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by o11c 1y ago
I've tried distros with faster cadences. All that means is that I get an endless stream of new bugs, rather than a few that I can find workarounds for (such as just reverting to the still-good X11).
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by o11c 1y ago
The last time I tried it extensively was on Debian Bookwork (12.1 and later; I always wait for the first point release), released July 2023 but freezing sometime around February 2023. Yes, this was a while ago now. But just as now, people s
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by o11c 1y ago
I haven't hit any for probably a decade now. Bugs in the window manager or shell (both shipped by KDE) are somewhat more common, but even if they are crashes, due to X11 being better-designed for isolated faults they are easily recover
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by o11c 1y ago
> KDE Linux is Wayland-only; there is no X.org session and no plan to add one. Does this mean they're testing that all the Wayland bugs are fixed? I haven't updated to the new Debian stable quite yet but all the previous time
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by o11c 1y ago
That hints that you might be doing one of three things wrong. Either: * You're using to doing things the Windows way, where debug and release are completely different profiles rather than orthogonal flags. Or, * You're compiling u
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by o11c 1y ago
Under X11 that can be done with: gdb -p `xprop _NET_WM_PID | sed 's/.*= //'` I think under Wayland it might not be possible since Wayland gratuitously breaks all nice things.
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by o11c 1y ago
It's useless to mention number of parameters without also mentioning quantization, and to a lesser-but-still-significant extent context size, which determine how much RAM is needed. "It will run" is a different thing than &qu
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by o11c 1y ago
We've seen CPU-capability differences by accident a few times, and it's always a chaotic mess leading to SIGILL. The kernel would need to have a scheduler that knows it can't use those cores for certain tasks. Think about h
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by o11c 1y ago
"Serverless" is just marketing-speak for "somebody else's server".
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by o11c 1y ago
One particular "feel" that people often get wrong: on a scale of up to around 1000 light years in each dimension (on the order of a million stars, or a hundred thousand sun-like stars - I haven't done the integrals over the d
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by o11c 1y ago
> Types are specifications of programs and data. The only reason that isn't obvious is because most of our type systems are rudimentary. One major limitation of almost all type systems: they fail to distinguish logical types from
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by o11c 1y ago
I prefer a little builtin backwards (and forwards!) compatibility (by always enforcing a length for each object, to be zero-padded or truncated as needed), but yes "don't fear adding new types" is an important lesson.
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by o11c 1y ago
Note that the "safepointing" logic is exactly the same thing that's needed in refcounting to atomic replace a field. This article glosses over what I consider the hardest part - the enter/exit functionality around native
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by o11c 1y ago
Remember, the origin of that quote explicitly specifies "marketing department". The thing about hype cycles (including AI) is that the marketing department manages to convince the purchases to do their job for them.
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by o11c 1y ago
Also, most people can't express "this food is triggering a minor allergy, enough to make me uncomfortable but not recognize it".
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by o11c 1y ago
Some minor disadvantages: * Indices are likely to increase register pressure slightly, as unoptimized code must keep around the base as well (and you can't assume optimization will happen). In many cases the base is stored in a struct
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by o11c 1y ago
I suggest using triangles in pairs, since diamonds form a grid nicely. 5 large strips (with 4 macro-triangles each) can form an icosahedron in a fairly sane way. But IMO the biggest mistake people make is trying to make everything fit on
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by o11c 1y ago
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/loop...
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by o11c 1y ago
Are you verifying the IP, or just blindly trusting the user agent?
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by o11c 1y ago
To be fair, a saner way to verify bots has been needed for a long time, and is not only relevant for AI bots.
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by o11c 1y ago
OTOH, the only named projects I've seen are Linux and Debian, which are 2 of the most toxic projects I'm aware of (I'm pretty sure the C++ standards committee beats the two of them combined). But the problem with comparisons
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by o11c 1y ago
Fraudulent advertising. The optimist in me hopes that the AI crash will result in our legal system finally cracking down on this problem, which has been widespread long before LLMs.
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by o11c 1y ago
> Not to mention a fast fix because you can assume you haven't changed position since you last powered on. ... until you use a ferry.
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by o11c 1y ago
It does 2.5 things actually - it counters the aggressive use of proxies by scrapers.
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by o11c 1y ago
SQRL solves at least part of the ID problem.
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by o11c 1y ago
I am 99% sure that's entirely satire, seeing as there are no external references/users thereto.
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by o11c 1y ago
At this point, I don't think it's an inability - all sorts of messages get broadcast - but an unwillingness to actually talk to people with different worldviews. The easy way to spread a pro-health message to the people who really
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by o11c 1y ago
"TDP is about average watts, not peak watts" would be an honest way of saying it.
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by o11c 1y ago
PayPal very strongly tries to make you give them your full bank info (remember that the banking system has absolutely no security as the computer world knows it - this is a feature required for checking to work - so this means anybody with
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by o11c 1y ago
That's completely missing the point of agency. A slave lacks agency, despite being fully human and doing work. This is why almost every work of fiction involving slaves makes for terrible reading - because as readers, agency is the thi

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