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by themafia 9mo ago
> Unfortunately, code review performance is ephemeral and subjective > Today's agents are better than the median human code reviewer Which is it? You cannot have it both ways.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> My understanding is that getting LLMs to regurgitate anything significant requires very specific prompting, in general. Then you have been mislead: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-lla
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by themafia 9mo ago
> and they create a similar product then they haven't broken the law. That costs significantly more and involves the creation of jobs. I see this as a great outcome. There seems to be a group of people who share the opposite of m
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by themafia 9mo ago
> The mentally-ill are running the asylum and executing citizens. The the natural outcome should be rebellion. Why would it be civil war? Do you presume that the "other half" completely agree with Trump and would literally fi
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Now this process is heavily automated. And comes with a price tag paid to people who neither own nor generated that content. You don't think that shifts the ethical boundaries _significantly_?
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by themafia 9mo ago
I did not suggest that; however, the law is clear. If I use my knowledge to produce code, under a specific license, then you take that code, and reproduce it without the license, you have broken the law. You can twist this around as
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by themafia 9mo ago
The "other side" says the same thing. I think you're both being manipulated by cynical people who have extensive access to the media that you do not. Seems far more likely, no?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> I don't mind being labeled a terrorist. You should. It's not meant for your vanity and it represents and extreme overreach by the government. It doesn't make you "cool." > But you couldn't pay me to g
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by themafia 9mo ago
> I can already hear the cries of protest from other engineers who (like me) are clutching onto their hard-won knowledge. You mean the knowledge that Claude has stolen from all of us and regurgitated into your projects without any copyri
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by themafia 9mo ago
66 days + 12 hours are 5,745,600,000,000,000 ns. The log2 of this is 52.351... Javascript and some other languages only have integer precision up to 52 bits then they switch to floating point. Curious.
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by themafia 9mo ago
It this even a language for human beings anymore? Or am I just short on cups of coffee this morning? I appreciate that they're solving a lot of corner cases and adding some advanced functionality in the spec but now we've got lan
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by themafia 9mo ago
Excellent work. Thank you! Your 486 FPGA project looks pretty neat too.
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by themafia 9mo ago
> who had no idea their drive was encrypted I think you just identified the problem clearly. > Now the police don't even have to ask! Security is not a switch you can turn on and forget about. Plus the police have extraordinary
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by themafia 9mo ago
> and I end up having all these typedefs in my projects I avoid doing this now. It's more trouble than it's worth and it changes your code from a standard dialect of C into a custom one. Plus my eyes are old and they don&#x27
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by themafia 9mo ago
Hacker News defending corporate key escrow. Wow. > It protects their data in the event that someone steals the laptop, but still allows them to recover their own data later from the hard drive. It allows /anyone/ to recover th
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by themafia 9mo ago
If you can process drugs and get high in prison then you're not actually in any form of custody. You're just left to your own devices in an unsupervised locked box. It's not hard to figure out why our recidivism rate is so
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by themafia 9mo ago
> it will be reported publicly. Does this manifest as any real political outcome?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Which country doesn't count spoiled or blank votes? The USA. We have districts where turnout is as low as 25% of eligible voters. > anyone can start a political party of their own and participate in the election. You don'
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by themafia 9mo ago
> shows that you got off your arse Is that the point of democracy? > See the number of spoilt votes in the UK Police and Crime Commissioner elections The candidate was still elected with a turnout of 15.3%. This is farcical to give t
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by themafia 9mo ago
> we have compulsory attendance at voting booths for eligible citizens, you can spoil your paper or walk away but we enforce with a fine, participation in the one obligation of citizenship Then my refusal to vote should be counted. If e
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by themafia 9mo ago
> The problem is that nothing is immutable about computing. That's why we have checksums. We've used computing to put people on different astronomical bodies. There is a way, but it comes with a huge cost. Cryptocurrency st
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Even indie artists have to go through distributors and labels. Is it impossible for an artist to own their own label? > or any music streaming service That doesn't seem to follow from any part of your argument.
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by themafia 9mo ago
The JWST does not have to deal with atmosphere or weather and uses a giant sun shield to keep the internal temperature stable so these alignments have the longevity you need to make the platform work.
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by themafia 9mo ago
CONNECT 9600
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by themafia 9mo ago
Wouldn't the angle of the offset matter? It seems like it would make scattering worse to be off-axis by too far. Which then also means you have to build ground stations in this range yet far enough apart that they experience different
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by themafia 9mo ago
Cozy secondary relationships with music labels. Payola goes one way and industry demands go the other. Since "owners" take such a big chunk (50%) of paid royalties for streaming there is a strong incentive to only play music that
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by themafia 9mo ago
I don't understand the sealing and ex-parte motions in this case. It looks completely corrupt. They're claiming that the archive would have released all the material publicly if they were allowed to know an injunction was about
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by themafia 9mo ago
The case in NY was police setup a sting on the subway to catch a serial stabber. Instead of stopping him they stood by and watched him attack several innocent bystanders. They were sued for incompetence. For the failed sting. The two poli
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by themafia 9mo ago
Or a bot that lists out all the times police have been given these powers only for them to be abused. Flock is a great example. Story after story in the local news (only there for some reason) about police officers being disciplined or fir
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by themafia 9mo ago
> it isn't much of a serious technical project either How have you reached this qualification? > I suppose you could call it a low-effort meme of the typical 4chan variety. Time will tell. I think there's a lot of love for

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