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by viraptor 9mo ago
Given anything the size of Microsoft, it's not a good assumption. MS has large research teams that produce really interesting things. Their output is unrelated to released products.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
It doesn't say much really. At this point we can assume almost every project has some generated code in it. Unless you're sure that every single author hates the idea and there are no external contributions. Agent configuration ju
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by viraptor 9mo ago
It's a bit more nuanced. You can build a simple compiler without too many issues. But once you want it to do optimisations, flow control protection, good and fast register allocation, inling, autovectoriasation, etc. that's going
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by viraptor 9mo ago
It's not going to be as consistent. It may get bored of listing them (you know how you can ask for many examples and get 10 in response?), or omit some minor ones for other reasons. By replacing the names with something unique, you&#x2
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by viraptor 9mo ago
If you want to really test this, search/replace the names with your own random ones and see if it lists those. Otherwise, LLMs have most of the books memorised anyway: https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06&
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> Are you sure that not even the most mediocre insider threat program doesn’t have this accounted for? I worked for a big corp. None of this is out of ordinary. But yeah, if you need to survive and worry about being fired, you make your
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by viraptor 9mo ago
You're mashing together two groups. One claims having swap is good actually. The other claims you need N times ram for swap. They're not the same group. > Memory is limited either way; whether it’s RAM or RAM + swap For two rea
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> although this has never been done for church reasons That's not the case. Polish uses Latin-like alphabet due to Czech influence and German printers.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
Those and Icelandic people. But there's a fun correlation - see how much the US media content is played compared to local one per country. And which countries use subs rather than dubs or voiceovers in cinemas and TV. https:/&#x2
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> where English is understood anyways. It's popular. But not that popular - you couldn't assume a random person over 30yo on the street would be able to have a chat.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
Since there's quite a few people here working at US companies with access to lots of user data, but they may not have decision making capacity, I just thought I'll link the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, out of context and for no r
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> The "Pipe" approach (Cleaner for agents How did you verify the benefit?
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> Some folks worry about that reducing the very nature of open source collaboration. Collaboration on repos where the authors explicitly don't accept PRs and are going to auto close or ignore them? I don't get it - it's n
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by viraptor 9mo ago
The author is: > And here we have seen a few decisions that are really bad and, moreover, completely compromises the recurring sales business model of a large publishing group. They're actually complaining the toy is bad and should&
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> So what is the exact problem that is being solved here? I haven't actually tried it out, but I believe mostly intra- and inter-company trust based on existing SSO.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
Just another yay for Grist here! I've been looking for an Access alternative for quite a while and nothing really comes close. You can try hacking it together with various BI tools, but nothing really feels as accessible as the origina
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by viraptor 9mo ago
Yeah, I was trying to be nicer than "you're making it up" just in case someone has the actual numbers.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> will come down to the bare cost of fuel + oxidizer And maintenance and replacing parts and managing flights and ... You're trying to yadda-yadda so much opex here!
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> is spending 90% of their bullshit budget on battlig state and local governments Source? I can't immediately find anything like that.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
May be a bit different depending on what kind of work you're doing, but for me 5.2-codex finally reached higher level than opus.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> Industry OTOH has gone all-in on Transformers. It's so annoying. Transformers keep improving and recurrent networks are harder to train so until we hit some real wall, companies don't seem eager to diverge. It's like lit
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> Maybe I'm not the target market for this, but how hard is it REALLY to manage a RDBMS? It depends: - do you want multi region presence - do you want snapshot backups - do you want automated replication - do you want transparent fa
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> but it doesn't refuse to write the code without first being told why it wouldn't be a better idea to do X first Then don't ask it to write code? If you ask any recent high quality model to discuss options, tradeoffs, des
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> But you still need to know how to do things properly in general, otherwise the results are bad. Even that could use some nuance. I'm generating presentations in interactive JS. If they work, they work - that's the result, and
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by viraptor 9mo ago
I like the idea of ratchets, but the implementation needs to be good for them to work nicely. > If it counts too few, it also raises an error, this time congratulating you and prompting you to lower the expected number. This is a pain an
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> linux booted directly without any LILO or GRUB (this was back in the days the kernel included its own boot loader) You can still do that if your machine supports coreboot.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> AI can be a very effective tool for education if used properly. I have used it to create a ton of extremely useful visualizations I feel like this is still underappreciated. Awesome meaningful diagrams with animations that I would take
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by viraptor 9mo ago
Have you told the author your feedback? Nothing's going to change otherwise - they may think they did something helpful.
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by viraptor 9mo ago
You may not be in the right state, but the point of that part of the website is that it's a donation link. It will drive some people to help. If it's at the cost of some others getting grumpy about too much messaging... that'
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by viraptor 9mo ago
> and still have the good sense to The good sense is your judgement. At some point a real, direct, disruptive protest is going to be the right solution for a big enough group of people. Peaceful protests are just a "we're start

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