samatman

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by samatman 2y ago
Those who might care to watch one of those videos themselves, might draw a different conclusion from what you've expressed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtnX1EJHbC0 His interview with Unix Today is arguably a better
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by samatman 2y ago
Git succeeded to large degree because of GitHub, yes. But that isn't how it happened at all. They built an amazing product that people loved, there was nothing even vaguely like it before, and it earned its adoption through providing
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by samatman 2y ago
A classic. Every time I see that link I read the whole thing starting from the new beginning. ...oops
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by samatman 2y ago
Unlike batteries, solar panels, and windmills, nuclear fuel can be economically recycled. Russia does so already. The only reason it isn't prevalent in the West is because there's so much uranium available that no one bothers. I
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by samatman 2y ago
Zig builds string formatting at comptime, so if the format string doesn't match the arguments, the program won't compile. It's nice.
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a somewhat, hmm, bilingual post. The enum in question here is what Zig calls a tagged union, while Rust calls it an enum, with what Zig calls an enum being the degenerate case where the tag is the only payload. I thought this would
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by samatman 2y ago
Actually they do not. https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/238553/apple-sued...
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by samatman 2y ago
Believe it or not, but the matter going into solar panels and batteries also has to be dug out of the ground. The difference is that you need a great deal more of that matter to deliver comparable amounts of power compared to fission.
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by samatman 2y ago
> A big difference though is that UK (and US) submarine reactors use enriched uranium, SMRs won't. I addressed that difference in my second sentence. The technological competence is to a large degree transferable, the specific de
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by samatman 2y ago
Great name actually. Stores it on the way to the cloud, then stores it in the cloud.
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by samatman 2y ago
Third option not discussed: have the military leverage its existing nuclear reactor competency to build a fleet of nationalized nuclear power generation stations. I'm not saying that they should tile the island with submarine-scale re
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by samatman 2y ago
It wasn't a hot wallet, he had taken a photo of his seed and then left it in Google photos . So your conclusion is sound but your premise is invalid.
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by samatman 2y ago
Apple sold the first widely-available computer with USB connections, the iMac G3. > To replace the removed ports, the iMac has Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, which were faster and cheaper than Apple Desktop Bus and serial ports but w
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by samatman 2y ago
Basically this. The mistake often made here is to think that LLMs emitting verbiage about crimes is some sort of problem in itself, that there's any conceivable way for it to feed back on the LLM. Like if it pretends to be a pirate, ma
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by samatman 2y ago
This is not at all in line with how Apple operates, it's diametrically opposed to it in fact. I suppose you could contradict me by providing a list of the products Apple has deprecated this way. Can you?
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by samatman 2y ago
Russians are brown now?
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by samatman 2y ago
Yes but those numbers are pre-tax income.
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by samatman 2y ago
I just tested the German – Standard layout on a Mac, it's the first one you indicate. Apple calls right-⌥ the Compose key, not AltGr, but works the same way, other than being transposed with the Command key from the familiar Windows s
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by samatman 2y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. To drag and drop something on the Mac, you: click it, drag it, and release it. Are you... under the impression that Macs don't have, clicking?
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by samatman 2y ago
The accounting in this post is breathtakingly dishonest. I'd say I expect better of Krugman but I actually don't. Consider this argument: "I think taxes should be 10% higher, therefore, the taxpayer subsidizes 10% of all your
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by samatman 2y ago
Something being unfamiliar doesn't make it worse. Or better necessarily, but it seems noteworthy that your frustration is with a feature designed to make it possible to drag draggable things around without losing them if your finger le
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by samatman 2y ago
I'd rather software chats not be on Discord, but that said I've found the forum feature quite helpful for help channels. You get auto-search for the topic as you type out a title, and if you don't see what you need, you can
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by samatman 2y ago
Without unconditionally endorsing the content of this blog (especially the more recent parts of it) you may find this post interesting: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=4003
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by samatman 2y ago
Even very fast typists are unable to do stenography without a machine specialized to the task. Speech, in turn, can usually be understood at two or even three times the rate at which it is ordinarily produced. Meanwhile, I can read seve
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by samatman 2y ago
There is no such legal requirement whatsoever. It's part of the terms of service of a number of social networks, I can almost see how someone might confuse that for the law. If I squint.
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by samatman 2y ago
The sarcasm in my reply did not come across it would seem. "No free lunch" does not in any sense imply that there are no positive-sum decisions to be made.
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by samatman 2y ago
It's true, it isn't a free lunch. You, or your insurer, has to pay for it. It needs to be injected. It won't work as well if you insist on eating a pint of ice cream three times a day. And so on.
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by samatman 2y ago
No one should be under an obligation to offer services at cost. It's not even a meaningful concept: if I say the cost of an hour of my time is $N dollars, well, then it is.
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by samatman 2y ago
This is a case of you deciding that open source means something which it does not, never has, and will not mean. I consider this an empty exercise, but if it pleases you to use language that way, no one can stop you.
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by samatman 2y ago
So what you're saying is that some of us should be gearing up to pull in ludicrous amounts of consultant money in 2026, when the chickens come home to roost, and the managers foolish enough to farm out software development to LLMs need

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