torginus

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by torginus 2mo ago
Well if that's any reassurance, you can generate a meme picture using AI, then paste it into Paint to add some funny text. That way you can get the best of both worlds.
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by torginus 2mo ago
It's incredible how far back the surveillance state goes - GSM mobile phones have an IMEI number that's tied to the handset - and the SIM is tied to the subscriber, and your phone broadcasts imei to neighboring towers constantly.
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by torginus 2mo ago
I don't think a side channel attack against L4 would be particularly useful - the kernel's tiny, and doesn't really do much other than scheduling, IPC and capabilities. Anything you might want to learn lives in other processe
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by torginus 2mo ago
I think a lot of this is based on preconceptions. A lot of apps were made with Electron, because it was common wisdom that native is 'too hard'. Now with LLMs, people write native apps in Rust, and I'd like to think some of t
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by torginus 2mo ago
> requirements are often like, "you must have published at one of the following conferences". I'm not sure why it's like this. If you look at the real world, you have stuff like ggml, which is about as hardcore as it
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by torginus 2mo ago
If you think this is morally acceptable, in which case, what you're doing is essentially trying to trick the algorithm to uprank your content. But people at Facebook/X/Youtube can just update a table row and accomplish 1000x
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by torginus 2mo ago
Cool, thanks for answering! I don't really want to take any more of your time, is there some place I can read up on this new proposed protocol?
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by torginus 2mo ago
I'm an EE by training and tinker on the side, but I wouldn't want a huge conductive metal slab on my desk, plus that tool compartment has no pockets, and would get scratched by my tools.
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by torginus 2mo ago
What you describe sounds a lot like the HTML/CSS split, with having a separate semantic/display data. I think that's a rather large jump from the 80x25 model, retrofitting that much data sounds like quite the challange. Not s
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by torginus 2mo ago
I was suggesting something that could be done without changing the protocol itself. From what I undestand, the terminal is essentially a concatenative text buffer extended with control commands allowing you to move the cursor (pen) to draw
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by torginus 2mo ago
I have a question - I've briefly looked at the API, and it seems like a mostly general-purpose user interfance library. What do you think of replacing the 'render' part with something that's more like a generic UI? You c
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by torginus 2mo ago
As someone who does CAD on the side, I couldn't live without one.
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by torginus 2mo ago
I think they are going for the super premium polished user experience, yet they waste space with adding foreign window decorators to apps that are supposed to integrate them (Chrome, Zed). And not sure why having a single smallish window an
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by torginus 2mo ago
Dunno, they're promoting this to run their custom OS (which is Fedora based, but has brew apparently?) Not sure what is this, is this a cloud thing, hence the subscription? But the HW too expensive/powerful for that? Considering t
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by torginus 2mo ago
Not sure on the first. Apparently almost all alumninum is recycled, and reused, as its melting point is super low compared to most metals, so its not quite as wasteful as it seems at the first glance.
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by torginus 2mo ago
This is a very difficult discussion, especially considering there are many countries and many schooling systems, but you have to admit there are common failings across systems. > the hardworking but less gifted kids struggle Sorry, I thi
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by torginus 2mo ago
I think this means its used for training, but there is some elaborate legal argument that allows them to claim its really not. Like they dont pretrain on your chats but they do some transforms/RLHF/sentiment analysis. I suspect th
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by torginus 2mo ago
I think there's an overload of the meaning of 'lazy' that describes a person who measures twice and cuts once, basically thinks the problem through rather than just piling on it. And as you said, they might even conclude the
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by torginus 2mo ago
> I got labeled "smart but lazy" at a pretty young age (high test scores, didn't do any homework), and I let that label stick with me for far too long I just never understood why the secondary education system is set up to
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by torginus 2mo ago
I am not sure having a stable kernel ABI/API is really a goal in practice or intent in all cases. GPU drivers are a perfect example - GPUs are hellishly complex, and their interfaces are super high-level - OpenGL/Vulkan is not som
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by torginus 2mo ago
I guess the corollary to this is that the more money you have, the less efficient you can convert money to tangible wealth (there's an actual studied conversion 'factor' for different kinds of wealth).
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by torginus 2mo ago
Why would universal economic growth imply everyone owning more of a resource with a limited supply? There's only so much gold in the world (which is kind of the point) - if people in $INSERT_COUNTRY owned more of it per capita, that wo
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by torginus 2mo ago
Btw, absolutely insane that it's 2026, and Linux cannot do the most defining OS thing - that is, provide a standardized environment to run binaries against. All solutions to this problem are hacky, complex and controversal and highly f
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by torginus 2mo ago
>A change in paradigm is necessary. Freestanding C, not hosted C. This completely gets rid of the libc and is a surprisingly clean language. Linux only, because it's the only kernel with a stable binary interface. Every other OS for
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by torginus 2mo ago
Wasn't Linux Standard Base supposed to fix this? I cannot imagine any reason why glibc would break at a rate that you can't keep the current version binary compatible for years. Or do the MS thing, and ship multiple versions like
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by torginus 2mo ago
I have faced a similar issue in the past, and I don't understand how static binaries from the host are supposed to solve this. From what I remember, GPU access on Linux 'works' by accessing specific FDs under /dev, which
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by torginus 2mo ago
What military equipment does the US make that : - SK actually wants - The US is willing to sell to them - they can't procure from other places or make themselves? My understanding is the only things that fall into these categories are
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by torginus 2mo ago
Imo the insistence on 'no NAT' has killed IPv6, as it made talking to legacy IPv4 nodes very awkward. If it could interop well with v4, then the transition wouldn't be all or nothing. And it turns out the simplicity of '
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by torginus 2mo ago
I think it's kinda cool to see how things would pan out instead of just plain theorycrafting - even if this isn't a serious proposal, it can be a start of one.
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by torginus 2mo ago
Sorry, haven't been following along, but sounds to me that the argument was a valid one seeing how it made the designers add new instructions. Not sure if there's an impact caused by the late addition as opposed to always having t

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