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by titzer 3y ago
Problem is, people are evolved apes that have inherent psychological weaknesses that just don't disappear because of 'responsibility' or whatever. If you feed a brain meth, it'll get hooked. It goes so much deeper than &
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by titzer 3y ago
Underfunded public education effort versus the entirety of the madhouse attention economy driven by quadrillions upon quadrillions of calculations, experts in psychology, and decades of statistical data and honed strategies? Rewarding teena
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by titzer 3y ago
It's really been downhill since the BBS.
874.
by titzer 3y ago
I used to struggle with USB-A plugs until I made it a point to actually look and pay attention. 99% of all plugs are labeled and logo side faces up. For devices that have a natural orientation (e.g. laptop), it always goes one way. For mati
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by titzer 3y ago
100% don't believe it. And you missed the overall conclusion from your own link : > While our analysis finds fast wage growth at the 10th percentile and wage compression within the bottom 90% of the wage distribution, highly unequa
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by titzer 3y ago
> Not one mention that inflation is caused by the government and central banks expanding the money supply. > Prices are being driven the fuck up because of greed and income divide. Maybe...it's both? Could it actually be that the
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by titzer 3y ago
Painfully tonedeaf comment. If you're at poverty level, not making ends meet, and inflation is 30% and your wage growth is 9%, you are falling behind. If you are above "making ends meet" and your income growth is only 3% but
878.
by titzer 3y ago
The media sensationalism isn't the underlying problem, it just exposes it. The modern economy runs primarily on the confidence and emotions of the market participants. It is at the mercy of an irrational mix of evolved ape behavior.
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by titzer 3y ago
Well, what did it taste like?
880.
by titzer 3y ago
In Pittsburgh too. For some reason the back entrance to my building (TCS hall) is a mecca for these little pests--to the point that a brick wall was literally covered in thousands of them. I ninja-side-kicked said wall and hit nothing but
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by titzer 3y ago
> The problem is, you don’t want to operate on code points. A code point is not a unit of writing; one code point is not always a single character. What you should be iterating on is called “extended grapheme clusters”, or graphemes for
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by titzer 3y ago
Can confirm; lived about 300 yards away from the 10 freeway in Culver City for several years. The balcony would get coated in fine black dust in just a couple weeks' time. Literally no one would grow vegetables outside--that would be m
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by titzer 3y ago
Ah, the good ole days of "hey what's your IP address?" followed by typing those four magical numbers into Winnuke and then watching a person just drop off ICQ. Still makes me chuckle. That worked for years .
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by titzer 3y ago
It's a research paper, complete with a mathematical analysis. Take a gander. It's not "non-journalism."
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by titzer 3y ago
> Are there security issues with not zeroing out the previously used memory Yes, there can be. Security-critical software often does this explicitly, and it's been a bug when compilers have removed the zeroing by reasoning that unre
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by titzer 3y ago
CET complicates software virtual machines in several ways, e.g. deoptimization and exception handling. It's the wrong solution to a software problem that should never have arisen and just makes software even more complicated. An unfort
887.
by titzer 3y ago
We've discussed engine support for stack walking for application-level GC within linear memory, but there hasn't been a clear win (at least in my mind) over just using a shadow stack, which doesn't require walking frames, jus
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by titzer 3y ago
I recognize the sarcasm in your first sentence, but I am not super hopeful. The question is always, "so now it breaks down...into what? And what happens to that?". If that gives rise to the equivalent of some kind of algal bloom t
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by titzer 3y ago
All of this complexity is one of the key reasons that Wasm does not have an addressable stack (it is fully virtualized in the execution semantics). That moves the management of stack-allocated data structures up a level, but guarantees that
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by titzer 3y ago
To get great software, you need a small team and give them extremely clear requirements of what it should do with an assload of extremely clear testcases.
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by titzer 3y ago
> LLMs are not "AI" in the old sense of being conscious and aware. This isn't an argument, it's just an assertion. You're talking about a computer system whose complexity is several orders of magnitude beyond you
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by titzer 3y ago
I agree with those things, but we both see how unworkable it is. It hurts the monied class and edifice that holds up the house of cards made of people who produce no real value other than pulling levers in the casino.
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by titzer 3y ago
> Why are those companies willing to pay so much? Because they are buying assets with debt just like everyone else, and they don't actually care about ROI via rents, either due to "appreciation" (really, further inflation)
894.
by titzer 3y ago
> the ability of large companies to buy up whatever is on the market, And that has a simple cause: they created too much money to prop up both the housing and stock markets. We're in an inflationary debt spiral that has a very high
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by titzer 3y ago
Toothpaste itself often contains microplastic beads that are intentionally added as scrubbing agents. It's a myth that they were phased out. More than half still contain the stuff! https://www.beatthemicrobead.org/myth-
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by titzer 3y ago
> living longer, healthier lives than they ever have. This is not true in America. Life expectancy has dropped significantly after COVID and several types of cancer are on the rise (notably, pancreatic and liver). Americans are more obes
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by titzer 3y ago
While I know and respect many people who have worked on C++ and contributed to it, we need to move on from it. The gaslighting from certain vocal proponents of C++ has been a major stumbling block for the industry as a whole to move on to u
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by titzer 3y ago
Gathering requirements doesn't have to take months. It can take hours or a few days. You can even do it in the middle of maintaining a product, e.g. as part of steps towards addressing a feature request or a refactoring. It doesn'
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by titzer 3y ago
There's always time to refactor and tinker with incomplete migration, always time to debug and patch and fuss with updates, but never time to sit down, gather all the requirements, redesign, and reimplement.
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by titzer 3y ago
Look at a coffee cup.

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