lou1306

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by lou1306 10mo ago
> variable names must not be longer than 6 characters My memory might be lapsing here, but I don't think MISRA has such a rule. C89/C90 states that _external_ identifiers only matter up to their first 6 characters [1], while M
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by lou1306 11mo ago
To make a more specific example, if you malloc()/free() within a loop, it's unlikely that the compiler will fix that for you. However, moving those calls outside of the loop (plus maybe add some realloc()s within, only if needed)
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by lou1306 11mo ago
I guess the crew has to stay pretty close to the end of the hose or it becomes hard to time the... flow... correctly. Likely, they still had to process the frames anyway to make the... flow... look like it comes out of Sterling's mouth
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by lou1306 11mo ago
Not my kids, but I also passed my Networking course thanks to his guide (early 10s), and I used it as reference material for teaching about sockets in an Operating Systems course this year. Sometimes I just love the Internet, man.
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by lou1306 11mo ago
> Didn't CERN do this in a lab like 40 years ago? No. CERN (aka, Tim Berners-Lee) came up with HTTP and HTML, but he built on top of TCP/IP and DNS. > using different protocols besides TCP QUIC is going in that direction, by
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by lou1306 11mo ago
> Java was originally Sun Microsystems. I am well aware. Anyway, for the sake of the argument: "I am using Java. Need a server machine - should it be SPARC?". It makes nearly as much sense.
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by lou1306 11mo ago
> Need a database - should it be SQL Server? "I am using Java. Need a database - should it be Oracle?" .NET Core 1.0 was released almost a _decade_ ago.
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by lou1306 1y ago
Most importantly, unless they explicitly use "good" models trained on ethically-sourced data, their reliance on AI is fundamentally at odds with their mission of a "computing movement rooted in human dignity".
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by lou1306 1y ago
I have a pet theory this is due to a wet pod tray: the pod's film partially melts and sticks to the tray before it's released. I made a habit of wiping the tray dry with a piece of paper before loading the pod and this stopped hap
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by lou1306 1y ago
Or just, you know, wait till the machine is filled before running it. If that takes too long you can just run a soaking cycle midway through.
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by lou1306 1y ago
Not even in the tech world. Microsoft did more than its fair share of cutthroat business practices, but there are tech companies out there that are quite literally thriving on worker exploitation.
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by lou1306 1y ago
I was not implying they should make the same design choices, but there should be a deeper understanding of the underlying problems. Case in point: backslashes and braces in TeX were there for a reason. You can say they make TeX code look
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by lou1306 1y ago
I know they do, but the effectiveness of these "clear data" settings varies wildly and it's mildly infuriating. For instance, in my experience Telegram's works pretty well, X's not at all.
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by lou1306 1y ago
I hate recurse to authority, but after a markup slash programming language has been written by Don Knuth and a macro system for it has been developed by Leslie Lamport, maybe one should take some notes so as to why things were done in a cer
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by lou1306 1y ago
Well of course going towards integration vs segregation is an organizational (in this case, political) decision. I was saying that the average EU state machinery has a lot of room for integration, should there be a political intention to go
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by lou1306 1y ago
So, scientists came up with a very specific term for a very specific function, its meaning got twisted by commercial actors and the general public, and it's now the scientists' fault if they keep using it in the original, very spe
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by lou1306 1y ago
I disagree. Within the research community (which is the target of the paper), that title means something very precise and not at all clickbaity. It's irrelevant that the rest of the Internet has an inaccurate notion of "model&qu
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by lou1306 1y ago
Still, it is technically correct. The model produces a next-token likelihood distribution, then you apply a sampling strategy to produce a sequence of tokens.
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by lou1306 1y ago
THAT is the source for the bloat? Oh dear. Absolutely shambolic. It is embarrassing that iOS gives no way to just completely nuke an app's cache, short of reinstalling the app.
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by lou1306 1y ago
It's not really that difficult, an official language OF a country is recognized at a national level. Thus all official government communication must be issued in that language. In the Netherlands, only Dutch has that level of recogniti
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by lou1306 1y ago
This is like saying German is an official language of Italy. It is officially recognized in specific bilingual provinces, not nation-wide.
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by lou1306 1y ago
I think it's the other way around. I agree that NextCloud is overkill for personal use, but it does feature a ton of bell and whistles that become useful at larger scales.
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by lou1306 1y ago
> Governments don’t have that much software integration to do ...What? Most European governments rely on herds and herds of pachidermic, segregated software systems and databases. There's surely enough to keep a whole team busy for
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by lou1306 1y ago
It's not like a white male cannot get mentored in Python by anybody . By 2019 Python was already one of the most popular languages in the world. Surely any dev on Earth who wants to learn Python has plenty of people and resources at t
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by lou1306 1y ago
The article is largely about phones, where the barrier to install a truly open Linux system are high and getting higher.
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by lou1306 1y ago
Those are regulated, and sold to willing customers. On the other hand, people who buy paint do not want to get lead-poisoned, usually.
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by lou1306 1y ago
I think a big issue with this approach is that the initial and last steps are prone to sycophancy: the machine wants you to believe it's getting the job done, which may lead it to do something correct-looking over something correct
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by lou1306 1y ago
I guess things might get nasty when you try to _run_ simultaneously, unless they actually have implemented a CRDT for the whole notebook state (it would still be nasty from a usability POV, but at least it would be consistent). Just writing
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by lou1306 1y ago
Come on, of course there will be some protocols that are more obscure than others, but the overall concept of RFCs is far from "forgotten". Besides, a lot of these walled chat gardens roll their own XMPP/Jabber thingy behind
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by lou1306 1y ago
What makes Mac great is/was the ecosystem of 3rd party tools with great UI and features. Apple used to be good enough at writing basic 1st-party apps that would mostly just disappear into the background and let you do your thing, but t

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