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by theamk 2y ago
That's how exceptions work, and they come pretty handy in a lot of circumstances. In such languages, any operation might throw RuntimeException (or equivalent) and the caller must be ready to handle that - or not, in which case it beha
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by theamk 2y ago
This logic only works for memory-unsafe languages like C or C++, where the checks are rare and there is a good chance that by the time abnormal condition is detected, things have been going wrong for a while. But that's not true for sa
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by theamk 2y ago
Other employee, reddit story, AI chatbot, crime show... it does not matter who put the idea in the head, all that matters is who did the deed.
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by theamk 2y ago
Unlikely, given that he confessed and that in other attack, he damaged the machine only he had access to. I mean, it is theoretically possible there were two disgruntled employees, and second one pinned his crimes to the first one, but I th
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Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing(theregister.com)
7 points by theamk 2y ago|4 comments
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by theamk 2y ago
attiny85 is pretty interactive, it has full debugging capabilities (via RST pin no less, so no taking away precious GPIO). And with cycle times of <30 seconds, printf-based debugging (or more often, LED+button based debugging) becomes ve
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by theamk 2y ago
no, that makes no sense. How does having identical genetics negate problem of different lifestyles? Even the authors agree with awestley: > Additionally, having a tattoo, especially among adolescents, has been suggested as an indicator o
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by theamk 2y ago
A small micro like Atmel (now Microchip) AVR series. One of my favorites are attiny84/attiny85 - 8 KB of program memory, 512 bytes of RAM, 8/14 pins DIP or SO package, needs no supporting circuitry (even power cap is optional), ru
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by theamk 2y ago
This article mentions one downside of ACCESS.bus (low speed), but misses another big one: it's a shared bus. Meaning that any misbehaving/buggy device can bring entire bus (and all devices on it) down, or slow it down significantl
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by theamk 2y ago
Based on the title, I was hoping for something optimistic about AI slop reduction, for example major search engines detecting AI output and removing it from search results. Won't this be super cool? Sadly, that post is not about this.
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by theamk 2y ago
Well, DUH, right tool for the job. Raspberry Pi is when you need either GPIO or a small size. You are also paying premium for a long-term support and a lot of information on the web. If you don't need all of those features, don't
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by theamk 2y ago
In real job, especially in the senior software engineering role, you are expected to know _a lot_ of knowledge specific to the company - "ETL job works fastest with narrow tables", "our backend struggles with Foo table, so it
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by theamk 2y ago
Well, I can see why sharing aggregates will be required, but then they go and explicitly say that share aggregates _or_ share data stripped of PI _or_ share data via "privacy preserving technologies". The latter two options sound
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by theamk 2y ago
One note on last example, "memory leak": GC for C is awesome, but I wish there were an optional way to ensure it is not doing anything, for example by having the program panic/warn if an allocation was GC'd that was not
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by theamk 2y ago
that blogpost seems to confirm that they sell data? The direct quote: > Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you (in the way that most people think about “selling data”) > (CCPA) defines “sale” as the [...] in exchange for “monetary” or “
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by theamk 2y ago
dang, I don't think those two submissions really belong together. The other link discussion is focusing "terms of use" part, which requires at least some legal knowledge to understand - and there is a great discussion if this
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by theamk 2y ago
Plenty of such things exist, and I (and everyone I know) generally avoid visiting them. There is simply too much spam, trolling, hate speech, wrong information, ads, off-topic conversations.. Turns out moderation is actually useful if you w
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by theamk 2y ago
are you replying to wrong post? the linked tweet says: > Mozilla has just deleted the following: > “Does Firefox sell your personal data?” > “Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Fir
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by theamk 2y ago
well, what's the worst thing that can happen when summarizing? The summary is grossly incorrect, opposite of the text being summarized. This is exactly what happened, multiple times.
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by theamk 2y ago
Depends on how you pitch... "Today, workers who get paid per week might not notice they are working slow, and be super surprised when they get a very small paycheck at the end of the week. But with our technology, we give them the earl
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by theamk 2y ago
Will those regulations help with non-AI version of the same? If you want plot a worker's performance graphs (and fire them for underperformance), you don't need any AI or vision or even a computer, just a supervisor who manually c
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by theamk 2y ago
PgSQL only defect was anomaly in reads which caused transaction results to appear a tiny bit later, and they even mentioned that it is allowed by standards. No data loss of any kind. MongoDB defects were, let's say, somewhat more sever
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by theamk 2y ago
They failed every single Jepsen test, including the last one [0] granted, the failures were pretty minor, especially compared to previous reports (like the first one [1], that was a fun read), but they still had bad defaults back then (and
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by theamk 2y ago
if file is not going to be modified (in the low-level sense - open("w") on the filename; as opposed to rename-and-create-new), then reflinks (what this app does) and hardlinks act somewhat identically. For example if you have mult
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by theamk 2y ago
"git worktree" shares a .git folder between multiple checkouts. You'll still have multiple files in working copy, but at least the .pack files would be shared. It is great feature, very robust, I use it all the time. There is
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by theamk 2y ago
If you simply buy multiple chips at once and train on them, you may overfit because they are all likely from the same wafer. If you spent an effort and bought chips from multiple sources, they might end up being all the same hardware revisi
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by theamk 2y ago
https://vekatze.github.io/neut/static-memory-management.html is a good explanation. TL/DR: All functions are pass-by-value. To avoid complete tanking of performance, they have "noema" (same as a referenc
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by theamk 2y ago
So? Taint entire mixer output if any of the inputs is tainted. After a few instances, no one wpuld want to participate. If someone complains, remind them that Tornado is illegal in US.
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by theamk 2y ago
My MS-DOS times were clearly very different from yours. There were nothing obscure about TSR, we've had dozens of them back in MS-DOS era. You'd trade good ones with friends. Screen savers / boss keys, mouse drivers, network
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by theamk 2y ago
Power structures can absolutely control crypto. They can make it illegal - it won't eradicate it altogether (see: war on drugs), but it will severely decrease its influence. No one is bragging about investing their retirement savings i

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