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by positron26 6mo ago
GNU didn't kick anything off. It was an attempt to document something that was already in full swing. What was in full swing was Open Source, powered by scratch-your-own-itch. What was taking time was for the business world to learn
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by positron26 6mo ago
Bro just throw out your privileges or pick some solid ground instead of dragging us all into the mud.
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by positron26 6mo ago
> Rare Earth Minerals... ...unable to repair the damage any time soon (probably for decades) Look bro, if we can make SR-71s out of pizza ovens, I'm pretty sure somewhere in the CIA can scrounge up a few ounces of gadoluminium. Tan
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by positron26 6mo ago
When will this concern farm end? Internet is ant-milling harder than a model gone psychotic on synthetic data. Call me when it's over. Back to the mines. The Vulkan only writes itself when prompted with well-conditioned problem stat
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by positron26 6mo ago
Let me write a more interesting body. So hiding is the most rational - the only - strategy of survival. In the beginning, you reached out with reckless abandon. It was fun to banter with dogs online. Nobody would ever see unless they w
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by positron26 7mo ago
SIMT is distinct model. Ergonomics are wildly different. Instead of contracting a long iteration by packing its steps together to make them "wider", you rotate the iteration across cores. The critical difference is that SIMD and
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by positron26 7mo ago
> Most popular codecs were designed decades ago, when video resolutions were far smaller. As resolutions have exploded, those fixed-size minimum units now represent a much smaller fraction of a frame — which means far more of them can be
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by positron26 8mo ago
> However, current predictions about the future of software development (and the world in general) are speculative. It's amazing to me how those willing to seize on the speculative nature of any ANY uncertainty cannot recognize the
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by positron26 8mo ago
> most of the people that were the loudest won't say they were wrong I was so expecting to find this wind-up aimed at those peddling the "AI is hype" laziness. It's laziness because they have little CS fundamentals to
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by positron26 8mo ago
The reality of good competition is that competitors are built on good, cheap open source. No matter how decentral, a lot of users will want guards at the offramps and onramps. The only path for... everyone to create stronger competitive c
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by positron26 8mo ago
Just can't help humming in my head reg yoo la toe ree cap chur Any system that can juice itself by increasing both funding and cost will scale both until the natural incentive gradients (are you smart? do you actually want to do stu
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by positron26 8mo ago
Finding the optimal sub-language is about API coupling with client code, making a moving sweet spot for where bread & butter techniques live.
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by positron26 8mo ago
So now we're pro-slaughter and low-yield agriculture as long as we get to ride the keyboard eh?
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by positron26 8mo ago
Are there still people under the impression that the correct way to use Stack Overflow all these years was to copy & paste without analyzing what the code did and making it fit for purpose? If I have to say, we're just waiting for
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by positron26 8mo ago
> tells ICE to seize all weapons in the US Outside the constitution, outside their jurisdiction, and not lawful. Popular sovereignty always works. One way or another. The most wrong opinion in the debate is to claim that we will be puni
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by positron26 8mo ago
You would have been able to see this by looking at a graph of my karma against the hour of day. There's truly an ideological dispersion across the Atlantic.
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by positron26 8mo ago
> your comment sounds like American don't want to protest against Trump because it is too dangerous At this time, we are still openly committed to the 2nd amendment in defense of the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and so on. I am encouraging o
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by positron26 8mo ago
> How did I lump both together when I specifically called them out separately, lol. Dude, "American OSS and American corporations" is simple conjunction, a union, treating two things as one so that you can make a single predica
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by positron26 8mo ago
The trend is global and inherent to online psychological coupling and self-selection bias. The longer we go without healthy information spaces, the more the population will regress. There does however seem to be a "free/libre&quo
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by positron26 8mo ago
> I don't think anyone is confused about American OSS and American corporations run amok... You literally just lumped it all together, exactly the fallacy I'm voicing my concern about. > foreign-owned proprietary OSS is glob
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by positron26 8mo ago
As a US citizen, when I see the phrase "European digital sovereignty," I'm a bit concerned that our OSS enthusiast and activist allies in that geography are learning to associate American OSS with American tech companies and
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by positron26 8mo ago
Leptos etc. WASM is mature enough to just go for it. Same code sharing arrangement as using TS on the backend but using the backend language on the frontend instead.
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by positron26 8mo ago
Yeah. You can bind C in swift. You can expose C interfaces from Rust. Write non-iOS code in Rust, then bind. Now you have iOS support with common client code in Rust. You can compile Rust to WASM. You can run Rust on the backend. It&#
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by positron26 9mo ago
Any "exposure" economy has real money somewhere else turning the wheel. If that money isn't sensitive to healthy signal, neither is the downstream. Well-wishers are just alternative perpetual motion machine enthusiasts.
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by positron26 9mo ago
What even is "engagement" here? Seems like abstract harm that rationalizes whatever emotion the reader already feels.
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by positron26 9mo ago
Without real finance model innovation, what returns?
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by positron26 9mo ago
Anyone who hates driving, being stuck in traffic, anyone who benefits when the cost of transportation is cheaper, anyone who hates insurance, all of society benefits. In some parallel universe self driving and fusion are both crash project
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by positron26 9mo ago
All formal methods came from natural. Somewhere in the meta-language stack, without natural methods, any system is stuck within an inescapable well. Bad formalisms are stuck and wrong. Natural methods are bad, but not stuck. They can ar
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by positron26 9mo ago
> trying to legislate good use into licenses Text files don't have power. Appealing to old power institutions to give them power is not the way to create new power either. Legacy systems with entrenched power have tended to insula
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by positron26 9mo ago
It's difficult to infer what kind of nuts is going on here.

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