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by smolder 3mo ago
You don't need to rehash the same old argument. Runtime memory management is forgiving but also inferior in a lot of ways to compiled stuff that works with memory deterministically. Garbage collection is a method to make programming ea
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by smolder 4mo ago
Yeah, I have fixed issues that could have potentially destroyed the company I was working at. There was an instance of a lazily written script which just took user input for a file open. It could read sensitive files on the system because o
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by smolder 4mo ago
You're saying "this is normal" without making an argument that it's sensible.
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by smolder 6mo ago
Paleontology has been really helped by the ease of sequencing, to the point where many evolutionary arguments are moot. Humans are apes, birds are dinosaurs. Some people still dispute it, but not with evidence on their side.
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by smolder 6mo ago
Yes, processes changed. Because you don't need NAT, mainly. Overall it's simpler, with more bits in the addresses.
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by smolder 6mo ago
Not much more complicated than IPv4. There are more bits. The addresses are longer. It's not hard to grasp if you understand the prerequisites to understanding networking in general.
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by smolder 6mo ago
It's not. I learned how IPv6 worked SO LONG AGO that I really can't understand remaining confusion.
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by smolder 6mo ago
Thank you for sharing.
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by smolder 6mo ago
I wouldn't say that's robust email monitoring at all. It's embarassingly bad. Gmass shouldn't exist and your salespeople should be out of a job.
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by smolder 8mo ago
We need models that are smarter than humans. So far, the cost of an AI query + training is dwarfing the effort it would take to teach an intelligent human how to do a task. We are dumping an incredibly amount of money/effort into makin
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by smolder 10mo ago
This is desperate rebuttal from ignorance. My point stands. You haven't innovated, you've just leaned on an LLM to work with your unoriginal DSL. I'm sure it's worth 100 megawatt-hours.
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by smolder 10mo ago
LLMs aren't like a screwdriver at all, the analogy doesn't work. I think I was clear. LLMs aren't useful outside the domain of what they were trained on. They are copycats. To really innovate on software design means going ou
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by smolder 10mo ago
> There is absolutely no reason why software today has to be written like software of yesterday. I get what you're saying, but the irony is that AI tools have sort of frozen the state of the art of software development in time. Ther
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by smolder 10mo ago
I don't know why people think wind turbines are ugly... Someone who admires gold toilets, no less. I think the opposite.
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by smolder 10mo ago
A as in Ang, clearly.
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by smolder 10mo ago
The classic version is not a developer, it's a mechanic or some other blue collar job. I've seen it on a sign in a machine shop 20 years ago.
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by smolder 10mo ago
yeah the real war is between people who do useful stuff and the trillion dollar industry which means to displace them.
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by smolder 10mo ago
This is just another aspect of the failure to foster a positive society. The rich who are balls deep in AI don't give a fuck about what happens at a societal level. They want numbers to go up and the result is dumb people in charge of
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by smolder 10mo ago
children now don't have to work hard, but they're precious because no one is having children in the educated world.
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by smolder 11mo ago
This is a misunderstanding of what community is, said by someone who doesn't know.
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by smolder 11mo ago
Yes, I would also prefer that servers were community run as in the hl2 days. I would still argue that there are technical issues leading to some amount of cheating. In extraction shooters like Hunt Showdown, Escape From Tarkov and a few oth
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by smolder 11mo ago
No, game companies are simply unwilling to pay for the talent and man hours that it takes to police their games for cheaters. Even when they are scanning your memory and filesystem they don't catch people running the latest rented chea
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by smolder 11mo ago
It could be a side effect of China pursuing more markets, having more industry, and not financializing/profit-optimizing everything. Their economy isn't universally better but in a broad sense they seem more focused on tangible ma
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by smolder 11mo ago
It's actually very easy for skilled people to deliver good products when they aren't just tasked with sucking off shareholders. Public trade of companies makes them worse every time.
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by smolder 11mo ago
That rebranding of DEI is hilariously childish in an entertaining way, while deepening my loathing for the people behind it. I respect the choice to refuse those terms. Even organizations that aren't heavily focused on/invested in
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by smolder 11mo ago
US education covers that much pretty well. Just not so much the geography of specific countries that belong to south america, europe, asia, and africa.
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by smolder 1y ago
This doesn't directly answer your questions, but I can share one example where our sensitivity to phase information becomes apparent: when you play the sound of a pair of hands clapping. It's a great test case for hearing when a s
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by smolder 1y ago
Let's not pretend these are machines for hardcore computing jobs which belong on servers in terms of work/cost. Apples laptops are still amazing because we can do crazy amounts of work quickly without running out of battery. The e
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by smolder 1y ago
Quic is a corporate supported black hole. Corporations are anti-human. Its a wonder that there is still some freedom to make useful protocols on the internet and that people are nice enough to do that
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by smolder 1y ago
This line of conversation is distracting people from the embarrassing state of the WWW. If anything good is left outside the temples of Facebook, etc, it's not much, and I'm embarrassed.

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