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by wavemode 24d ago
Real life is a game of risk/reward rather than a game of deep calculation. You can't "calculate" life because there are too many variables and unknowns. You have to simply pick a path and either accept the risks or mitig
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by wavemode 24d ago
This is similar to (but much higher-level than) the Shakespeare programming language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua...
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by wavemode 24d ago
The Find N6 still has a noticeable crease, it's just much smaller than the average foldable (here's a video of it with the screen off: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ss31thoK7xM ). If someone truly can't
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by wavemode 24d ago
But, the iPhone Duo has a different aspect ratio from a regular iPhone. So your app needs to be designed for multiple aspect ratios anyway.
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by wavemode 25d ago
> Is it legal for US citizens to all put cameras on their cars and set up a network where we can all see where all police are at any given time? Sure. There's absolutely nothing illegal about monitoring the location and activity of
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by wavemode 27d ago
That doesn't really follow. Not every job can be automated with code. And those that can, largely already have been.
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by wavemode 27d ago
Programming (usually) isn't art, it's design. Design is when you arrange something to serve a particular purpose, not just for aesthetic value. In programming we understand that this purpose is not just to make code that looks nic
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by wavemode 27d ago
Same exact thought when this trailer came across my feed. "Oh, who did A24 get to play Holmes, she looks familiar somehow." hahaha
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by wavemode 28d ago
> LLMs write better than most journalists In my personal experience I strongly disagree. Curious what publications you read wherein this is the case.
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by wavemode 28d ago
This was a type confusion bug in generated JIT code, not in C++ code.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
Using a harness designed for a specific problem set to solve that specific problem set, means the AI+harness is generally intelligent? How do you figure that? Or do you mean that, for any given problem, we could theoretically design a harne
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by wavemode 1mo ago
I wonder how likely it is that, one of the major providers had an outage, and then the thundering herd of users switching to other providers (and/or openrouter automatically failing people over to other providers) caused the incidents
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by wavemode 1mo ago
No, the verification they're doing is on the sending side, not receiving. The state sends people ballots, the USPS intercepts them and sends them back to the state if they find an issue. IF this cycle of delays lasts long enough, then
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by wavemode 1mo ago
Your state has eliminated metal tab cans? Huh. What do you drink 12oz of pop out of?
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by wavemode 1mo ago
At the same time, I think some people in this comment section are underestimating the likelihood that this was a hack, because they're overestimating how sophisticated such a hack would have to be. In my mind, if this was a hack, it wa
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by wavemode 1mo ago
> modern SSD bandwidth is ~5-15GB/s That's nothing compared to modern memory bandwidth.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
No, you're comparing apples and oranges. All an SSD sequential read is doing is copying data from one place to another. So you should be comparing SSD bandwidth to memory bandwidth, not SSD bandwidth to (time it takes to execute some a
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by wavemode 1mo ago
No, I don't think the way you're characterizing this is accurate. I/O is inherently very slow compared to computation. And many programs genuinely don't have any useful computation to do while waiting for I/O - beca
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by wavemode 1mo ago
> why can’t nested functions just be normal functions inside a namespace Because GCC's nested functions are closures - they can access local variables within the function.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
I feel the opposite way. I very rarely trust the database system to do the right thing. Any query more complex than a basic lookup by primary key requires me to look at query plans and validate that indexes are in place and are being used.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
Knowing game codebases, I'm guessing their test coverage was not fantastic. Agents weren't gonna get it done.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
Both you and the parent commenter seem to be misunderstanding the point the Bitter Lesson paper makes. The Bitter Lesson is about general-purpose algorithms vs. specialized algorithms. Historically, chess engines were programmed to look at
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by wavemode 1mo ago
Stock ticker: "BIGCO'; DROP TABLE TRANSACTIONS"
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by wavemode 1mo ago
To be fair, a game of this only takes a few minutes. Probably best as a "learn by doing" type of thing.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
> Out of all the big orgs, Amazon is probably the one that has the least regard for keeping technically interesting projects alive I'm curious what you mean by this. I would have said the exact opposite - AWS tends to keep projects
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by wavemode 1mo ago
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act explicitly contains "knowingly" and/or "intentionally" qualifications. By definition, you can't accidentally violate the CFAA.
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by wavemode 1mo ago
I think "deleted" is still always going to have to be a package state, realistically. A package could contain spam, abuse, copyright infringement and/or illegal content. I don't mind malware being lumped in to that - the
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by wavemode 2mo ago
I don't think parent commenter is complaining about the length. "a lot of words to describe..." is a rhetorical device. Their comment is basically saying "you wrote this whole article complaining about Amazon, but what t
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by wavemode 2mo ago
Parent commenter never said it was Spirit. (I kind of doubt that they ever operated in Brazil.) Just that this is the kind of data they would be worried about being sold.
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by wavemode 2mo ago
While I agree with the spirit of what you're saying, it is very similar to whenever anyone complains about things where they work. "Well, why don't you just raise it with management?" You're assuming that management

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