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by nottorp 21d ago
The thing with ubuntu's rust coreutils is that they, for example, crash when told to recurse because they use actual recursive calls to go into subdirs and run out of stack space if the structure is big enough. What formal correctness
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by nottorp 21d ago
He includes a photo :)
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by nottorp 21d ago
I was picking mostly on the rust religion at first. But then I looked things up and ran into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%27s_theorem …
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by nottorp 21d ago
> Something that takes 5 seconds with bitcoin, faster than any other property type, is something you rationalize as taking 7 years > Why does HN collectively tolerate this level of understanding when it comes to crypto Well that'
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by nottorp 21d ago
Would it help with the bugs in the new and improved ubuntu coreutils?
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by nottorp 22d ago
> How big was this roundabout when it took 25 minutes doing 3 victory laps in a roundabout? It was clogged probably :)
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by nottorp 23d ago
As far as I remember Google will ban all accounts associated with the one their "AI" finds "reason" to ban. So if you make a business account besides your personal, both will be banned.
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by nottorp 23d ago
> with heavy premium quality cotton Just to nitpick, I doubt i could wear a heavy premium quality cotton tshirt in the current summers. I can barely stand a flimsy thin cotton tshirt... I'm willing to pay extra for quality linen for
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by nottorp 23d ago
Those are more expensive!
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by nottorp 23d ago
But this is totally not a memory ownership bug! It's some other kind of bug!
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by nottorp 24d ago
load-bearing!
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by nottorp 24d ago
No, I remember being threatened by OpenAI and then Anthropic (and now both) since back when ChatGPT was seriously useless.
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by nottorp 24d ago
Marketing actually.
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by nottorp 24d ago
Yes. I remember one of the MS guys saying the goal for win 95 was win32s equivalent performance on a 386 with 4 Mb ram. But win32s performance on that hardware was crap :)
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by nottorp 25d ago
> 18C is awfully cold for a residence Yeah, why set the upper limit to 22 and not like 24-25? It will save you even more power for those that don't sit in your airbnb in a 3 piece business suit...
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by nottorp 25d ago
That's my impression from my job, which involves a "private, real-world"[1] codebase. You need to explicitly tell the LLM what to take into account when generating code or it will miss things. And that's with months of s
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by nottorp 26d ago
... if they're rootable ...
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by nottorp 26d ago
But how do you know which LG model does what?
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by nottorp 26d ago
They can be trusted as much as Sony and game ownership i suppose. I still have an 1080p TV because I can't be arsed to do the research on what 4k TV won't spy on me. It helps that most "content" isn't worth 4k anywa
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by nottorp 26d ago
> Some quarters they even take a loss. They have good accountants isn’t it?
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by nottorp 26d ago
Game engine. Well, the hard part is making a game that people want to play...
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by nottorp 26d ago
I had to check :) I use duckduckgo mostly. They still display the domain, at least, yes. Wonder for how long.
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by nottorp 26d ago
> what you get from Godot You get continous rendering in a loop instead of updates only when something changes. It's like our laptop batteries are too big and we need to find something to deplete them.
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by nottorp 26d ago
> threads are too hard for programmers to get right Also message loops and state machines :)
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by nottorp 26d ago
Of course, this move is user hostile because you don't see what you're being sent to.
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by nottorp 27d ago
at 13:31 there are 11 "AI" related submissions from just the titles. Bet a good half of the others are "AI" slop.
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by nottorp 27d ago
Was it? Iirc there was always something interesting on the front page besides the blockchain. Now there are days when there's nothing besides the "AI" created "AI" spam.
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by nottorp 27d ago
> If somebody cannot deliver that, they should be fired from their job. ... i haven't been able to download my invoices off the Orange Romania site for months in Firefox. They work perfectly in Chrome. Somehow I bet the ones that fu
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by nottorp 27d ago
Good?
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by nottorp 27d ago
> we don't need to deal with such hacks and vendor-specific things anymore Unfortunately that means everyone targets chrome. Then you end up with shit performance or broken sites in Firefox [1]. You'd think with "AI"

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