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by pizza234 6mo ago
Better or not, even the latest generation AMD GPUs don't automatically guarantee a very stable VFIO, which makes the technology still immature.
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by pizza234 6mo ago
These points are not (all) technically correct; for example, Windows does not restart "automatically" - it gives multiple options (this is important for dual booting). Besides that, the root discussion is having a dual boot vs a v
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by pizza234 6mo ago
Careful system administration and web browsing were relatively safe; nowadays, even upgrading the local libraries carries risk that must be assessed.
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by pizza234 6mo ago
> Because I would have to reboot into windows including any active applications I have? In a gaming-only setup, Windows requires virtually no maintenance. Plus gaming itself is a monotasking activity. I actually find it positive having t
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by pizza234 6mo ago
I used vfio in the past, and it's not true that setups like vfio or custom kernel/virtualization "just" work. For starters, custom setups need management. There are even latest generation GPUs whose drivers are not fully
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by pizza234 6mo ago
I've been using TB for a decade and I too can't find anything better (even if my use case is very simple). However, I find TB's development very misguided - it's evident to me that they give very little priority to sta
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by pizza234 7mo ago
There are several legal issues, including: - You created profiles for students without consent - You enabled anonymous posts about identifiable individuals - There was no effective moderation/control system Core issue: once you're
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by pizza234 7mo ago
There are places where car is simply the mean of transport - to the point where using the car is preferred to literally a five minutes walk. In contexts like this, using a car is perceived as a right - restricting usage doesn't make
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by pizza234 7mo ago
> Can someone knowledgeable comment on this? It seems extreme to say there's no safe level. Not a direct answer, but the article reports the maximum exceeding amount: > Maximum concentrations reached 351 mg/kg, dramatically
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by pizza234 8mo ago
>> In other words up to 10% of all the crashes Firefox users see are not software bugs, they're caused by hardware defects! > Bold claim. From my gut feeling this must be incorrect; I don't seem to get the same amount of
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by pizza234 8mo ago
> There was a level of creativity back in those days that we seem to not have as much nowaydays. Now things seem to be based more on math and things like signing. Copy protections nowadays are actually extremely complex - just look at De
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by pizza234 9mo ago
> the Carbinieri(Italian FBI) Carabinieri are actually military-status police force in Italy, which is a different setup from the FBI in the US. Calling them the Italian FBI, is ironically quite funny, because in Italy they’re the butt o
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by pizza234 9mo ago
> Linux is still not user friendly enough. Products from two decades ago are more user friendly than modern "mainstream" disros. > Gimp is an ugly beast with a bad name. Nobody's using that unless they're a Linux n
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by pizza234 9mo ago
It cuts both ways - in those environments, very unhealthy lifestyles (high stress, drug abuse…) are quite common, if not the norm, so even people starting with healthy lifestyles are under significant pressure.
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by pizza234 10mo ago
"Zero cost abstractions" refers to some features of the language that provide functionalities with no runtime cost, e.g. (safe) iterators, not to a presumed simplicity of the whole language. Therefore, this is not mutually exclu
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by pizza234 10mo ago
Very hard to estimate, depending on the domain, I'd say 1.5-2x as much. When it comes to programming in languages and frameworks I'm familiar with, there is virtually no increase in terms of speed (I may use it for double checks),
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by pizza234 10mo ago
It really depends on what's being learned. For example, take writing scripts based on the AWS SDK. The APIs documentation is gigantic (and poorly designed, as it takes ages to load the documentation of each entry), and one uses only a
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by pizza234 10mo ago
If UI bugs are really the issue, then one just sends patches to the upstream project - I'm sure the maintainers will be happy to receive fixes for broken menus. A fork for this is useless, and guaranteed to be abandoned.
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by pizza234 10mo ago
That's very subjective. Concepts like iterations are inevitable, and they don't look great in a declarative language like HCL. I also find refactorings considerably harder in a declarative language, since configurations have a rig
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by pizza234 11mo ago
From Calibre's repository README: > Supports hundreds of AI models via Providers [...] no AI related code is even loaded until you configure an AI provider. This fork is pretty much useless.
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by pizza234 11mo ago
This sentiment reflect the type of project worked on - small ones. As projects get bigger, more type information gets lost, and that's why it needs to be compensated, typically via automated (unit) testing. After having worked with gra
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by pizza234 11mo ago
> Many more elaborate projects exist. My favorite is the one that compiles something similar to Turbo Pascal to C64 6502 It depends on the purpose. The reference IDE is intended to produce real-world programs (it includes tools for sprit
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by pizza234 11mo ago
Shoes was very limited, and could only be used for extremely simple applications.
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by pizza234 11mo ago
VB6 deserves the huge popularity it had, but the reason wasn't because of the language design, rather, its (extremely) rapid GUI application development. It was actually a two-edged sword - it facilitated writing spaghetti code. > Y
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by pizza234 11mo ago
> Rust spends almost all of its complexity on eliminating weaknesses that don't even make the top 5 in either list Uh? Number 2 in CWE is an out-of-bounds write, and the same vulnerability is number 1 in the KEV list.
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by pizza234 11mo ago
> Rust's popularity seems to be dropping or holding steady in indexes like TIOBE, and a lot of big "influencers" seem to be over Rust's hype cycle It is correct that the hype is past its peak, however, the TIOBE trend
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by pizza234 1y ago
Development of a product like ChatGPT has been orders of magnitude more resource-intenstive than the Pirate Bay, in any way. It's perplexing how when some think of LLMs, they talk like they could develop one in an afternoon; it's
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by pizza234 1y ago
> Anyway C++ isn't as complicated as people say, most of the so called complexity exists for a reason, so if you understand the reasoning it tends to make logical sense. I think there was a comment on HN by Walter Bright, saying tha
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by pizza234 1y ago
Critiques like this dismissis AI as a bunch of multiplications, while in reality it is backed by extensive research, implementation, and data preparation. There's an enormous complexity behind, making it difficult to categorize as simp
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by pizza234 1y ago
This issue is not black and white. It is accepted, within limits, for humans do transformative work, but it's not been yet established which the limits for AIs are, primarily (IMO): 1. whether the work is transformative or not 2. wheth

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