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by moomin 8mo ago
There’s got to be solid reasons why they do this and have done so for so damn long. At the very least institutional reasons. At best, actual research that suggests they make more money this way. But as a consumer, I hate it.
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by moomin 8mo ago
It feels like this is unsurprising, given we already have Goedel's theorems and halting theorems. Any system of self-describing complexity ends up in this territory.
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by moomin 9mo ago
Too many people remember the “bug” story as “Grace Hopper invented the term ‘bug’” when the real takeaway is “Grace Hopper was very funny.”
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by moomin 9mo ago
My supplemental question would be: what BPM is Cola Bottle Baby?
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by moomin 10mo ago
It’s frustrating. A small manufacturer can’t hope to beat out a large one on price. And that’s before we consider that the maintainability that Framework offers means you can’t cut the corners the regular manufacturers do. But even I find t
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by moomin 10mo ago
I think, from an economic standpoint, there’s plenty of non-democratic countries that do this all the time and some of them do quite well. It’s more the end of an Experiment than the start of one.
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by moomin 11mo ago
Waiting for scientists to discover HUMAN.md
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by moomin 11mo ago
The article is kind of interesting: on the one hand, you’ve got a tool that can be used by ordinary citizens and political dissidents for legitimate reasons. On the other, the French police were mildly inconvenienced during their arrest of
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by moomin 11mo ago
I mean, this already isn’t permitted in the US yet somehow I’ve read her emails and his signal chats.
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by moomin 11mo ago
Friend of mine was gathering survey results for a kids programme in London. They take council estate kids to events and do childcare and a bunch of other stuff. When asked what they liked best, the kids kept talking about the food and how y
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by moomin 11mo ago
It might solve the problem, in as much as the problem is that not only can it be done, but it’s profitable to do so. This is why there’s no Rust problem (yet).
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by moomin 11mo ago
Honest to God not something I care about but: this is pretty much the nail in the coffin for “master”. I do know some people _did_ care about the name. Sometimes surprisingly senior people who never supported a tech upgrade want the name ch
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by moomin 11mo ago
There’s a tool that used to be popular in the .NET community called GhostDoc, that did pretty much exactly what you’re describing: rewording the blindingly obvious. I loathed it. But in terms of filling a very specific and all-too-common ni
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by moomin 11mo ago
Arguably the answer is “When Barbara Liskov invented CLU”. It literally didn’t support inheritance, just implementation of interface and here we have her explaining 15 odd years later why she was right the first time. I used to do a talk ab
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by moomin 11mo ago
Nice one. It was meant to be part one of two, but I never wrote part two…
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by moomin 11mo ago
nVidia has been deeply involved in the software side, first with gaming, forever. It’s written into their DNA. Even when ATI/AMD could outperform them in raw hardware, nVidia worked well with every last game and worked with individual
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by moomin 11mo ago
This stuff is really cool; I’ve literally written an article about it myself. However, unless you address the possibility of entering an infinite loop, it’s not really that useful.
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by moomin 11mo ago
After the CrowdStrike debacle, it’s amazing Microsoft isn’t coming for kernel-level gaming patches.
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by moomin 11mo ago
I’ve never really understood how the logic of the second amendment doesn’t extend to tanks and nukes.
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by moomin 11mo ago
Grace Hopper was big on preventing the use of COBOL compiler extensions. She talks about it on the declassified NSA lecture.
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by moomin 11mo ago
They is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, unless you believe we buy steel from the same places we buy ships. The real answer to this is threat analysis: what are the realistic scenarios under which it becomes a problem. e.g. if Japan stops
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by moomin 11mo ago
Thinking there’s a lot of true things in here being pulled into a narrative that doesn’t really make sense in context. Not saying young men don’t have problems, but even with all those problems they’re still earning ten percent more than wo
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by moomin 11mo ago
1970s? Way too recent. MOO dates from the 1960s and Bulls and Cows predates computers.
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by moomin 11mo ago
Fascinating. This is the modern day, extremely electronic version of what Gauss did: employ a team of mathematicians to investigate possible patterns and then sit down and try to prove something.
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by moomin 1y ago
Yeah, I noticed that. I’d put money on not a single person in this whole dispute being a liberal at all.
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by moomin 1y ago
True meritocracy and true DEI are the same thing.
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by moomin 1y ago
I want to ask ChatGPT to point to a behaviour described in the article that resembles cargo-culting with AI, but I don’t want to waste my future overlord’s time.
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by moomin 1y ago
Looked this up. They’re not part of the civil service transfer scheme so I think you are 100% correct. They also in theory have their own corporate structure but since they literally publish documents explaining how to map it to civil servi
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by moomin 1y ago
It did indeed! :D
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by moomin 1y ago
Ah, thankyou. So, if inundestand correctly, UOH is “LOH” and “POH”, it’s not actually a singular heap at all.

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