ur-whale

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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   > Updating terminfo is easy. lol. sure, very easy to do this on order of magnitude 1000 remote machines whose various OS's are entirely managed by automation.
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   > Proactive use of the Valgrind suite (Memcheck and Helgrind at least) as part of the development process Yeah, except that it's: slow and expensive and therefore can't be a part of the "short cycle" (edit code, compi
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   > Might be $TERM needs to be set or you need to add ghostty to terminfo Yeah, except that the specific terminfo needed for ghostty isn't installed anywhere on the boxes you ssh into ... you need to manually install it on every si
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   From a lot of different angles, the UK is going full dystopia: privacy, civil rights, economy, demography time to vote with your feet people.
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   https://archive.is/mwaDP
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   https://archive.is/CpCeX
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   > Basically every new law, piece of news or media I see coming from the UK paints a picture of a beat-down, cynical & scared society Empires take a very long time to die, but when they finally do, it is never pretty. Historical examp
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   The real question is: can recall be forcibly torn out of your system, not if a specific application tries to "block" it.
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   by ur-whale 1y ago

   The only thing that endangers freedom here is the fact that there are centralized payment processors in the first place. There's an existing cure for that particular disease: Bitcoin.
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    Is there a feedback loop ? As in: External Prompt -> Claude -> MCP -> Blender -> Cycles -> .exr -> show Claude how good its work actually is -> Correct -> New prompt -> ... Rinse and repeat until result actually l
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    https://archive.is/SkCKz
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    Yeah ... Except that: - no parts placement - no routing Easily the two hardest / annoying steps in designing such a straightforward board.
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    I've been waiting for something like this for ages. The fact it doesn't do houseflies is a huge downer though.
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    Thanks for pointing those out, I did in fact find them because my interest level was high enough that I went digging in the github repo. But as I explain above, a key thing for tech. things like this, which are interesting in an of themselv
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    Yes, I found those. The point is to make the example front and center on the homepage so as to very quickly show what this is about to the casual passer-by.
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    A short C++ example of gecode in use on their home page would be real nice.
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    > he only had $40 million How could you possibly know? Or anyone else for that matter, including the thugs who sent him to jail?
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    Your definition of "worthiness" is entirely flawed. It seems to be base on some random economics textbook definition of "value". I am getting tired of repeating the exact same thing on HN, but TL;DR: . there is no
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    > being objectively worthless Since we're on the topic of being objective, how is, objectively, something that trades at close to 110k USD per token, "worthless"? I believe the word "objective" does not, objectiv
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    > What exactly does bitcoin offer the world today? I fully agree that Bitcoin did not become what it was originally built for (a currency system for the internet), and as a matter of fact, for very valid reasons: - custody is really
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    I find it amazing how much these type of tech articles exert themselves to systematically avoid posting any materially useful information. Do you see a BTC address in there? A link to blockchair? Did I somehow miss it? In fact, I've no
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    In what way is that question trivia? I believe you under-estimate what a good interviewer is trying to do with questions such as these: Either you've seen the trick before and you get an opportunity to show the interviewer that you&#x2
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    One interesting problem related to the trick (which as pointed out elsewhere in the thread, fails spectacularly when the two variables alias to the same memory location) is to find other dyadic functions of integers that have the same prope
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    First: gee, I wonder how the Swiss do it. To your points: >OK great, what do you want to cut? The answer is largely dependent on the country you're talking about. But the generic answer: cut waste. That includes inefficiencies, dupl
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    > Ideally there'd just be a 10% tax With the added value that it mechanically keeps governments lean and fit, instead of the bloated, taxpayer money wasting leeches that they are in most socialist countries. Socialism, a.k.a. a pict
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    Mmmmyeah, well, one thing LLM are very decent at is translating, it being from human language to human language or from code to code, so not sure your point stands.
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    > Integers are much faster to process than floating point This was common and accepted knowledge circa 1990-2005. Is that still the case? In 2025, I'm not so sure, and if speed is indeed what you're after, what you typically wa
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    The code seem to be doing calculations with integers instead of floats. If so, why?
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    https://archive.is/lSCR2
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    by ur-whale 1y ago

    > So I, running Windows, using PowerShell Well, what can I say other than people don't usually get in races with lead weights tied to their ankles.