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by skrebbel 1y ago
Fwiw I actually agree with you. My point is that early in the war, it was commonly thought that just the western sanctions alone would totally cripple the Russian economy. Or that they'd soon run out of arms, or anything like that. Non
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by skrebbel 1y ago
yeah so sad that the real page's images linkrotted. Hooray for archive.org!
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Kinda hilarious that this got invented by the same people who later Pascal's-Mugged half the world with AI doomerism.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
My hand gesture for "Hey did you hear about the inverse Pascal Scam? It suggests that low-probability high-impact risks are easy to ignore, and I think that's what you're doing right now and that's not going to be good f
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by skrebbel 1y ago
The explanation is a great read. It reminds me of Unc's amazing explanation of how they did "cdak", possibly one of the best 4k demos ever made: https://web.archive.org/web/20150112121832/https:&#x2F
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Russia has shown to be plenty resilient across the board. I find it hard to assume anything different here.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I think you're talking about unknown unknowns in the tool/framework/library. I think the author is talking about unknown unknowns in the problem space.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Points for the girlfriend's "i am passionate about gooning" bio
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Hell yeah. IMO we should collectively get over ourselves and just agree that what you describe is the true, proper, present-day meaning of "REST API".
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Why RAG at all? We concatenated all our docs and tutorials into a text file, piped it all into the AI right along with the question, and the answers are pretty great. Cost was, last I checked, roughly 50c per question. Probably scales linea
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Hardly
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by skrebbel 1y ago
omnom gonna get me some Kentucky Fried Dinosaur!
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Can confirm
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by skrebbel 1y ago
It’s actually from a composer’s comment on someone else’s blog but yeah fair point :-)
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by skrebbel 1y ago
The ACLU was pretty anti-conservative in the past (before they got captured by the regressive left). Eg they helped protect the right of free expression of nazi groups, stuff like that. ps. Fair, I agree that it's weird to elevate one
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by skrebbel 1y ago
This is not a novel insight. The attitude described is basically textbook conservatism, as per Wilhoit's law [0] Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind
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by skrebbel 1y ago
FWIW i think you ruined it by editing that “/s” in
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by skrebbel 1y ago
You're just guessing what the context might be.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I'm impressed at how seriously they take "for any shell". It even works with cmd.exe!
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Does anyone understand why it took them so long? I expected them to load the app full of ads right after they bought it over a decade ago. I mean, WhatsApp is the only Meta product I use and it's sortof felt like a public utility more
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I'd be more sympathetic to your argument if this was about Python or Java web backends or something like that. But in C++, especially for a program like SumatraPDF with millions of installations on end-user computers where crashes can
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Oh really? Cool, I did not know that. How does that work with variables in the closure then? I could see that work with the autogenerated class: Just make a class field for every variable referenced inside the lambda function body, and assi
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by skrebbel 1y ago
This seems very similar to Java's oldschool single-interface callback mechanism. Originally, Java didn't have lambdas or closures or anything of the sort, so instead they'd litter the standard library with single-method inter
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Offtopic but can we please stop and appreciate the excellent acronym "SAD"? It's gotta be right up there with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia in the gallery of best disease names.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I don't think this is true in practice anymore. Given that most sources are 16 bit wide, and afaik most OSes internally use 24 bits these days in the OS mixer (at least my laptop does), the information loss is negligible (just some rou
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by skrebbel 1y ago
I feel like you condensed multiple paragraphs worth of thought into 2 sentences and I simply can't follow at all. Would you care to write it out in more detail?
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by skrebbel 1y ago
that's a lot of .dll files!
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Yeah indeed. Though I can appreciate the screwup. I mean, there was a heated thing going on, lawyers on one side and bad community PR on the other and NPM was caught in the middle. Couldnt backtrack on their maybe not so smart choice to giv
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Fwiw I don't completely agree with you but I appreciate your enthusiasm for the word "wanker" in this thread.
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by skrebbel 1y ago
Ok fair! In that case I actually agree with his stance I think. I can understand how isaacs messed this up in what must've been a stressful situation, but it's hard to blame the author for it indeed, if he was just running the com

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