rcxdude

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631.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
Yeah, it's also cleaner to be able to mark particular reads and writes as having side effects as opposed to having it be a property of the variable.
632.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
Yes, but undefined behaviour is undefined behaviour, and that behaviour can legally be that the code is not emitted at all, volatile (or any other side effect) or not. (and compilers do reason about undefined behaviour when optimising, so t
633.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
And now that they're trying to push up the margins and the streaming ecosystem is fragmenting making everything into a series of bundles again, piracy is on the rise again.
634.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
I would suspect the causation (if such a correlation does exist) goes in the other direction (or more likely, has a common cause), given how early handedness tends to appear (and how it can be quite resistant to pressure to conform).
635.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
That's only meaningful if the messiness of the handwriting correlates significantly with the handedness. (and none out of thousands seems statistically unlikely: China has lower numbers of reported left-handers, but it's 3% vs 10%
636.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
Maybe, but this kind of thing could also influence what it 'wants' to do.
637.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
NASA hasn't had infinite budget for a long time. They didn't even have it when they were building the voyager probes (they were the budget version of what they wanted to build).
638.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
What they have is surprisingly fragmentary. For the recent software issue, they had to be very conservative in what they changed because they aren't 100% sure about the details of the ISA on the actual spacecraft (due to amiguity betwe
639.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
>why aren't my neurons individually conscious? How do you know that they are not? Any subjective experience they have does not have to overlap with yours. (same with your skull, skeleton, or any other subset of your body). (for me,
640.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
It could be a reasonable argument from the point of view of scale: you need a lot more energy for cooking than for lighting (even with incandescent lightbulbs, though they were a fair bit dimmer and colder in the earlier days of them).
641.
by rcxdude 5mo ago
More likely, those commercially licensed libraries will wind up needing to adjust their terms to allow for this kind of release. (Also, legal will basically never give an 'all clear'. That's not their job, their job is to inf
642.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
If there's one theme that's pretty consistent across all the reports I've seen on LLMs for coding, it's that they are both capable of very impressive feats and also capable of screwing up the simplest things.
643.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Unsafe blocks are you saying to the compiler 'trust me bro, I know this is safe'. But often that relies on some property of the code being true in order for it to actually be safe. Generally speaking, the expectation in rust is th
644.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
I dunno, I am commenting on it mainly because I find the intensity of the anger and accusations of bad faith to be pretty out of proportion with what's actually happening, and I kind of value pushing back on such things to try to moder
645.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Hmmm, given the general mood in this case, I feel like there's a lot of people keen to find any criticism of the code they can and amplify it as possible. Most of it strikes me as relatively shallow at the moment, though (that is, apar
646.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Arguing against a particular criticism of something doesn't mean you entirely agree with that thing, or that you are subservient to it at all.
647.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
I think framing such discussions as a war is not really going to result in a good discussion.
648.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Generally when people are doing this, it's not out of a desire to defend the party being attacked, but because they value some principle that they think is being violated in the attack. Most often this is just caring about what's
649.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Maybe, I don't think that reputation really should transfer anyway, and it's not something I would consider necessary for using it. (I mean, some scrutiny is obviously good, but I don't think it needs to be as big as Bitwarde
650.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Sure, but vaultwarden as a system would be entirely usable, I don't think a lot of it is really relying on the bitwarden compatibility for much more than a little convenience.
651.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
This is what made me and others nervous when they announced a huge investment into the company a few years ago. It was already a good and self-sustaining product, and taking on that investment was just going to create an expectation of retu
652.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
There are reports from people who manage security bugs in OSS that there has been a big uptick in reports: initially low quality ones that were mostly bogus, but now many more legitimate ones as well.
653.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Yes, at least in certain sectors.
654.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
It's not hard to get them to say "I don't know", and they will do so regularly. It's hard to get them to say "I don't know" reliably (i.e. to say it when they don't actually know and to not say
655.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
You quoted something and them lept to a conclusion which is sufficiently baffling I don't know how to untangle whatever misconceptions led to it.
656.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
I'm not really sure where you got that idea from, but I don't think it's worth continuing to try to discuss it.
657.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
The difference is an assumption of good faith, for the most part, and that is to some extent modulated by how reasonable people believe a large scale LLM and/or rust rewrite is a reasonable idea.
658.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
I mean, that doesn't exclude the outcome that it gets merged.
659.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Probably because when C was standardised there were already multiple implementations, and this was an area where implementations differed but it wasn't viewed as important enough to bring them in line with one approach.
660.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Or, also, in the reverse direction, if the interviewer is wrong about it and can't be convinced otherwise, it's probably not a great place to work.

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