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by mpyne 5mo ago
The whole field of reproducible builds is only a field because compilers also have had trouble historically of producing binary artifacts with guaranteed provenance and binary compatibility even when built from the same source codes. If I a
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by mpyne 5mo ago
Yeah and that's helpful too, because we typically talk about caricatures about both agile and waterfall and I think people truly don't realize that waterfall isn't simply "think about what you do before you do it" a
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> You're in the minority. Just about every open source project that I use has a "Donate/Contribute" link somewhere on their website/Github I just checked and I didn't see a Donate/Contribute link for Al
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> This is a particular artifact of the government system process. Yes, a government process meant to implement the waterfall approach. If you look at Dr. Royce's paper which originated the concept, he was very explicit that it requi
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> Like, if waterfall of a project can be done in 2 weeks, is it agile now? Sure. The thing is, the waterfall guys would tell you it's impossible to do it in 2 weeks because you need to have written down everything first . "Tho
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by mpyne 5mo ago
KHTML was LGPL, just as with the rest of the KDE libraries. Otherwise Apple wouldn't have been able to fork it in the first place.
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by mpyne 5mo ago
> "Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." <- This is you. This is what you sound like. Have you ever contributed to open source? Not everyone
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by mpyne 6mo ago
Yeah, React Native is apparently how Claude Code operates (even on terminal) so it wouldn't surprise me to see it being useful in a native GUI context as well, if we can get more bindings than Skia. > Containers are hungrier than ru
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> Yes. I can run entire 3D games.... ten times in the memory footprint of your average browser. What about in QML, which uses Web technologies like CSS, JS and even basic HTML? The whole KDE Plasma 6 desktop is built around these techno
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by mpyne 6mo ago
No, not really. That comment implies that the LLM is "faking" thinking. But who actually knows how thinking even works in human brains? And assuming that LLMs work by a different mechanism, that this different mechanism can't
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> But it consumes at least 10x-100x more resources to run a web app than to run a comparable desktop app (written in a sufficiently low level language) Does it? Have you compared a web app written in a sufficiently low level language wi
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by mpyne 6mo ago
There are open-source and even open-weight models that operate in exactly this way (as it's based off of years of public research), and even if there weren't the way that LLMs generate responses to inputs is superbly documented. S
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by mpyne 6mo ago
The trace goes back fine, that's not the issue. The issue is that if they send the full trace back, it will have to be processed from the start if the cache expired, and doing that will cause a huge one-time hit against your token li
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> Claude Code abstracts the API, so it should abstract this behavior as well, or educate the user about it. Does mmap(2) educate the developer on how disk I/O works? At some point you have to know something about the technology you&
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> I believe there are, for instance, many reasonably wealthy people who live somewhere outside California and would not move into a dumpy old apartment in LA or SF but might move into a fancy new one. In other words, they will not occupy
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by mpyne 6mo ago
Zoning belongs to all the voters in the municipality, not just the homeowners.
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by mpyne 6mo ago
None of those are really pertinent because it doesn't change the fact that the well-off person is going to occupy an additional housing unit in this scenario no matter what. The question is whether it's going to be new constructio
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> I would like to see the government (at all levels) have more in house capabilities and less absurd degrees of outsourcing. This would help at all levels. It's very difficult as a government employee to properly supervise contracto
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by mpyne 6mo ago
I've noticed it for much longer than a year ago, it's been a thing for awhile now. Especially online, which may lend credence to the idea of it occurring most with those who didn't grow up writing English, but even with nativ
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by mpyne 6mo ago
The Unix model wasn't simply do one thing and do it well. It was also a different model on ownership and vetting of those focused tools. It might have been a model of having the single source tree of an old UNIX or BSD, where everyth
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> but there must be a healthy middle ground between that and a library that lets you pick font color. When I was doing Perl more I actually highly liked the Mojolicious module for precisely this reason. It had very few external depende
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> 4GB of RAM? What? I guess if your minimum is "able to start Windows and eventually reach the desktop", sure? I wouldn't even use Windows 11 with 8GB even though it would theoretically be okay. Not okay as soon as you thr
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> Do you not care about the rule of law? Of course I do. I hope the rest of my fellow Americans will someday care as much as I do about it. It's clearly not the case today. But, is it illegal to refer to Secretary Hegseth as the S
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by mpyne 6mo ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts...
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by mpyne 6mo ago
I'm sympathetic to the viewpoint but I'm not in the habit of policing the names people use for themselves. I've certainly done more than my fair share of jobs in the Navy where the office I was formally billeted to had long s
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by mpyne 6mo ago
In fairness the SECWAR is hardly a computing expert. But in this case the SECWAR has been properly advised. If anything it's astonishing that a program whereby China-based Microsoft engineers telling U.S.-based Microsoft engineers spec
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by mpyne 6mo ago
I actually needed that exact window function example earlier this week when I needed to figure out why our shared YNAB budget somehow got out of balance with the bank. SQLite to load the different CSVs and lay out the bank's view of th
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by mpyne 6mo ago
We can barely build FFGs, to say nothing of bigger drone carriers that would still be dwarfed by aircraft carriers. So you'd say, OK, what drones can we launch from the tiny fiberglass-hulled small craft that we can build lots of, bu
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> > Otherwise the U.S. committed several more war crimes for each of the other Iranian navy ships that were sunk by bombs or cruise missiles rather than by submarine-launched torpedoes. > I am having difficulty parsing your reasoni
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> > war crime is not picking up survivors > Honest question, is this required of belligerents? How is a submarine even meant to provide such aid? No, it is not. Otherwise the U.S. committed several more war crimes for each of the o

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