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by pornel 3mo ago
The problem is that the LG company went full-spyware. It's not a mere risk, they turned hostile on their customers.
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by pornel 3mo ago
I think legislation could quite sensibly require OSes and browsers to have easy to enable well-integrated parental controls (which mostly already exists). Browsers could voluntarily send "I'm a child" flag, if you want to mak
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by pornel 3mo ago
But that's the thing - people can live with the contradictions. You can find people at a gas station who will totally agree that air pollution and CO2 emissions are killing people, but still fill up the tank.
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by pornel 3mo ago
I get that it makes less efficient resistive heating more economical, but the tank size seems like a red herring. If you go for a heat pump you can have a larger tank anyway, and heat it during the solar peak too. A larger tank will allow
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by pornel 3mo ago
I don't remember the details of Symbian any more, other than it was some ancient fork of C++ and clunky cooperative multitasking.
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HDR video in Firefox for Windows tech retrospective(mozillagfx.wordpress.com)
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by pornel 3mo ago
Nothing by Alex Karp is aligned with any users. This guy is a mercenary, and he seems to be in this job for the love of killing.
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by pornel 3mo ago
And prove you're not a child by handing over your ID or selfie to a company that Values Your Privacy according to their price list. Microsoft will snitch your Windows install GUID when you connect through a VPN. If you make your connec
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by pornel 3mo ago
billed for buying unit-hours from an operator... that's very carefully worded to make it sound like a corporation<>customer relationship and not socialism .
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by pornel 3mo ago
Use cargo tree to understand Rust/Cargo deps. The lock format is a multi-line TOML, with a varying number of lines per dep due to redundantly listing deps-of-deps, so a naive line count massively overstates the number. Cargo.lock conta
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by pornel 3mo ago
They don't want all Americans to reproduce. Making a law they want still needs a couple of Supreme Court decisions overturned.
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by pornel 3mo ago
I suspect we'll move away from pull requests, because in the LLM world they're the worst way of accepting a contribution. Verbose slop is painful to review, and it's dangerous to accept unreviewed code from a stranger. For a
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by pornel 3mo ago
I've watched an interview with Andrew Kelley: https://youtu.be/iqddnwKF8HQ where he seemed much more chill and level-headed.
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by pornel 3mo ago
Now you have to take your eyes off the road and look through three screens to find a new icon that showed up somewhere. Then keep not looking at the road and tap though multiple layers of settings screens to dismiss the false positive. Car
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by pornel 3mo ago
I'm certainly distracted by all the beeping and bonging the car makes.
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by pornel 3mo ago
Everything you can capture with Flipper has off-the-shelf cheap simple components you can find in your DIY electronics/maker store: IR leds, 433Mhz antennas. Seeed xiao is also small enough that you can stuff it and a relay into applia
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by pornel 3mo ago
I use it to clone remotes of "dumb" devices and emulate them with ESPHome to make them "smart" fully offline under my control.
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by pornel 3mo ago
LLM agents have plenty of "bad habits" that are impossible to get rid of. I suspect they're a side effect of reinforcement learning. Training objective rewards fewer tokens, so the results just need to be good enough most of
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by pornel 3mo ago
Apple used to know this. They've had animations after items were dismissed, but avoided animations before showing an item. Old Apple understood design is more than making things pretty. The glassy Apple is all about how it looks in a d
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by pornel 3mo ago
> But you can just use very similar structures yourself in C programs! You can prevent problems in C as well by construction, even when the compiler does not enforce it. Enforcement is the point. Otherwise you're just saying people
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by pornel 4mo ago
Thinking that C's lax null handling is fine because it traps misses the entire angle of preventing problems by construction, making invalid states unrepresentable. Having a program potentially crash is very weak compared to eliminating
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by pornel 4mo ago
Depends how you define "can", because you can invent your own conventions not checked by the compiler, or even make a compile-to-C language. But more directly, C barely lets you define non-NULL pointers. It doesn't have point
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by pornel 4mo ago
It's not switching costs, but trust. There's no congress. There's no policy (they've been making noises about not allowing AI regulation and now they're not-regulating it like a child paying with an on/off sw
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by pornel 4mo ago
Technically, absolutely. Whether it would suit you, depends if you can learn to like Rust's approach of moving more work to the type system. In Rust you do certain things the Rust's way, period. Programmers used to C being unopini
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by pornel 4mo ago
Machine-extruded text is not copyrightable, since there was no human creativity involved in producing it. (and if you argue the US models do produce copyrighted works, then oooops - whose copyright is it huh?)
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by pornel 4mo ago
This still criminalizes sharing "adult" information with people who are not on the government's approved list (the things states do to crush dissent are not safe for children.)
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by pornel 4mo ago
So that's how the sci-fi dystopias end up using "credits" for their money.
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by pornel 4mo ago
I was interested in Quake only because of the breakthrough 3D graphics, architecturally stunning levels, and later QuakeC. I don't care for the story, and I wouldn't play Doom++. Electric polar bears and some Shrub lava mule,
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by pornel 4mo ago
It's a shitty way to read anyway. An adventure game of finding the context and putting pieces together. I didn't see Carmack was replying to Sandy until the end of the post, and then I could only find 1/3rd of Sandy's po
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by pornel 4mo ago
I use Windows exclusively for games, but I don't like playing the game of disabling upsells, dodging unkillable Edge, and restoring secret pre-AI versions of Windows components.

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