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by oofbey 10mo ago
BTC enthusiasts have very creative arguments for why their currency isn’t the a complete disaster for the climate. Like pointing fingers.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Everything is orders of magnitude more efficient than bitcoin.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Is it just a coincidence that the HTTP code for “not found” became the same as the code name for this city?
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Is this distinct as in it branched super early from other earth life and died out? Or distinct as in maybe came from another planet and is completely distinct? Can we tell? The journal is astrobiology.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
I don't read "specific issues" so much as generalized complaints and implied insults. "Low effort" is not a specific issue - it's just derogatory. "Cut the clutter" is not useful advice. All of it
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by oofbey 10mo ago
In the new world, increasingly you’ll be better off writing your libraries from scratch than pulling in external dependencies. Less supply chain risk. Less bloat from features you don’t need. Sure complex mature libraries aren’t going away.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
This attitude is of course very common and I just don’t understand it. Like when I read news from the other political party - it’s just confusing to me. Are they scared for their jobs? Angry that their hard earned skills are getting devalue
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Most systems I’ve worked with can go completely offline without ever logging a critical error. Some coding errors or misconfiguration or failure in a critical system - enough to log an error - and nobody can get any useful work done. I’ve
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by oofbey 10mo ago
As the first comment says "This aged like fine wine". Six years old, but the fundamentals haven't changed.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
I should know this, but what's LSP? Language Server Protocol - I can read. But what's that?
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by oofbey 10mo ago
At scale the rare events start to happen reliably. Hardware failures almost certainly cause ERROR conditions. Network glitches. Our production system pages oncall for any errors. At night it will only wake somebody up for a whole bunch of e
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by oofbey 10mo ago
It’s amazing and wonderful to see the Internet support these tiny cliques of interest. Having everybody connected leads to homogenization of culture in some ways, but it also supports these couple dozen (?) people around the world finding e
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Using a compiler will also make you much worse at writing assembly code. Doesn’t bother me at all. Haven’t written any assembly since the 20th century.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Blog posts like this one are great marketing.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Apple always charges a huge premium for RAM. Maybe it’s enough to buffer their pricing scheme from the supply shock. I have run the numbers though.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
I always thought these hoods were for sucking away germs or fumes so they didn’t get out into the room. Nope. That’s backwards. Trying to keep the sample clean here.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Agree an explicit block list is not very robust. I imagine the vast majority of legit ML models use only a very limited set of math functions and basically no system interaction. Would be good to fingerprint a big set of assumed-safe models
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Thanks for starting to address the gap. When would this tool be best used? As a post commit hook? In the CI/CD chain? At runtime?
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Nit：The word “orthogonal” should not mean merely “different”. It should mean “completely unrelated” if we are drawing a proper analogy from linear algebra. Orthogonal vectors have a dot product of zero. No correlation whatsoever. As ML and
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by oofbey 10mo ago
It’s the same bias for action which makes them code up a change when you genuinely are just asking a question about something. They really want to write code.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
That’s a solid idea. Never heard that before. And it really seems like it would solve an otherwise extremely difficult problem. It would not discriminate though. Everything in that orbit would be taken down - debris and any functional satel
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Oh I’ve had agents remove tests plenty of times. Or cripple the tests so they pass but are useless - more common and harder to prompt against.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
As soon as they're publicly usable people benchmark them carefully. All currently available models have clear metrics.
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by oofbey 10mo ago
Maybe in retrospect instead of “this isn’t a help channel” it should have said “go to #perl-help for questions” or made #perl be an open forum and moved the wizard discussion to #perl-experts?
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by oofbey 11mo ago
For the analogy to fiber & DWDM to hold, we'd need some algorithmic breakthrough that makes current GPUs much faster / more efficient at running AI models. Something that makes the existing investment in hardware unneeded, ev
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by oofbey 11mo ago
TSMC's dominance is bad for the entire industry. Everybody is better off having alternatives - everybody except TSMC.
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by oofbey 11mo ago
Pretty sure the answer is "No" - Intel is still pretty far behind TSMC on the high-end. But the old metric of "transistor size" measured in nanometers isn't a good indicator any more. The marketing numbers don&#x2
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by oofbey 11mo ago
This is in response to JetBlue flight 1230 from Cancun to Newark on October 30, 2025, where a cosmic ray of some kind flipped a bit and caused a dangerous situation. At the time there was a minor (G1) geomagnetic storm - meaning more cosmi
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by oofbey 11mo ago
One or the biggest ironies in US politics to me is the complaints about the degradation of the rule of law in this country under Trump. While simultaneously arguing that federal immigration law should be actively ignored and blocked by citi
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by oofbey 11mo ago
Politics in the US is so extremely binarized these days that I think it’s hard to assign motive for political issues beyond “my friends say that our team feels this way.” Which I would argue is much more political than anything fundamental.

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