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by ordu 9mo ago
I wonder: what now? If it was an individual they would be imprisoned, wouldn't they? If it was a private company it would face fines. What can be done with ICE?
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by ordu 9mo ago
> I keep struggling with is understanding how a particular state came to be — especially with concurrency or events that happened much earlier. Yeah, I faced this problem. I have no general solution to it, but I wonder if a fuzzer can
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by ordu 9mo ago
> If you don't draw a line, then nobody in the world is a bad person. So my question is where exactly is that line? I don't think that that line can be drawn exactly. There are many factors to consider and I'm not sure t
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by ordu 9mo ago
Well... Rust is not a functional language, so it is not surprising that its closures are complicated.
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by ordu 9mo ago
I don't know, but I have a guess. Someone didn't want to deal with unsafety of dealing with memory allocated in C code. Serialize/deserialize makes it easy, no need for unsafe, no need to learn all the quirks of the C-library
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by ordu 9mo ago
> And just to add, I don't even own AC, and I can assure you it gets 40C/100+ Fahrenheit, with high humidity in Rome at summer. That's how sensitive I am to the topic. This addition doesn't really add anything. Your
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by ordu 9mo ago
It makes sense. Yes, if OS rewrites the booting setup sometimes, it is kinda tolerable.
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by ordu 9mo ago
> The Linux installations started to degrade — subtle at first, then undeniable. Random slowdowns. Browser links that wouldn't register for 10 or 15 seconds. Very interesting. It is something I've never hit. Or, rather, I kno
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by ordu 9mo ago
> A "compiler" is software that translates computer code from one programming language into another language. Yes, of course. > Literally all it can express is linear functions. And why a language to express linear funct
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by ordu 9mo ago
> After a Windows update (that I didn't choose to do) wiped that partition and, consequently, the Linux installation WHAT? How people could tolerate a software that wipes partitions without asking? I mean, I can see that it can be
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by ordu 10mo ago
> it's not compiling the input program in any meaningful way, but simply writing hard-coded logic into executable memory that it already knows the program intended to perform. The program reads the logic from stdin and translates
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by ordu 10mo ago
> We love you FakeFoster, but GenZ is not ready for you. Don't tell me about GenZ. I had oral exams in calculus as undergrad, and our professor was intimidating. I barely passed each time when I got him as examiner, though I did r
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by ordu 10mo ago
> the city's foreign born population has been stable for at least 15 years This statement doesn't contradict the one about international immigrants keeping the city from shrinking. It is easy to imagine how immigrants come to N
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by ordu 10mo ago
> what if I want to load the config from somewhere else? There are DRY and WET principles. We can argue which one of them is better, but to move something used exactly once to a method just due to an anxiety you can need it again seems
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by ordu 11mo ago
I believe you are. Or we are. The quoted line tells me nothing. Is it a new game engine? Or something like winetricks to tune wine, maybe more streamlined? Or is it a some kind of app store? App launcher? It is the site made like a presenta
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by ordu 11mo ago
I think it is a little more nuanced than that. Bret Devereaux wrote about steam engines[1] in Roman Empire, and the conclusion is there was no economic stimuli to kickstart steam engine. For the first half-century (or so) of steam engines t
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by ordu 11mo ago
There is an old Russian joke, that goes like this: A man approaches a girl and asks, "Would you sleep with me for $1 million?” She responds, “Yes, of course!” Excited, he then asks, “What about for $1?” She indignantly replies, “Who do
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by ordu 11mo ago
int arr[4]; foo(arr); We can look at this code like it passes an array by reference, but how to pass `arr` by value?
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by ordu 11mo ago
> My definition of terrorism was always more in the lines of destroying life, not spreading it When you come to some place and change it drastically, is it a good thing or a bad thing? I don't think it is. There are some excuses t
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by ordu 11mo ago
So... Now we have a way to commit an act of biological terrorism on the whole Milky Way? Just get a hundred of tons of moss spores to space and accelerate them in all direction to spread them all over Milky Way. It is somehow a very satisfy
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by ordu 11mo ago
It is like that to me. I believe that I've just learned the proper motions for some interactions, and I can look to be very social person proficient in communications. It is easy for me, no problem. Till I hit some situation where I ne
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by ordu 11mo ago
> I’m not sure I even understand what’s gained by getting the LLM to write back about this stuff. I can explain, it is easy. For example, I don't understand how one can talk a kind to self-harm. I mean, if I didn't know such
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by ordu 11mo ago
> 1) You are NOT serious (in effort to be invested, resources, knowledge), then don't do it. I did it while being non-serious. I got like a half of a language working. And I don't regret it. It was fun. I've got a little
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by ordu 11mo ago
You know, there was an idea of a planned economy, which promised the best allocation of resources. But it didn't work in practice. What works is a chaos, when everyone does what they deem worthy to do. We can see, that the overall resu
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by ordu 11mo ago
> However, there is still a danger that scammers will call after 12 hours It is unlikely it will work. Scammers are talking all the time and creating a sense of urgency, people have issues to think and listen at the same time, and they
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by ordu 11mo ago
> did this do you any better than if you had searched a youtube video or some other source? Yes. With LLM it is easy to explore the domain from ground up, and it is interactive . You don't wait for some random guy in a video to c
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by ordu 1y ago
In Soviet Russia... Or not so Soviet but rather "modern" Russia, people are facing treason charges due to mistaken identity. Such a story unfolds right now: https://bereg.io/feature/2025/11/09/m
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by ordu 1y ago
Lol. I was confused by it also. I have no idea how much is 28 pounds, and I could imagine how a small dog can be anything from 1 kg to 10 kg. It happens that the motor weight is ~13kg, but I'm still not sure that 13kg dog counts as &qu
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by ordu 1y ago
It is an asocial state of mind. We have locks and security systems that prevent people from stealing. But if all people agreed to not steal, then we could save that efforts for something better. The ideal approach doesn't work with the
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by ordu 1y ago
It leads to a further ambiguity, because "value" is something that is assigned to a variable (or whatever we call it). For example some Rust code: let v1 = Vec::new(); let v2 = v1; The first line creates value of type Vec

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