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by mort96 11mo ago
I may be prematurely judgemental here but I just can not take a project named "floorp" seriously. Your second paragraph is more important though: none of these let's call them Firefox distributions are proper forks. They&#x27
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by mort96 11mo ago
I mean sure, that would seem suspicious. But not suspicious enough that I'd likely have caught the problem. It's not that far fetched that Intel may occasionally make new CPUs for older sockets, and when Intel's documentati
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by mort96 11mo ago
I still don't want to use an "AI browser". I don't want to use a browser where all or most development effort goes into "AI features" that I need to disable. I want a browser where the development effort goes i
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by mort96 11mo ago
I strongly disagree, firewall-cmd is way too complicated. I mean it's probably fine if your main job is being a firewall administrator, but for us who just need to punch a hole in a firewall as a tiny necessary prerequisite for what we
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by mort96 11mo ago
Google Translate isn't what's meant when tech CEOs say "AI" in 2025.
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by mort96 11mo ago
They did the work your parent comment describes for macOS on PowerPC, macOS on Intel, and macOS on arm. They can do the work, but it's still work.
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by mort96 11mo ago
A really fun thing is that arm and x86 have different char signedness: char is signed on x86, unsigned on arm. This has tripped me up more than a few times when I try to compile software that's only been tested on x86 for an arm machin
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by mort96 11mo ago
Rosetta 2 rewrites x86 instructions into ARM, but it does this on the fly for generated instructions too. When you put x86 machine code into a buffer and then jump to execute it, Rosetta 2 dynamically translates those generated instructions
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by mort96 11mo ago
Hacker news is also doing fine, even though I can just click your profile and see you joined in october 2024. It doesn't matter for every use case. But there are cases where it matters. Using UUIDv7 for identifiers means you need to ca
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by mort96 11mo ago
I really don't see the issue with having a UUID in a URL.
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by mort96 11mo ago
> I even checked one of his responses in WhatsApp if it's AI by asking the Meta AI whether it's AI written, and Meta AI also agreed that it's AI written I will never understand why some people apparently think asking a cha
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by mort96 11mo ago
Who said I was talking about social media?
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by mort96 11mo ago
Well you're leaking user data. I'm sure you can imagine situations where "the defendant created an account on this site on this date" could come up. And the user could have created that account not knowing that the creat
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by mort96 11mo ago
I tend to avoid UUIDv7 and use UUIDv4 because I don't want to leak the creation times of everything. Now this doesn't work if you actually have enough data that the randomness of the UUIDv4 keys is a practical database performance
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by mort96 11mo ago
And this really shouldn't surprise professionals in an industry where everything's always about development velocity and releasing Minimum Viable Products as quickly into the market as possible.
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by mort96 11mo ago
Eh probably not, it's probably handled by some automated system when making release builds of the game. Sure, implementing that initially was probably some work (or maybe it was just checking a checkbox in some tool), but there's
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by mort96 11mo ago
You make a million decisions in the beginning of every project. I'm certain they made the choice to do this "optimization" at an early point (or even incidentally copied the choice over from an earlier project) at a stage whe
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by mort96 11mo ago
The negativity towards this is wild. A company followed relatively widely accepted industry practice (lots and lots of other games also have huge sizes on disk for the exact same reason), then eventually they decided to do their own indepen
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by mort96 11mo ago
No maintainer is obligated to not break any part of Linux other than the user space API, there are no stable in-kernel APIs
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by mort96 11mo ago
> So why can they respond saying they don't know things? Because sometimes, the tokens for "I don't know" are the most likely, given the prior context + the RLHF. LLMs can absolutely respond that they don't know
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by mort96 11mo ago
Frankly, bullshit is the perfect term for it because ChatGPT doesn't know that it's wrong. A bullshit artist isn't someone whose primary goal is to lie. A bullshit artist is someone whose primary goal is to achieve somethin
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by mort96 11mo ago
Code written by humans has always been nondeterministic, but generated code has always been deterministic before now. Dealing with nondeterministically generated code is new.
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by mort96 11mo ago
A couple of points: 1. No, we don't have proof that there was one person who thought it was worth 3x GDP. We have proof that there was one person who thought a 0.001% share of the company was worth 0.003% of GDP or whatever. They could
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by mort96 11mo ago
The standard solution to this is to write the download to a temporary hidden file on the same volume and then rename it into place once the download succeeds (or delete it on failure).
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by mort96 11mo ago
> curl will do the same (up to a point) if the output stream is slower than the download itself That "up to a point" is crucial. Storing chunks in memory up to some max size as you wait for them to be written to disk makes comp
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by mort96 11mo ago
Flamegraphs are great, GPU flamegraphs are an obvious good idea. But his choice to work on "AI" instead of general GPU compute, and advertise this "AI" work at the very top of the list of things he's done of note, t
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by mort96 11mo ago
Leading the article with AI stuff is certainly a choice. If that's what they've ben spending their time on lately, maybe this is good for Intel.
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by mort96 11mo ago
I don't understand why it needs to be a part of the codec. Can't Netflix use relatively low bitrate/resolution AV1 and then use AI to upscale or add back detail in the player? Why is this something we want to do in the codec
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by mort96 11mo ago
I'm not saying it's not going to happen. I'm saying it's a terrible idea. AI upscaling built in to video players isn't a problem, as long as you can view the source data by disabling AI upscaling. The human is in co
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by mort96 11mo ago
Yeah, I had that case in mind actually. It's a perfect illustration of why compression artifacts should be obvious and not just realistic-looking hallucinations.

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