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by nine_k 6mo ago
I hope e.g. Colorado has better Internet regulations, so I could do my skiing there instead.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
The point is not human readability, but good structure. Spaghetti code is as bad for an LLM as for a human, because structural complexity and the amount of coupling are fundamental limits, not human-specific.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
«[T]he primary standout feature of this memory solution is the integration of a staggered interconnect topology that routes connections diagonally within the die stack rather than drilling straight down. According to Intel, the biggest bene
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by nine_k 6mo ago
The article says nothing about the construction or special qualities of ZAM, as compared to HBM :(
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by nine_k 6mo ago
> using tools and getting proficient with them rather than relearning tools This attitude works in carpentry, but not in software. You need to get proficient, but your tools will keep evolving, like everything else in the software worl
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by nine_k 6mo ago
"AI" is everywhere, because it's the fashion. A lot of jobs do not require AI mastery, or even heavy use. I'm searching for a job for many months, and I do see the uptick quite clearly.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Also medical / elderly care. A large market.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
One of the Tesla's factories is winding down car production in a plan to convert to producing humanoid robots.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
That's the point of the test condition. When running a robot becomes more economical than paying full-scale humans $17/h, something important about robot abilities will have changed.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Given a list of estimates of failure probabilities, finding the right mix of redundancy becomes a very tractable problem, maybe even freshman-level.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
One cannot be a little bit pregnant. But a DB can be only a little bit in the RAM, and specifically in the page cache. SQLite can act exactly like that, and it's damn fast as long as it does not need to durably write a transaction. Pol
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by nine_k 6mo ago
If the fs tree scanned once per second had 1000 files, it would be once per millisecond for a file.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Cardboard is heavy and not very strong. Quadcopter drones carry their payload all by the motors' thrust, and experience large accelerations; they would break if made out of cardboard. OTOH small airplanes like the one pictured derive m
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Even as simple as fac 1 = 1 fac n = n * (fac (n - 1)) which is a working Haskell implementation? I mean, in Scheme it is longer to write. I enjoy Lisps and use Emacs for everything, but Haskell can be as terse, or even more terse
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by nine_k 6mo ago
There's a great relevant quip: "If you think that the cost of compliance is high, try noncompliance".
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by nine_k 6mo ago
-1 is a special case, a way to represent a PID with all bits set in a platform-independent way. It's not very clean, and it comes from ancient times when writing some extra code and storing an extra few bytes was way more expensive.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Yes, it's the lack of Unix experience that's terrifying. So many of mistakes listed are rookie mistakes, like not propagating the most severe errors, or the `kill -1` thing. Why were people who apparently did not have much exper
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by nine_k 6mo ago
The paper is https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ae570f
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by nine_k 6mo ago
More than that: it seems that Rust stdlib nudges the developer towards using neat APIs at an incorrect level of abstraction, like path-based instead of handle-based file operations. I hope I'm wrong.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
The revenue from highly targeted ads, using even better profiles than Google Search or even Facebook could build, may be non-negligible. Commercial ads could be a smaller revenue source than political ads.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Altman wanting to look idealistic and inspiring. See it as a brand image advertising campaign of the time.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Speaking of a "year of Linux on desktop", it's mostly not happening because the desktop lock-in has largely eased. I of course love my Linux desktop, but I use relatively few native applications, and every one of them is mu
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Where's the vuln chain? Is it even obvious which APIs have been called?
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Agents are more prolific. As with any power tool, they increase both your ability to build and to wreak havoc, depending on how you handle them.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
"Own" as in "be responsible for". Nobody is too keen to own a pile of semi-working trash, and extensive vide-coding can produce such piles easily.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Depending on the scale. If you ask Clause to one-shot an app from a nebulous description, you get a prototype which you would understandably loathe to own the code of. If you plan carefully and limit the scope, you get code that you underst
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Lay users use Play Store. Users who use F-Droid are already not as lay. If you distribute stuff that Play Store would ban, your users are likely not as lay, too. Yes, it's inconvenient, but I see it as a good-faith attempt to limit exp
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by nine_k 6mo ago
I'd say that they should imitate not Lycurgus, but rather Pericles.
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by nine_k 6mo ago
Play Store being a cesspit is indeed a problem! But it still is making a constant effort to drive away scammers, so scams don't last too long there. Scammers show sleek-looking web pages offering to install an "official app"
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by nine_k 6mo ago
If foreign supply is cut , we (assuming the US) can still do fine, even though is a sub-optimal way. The US crude is heavy, the Middle Eastern crude is light, so oil processing would need to adapt, the efficiency would go down, and prices

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