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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
The USA has one of the highest percentages of their population in prison. Even for minor stuff like beeing addicted to drugs. Looks pretty totalitarian to me.
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
I remember New Year's Eve in 2000. It felt like people really believed in a better future and they looked forward to experience the new millenium. In retrospective this looks like a depressing joke to me.
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
Money should only have the purpose of realizing ones goals, it has no purpose in itself. The whole society has lost its goal when the only target is to maximize money.
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
Children spend an insane amount of time in school yet it has little results. One overlooked problem is imo that you can't just waste their time with nonsense and get good results. A lot of people in the education system are so full of
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
I'm pretty sure most companies optimize for what the consumers actually want.
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
I recently swapped a broken display + the battery of a smartphone. It's definitely possible with recent devices (although apple might be different). You need some skill and patience to cut it open etc. without damage, so most people sh
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
> Now the mega-corporations decided to kill off Anna's Archive. You can still torrent the books from library genesis if they succeed. It would be a bit of an effort, but free books are currently the only positive thing (for me) in t
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
It's even more absurd now when the big AI companies train their LLMs on torrented books.
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by randomNumber7 5mo ago
Imho the problem is the fixation on parser generators and BNF. It's just a lot easier to write a recursive descent parser than to figure out the correct BNF for anything other than a toy language with horrible syntax.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
The average coder in the 1970s was a lot smarter than today. Think about the people who would be interested to start a career in this field at that time.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
They know their developers and engineers suck almost as hard as their management decisions so they added some more redundancy.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> make each unit responsible for detecting its own faults and shutting up if it can't guarantee correctness Does this mean you have to trust the already compromised system?
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
For errors due to radiation the probability is extremely low, since it would need to flip the same bit at the same time in two different places.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
How do you know that op doesn't know what he is talking about? I have written code for real time distributed systems in industrial applications. It runs since years 24/7 and there never was a failure in production. I also think na
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
We have a lot more software developers than 50 years ago and intelligence is still normally distributed.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
I think people mean so many different things when talking about agile. I'm pretty sure a small team of experts is a good fit for critical systems. A fixed amount of meetings every day/week/month to appease management and rush
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
It depends on by what metric you define what is optimal. For the health system or public transport the nash equilibrium of offer and demand is not what feels optimal to most people. For manufacturing s.th. like screws, nails or hammers; I r
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> There is no money in generative AI. It's really annoying that there is so much AI generated music on youtube. The problem though is more that you get tricked into listening to it by "creators". These people just squeeze
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
I just open ymovies.cc
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
Someone who is never rational is equally bad as someone who claims there is nothing else in humans.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> For some even xAI is good fit. Grok makes sense if you want s.th. less censored that is not biased towards woke ideology. I don't see how this matters for coding though. I only use it to give me a summary of recent news (so I don&
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> Every single comment here seems to confirm the above. The population on Hacker News heavily skewed towards tech workers so I wouldn't draw a conclusion from that.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
Do you know game theory? If you look at it through this perspective this doesn't sound like a good strategy. Basically the classical prisoner dilemma. The other devs with less moral can then outperform you. It could be a valid strategy
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> I'm not some brilliant engineer who can completely reinvent how something is done With an honest evaluation of your own capabilities you are already far above average. Also its hard to see the insane amount of work that often was
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> FIDE and chess.com feel they have no choice but to accommodate his whims FIDE and chess.com did behave pretty shitty sometimes and I think its good Magnus is in a position to counter them a bit.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
These look mostly like toy examples where the type of the pointer can be inferred from the return values of the functions. How do I call this function in swift? SDL_AudioSpec* SDL_LoadWAV_RW(SDL_RWops * src, in
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
It's not necessary to rewrite perfectly fine libraries written by exceptional programmers. And whoever thinks it is an easy task (sorry rust guys) is severely suffering from the dunning-kruger effect.
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
It's not possible (or at least extremely hard) to prove that the final weights they come up with resulted from copyright infringement. Thats why they are evaluated so high on the stock market. Basically the will steal all the value of
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by randomNumber7 6mo ago
> Why would a writer put an article online if ChatGPT will slurp it up and regurgitate it back to users without anyone ever even finding the original article? I'm happy to miss all the stuff that was written just for the financial b

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