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by mayhemducks 7mo ago
I never realized just how much hardware engineering Apple dedicated to enabling people to type faster with their thumbs!
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by mayhemducks 7mo ago
I tend to be pretty skeptical in general, so grain of salt may be required here, but I sense some irony that the Chinese government has a significant stake in Lenovo. https://easytechsolver.com/who-is-lenovo-owned-by/
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by mayhemducks 7mo ago
I'm really not understanding this. Doesn't the typical path for advanced technology making it into the hands of civilians start with military applications and end with it being modified for civilian use? If the Pentagon wants Anth
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Thanks Timmy.
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
"the most valuable and important thing you can learn will be to think critically and communicate well." I have heard some form this advice for over 30 years. Not one single penny I have earned in my career came from my critical th
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
I prefer pragmatism over ontology. The word "is" complicates discussions in unproductive ways. Good read though. Thinking about C as not just a language but also a protocol is a different perspective that is useful for the mental
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Can you elaborate? How do you like to evaluate your IDE plugins?
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
I'm Not sure that I agree that it is automatically safer to prefer apt or dnf, and I'm definitely sure that it is not safer to prefer npm. Safety is about managing risk. One element of managing risk is evaluating trust. I'm t
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Go write a floating point package, by yourself (no AI assistance), from scratch. Then you will understand.
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Aah okay - I remember it being proposed, but perhaps I wrongly assumed it had shipped. I do wonder sometimes if Apple is doing anything that we aren't privy to with photos that end up in iCloud.
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
This is my attempt to answer your question about "what kind of algorithm can you implement to detect something dangerous". Disclaimer though, I agree that the proposed regulation is way too broad and will have unintended consequen
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Thank you for this comment! I knew it was something like this. I've been using it in the VSCode terminal, but you're right, the ANSI terminal just doesn't work. I wasn't quite sure why!
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
LOL sob
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Living without it isn't hard IMO. It's more of a convenience. Most of the servers I ever login to only have one non-root user anyway. When I need root, I switch to root.
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
Interesting - The petroyuan was not on my radar at all. https://ipr.blogs.ie.edu/2025/06/27/geopolitics-of-oil-how-c... : This article explores case studies such as Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, illustrating ho
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
You do realize that obsessing over words like that is a pretty major part of what programming and computer science is right? Linguistics is highly intertwined with computer science.
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by mayhemducks 8mo ago
If I set aside for a moment, and for the sake of argument, the fact that we all have to earn a living, why would anyone want a job where you distill a bunch of input from those "below you" and relay it to those "above you&quo
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by mayhemducks 9mo ago
See it starts with gender, and if (user.gender === "Female") user.age = 29. After that, the algorithm gets very complex and becomes a black box. I'm sure they spent billions training it.
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by mayhemducks 9mo ago
Don't mistake my comment for an excuse not to use the technology. Saying that the externalities of developing AI don't matter in the long run legitimizes the hyperbole that fuels irrational investment. Not to mention the profound
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by mayhemducks 9mo ago
This is content that the LLMs will, probably already have, suck up and incorporate into their corpus. Saying that it doesn't matter if the stock market crashes because in the long run, the technology will create more economic value to
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by mayhemducks 9mo ago
My first go at this I got a C- for sending mixed/inconsistent signals to Gary by at first agreeing to his request, but then saying no to a follow-up request. I wish there was a bit more context about the overall status of the project -
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by mayhemducks 10mo ago
I've never tried it. My first impression based purely on reading the homepage is it adds complexity to something I can already do with a Dockerfile and bash. What can it do that I can't already do more simply?
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by mayhemducks 10mo ago
I beg to differ on the getting paid to think part. I once had a software job at a financial institution that shall remain nameless, where thinking was actively discouraged by managers. You get paid to do what the customer wants.
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by mayhemducks 10mo ago
What is your role in your job?
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by mayhemducks 10mo ago
I thought non-profit was a potential haven as well. Turns out the "office politics" inside non-profits is often worse than in for-profit companies.
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by mayhemducks 10mo ago
It is possible for a business to pay someone for the parts they don't like even when the parts they don't like do not contribute to profit or financial success in some way. This is not only demoralizing, it is usually boring, and
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by mayhemducks 10mo ago
Hopefully this is the beginning of the trough of disillusionment, and the steady return of rationalism.
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by mayhemducks 11mo ago
Apparently coons used to be quite a popular delicacy in the south once upon a time. Dogs are predators, which is a very primal reason I could never imagine eating one. I've eaten bear, and it tasted terrible. Come to think of it, every
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by mayhemducks 11mo ago
but are they edible though? I mean if they were domesticated fully, what would we do with them? I like my dogs thank you, ain't no way I'm having a coon for a pet.

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