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by titzer 5d ago
Ok but why "find me a book that explains how car insurance works" no find book that explains how car insurance works but find exactly one car insurance company? ...because advertising
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by titzer 5d ago
> every other modern app tries to claw your eyes out. They do, and it's annoying that even apps for "real work" do the same thing by flashing notifications/tips in your face, advertising a new feature you don't w
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by titzer 5d ago
I worked at Sun labs and used a Sun Ray daily for a whole summer. It worked...OK. Definitely not "Incredibly well". We had a network of a few hundred Sun Rays and two E10Ks backing it. More than a million for the servers and $1000
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by titzer 5d ago
I interned for Sun and then worked as an MTS in Sun Labs for a couple of years. I miss Sun; I think they were very much an engineer's company that was spoiled by two things: big success in the early workstation market, and the dumb luc
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by titzer 5d ago
It's because capitalism won the (absurd black-and-white framing of the) cold war, with America as its the biggest winner. We don't even recognize the level of propaganda that has gone into convincing us all that "markets&quot
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by titzer 9d ago
They actually do not in that article. I had to look elsewhere to find that out. Weird, one would expect that a big announcement like this would probably need to be vetted against licensing agreements with Arm that would probably want that f
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by titzer 9d ago
Well, for generations now, exponential growth in all things has been state policy and it was good (tm). Because of population growth, there's always a shortage of housing. Population is projected to peak this century. Whatever will we
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by titzer 10d ago
I keep a ~/scratch.txt file and a bash alias "scratch" that will just grep it. Then I put a lot of relatively infrequently-used but often-forgetten command recipes in there, so that I can just do "scratch keygen" or
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by titzer 14d ago
Thanks for pointing to this. I'm surprised the specification verbiage differs so much between the two standards. However I think the language for C is aspirational and there are cases where compiler optimizations will fail this.
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by titzer 14d ago
> I don't know where it is that people have imagined this is something the C and C++ language designers went out of their way to foist upon you. They did. Most other languages, the vast majority of which are also memory safe languag
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by titzer 14d ago
I don't think this is true. You're going to have to point to the exact place in the spec that says this, because optimizations in the presence of UB in most compilers make absolutely no assumptions.
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by titzer 14d ago
> The compiler is allowed to transform your code if it can prove that the result would interact with the outside world in exactly the same way Well, in C/C++, as soon as your program has one UB bug, the compiler has absolutely no
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by titzer 15d ago
> Most of that sort of industry is in poorer sections of states where the municipalities are constantly being hamstrung by their own state Oh yes, the well-known path to riches by being a toxic dumping ground.
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by titzer 16d ago
> own > revoked I think the dispute is right here.
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by titzer 16d ago
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending something over the network to the console, it would have absolutely been beyond the pale. But 30 years of boil
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by titzer 17d ago
> In the Google case, users have a private relationship with Google where they elect to let Google track them and retain their information... but when the Police ask for that information it's a 'search' and requires a spec
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by titzer 19d ago
They shouldn't be able to collect it in the first place. The big companies have 10 page agreements that say they "value" your privacy and that they don't sell your data to third parties. They do value it, highly. And the
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by titzer 19d ago
Why does anyone trust any device? The surveillance capitalism is just sleepwalking towards disaster, but nobody cares because of the pretty screen and the goddamn brainrot content.
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by titzer 22d ago
That 2% of performance we got for not having bounds checks on by default, resulting in an endless march of memory safety violations is looking a lot less appealing.
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by titzer 22d ago
And they say AGI isn't here yet.
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by titzer 25d ago
Welcome to growthism.
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by titzer 25d ago
We're still in early stages, but in just 2 years AI has presented higher education with the single most disruptive change in decades. Now a computer can do your entire coursework for you, is available to converse on a broad range of to
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by titzer 26d ago
Agreed. Have a look at the music app that Jordan Rudess built for the iPad that allows a kind of tapped steel guitar / keyboard interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JA4DqWmHBY&t=165s He made the touch screen
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by titzer 26d ago
Tech is the way it is because Big Tech wants it to be. Social media is engineered to be the most profitable for the big corporations who run the attention economy which incidentally is a surveillance and content exploitation economy hosting
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by titzer 26d ago
Agent memory is to computer memory is what Mongo DB is to relational database. Incredible to watch things come full circle. Next thing you know, someone is going to figure out a binary encoding.
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by titzer 29d ago
Nothing means anything without consequences. You can write all the amendments you want, but if they intentionally disable and dismantle all means of holding them accountable, the Constitution doesn't mean anything. They can't even
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by titzer 1mo ago
I know, pretty much everyone on HN is a self-selected group that's pretty high up on the privilege/luck/wealth scale. I immigrated to Germany from the US in 2013. My employer handled basically everything--even hired a persona
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by titzer 1mo ago
Ok, you're clearly trolling it this point. Fences can open.
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by titzer 1mo ago
This comment vaguely blames immigrants for not having an escape plan. Millions of people immigrate to the US through all the right mechanisms and follow all the laws and have every intention of staying forever and becoming citizens. Scaring
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by titzer 1mo ago
Obviously, people thought about this, and there are lots of fence designs that admit plenty of airflow and lots of products ready-made for this already.

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