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by vrighter 15d ago
Why do I have to pay to pay? For any transaction size? I'm already taxed for earning the money. I'm already taxed on goods I spend it on. And now I need to be taxed again every time I want to be taxed again on already taxed money?
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by vrighter 15d ago
I heard that unsafe rust is then unsafer than c++. I haven't learned rust yet, and I get that it's a tradeoff because the rest of the system can still be relied on. But how true is that first statement?
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by vrighter 16d ago
a caveat worth mentioning:
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by vrighter 16d ago
This made me laugh out loud. And got my office coworkers to give me a strange look. Thank you
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by vrighter 16d ago
or gulfs. Or states
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by vrighter 16d ago
handing over all of their data to the five eyes... because they have your private keys (or for the "trustless" version, have you generate ephemeral keys on your own server... and then send it to them)
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by vrighter 17d ago
Yes it is obviously impossible, as anyone familiar with the subject could (and did) say. You can't detect something that is so dilute that there isn't even a single molecule of it in a single drop of blood drawn from a capillary.
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by vrighter 17d ago
yes, it's easier to build something that doesn't work. More news at 11.
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by vrighter 17d ago
It used to just be satirical. Now it's quasi-satirical. Reality has caught up to the satire, unfortunately.
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by vrighter 18d ago
having worked heavily on backup software, ho are vm backups supposed to work now?
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by vrighter 19d ago
Neither is there a ground truth in rock paper scissors (the pattern varies by the player). But one would still be trying to detect patterns and predict the next "token" the opponent is going to output.
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by vrighter 22d ago
the thing that allowed me to effectively climb higher in the abstraction stack, is to dive lower first.
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by vrighter 23d ago
the release date is decided before the work even starts. Whatever's done gets released, and marketing gets to claim a new major version. When it's still a work in progress. All software works like this nowadays (I'm sure it d
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by vrighter 23d ago
"going beta" is a human decision. It proves nothing. All it proves is that at some point someone looked at it and said "good enough, ship it". It says nothing about the quality of the unreviewed code.
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by vrighter 25d ago
"yo we heard you like camera bumps so we put camera bumps on your camera bumps so you can camera bump while you camera bump" I wouldn't say they're an exact copy...
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by vrighter 25d ago
this is backwards. Go on.... try it anywhere. Just the start menu (if you're on windows) is enough.
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by vrighter 25d ago
I don't trust AI testing. An automated loop == zero testing in my book.
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by vrighter 25d ago
large scale is cheaper more economical anywhere else. I don't believe making reactors smaller would work differently than anything else.
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by vrighter 25d ago
Why would I trust my data to a vibe coded database, over a battle tested, tested to hell and back one?
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by vrighter 26d ago
oh for fuck's sake.... again???
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by vrighter 26d ago
when I designed my own simple risc-v processor with just rv32i, i just compiled lua. Hassle free
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by vrighter 29d ago
Flatpak: adjust permissions here, workaround there, different workaround for a different DE. My solution: I'm very careful about what I run, but when I do run it, I just do. No fanfare. No security theater.
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by vrighter 29d ago
As far as I'm concerned, GLM is the opengl mathematics library. I wish projects would check before stealing a name.
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by vrighter 1mo ago
I don't think "rolling out smaller package sizes at lower price points." is rolling anything back, shrinkflation-wise
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by vrighter 1mo ago
the skill of being cognitively lazy
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by vrighter 1mo ago
can you turn off your microphone, fellow colleague-in-the-same-room? I can hear myself through it!
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by vrighter 1mo ago
And one implementation that everyone settled on, and pretty much everyone can assume to be present is worse than multiple incompatible implementations how?
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by vrighter 1mo ago
Why? What is it with this obsession with fixed release cadences? Releasing half baked stuff just because an arbitrary self-imposed deadline is close?
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by vrighter 1mo ago
"they are difficult to open in case of power failure" "We'll just open the windows automatically using the same power that was lost"
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by vrighter 1mo ago
they'd just be too small to make sense of other models' outputs

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