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by robmccoll 7mo ago
Until you start using frameworks like Spring and then everything is so painfully magic that no one knows how the program actually runs.
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
Since modshim isn't money patching and appears to only be wrapping the external API of a package, if the change is deep enough inside the package, wouldn't you end up reimplementing most of the package from the outside?
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
How did we go from ho-hum status quo to burn it all down in the US? Especially when the ho-hum status quo was pretty great for the people in power?
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
Yes! And now Meta is chasing that too and failing. It's not clear to me what advantage developing its own LLMs affords Meta. Google and the other platform companies, I get it, but it's not like Meta is using what's unique abo
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
Helping the catastrophes along is Fallout.
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
I sometimes run Xubuntu on my phone via termux and proot. The hardware we carry around in our pockets is ridiculously capable.
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
The idea of selling things like our strategic helium supply for $460M to "pay off the debt" would be like me selling bricks from the foundation of my house for a penny to "pay off my mortgage".
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
It's quite possible to be very successful marketing and selling things that aren't real. The market consists of humans, not perfectly rational machines.
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
I think you have a rather idealized model of IP in mind. In practice, IP law tends to be an expensive weapon the wealthy major corporations use against the little guy. Deep enough pockets and a big enough warchest of broad parents will drai
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
As described, this would not be the same thing. If the AI is looking at the source and effectively porting it, that is likely infringement. The idea instead should be "implement Minecraft from scratch" but with behavior, graphics,
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
Speaking of modding desktop environments, has anyone figured out how to get back the old border radius in macOS Tahoe?
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
If you want tweaks that are a little more first party, there's always PowerToys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
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by robmccoll 7mo ago
I think the problem is exactly the opposite. The federal government has the total combined power and scale that it does because we are a massive and complex modern nation. That's inevitable. The problem that we are seeing is that the r
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by robmccoll 8mo ago
They also bought and killed texture, a fantastic cross-platform magazine subscription service, to somehow further Apple News. I subscribed to Texture on Android. I wouldn't give a dollar to Apple News even if I was in the Apple ecosyst
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by robmccoll 9mo ago
Yes! You are best served by learning what a tool is doing for you by doing it yourself or carefully studying what it uses and obfuscates from you before using the tool. You don't need to construct an entire functioning processor in an
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by robmccoll 9mo ago
Because that's the entire point of college. It's supposed to teach you the fundamentals - how to think, how to problem solve, how to form mental models and adapt them, how things you use actually work. Knowing how different sortin
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by robmccoll 10mo ago
I don't think most software houses spend enough time even focusing on engineering time. CI pipelines that take tens of minutes to over an hour, compile times that exceed ten seconds when nothing has changed, startup times that are much
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by robmccoll 10mo ago
That's the thing about investing in scientific research, especially toward the basic science end of the spectrum - the real benefit is seen years down the line after technology transfer to public-private partnerships and private indust
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by robmccoll 10mo ago
This is interesting, but how do you bootstrap it? How does this little software enclave get key material in that doesn't transit untrusted memory? From a file? I guess the attacker this is guarding against can read parts of memory remo
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by robmccoll 10mo ago
This is not my experience on the latest version of Chrome Android (142.0.7444.171). It did not crash for me.
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by robmccoll 11mo ago
What's the reason for moving from ASCII CHAR to UTF16 WCHAR rather than UTF8 CHAR? I wouldn't think any parts of the codebase that don't need to render the string or worry about character counts would need to be modified. Edi
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by robmccoll 11mo ago
Let's say the only devices you can get that will run YouTube are running i/pad/visionOS or Android and that those will only run on controlled hardware and that the hardware will only run signed code. Now let's say the on
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by robmccoll 11mo ago
In single threaded scripting languages, it has arisen as a way to allow overlapping computation with communication without having to introduce multi threading and dealing with the fact that memory management and existing code in the languag
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by robmccoll 1y ago
I'm more concerned about added sugar in other foods. If you're trying to keep your sugar intake down, cutting sugary sodas seems pretty obvious to me, but remembering to be careful about bread or tomato paste or anything else you
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by robmccoll 1y ago
Could you intern strings? Seems like you're likely to see the same tags and attributes over and over.
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by robmccoll 1y ago
Data sovereignty and distributed identity. It's trying to avoid a centralized authority on where data is stored or how to resolve and trust an identity other than DNS and using signatures to validate data that you didn't get direc
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by robmccoll 1y ago
Unless I'm in an interface and inheritance heavy codebase. Then the first place it jumps to is rarely the one I wanted.
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by robmccoll 1y ago
You are a state machine. You have finite internal state that roughly adheres to a particular structure, you take in input, and as a function of internal state and input, you produce output and a new state. Sufficiently large models are a ro
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by robmccoll 1y ago
Fair. That does seem to be happening unfortunately.
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by robmccoll 1y ago
I agree with you. I get tired of people complaining about "cancel culture" and the reactions of private individuals and groups to the opinions and actions of other private individuals and groups. People have the right to say what

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