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by umvi 7mo ago
I don't understand why new houses don't just have one high quality AC/DC converter so you can just use LED lighting without every bulb needing its own AC/DC converter. I imagine the light bulb cartel wouldn't really
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by umvi 7mo ago
> Japan spends ~$5,790 and has the highest life expectancy in the OECD Is Japan's life expectancy because of its healthcare or culture? I'm pretty sure Americans would not live to the same age as Japanese even with Japanese hea
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by umvi 7mo ago
What if you throw a transformation step into the mix? i.e. "Take this python library and rewrite it in Rust". Now 0% of the code is directly copied since python and Rust share almost no similarities in syntax.
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by umvi 7mo ago
Ok, but what if in the future I could guarantee that my generative model was not trained on the work I want to replicate. Like say X library is the only library in town for some task, but it has a restrictive license. Can I use a model that
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by umvi 7mo ago
You can be sued for any reason if a company feels threatened (see: Oracle v Google)
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by umvi 7mo ago
As a complete layman, quantum computing seems like it could be like AI. AI for the longest time was a scam. Like, it was clearly improving, but only in marginal increments. The bar was so low though... even the state of the art was garbage
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by umvi 7mo ago
Is using virtualization the only good way of taking a 288-core box and splitting it up into multiple parallel workloads? One time I rented a 384-core AMD EPYC baremetal VM in GCP and I could not for the life of me get parallelized workloads
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by umvi 8mo ago
Could this also be related to Facebook killing messenger.com (i.e. they are no longer running a charity so they need all users to be on the main site now to consume the slop)?
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by umvi 8mo ago
I say do it, if it simplifies the architecture. For example if you are using firestore with a redis cache layer, that's 2 dbs. If you can replace 2 dbs with 1 db (postgres), I think it's worth it. But if you are suggesting using a
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by umvi 8mo ago
- Generating your own left pad means you don't have to pull in an external left pad - Which in turn means left pad doesn't show up on your SBOM - Which in turn means CVEs won't show up for left pad when you run your SBOM thro
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by umvi 8mo ago
> no longer any need to use a library at all As someone who works on medical device software, I see this as a huge plus (maybe a con for FOSS specifically, but a net win overall). I'm a big proponent of the go-ism "A little cop
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by umvi 8mo ago
Seems like a good reason you should need to "pair" the RF remote to the device, similar to Bluetooth. Otherwise a bad actor in an apartment complex could get a "universal" RF remote and randomly try stuff until they can
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by umvi 9mo ago
Some YouTuber basically reverse engineered it, and he found that the main thing contributed by the coca leaves were tannins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkH3EbWTYc&t=209s
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by umvi 9mo ago
I thought WD-40 was more a solvent than lubricant
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by umvi 9mo ago
I've seen stuff like this go the opposite direction with researchers (who generally aren't software engineers): "I used claude to port a large Rust codebase to Python and it's been a game changer. Whereas I was always fi
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by umvi 9mo ago
> Well designed security models don't sell computers/operating systems, apparently. Well more like it's hard to design software that is both secure-by-default and non-onerous to the end users (including devs). Every time I
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by umvi 9mo ago
Yeah, would be nice to have a "start at level 100" button so you can skip to the challenging part
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by umvi 9mo ago
> manipulating vulnerable viewers it always rubs me the wrong way when people infantilize the masses. The "vulnerable" masses already already partake in lots of harmful substances and practices (tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gamblin
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by umvi 10mo ago
External C++ code never has CVEs? Or I guess since you are manually managing it, you are just ignorant of any CVEs?
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by umvi 10mo ago
Deju Vu... https://blog.fogus.me/2025/12/23/the-best-things-and-stuff-o...
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by umvi 10mo ago
Not just programming either; he invented a mathematical technique for calculating the nth hex digit of pi
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by umvi 10mo ago
Atlassian recently did this with BitBucket self hosted runners. Is there a CI/CD cartel or something?
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by umvi 10mo ago
SVGs have a lot of security landmines; it's simplest to just disallow them, especially if they are untrusted (user provided)
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by umvi 11mo ago
Protobufs are a pain to debug and maintain compared to json and modern browsers support zstd compression making json "efficient"
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by umvi 11mo ago
Have any videos or pictures you can share?
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by umvi 11mo ago
Who is "they"? Someone, somewhere, will always complain about anything, no matter how good it is. The world is filled with critics because (my hot take) it's easier to tear things down than build them up.
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by umvi 11mo ago
Feature request: make it so the black bar is a hyperlink and it takes you to the thread it is referring to. This article is not on the front page so it took me a while to find what the black bar was referring to.
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by umvi 11mo ago
It's way more nuanced than this. Ultimately poverty comes down to an individual's ability to be self-sustaining. Take a software engineer, take away their house, job, and all of their money so they are homeless and have literally
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by umvi 11mo ago
"This is an excellent observation, and gets at the heart of the matter!"
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by umvi 11mo ago
I'm happier to pay Valve's 30% than Apple's. With Valve you could always switch to Itch or something if you didn't want to pay, but with Apple you have no alternative. Valve gives you access to a huge player base and lot

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