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by riffraff 6mo ago
Perhaps one issue lacking discussion in the article is how easy it is to find devs? I've never worked in HPC but it seems it should be relatively simple to find a C/C++ dev that can pick up OpenMP, or one that already knows it, co
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by riffraff 6mo ago
How does this undercut apple? This entrenches apple's position as a provider of "verified" devices.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
if you're not american you should be worried about the bit of using AI to kill people which was the other major objection by Anthropic. (not that I think the US DoD wouldn't do that anyway, ToS or not.)
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by riffraff 6mo ago
eh, this stirs memories of the similar exam in Italy (abolished ~20 years ago). The doctor would also grab your testicles and ask to cough, to diagnose varicocele. I wonder how many young men have undiagnosed issues since the military exam
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by riffraff 6mo ago
good question! In this case, I think not: there's paving stones under the dirt, if the building had sunk those would have to be comparatively higher up (they don't weigh as much) but they still lay at the front of the steps. (or I
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I remember reading a book in the '80s where one of the characters was a food photographer and mentioned that some kind of plastic had to be used for the cheese in hamburgers or it wouldn't be realistic. But also many post 2000 cla
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by riffraff 6mo ago
The "mouth of Truth" has attracted tourists for centuries but it was just a drain cover, and it would fit your idea perfectly.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I believe in Rome, it was mostly flooding/alluvial debris. But yeah, sometimes buildings would collapse and they would just build again on top of the ruins. There definitely are instances of buildings being misaligned. In my ancestral
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I believe Athens was the first city to do this some decades ago. Once again Romans taking "inspiration" from the Greeks :)
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by riffraff 6mo ago
ah yes, I remember that one from some episode of Tasting History, but I could not remember the name! Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub_(drink)
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I have been to a bunch of galleries and seeing a painting in person doesn't usually make a difference for me compared to seeing it in a book. Guernica is one of the few that did. Perhaps because it's massive compared to other well
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I think you have to qualify what you think trump is doing knowingly or not. Lie in every press conference? Sure. Posting an image of himself as Jesus? The guy has dementia.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
Yeah I don't buy that xAI story, musk would have gotten a popular ai lab even without Twitter if he wanted. Except.. his ai lab is not popular. It has zero value and people only use it because it's on Twitter and they don't
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by riffraff 6mo ago
There's a certain set of changes which are just easier to review as stacked independent commits. Like, you can do a change that introduced a new API and one that updates all usages. It's just easier to review those independently.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I remember darcs fondly but even with tiny repos (maybe 5-6 people working on it) we hit the "exponential merge" issues. It worked just fine 99% of the time and then 1% it became completely unusable.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
Indeed! I got to about 20 with A-B-C but it somehow became harder after those. The multitude of C-something is obvious but I didn't realize there's so many A* languages (apl, ada, agda, alice, algol, applescript, apex, ampl, assem
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I don't like vinegar much either, but vinegar in drinks does have a certain tradition e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posca
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I see more and more non-tech people using LLMs. I think none of them are paying for it beyond techies, but this is definitely not because they hate AI.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
I remember working with darcs 20 years ago (pijul should be on that lineage) and cherry picking in that was way better than doing it with git since it meant "get this change and all the required ones" rather than "pick this c
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by riffraff 6mo ago
It's my favorite work of literature, I have gifted it to a bunch of people over the years and most have appreciated it too. You are bound to find at least one city that will stay with you.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
Xcancel.com still works ok to read occasional tweets.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
Bluesky and mastodon are the direction the EFF would like the internet to take, so their presence there is not tied to effectiveness in the same way.
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by riffraff 6mo ago
that seems wonderfully varied and entertaining :)
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by riffraff 7mo ago
That's impressive work! But how come the books are in mixed languages? Are they your books? Do you fix books for random people?
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by riffraff 7mo ago
> Without attacks from Hezballah and other Iranian backed groups Isreal would not have attacked targets in Lebanon Israel also bombed southern Syria, to "protect the druze community". Syria has not attacked Israel, there are so
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by riffraff 7mo ago
odd, I'd rather have Tolkienistic maps of the Earth :)
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Tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse(tags.pub)
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I thought that's supposed to be an Oryx (Qatar) while the camels are Saudi/UAE, but who knows.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
Perhaps the test was that if you finish the test you haven't passed it.
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by riffraff 7mo ago
I'm not sure, but I think it boils down to accepting that some things we were attached to are no longer important or normal (not just software building). But specifically to your examples, the latter: I think the "brute force the

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