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by simonask 7mo ago
For whom? Certainly not any of the humans trying to use the computer.
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by simonask 7mo ago
No. Look closer.
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by simonask 7mo ago
My comment contains two glyphs that are not in CP1252.
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by simonask 7mo ago
English has plenty of Unicode — claiming otherwise is such a cliché… Unicode is a requirement everywhere human language is used, from Earth to the Boöotes Void.
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by simonask 7mo ago
Just did recently. I remembered KDE as flexible but cluttered. It’s still flexible, but they really cleaned up nice!
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by simonask 7mo ago
This is magical thinking. LLMs are physically incapable of generating something “well thought out”, because they are physically incapable of thinking.
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by simonask 7mo ago
> 1000s of milliseconds Better known as "seconds"...
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by simonask 7mo ago
You seem to believe that Rust prevents memory leaks. It does not, and that's not what "memory safety" means.
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by simonask 8mo ago
Sweeping generalizations like just don’t really contribute anything worthwhile. You mention Switzerland as supposedly a counter-example, but the characterization also does not apply to the Scandinavian countries, Netherlands, several Baltic
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by simonask 8mo ago
You’re moving the goal posts. You can build all the hobby bridges you want. It would be deeply irresponsible to ask the public to cross them, though.
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by simonask 8mo ago
There was also a lot of relatively low-hanging fruit in most fields, because we basically didn't have the technology before, or simply didn't bother to look.
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by simonask 8mo ago
Do you call building codes and bridge engineering standards "safety fascism" as well? The stakes aren't any lower for us.
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by simonask 8mo ago
I don’t know if I agree, but we are very much in a world where that would make sense. Why do drug companies deserve justice for developing and pushing heroin-analogues, but not tech companies? Our work has real consequences.
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by simonask 8mo ago
No, this is a terrible take. People’s entire financial future is at stake, including in the third world.
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by simonask 8mo ago
They have had problems with the suspension arms, but word on the street is that it’s just the brake discs. Denmark is significantly more moist than California, and EVs regenerative braking doesn’t wear the braking discs, so they rust, thus
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by simonask 8mo ago
“Mål” literally just means language, there’s nothing special or particular to Swedish regional dialects about it. You have the word “språk” from German “Sprach”, likely via Low German. The term “dialect” is very fluid, and intelligibility i
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by simonask 8mo ago
It's hard to articulate, but as someone who knows first hand, I just want to say that manic productivity is not the same as solid engineering.
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by simonask 8mo ago
Traditional (so-called “legacy”) media have legal rights and obligations in most countries. They are required to live up to certain standards, for example by distinguishing between opinion and fact, by disclosing political affiliations, and
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by simonask 8mo ago
If you dislike things happening out of lexical order, I expect must already dislike C because of one of its many notorious footguns, which is that the evaluation order of function arguments is implementation-defined. About RAII, I think you
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by simonask 8mo ago
What are you talking about? Rust governance could not be more different from C++.
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by simonask 8mo ago
The fact is that Europe is a lot of things. You have the British class system (not that hidden), you have French and German bureaucracy, but you also have the unique combination of egalitarianism and mercantilism in Scandinavia and the Neth
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by simonask 8mo ago
As a layman, I have to say the collective credibility of economists does not inspire confidence.
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by simonask 8mo ago
Looking at the code, I'm not really sure what part of this would be more verbose in Rust. This kernel does close to nothing, not even page table setup. Granted, the code writing to the VGA buffer will need to be in `unsafe` blocks, but
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by simonask 8mo ago
This would work if it wasn’t for that lovely little human trait where we tend to find bumbling characters endearing. People would be sad when the AI lost.
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by simonask 8mo ago
That’s not the slow part. The slow part is moving any data at all to the GPU - doesn’t super matter if it’s a megabyte or a kilobyte. And you need it there anyway, because that’s what the display is attached to. Now, the situation is that y
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by simonask 8mo ago
LibreOffice is catastrophically bad. It is slow, buggy, and everything it does is either pointlessly emulating a bad product, or pointlessly going against expectations. It exists for one reason only, which is OSS fervor. Great, but that doe
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by simonask 9mo ago
I think it would be useful to give an example of the kind of semantics that would be desirable to change, and where people might think that it should be possible to change at an edition boundary. I’m not very sure, but maybe something like
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by simonask 9mo ago
The trouble with C++ is that it maintains backward compatibility with C++.
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No, but how are you going to run a sausage factory when you haven’t the slightest how the sausage is made?
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by simonask 9mo ago
I don't think I've ever worked at a company where slacking off was the problem. The vast majority of people want to do good work. What I _have_ seen is several companies afflicted by this really strange characteristic of the softw

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