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by roca 3y ago
There's a clear difference between "omniscient" debugging and "time travel" debugging. The latter almost always refers to debuggers that let you move backwards in time but only let you access state at the "curr
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by roca 3y ago
rr and Undo are about the same here: they support multiple threads but run all threads on a single core.
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by roca 3y ago
Surely it's "vias ferrata".
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by roca 3y ago
Maybe. But I'm wary of the argument "we need to lean into the existential threat of AI because of those other existential threats over there that haven't arrived yet but definitely will". It all depends on what exactly y
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by roca 3y ago
I wonder if AI is going to change the equation here --- by making it much cheaper to run spam campaigns against thousands of different small forums.
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by roca 3y ago
We live in a golden age. Worldwide poverty is at historic lows. Billions of people don't have to worry about where their next meal is coming from or whether they'll have a roof over their head. Billions of people have access to mo
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by roca 3y ago
We will soon find that story generation is easily automated.
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by roca 3y ago
Your version of history entirely ignores the fact that Russia recently grabbed Donbas and then Crimea.
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by roca 3y ago
> NATO (the US) is using Ukraine to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian So you believe that most Ukrainians actually want to surrender to Russia?
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by roca 3y ago
TeX/LaTeX don't compete on performance and don't handle dynamic document updates. Browser text layout is a much harder problem.
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by roca 3y ago
Got a reference for that? To be clear: I've never heard of any such thing. I happen to work for Google, but I'm open the possibility that this happened and I didn't hear about it.
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by roca 3y ago
Also, this is a great example of a recurring problem: successful organisations venerate their culture, so that every part of it is assumed to be essential to their success until very painful experiences prove otherwise. Another example: Lin
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by roca 3y ago
This was a terrible way to run a company then and now. It leads to an incoherent product strategy. It doesn't provide the persistence required to pursue strategies that take many years to eventuate. Google succeeded in spite of this cu
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by roca 3y ago
There are a lot of high profile Rust adoption stories where the developers involved are C and C++ experts. E.g. Rust in the Linux kernel, Rust in the Windows kernel, Rust in Firefox, Rust in Android.
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by roca 3y ago
Whenever you run one of these tools on a file you downloaded from the Internet, you're relying on the tool having no exploitable security bugs. Regardless of whether or not $PAGER was intended to be a "load bearing security comp
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by roca 3y ago
I don't know why people dislike THE LAST BATTLE. Too Christian I guess.
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by roca 3y ago
MAROONED IN REALTIME, A FIRE UPON THE DEEP and A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY are excellent. I could re-read them. THE PEACE WAR and RAINBOWS END are just average and I would only read them once. CHILDREN OF THE SKY is awful and I wish I hadn't
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by roca 3y ago
IBM bought them in 2003.
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by roca 3y ago
Security: with local storage it's on you to make sure that your NAS or whatever is constantly up-to-date with security patches. And that's assuming your NAS provider keeps providing patches. It's on you to do all necessary mo
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by roca 3y ago
What exactly do you think is substandard about Firefox?
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by roca 3y ago
One thing the "no deletion" argument misses is that sometimes you have to delete data for policy reasons. At least two cases are important: * Users ask you to delete their data. If you don't, and they find out you didn&#x27
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by roca 3y ago
Please file an rr issue and tell us more about your situation. Memory size and traffic shouldn't really be a problem. Multicore parallelism is the main problem. I've used rr with some very memory-hungry apps with good results.
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by roca 4y ago
There's a spectrum here. At one end of the spectrum is a thought experiment: one person has box with a button. Press the button and with probability 3/4 everyone dies, but with probability 1/4 everyone is granted huge benefit
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by roca 4y ago
To me, it matters whether I am responsible for wrecking humanity or someone else is, even if the end result for humanity is the same. (That's partly a Christian thing.) Just running away and hiding in a cave probably isn't the rig
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by roca 4y ago
We simply should not build systems that we have ethical obligations to. And when people inevitably do anyway, I say we should hold such creators responsible for protecting their creations from suffering.
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by roca 4y ago
It's a very important point that the insanely rapid pace of change is itself a huge problem. We're still in the same (northern hemisphere) school year in which ChatGPT was released; teachers and students just started trying to und
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by roca 4y ago
Car crashes don't affect the trajectory of human civilization all that much.
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by roca 4y ago
That's not the question I asked. FWIW I'm actually part of one of these groups!
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by roca 4y ago
What I want to know is, what gives OpenAI and other relatively small technological elites permission to gamble with the future of humanity? Shouldn't we all have a say in this?
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by roca 4y ago
That particular anti-vax theory doesn't hold water when you consider that New Zealand vaccinated almost everyone with mRNA (Pfizer) prior to COVID spreading widely, with excellent results. https://www.frontiersin.org/ar

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