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by nvy 2y ago
It really does whip the llama's ass.
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by nvy 2y ago
For someone who has never written an Android app before but knows Java, what's the "happy path" to getting a native MVP out the door in 2024? Must I learn Kotlin? Is there a "blessed API" or design pattern these d
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by nvy 2y ago
>Computer integers aren't the real numbers you learned about in gradeschool Why would anyone think computer integers are real numbers? Anyone who's given it a modicum of thought will know intuitively they're a subset of &
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by nvy 2y ago
>Division by zero is UNDEFINED. How does a calculation return +infinity anyway? I used the word "approximated" for a reason. I'll cop to the fact that I was only considering positive integers but your response is needlessl
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by nvy 2y ago
>Zero is a fine answer for integer division by zero. It's not. Division (edit: of a positive integer) by zero is better approximated by +infinity rather than zero. In real life to divide something into zero groups is nonsensical, t
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by nvy 2y ago
Article 13 absolutely does not imply that unrestricted immigration is a human right. To do so would be to stomp on national sovereignty. Article 13 concerns freedom of movement within one's own country, and the right of return thereto
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by nvy 2y ago
Here in Canada we literally cannot build housing fast enough. The government is targeting half a million immigrants annually, and we recently set an all-time housing starts record of only about half that number. Sometimes it actually is im
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by nvy 2y ago
I'd happily buy phones with ethically-sourced components if it was possible. There is no choice available to me as far as I'm aware. Meanwhile just slowing the fuck down on residential streets is a choice anyone can make and not
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by nvy 2y ago
The good old days when 800x600 was considered solid and 1024x768 luxurious
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by nvy 2y ago
How selfish of you. Don't you care that you're more likely to kill somebody's kids as you fly down the road in your SUV, just to save some time on your commute?
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by nvy 2y ago
The standard refrain of "it's always been like this" is a great way to avoid confronting the very real problems facing amateur radio. But despite your insinuation I'm not a "new ham". After a few brushes with
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by nvy 2y ago
I used irssi for years, but I want something that will work on my phone without the connection dropping all the time if I let the display go to sleep or if I change networks.
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by nvy 2y ago
>It’s just a bunch of old dudes talking about where they are driving to and gate keeping the spectrum Yup and the grouchy boomers who LARP as emergency preparedness personnel. My experiences with amateur radio people have been universall
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by nvy 2y ago
>Without an offline history and sane support for multiple clients, it does not really have the same utility. I’m using IRC, but oh my gosh is it a pain to set up and maintain. Bouncers are terrible, so the alternative is IRC clients that
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by nvy 2y ago
Imagine the utility of discord or slack, except not locked into someone's for-profit walled garden/data farm. For those of us who still like IRC despite how the UX remains somewhat dated, this is the dream.
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by nvy 2y ago
>has anyone ever managed to hijack a plane with small pen knife? Well, the 9/11 hijackers used box cutters. Might as well be the same thing.
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by nvy 2y ago
I'm not American but isn't a fetish for deregulation a hallmark of your political right, not the left?
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by nvy 2y ago
Being hyped for <feature other languages have had for years> is totally on-brand for the Rust community.
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by nvy 2y ago
All mazes are trivial if you adhere to the "keep one hand on the wall" trick.
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by nvy 2y ago
All my homies hate uracil
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by nvy 2y ago
This. It's obvious to everyone who isn't willfully blind that LLMs aren't truly intelligent, and all the mental gymnastics that people go through to try to portray LLMs as genuinely intelligent is just so tedious.
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by nvy 2y ago
Personally, I think that phenomenon (along with "hallucinations") is fundamentally baked into LLMs writ large. I think LLMs are a dead end on the path to AGI.
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by nvy 2y ago
It's more interesting than the umpteenth article on embeddings.
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by nvy 2y ago
>Maybe a cultural difference between those who experienced LAN parties and those who didn't. I think this is it more than anything. If all you know is "quick match" matchmaking, it's hard to realize what you're
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by nvy 2y ago
I think, as Blizzard demonstrated, it's not universally true that faster is better. In some markets it's better to be slower to market with a better product, e.g. Apple
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by nvy 2y ago
Have you written about this? I'm fascinated by exploit dev.
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by nvy 2y ago
You are correct, I had a brain fart. Not enough sleep the last few days.
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by nvy 2y ago
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by nvy 2y ago
>A common misconception about wings is that they need to have the classic airfoil shape to work. In reality, just about any surface can create lift and function as a wing Left unsaid is why aircraft wings have airfoil-shaped cross sect
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by nvy 2y ago
I have no idea to which group you're referring.

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