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by vdupras 1y ago
What do you mean by "that long"? that Inside Macintosh ever had C snippets? AFAICT, Inside Macintosh was always about m68k assembly and Pascal.
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by vdupras 1y ago
So I understand that in NPM world, spurious security advisories are common and that the tooling will constantly have you run "fix" commands without real reasons? That's bad and it would explain this lax security culture oozin
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by vdupras 1y ago
That's what I suspect as well, but this means that we can assume that there's a giganormous amount of development machines being compromised around the world. If you're a gig worker, you might be exposing your other customers
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by vdupras 1y ago
I have a question. I'm curious. I see two comments here on this subject, complaining about the churn of dealing with security advisories. Sure, it's churn. ... but isn't this problem dwarfed by the implications of having used
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by vdupras 1y ago
I don't think people care. After all, they don't care about the degradation of our life support , which doesn't have much more than that either, at least at a civilization-sustaining level.
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by vdupras 1y ago
And that's what it's all about: Energy Return on Investment. Conventional oil has a much much better return than fracking, and the US is out of it. This is what is meant by "decline". Sure, there's plenty of oil, bu
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by vdupras 1y ago
The examples that the article give are "memory size and CPU speed for computers or horsepower and miles per gallon for cars", that is, technological improvements that would be a reason to adjust inflation value further down beca
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by vdupras 1y ago
In inflation calculation, is quality taken into account? I guess not, given the inherent problem stated in the article. If that's the case, even if it's true that we can say "sure, quality is declining, but it's fine, ju
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by vdupras 1y ago
No need to press, they've already got the sinking feeling going. It's going to need some time sinking where it's gotta sink :)
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by vdupras 1y ago
That is indeed a problem and an unsolvable one. All major news sources are in the business of manufacturing consent. They're not trying to manufacture the exact same consent, but mash them together... you get a general direction, not u
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by vdupras 1y ago
Maybe, but I still find it interesting to see a media outlet use this "fancy soviet grocery" as an example. That example is supposed to be a home run in terms of showing american superiority, when in fact it shows how America has
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by vdupras 1y ago
The article has a link to a video showing a soviet groceries, presenting it as if it was horrible, but if you ignore the bleak lighting, it kind of looks like... any "discount" american grocery? A good part of the american populat
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by vdupras 1y ago
Of course you can disengage, and very effectively: spend less, work less. Touch grass. It's called Asceticism and is as old as Philosophy.
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by vdupras 1y ago
The media never said 2025. They always, always talked about 2100, just so the mind can safely think "I'll be dead by then". Thresholds crossed by 2025? certainly. But "living hell by 2025"? I'll have to call
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by vdupras 1y ago
A reverse Malthusian extrapolation, now that's something I haven't seen since Children of Men.
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by vdupras 1y ago
We've got to define "unlivable". What if statistically, everyone's house will be destroyed by flooding, forest fires, etc.. let's say, twice in their lifetime. How can the math possibly add up if a house's pric
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by vdupras 1y ago
I think downvoting comments like the parent exacerbate political polarization. Definitions of words such as "genocide" and "slavery" indeed is problematic and arguing like the parent doesn't imply being a Trump apol
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by vdupras 1y ago
> Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony
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by vdupras 1y ago
One question I have on my mind is: what side will they pick in WWIII?
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by vdupras 1y ago
With the semi-conductor world so interdependent, such scenarios look a lot like Mutually Assured Destruction scenarios. So... back to 180nm everyone? I hope you planned a way to black start into it!
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by vdupras 1y ago
Quick, get Colin Powell in here to show us where the WMD are at!
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by vdupras 1y ago
The human world runs on a gargantuan web of promises. What makes the bus driver sit there and drive is the tip of the promises iceberg. Layers upon layers of promises, leveraging each other. The future has already been promised many times o
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by vdupras 1y ago
> Build a Forth in assembly, build a Lisp in Forth You might already know it, but Dusk OS[1], which is a Forth, has a Lisp implementation[2] which includes a native code compiler for i386, amd64, arm, risc-v and m68k. You might consider
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by vdupras 1y ago
Do they plan for it to be self-hosting? It would look weird to have such a small system being absolutely dwarfed by the size of its compiler. It would also look weird to have such a lightweight system with a compiler than can't fit in
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by vdupras 1y ago
In Dusk OS, I implement does> but with one level of indirection removed. Rather than using create, you bind any number to a behavior. Example: : foo 1+ does> . ; 42 foo bar bar \ prints 43 If you want, you can add the "traditiona
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by vdupras 1y ago
Am I being too optimistic about AI capabilities for supposing that "current events" are always their context? For example, shouldn't an AI infer that anything related to "smoke" just before or after the Pope dies is
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by vdupras 1y ago
That sounds plausible. Would we call this "alignment"? Could we then speculate that an unaligned model would guess the meaning of that phrase?
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by vdupras 1y ago
Oh well, it looks like I've missed my mark. I thought this was a good AI example. So, although I'm spoiling the example, I don't want to drive anyone crazy with nonsense either, so here is it: https://en.wikipedia.
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by vdupras 1y ago
I don't think so. I'm not really concerned about whether Google's AI has an opinion about "Elon is Snowball". However, the answer I received is, I believe, the equivalent of "meaning not found". Out of all
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by vdupras 1y ago
Yeah, not the best phrasing ever. I guess I should have written "any human who have read a particular book, which is among the classics"

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