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by pdpi 10mo ago
AI has an image problem around how it takes advantage of other people's work, without credit or compensation. This trend of saccharine "thank you" notes to famous, influential developers (earlier Rob Pike, now Rich Hickey) si
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I did basically that on my iPhone. My laptop was needing a cleanup, so I just wiped it and re-installed Sequoia. the Mac Studio never got the upgrade at all. If at some point I find there's something in Tahoe that I particularly need,
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> I think parts of Liquid Glass on macOS looks pretty bad. But I don't care that much about how things look, so it doesn't offend me. I don't care overmuch about the purely cosmetic side of it, but Liquid Glass looks absol
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It's low risk from the acquirer's point of view. Somebody else paid for that research, you just get to buy it once it's proven itself sufficiently to your liking.
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FLOSS is a textbook example of economic activity that generates positive externalities. Yes, those externalities are of outsized value to corporate giants, but that’s not a bad thing unto itself. Rather, I think this is, again, a textbook e
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It’s a bit… aggressively worded, yes, which does detract from the message. But it was the investigation itself that tickled me. I wish my abilities to debug “why is my laptop crashing” extended to the level of determining that this sort of
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Yes — That’s the bath water. The baby is the all the communal good that has come from FLOSS.
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That’s throwing the baby out with the bath water. The Open Source movement has been a gigantic boon on the whole of computing, and it would be a terrible shame to lose that ad a knee jerk reaction to genAI
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Asus ROG laptops are broken by design: a forensic deep dive(reddit.com)
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"Childlike wonder" is an interesting turn of phrase here, that reminds me of one specific game — Outer Wilds. The way I like to describe Outer Wilds is that you're exploring the star system in your grandma's back garden,
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Somebody walking around on site without high-vis gear is a blatantly obvious violation. Somebody operating heavy machinery while talking on the phone is another blatantly obvious violation. They’re mistakes you don’t get without a pervasive
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A famous case where this came into play was one of the Infowars defamation suits. Alex Jones’s lawyer accidentally sent the families’ lawyer the full contents of a phone backup. They notified Jones’s lawyer, and gave him some time to reply.
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Presumably you mean Intel’s integrated GPUs? They do have the Arc line of discrete GPUs now, and those are a bit more than a frame buffer with a clever blitter.
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Huh, that's pretty cool. Do you happen to have any links pointing at any of that stuff?
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Loaded up the models into my slicer, looks like a pretty straightforward print. Should print on anything "mainstream", I reckon. About 4h worth of printing on my Bambu P1S.
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Right, but the point stands — javac could've been implemented in whatever language you like, it doesn't have to be the same language as the JVM itself, and neither of those affect the fact that HashMap is a plain old java class, n
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by pdpi 10mo ago
It's worth noting that the "self-hosted compiler" thing here is a red herring. E.g. the JVM is a C++ project, but you can easily read the HashMap implementation, because it's part of the standard library, not part of the
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Hah! Didn't mean to imply I'm some sort of puzzle-solving genius, point was precisely the opposite — that solving those puzzles at a breakneck pace would still be a crazy amount of time.
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> Do you really need a fully connected mesh? Doesn't Thunderbolt just show up as a network connection that RDMA is ran on top of? If you daisy chain four nodes, then traffic between nodes #1 and #4 eat up all of nodes #2 and #3&#x27
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> Well, but wait, why doesn't each Parlor count? Is your expectation that somehow each of the 1400 puzzles in Blow's game will be like finding Room 46 in Blue Prince? I'm saying that, if you removed the Parlour, the Billia
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by pdpi 10mo ago
If you count names and causes of death as separate puzzles, Return of the Obra Dinn is around 100 puzzles long. The two Portal games are less than 100 puzzles put together. Blue Prince is what? 50ish elaborate, intricate puzzles? (darts and
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Yeah Ladybird is interesting, and might become the answer to my question at some point in the future. Unfortunately, it's not a good-enough answer today.
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At this point, is there any full-featured browser that is neither Blink-based nor burdened by a metric tonne of junk? With the way Firefox is going, Safari might well be the sole survivor, which is not a state of affairs I'm particul
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by pdpi 10mo ago
> Nations with anti-LGBT laws: 50% Muslim, 44% Christian (2024) This statistic makes the exact opposite of the point you're trying to make, though. Going through this table[0], and provided I didn't make any dumb mistakes with
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They've supported macOS through all of PowerPC, Intel, and now ARM. I'm sure Windows on ARM should be trivial for them.
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Given the news a few days ago about the changes in UI design leadership at Apple ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46142843 ), there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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If we're doing Nanowar of Steel, there's a more seasonally appropriate track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9WWz95ripA Or, because this is HN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
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Not surprised. The imagery and the aggression involved in the music can make it seem daunting and somehow damaging, but the metal community is surprisingly chill and friendly, and, sometimes, just so damned silly. E.g. here's Slipknot&
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By the same token, the sharp sign in C♯ is two plusses put together, and represents going a (half) step above C. Also, a minor second is one of the most dissonant intervals in western music, which is also a brilliant metaphor for how well C
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> "never had it in the first place" is absolutely correct. To be clear: I didn't mean to imply this is a bad thing. GNU's Not Unix, Pine Is Not Elm, TIP Isn't Pico all share one important characteristic — their a

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