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by timeon 10mo ago
Brain-rot can be associated with heavy LLM usage.
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by timeon 10mo ago
> There are important downsides, but the Green Revolution - and dare I say it, the industrial revolution - was truly transformative for our species. And left-wing movements that followed industrial revolution.
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by timeon 10mo ago
> Something self-hosted, using ActivityPub, for example? There is one: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local
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by timeon 10mo ago
Public evil?
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by timeon 10mo ago
That bloatware went out of fashion.
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by timeon 10mo ago
> Try getting melatonin in the UK. Maybe in UK but I had not problem with that on the actual continent.
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by timeon 10mo ago
Probably not just medicine. I heard that prices in US shops are different than final price at the counter.
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by timeon 10mo ago
I think you are bit outdated now. Those are same bots.
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by timeon 10mo ago
> We born alone Most mammals are not born alone. And even after being born, humans especially, would die if left alone.
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by timeon 10mo ago
One would expect that "AI tooling" is there for rapid iteration and one can use it with performant languages. We already had "rapid iteration" with GC languages.
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by timeon 11mo ago
You do not know if developers are malicious when there are many contributors. Now we are talking about NPM other time about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
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by timeon 11mo ago
> but they are not the sole source of bugs in applications Yes you can have other bugs. What is this argument about? How about having just other bugs instead of other bugs and memory unsafe bugs?
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by timeon 11mo ago
> EU is looking to effectively dismantle GDPR The reason is lobby, not innovations.
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by timeon 11mo ago
Ok let's discuss the article. Can you give example, from the article, you like?
165.
by timeon 11mo ago
It is just rage-bait without content. Like made-up benchmark without specifying what it was comparing. Showing code that actually works and then providing error message that is not related or caused by that code. Etc.
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by timeon 11mo ago
Well I know several GC-based languages but for others: C was easy to learn, hard to use. C++ was hard to learn, hard to use. Rust was hard to learn, easy to use. Rust was only one of those I was able actually learn and use.
167.
by timeon 11mo ago
Minerals deal that US pushed for was already against this.
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by timeon 11mo ago
If Zed can make it, even with completely new stack, why not Google? What are all this LLMs for when everything is just fork of electron app? Does not look like good marketing.
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by timeon 11mo ago
> VSCode Which is on top of 'Chrome'. Interesting sandwich: Google-Microsoft-Google.
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by timeon 11mo ago
I do not need to babysit my screwdriver.
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by timeon 11mo ago
> However its number of monthly active users have only grown since 2020. Like everywhere it is mostly bots. Look at HN frontpage, there used to be 1-2 Twitter post per day. Now it is barely per week. End even those are usually just from
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by timeon 11mo ago
But Spotify was not down. One social media was down. This: > if you’re down, that’s bad. But if you’re down, Spotify is down, social media is down… then “the internet is broken” and you don’t look so bad. is just marketing. If you are do
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by timeon 11mo ago
It was on Mastodon. That one is hardly going down.
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by timeon 11mo ago
In reality it is not half of the internet. That is just marketing. I've personally noticed one news site while others were working. And I guess sites like that will get the blame.
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by timeon 11mo ago
> if Cloudflare is down no one will blame you since the internet is down. But this is not really the case. When Azure/AWS were down, same as this one with Cloudflare: significant amount of web was down but most of it was not. It jus
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by timeon 11mo ago
This would be true in the past but now most people are not on Twitter.
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by timeon 11mo ago
> If the programmer forgets to lock the mutex the system won't stop them from accessing the data anyways, and even then there's no actual link between the data being locked and the lock itself, we need to trust the programmers
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by timeon 11mo ago
> Most modern software still defaults to imperial units somewhere deep in its stack I know that lot of software is produced in USA but one would expect better from software developers.
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by timeon 11mo ago
> IMHO, most large Rust project will likely use RC or ARC types or use lots of clone calls. So performance wise it’s not gonna be too different than Nim or Swift or even D really. I do not think so. My personal experience is that you can
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by timeon 11mo ago
How is this related to discussion: A: ...in many ways Powershell is stil king of the shell game [but]... B: Have you tried nushell? Anyway... nushell is more similar to Powershell (but AFAIK there is no JIT). My default is zsh (as you have

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