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by pdpi 5mo ago
Replace "their day" with any other topic. The important part of the statement is that most people would find it hard to write poetry in any given specific form (be it a haiku, limerick, or sonnet in iambic pentameter), because kno
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by pdpi 5mo ago
I think there's one more factor that is crucially important — greedy people lack long-term vision, and care a lot more about money now than they do about potentially much more money in the future. I suppose it's kind of interest
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by pdpi 5mo ago
It’s not just the kernel. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a fair few userspace services spawning a thread per core.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
If you are an intuitionist, excluded middle isn't an axiom, but is still provable/assertable on a case-by-case basis. This is a scenario where asserting it is entirely reasonable.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
The Cloudflare block has been in effect since December 2024, so it's been in effect almost a year and a half, and Congress is at the "will act", not "has acted" stage. And yes, of course you're right, that peop
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> The internet is still needed for delivering legal streams of matches. So there’s never going to be any pressure to turn off the entire internet. Cloudflare serves a whole bunch of legal and genuinely important services, and yet there w
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> It absolutely is not lack of rigor and discipline - He was dishonest about it. In a way, it's weaponised lack of rigour and discipline, which is the absolute easiest form of dishonesty to justify to yourself.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Not that I need to tell you of all people, but I do find that Rust's editions system is one of the better ways to minimise this issue.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
> you're much better off browsing r/fanfiction. The punchline is buried a little bit too deep, but pretty sure they're just playing along.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
Your explanation is literally "blame somebody else, shift responsibility". It's a pretty straightforward case of assuming bad intentions. Obviously, I don't know for a fact what Anthropic's motivations are, but I do
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by pdpi 5mo ago
A less cynical explanation is that it helps decouple product failures from support failures. Last thing you want is for your customer support to break whenever your product breaks.
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by pdpi 5mo ago
The issue with C is that every single use of a pointer needs to come with safety invariants (at its most basic: when you a pass a pointer to my function, do I. take ownership of your pointer or not?). You cannot legitimately expect people t
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by pdpi 6mo ago
You can't (in theory) get a warrant "just because", you need to state the grounds for the search in your application for a warrant.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
If this was a "your company" problem, it would sort itself out soon enough. The real concern is that it might a "your industry" problem.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
Had one of those happen in high school — science teacher talking about colour blindness and shows students the colour blindness tests, one student assumes he’s being trolled and that one of the test images was a solid colour.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
It's specifically aimed at Framework, though, not PCs in general. Framework is very much a premium brand (where the premium experience is centred on repairability/upgradeability), and don't have the economies of scale Apple d
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by pdpi 6mo ago
> But I guess I am not in a big group. Big enough that they specifically targeted that exact group with this laptop.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
It's now new, it's the motherboard they already ship with the regular FW13. Because the bits are mostly interchangeable, they just let you order the FW13 Pro with the AMD motherboard.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
Unfortunately, we live in a world where most companies pay lip service to their stated value proposition, while racing to the bottom.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
You choose not to ship maybe 90 of those 99, because it's obvious before shipping that they won't work. The rest you have to ship before it becomes obvious they're not that last blessed one.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
That works great on a laptop. Less so on a Mac Studio, using non-Apple displays.
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by pdpi 6mo ago
> the right tradeoff for most consumers It's really easy to fail to see this in the heat of things. macOS has a feature where it puts an orange dot on the top right corner of your screen whenever your microphone is recording. That o
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by pdpi 6mo ago
I still prefer macOS to desktop Linux or (yikes) Windows, but the margin has gotten smaller over the last several years. Unfortunately, that's less because Linux or Windows have gotten that much better, and more because macOS has stall
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by pdpi 6mo ago
In GDPR terms, the point they're making is that people who own Flock hardware are the Data Controllers, and Flock act only as Data Processors. I'm not sure how (whether?) those roles map to the CCPA, and whether any court of law w
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by pdpi 6mo ago
One specific bit of advice in there that I disagree with is keeping just one vault. Rather, I find that having one vault per topic/project is the right approach. The reason for having multiple vaults is simple: I find that the usabilit
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by pdpi 6mo ago
Look at the whole history of computing. How many times has the pendulum swung from thin to fat clients and back? I don't think it's even mildly controversial to say that there will be an inflection point where local models get Goo
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by pdpi 6mo ago
The way I taught myself to juggle was something I don't see very often in guides, but I think works quite well — I taught myself to juggle two balls in one hand , until I could do it with both hands, and then three ball juggling with
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by pdpi 6mo ago
> It's much more likely they've simply updated their alogorithms and the EFF doesn't hit some engagement metric. It's even more likely that Twitter's audience in 2018 was fairly supportive of the EFF's goal
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by pdpi 6mo ago
The formal/informal second person thing is fascinating to me as a Portuguese speaker. European Portuguese, like many (most?) Romance languages, has the informal/formal second person split. Brazilian Portuguese has dropped the info
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by pdpi 6mo ago
Oh the argument would never be phrased that way. Rather, you start from the completely uncontroversial point that a CR2032 battery is a consumable, come up with some reason why you can't use a bare cell like that and need some sort of

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