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by pdpi 3mo ago
Don't get me wrong: this system where Sony (or whomever else) just deletes stuff from your account with no recourse is absolutely batshit insane. What I'm getting at is that people are getting the shape of the problem wrong (it wa
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by pdpi 3mo ago
I wasn't clear: My point is that limitations on transfer serve are proof that we've always been using licences. Yes, physical media being de facto irrevocable is the important part, but even that has caveats (such as Bluray AACS r
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by pdpi 3mo ago
The problem is that we've always been buying licences, it's just that the licence used to be attached to a physical object, so transferring the licence was as easy as transferring ownership of that physical object. It's nev
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Good catch, thanks.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
You can buy a RISC-V mainboard for the Framework Laptop, and it's relatively cheap (£170) https://frame.work/gb/en/products/deep-computing-risc-v-main...
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by pdpi 3mo ago
I'm surprised that the blog doesn't mention what, to me, is the most obvious reason not use Esc — because it's conspicuous as all hell! If somebody's at risk and wants to hide what they're doing, their abuser seeing
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Then you're going to love learning that Feynman worked on them, specifically the inter-processor routing. https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Well, it's more than just OpenGL bindings mostly because it's bindings for a bazillion other things too. Just look at the javadoc[0]. The non-binding stuff in there is just utilities to make the bindings at least somewhat idiomati
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by pdpi 3mo ago
As with anything IP-related, the data is licensed under whatever terms you choose to impose. That’s the extent of the consent you’ve provided.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
My read on Torvalds is that, coming from him, "asshole" is a much lesser criticism than "difficult".
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Casey Muratori and Jon Blow are both hyper-dogmatic "my way or the highway" types, and, crucially, neither of them has built any of the super high fidelity types of game that would require that level of optimisation. They're
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by pdpi 3mo ago
It's especially interesting when you consider that doing the Right Thing despite the consequences (like when challenging a tyrant) is seen as heroic. The logical consequence is that, if you view God as the ultimate tyrant, challenging
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Most people would what ? No, I don’t believe that’s true.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
If the only reason you didn't behave that way to begin with is that you lack the money and power to evade the consequences, then yes. You really are that person.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Yes, that's exactly my point — they're holding on to what is arguably a tiny kernel of truth, and blowing it way out of proportion. And, to be clear, "zealot" isn't meant as a compliment. And yes, coreutils is a gre
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by pdpi 3mo ago
I think we're in violent agreement, because when I said "all else being equal", I really meant all else. If a language's mental model doesn't mesh well with yours, that's in and of itself an ever-flowing foun
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Zealots are a problem in every community, sadly. Rust zealots are in the unfortunate position of having the tiniest bit of objective truth on their side — all else being equal, most C software would indeed benefit from being written in Rust
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by pdpi 3mo ago
The conversation amounts to “You should fuzz your code” “we’re already fuzzing the big external dependency, using their own fuzzing setup that they already use upstream”. It’s not nothing, but clearly not what Andrew meant.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
A sophisticated rewrite? Sure. This was a naive like-for-like rewrite, though.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
In the photography world, there's a similar story around the colour you get from straight-out-of-camera jpegs. Unless you shoot Fuji (where their absolutely incredible film emulation engine is one of the big differentiators), most seri
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by pdpi 3mo ago
I would argue the outcome of setting up a perverse incentive structure and failing to hire QA is pretty damn predictable, so that's entirely consistent with what I said :) On a more serious note, I'm not saying "just make pro
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Funny you used the word "developer", and I used the word "engineer", because that distinction is critical. A brick layer is not a civil engineer, and is not signing off on a construction project. Likewise, the developer
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Zig build scripts are arbitrary zig programs, so sandboxing those scripts is a Good Thing. Wasm might be overkill, but using something off-the-shelf that's specifically designed for sandboxing untrusted code is definitely the right app
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by pdpi 3mo ago
> We're still figuring all this out. The defining feature of engineering as a profession isn't how much we collectively know about it, it's the attitude we bring into day-to-day practice. Take something like the Sony BMG r
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by pdpi 3mo ago
> concurrency _is_ parallelism, but for I/O. Not really. They're just separate but related concepts. E.g. coroutines are a form of concurrency that doesn't have to involve any sort of I/O, you're just taking two
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by pdpi 3mo ago
We had that story[0] a couple of years back, about the guy who supposedly cheated by using vibrating anal beads. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37657925
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by pdpi 3mo ago
Kind of, but not really — Channels are FIFOs, and there's approximately zero work happening inside. Factorio belts can have insertions/removals at arbitrary points along the belt (including players grabbing stuff off the belt when
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by pdpi 3mo ago
The thing that is illegal is leveraging a monopoly position in one market to give yourself an advantage in another market. So Google is allowed to favour their own price comparison in, say, Hangouts, but not in Search.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
That one will never cease to impress me. Belts are basically the “Turing complete” of parallelism — I expect that every single data dependency pattern imaginable can be expressed as belts.
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by pdpi 3mo ago
It makes perfect sense — what separates Will from Ben and Matt is that they’re willing to acknowledge the difference exists. They’re willing to say “we have this, but we don’t have that”.

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