
If I understand correctly, I think they build an older version of gcc using tcc (Tiny C Compiler by Bellard); then using that to build newer versions incrementally until they get to the modern stack with LLVM.
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by lioeters 11d ago
Yeah I think it was in Terence Tao's recent post where he pointed out that the "low-hanging fruits of mathematics" are being harvested by the AI companies, when traditionally those problems were available for aspiring mathema
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by lioeters 11d ago
The ruling class in Europe needs this war for economic reasons. They're orchestrating and selling it to the public by constant fear mongering and provoking conflict. Even in a relatively intelligent crowd like this forum, people are gu
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by lioeters 11d ago
How interesting. I'd seen LISP(y) implementations like Scheme guarantee tail-call since recursion is a very common technique in that language family. But I didn't know Zig supported it. https://ziglang.org/document
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by lioeters 11d ago
List of (not all Linux) distributions that can be bootstrapped from source: https://github.com/vasi/bootstrappable-distros
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by lioeters 11d ago
Here's an alternative, not sure how good or reliable. https://twitterviewer.net/kevinnbass/status/2099626156660043...
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by lioeters 12d ago
Another bottleneck is money required to pay corporations who own the technology to "do mathematics". In that future, there will never be another Ramajunan.
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by lioeters 12d ago
Ah I see, found it. Security issues discovered in sudo-rs - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2025/msg00... Sudo-Rs Affected by Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - https://www.phoronix.c
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by lioeters 12d ago
Trust fund kids have the time and resources to keep trying until they succeed. They can afford the failures, and brute force their way to success. Same with people who have access to "free money". It's a rigged game.
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by lioeters 12d ago
Ooh boids, yes! One of my favorite books is Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology. I learned about it from another favorite, Nature of Code, which has a great list of related books. https://natureofcode.com/resources
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by lioeters 12d ago
Reminds me how "bird brain" is sometimes used as an insult, when they're some of the smartest animals with very densely connected brains. https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains
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by lioeters 12d ago
I wish. React + Tailwind as the commonly accepted default is too bad, it sacrifices portability for convenience. It's legacy code in the making, like jQuery and Bootstrap.
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by lioeters 12d ago
I see it, certain algorithms need guaranteed tail-call elimination, otherwise they are too inefficient and must be manually unrolled or rewritten to avoid blowing the stack. So a compiler optimization that is "nice to have" is n
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by lioeters 12d ago
Seen a photograph of starlings when the flock takes on the silhouette of a giant bird. I've always been fascinated by that kind of (apparent?) collective intelligence. There's seemingly no leader, but from the interactions of swar
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by lioeters 12d ago
Always been a bit jealous of birds for their freedom. It comes at a cost of course, but so does being human.
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by lioeters 12d ago
> genuine sudo That made me curious, it sounds related to this: Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords - 5 months ago (413 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47464134
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by lioeters 12d ago
Not so familiar with this area, but isn't the existing behavior of implicitly creating new stacks more of a problem than implicit tail-call elimination? Seems the latter is a kind of compiler-level optimization, of which there are alre
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by lioeters 12d ago
Alignment for the good of humanity has completely failed. Now one of the most powerful technology of our time - and the reins of the (arguably) most powerful nation - is in the hands of sociopaths who want to rule the world and decide the e
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by lioeters 12d ago
People joke how we live in Idiocracy now, but Back to the Future really nailed it with the dystopian world ruled by Biff the billionaire bully with no class or taste.
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by lioeters 12d ago
> The English translation of the book was then published by a previously unknown Panamanian publisher, with the subtitle "China's Master Plan to Destroy America" and a picture of the burning World Trade Center on the cover
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by lioeters 12d ago
Everything is imaginary until somebody makes it real.
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When does generative AI qualify for fair use?(suchir.net)
2 points by lioeters 12d ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 12d ago
Of course not, it goes against everything they love and cherish about personal computing. It's pouring concrete over their playground and wilderness, to be replaced by factories. "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.&quo
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by lioeters 12d ago
Related paper in the repo: Changes in Vocabulary Between Human-created and LLM-assisted Code Repositories - Taylor Lineman https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ActuallyTaylor/strata/refs... (PDF)
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by lioeters 16d ago
Sane people adapt themselves to the world. The insane ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore all progress depends on the mentally abnormal. (Parody of a famous quote about "unreasonable man".)
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by lioeters 18d ago
A new twist on the torment nexus, oh sweet suffering.
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Bootstrappable Distros(github.com)
2 points by lioeters 18d ago|0 comments
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by lioeters 18d ago
I like the way you think, a true MacGyver-style problem solving.
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by lioeters 18d ago
The actual link: https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf

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