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Cactus Comments(cactus.chat)
1 points by slimsag 4y ago|0 comments
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Meta-issue: Discordification of Matrix/Synapse/Dendrites (feature request)(github.com)
1 points by slimsag 4y ago|0 comments
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by slimsag 4y ago
'Substantial portion' is not interpreted by you, it is interpreted by courts and juries. How it is interpreted depends on jurisdiction and more[0], the commonly accepted 'safe bet' is any single line of the software. [0]
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by slimsag 4y ago
The MIT license states: > The above copyright notice and this permission notice > shall be included in all copies or substantial portions > of the Software. If you are using Copilot and it produces a MIT-licensed snippet of code, y
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by slimsag 4y ago
I think 'general purpose' search engines are often doomed to fail, and this extends to 'web search engines' (which, in reality, do not search the full web and are NOT general purpose.) This list makes a great list of att
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by slimsag 4y ago
Actually, it's better - my work includes everything needed to build: * GLFW * Dawn (Chrome's WebGPU implementation) * The DirectX Shader Compiler (a fork of LLVM) * Freetype and HarfBuzz All from source, cross-compiled to every OS
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by slimsag 4y ago
Configure it to respect your preference ('don't change my files') and not pester you with hundreds of warnings any time you interact with Git if your preference differs: warning: LF will be replaced by CRLF in src/
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by slimsag 4y ago
Their message originally read "Actual Windows developers know NTFS has Symbolic Links"
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by slimsag 4y ago
The developers who complained to me about this are Windows developers regularly. One is even a professional AAA DirectX gamedev.
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by slimsag 4y ago
I'm cross-compiling Mach engine[0] with Zig, it ends up being a quite small toolchain to cross-compile a game engine (using DirectX, Vulkan, OpenGL, and Metal on respective platforms) from any OS. The Zig toolchain is: * Windows:
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by slimsag 4y ago
Well, it feels 'petty' and simple until: 1. You run into it, go "AH, wow, okay, I'll enable Developer Mode" 2. It still doesn't work, you're confused, you Google around a bit more and find out actually you
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by slimsag 4y ago
Certainly better to avoid it if at all possible, and I'll be eliminating them specifically to improve Windows compatibility. It's not that unusual, though, a quick search turns up 1.1k GitHub repositories with `git config core.sym
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by slimsag 4y ago
That's seems a quite naive/brash take. Isn't it the case that Japanese work culture, "stay until the boss leaves", is what contributed substantially to loneliness in Japan? A lack of work-life balance? It seems to m
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Microsoft: We heart open source developers ... not?(gist.github.com)
14 points by slimsag 4y ago|0 comments
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by slimsag 4y ago
Source? The MDN is very clear about precise timing not being available due to Spectre mitigations.
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by slimsag 4y ago
Orthogonal: Anker has been working on a 1.2 kWh portable battery that you can charge directly from regular outlets, or solar panels, as an alternative to generators. It's a pretty cool little device[1], I've been thinking about ge
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by slimsag 4y ago
As humans we are adverse to complexity and naturally lazy, our goal is always to find easier ways to do things that benefit us more. It's why languages like Python have taken off. A large portion of the population is being told that pr
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by slimsag 4y ago
Unsupervised doesn't mean "no feedback", it means classifying things based on feedback/experience without being explicitly told how to classify things . When a kid touches a hot stove, they classify it as bad/dange
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by slimsag 4y ago
I don't consider "verified" in the GitHub UI as safe to rely on. If you forge a commit from Linus Torvalds, where Joe Blow is the co-author, as long as Joe Blow GPG signed the commit it will show "Verified" with no
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by slimsag 4y ago
Not just technically, they do enforce this through legal action.
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by slimsag 4y ago
There are only two reasons it would need to be private: (1) you're collecting data where if it was public, people would be outraged. That's spying. (2) you believe the data is anonymous and valuable, but only you / your group
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by slimsag 4y ago
In my opinion, analytics should be minimal, 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public - otherwise it’s spying. I use a self-hosted Plausible analytics server to implement this[0] across all my websites, so it's all public an
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by slimsag 4y ago
Combine this with the fact that there is massive $ opportunity with monitoring devs (worst case) and having a monopoly over their working environment (best case) AND with the fact that management in most companies 100% wants the productivit
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by slimsag 4y ago
I wrote a comedic "Best Apache Chef recipe" article[1] mocking these sites. I guess the concern would be: If one of these recipe websites _was_ generated by an AI, the ingredients _look_ correct to an AI but are otherwise wrong -
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by slimsag 4y ago
(I'm an engineer at Sourcegraph, but otherwise share your healthy skepticism of companies in general) For what it's worth, I don't think that's accurate. I've worked closely with the team that builds Code Insights,
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by slimsag 4y ago
I've heard rumors that on modern processors, "lock free" doesn't even make a ton of sense. It's actually contention that is costly, when there is no contention atomic data structures are virtually free as I unders
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by slimsag 4y ago
Livestock are largely fed dried grass/grain which consumes a ton of water to grow but doesn't provide much to the cattle. Cows drink 9-12 gallons/day, 30-40 gallons/day for milk cows. Probably more in dryer climates. For
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by slimsag 4y ago
Same thing here in Arizona. Saudi Arabian hay farms here are massive, and use groundwater aquifers to grow Alfalfa which is exported back to SA to feed cattle. But yeah, it's the people not turning off the faucet while brushing their
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by slimsag 4y ago
No stake in this game, but your likeliness assumption depends on the idea that a civilization could get to the point of creating a Dyson Swarm. If civilizations are statistically likely to destroy themselves before then, 'detecting a
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by slimsag 4y ago
The F-22 program was $11.6 billion, F-35 $1.7 trillion, Boeing recently got a contract to manufacture 100 more AH-64E attack helicopters at $3.4 billion. We spend a lot on the military, including air force 1, and spend very little on scie

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