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by whizzter 8mo ago
Honestly though, gamedevs really are among the biggest Windows stalwarts due to SDK's and older 3d software. Only groups of developers more tied to Windows that I can think of are probably embedded people tied due to weird hardware SDK
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by whizzter 8mo ago
I think that might be partly because on regular PC's you can just go and buy an NVidia card insteaf of fuzzing around with software issues, and for those on laptops they probably hope that something like Zluda will solve it via softwar
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by whizzter 8mo ago
We had a workshop 6 months ago and while I've always been sceptical of OpenAI,etc's silly AGI/ASI claims, the investments have shown the way to a lot of new technology and has opened up a genie that won't be put back int
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by whizzter 8mo ago
128gb of memory, it's a nice change for Apple not to lag in that department for once, wonder what such a machine will cost though.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
It's one of the better abstractions given the lack of first class expressions in Java, having used EfCore/Linq a while I'd be hard pressed to like going back though. The Linq code is native C# that can be strongly typed for I
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Bought from a retailer that has "no returns on phones with broken seals", and honestly with all accounts and everything else setup on the device now, the time taken to go exchange it and setup everything again, I'm gonna lose
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Ah dang my typical luck, just bought a 16e on friday since my old 2020 SE broke down (same price as I would've paid for a 17e also since I got the 256gb version).
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by whizzter 8mo ago
That's the real shame but also the lesson, a perfectly good and specified format, but the apparent simplicity makes everyone ignore the spec and yolo out broken stuff. This is why SQL is "broken", it's powerful, simple a
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Researchers from "low risk countries" will be thrown out later this year.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
> What is somewhat justifying OpenAI's valuation is that they are still trying for AGI. And that's the dealbreaker for me since they've been so adamant on scaling taking them there, while we're all seeing how it'
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Oh I do think they did see it, considering how good they are they've probably been a tuning focus for a while. The signal the agent usage is sending though is that Anthropic is way ahead since all we hear about is Claude these days des
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by whizzter 8mo ago
I'd be super interested in how this compares between cpu architectures, is there an optimization in Apple silicon that makes this bad while it'd fly on Intel/AMD cpus?
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Agreed, but we have laws about PII in so many places so this is what we'll probably get. Still, AI services cost money they probably want to check usage since money talks.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
If you attach tracking to get exact set numbers it'd be illegal, but taking an aggregate and doing statistics shouldn't be since it can't be traced to individuals.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
They should get the best metrics out of update server communications anyhow, 30% or more users getting update downloads than having AI enabled should be obvious.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
I think Jails started as a tool of it's time, it's about the same thing as virtualization in making isolated systems when dependencies start to diverge, but aimed at the issues of sysadmins that had to manage their own systems, no
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by whizzter 8mo ago
That's kinda true for older/integrated parts of Windows, lots and lots of functionality that people have come to rely on over the years, but also huge black-boxes that you need to not be intimidated at probing into to solve weird
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by whizzter 8mo ago
The (install package, press button, it works) is great when you just want a boring OS since the interest is elsewhere rather than an itch on making the machine as perfect extension of onself. The machine and installation is just fungible. I
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by whizzter 8mo ago
The FreeBSD threading was perhaps behind but in general, but the big things in Linux VS FreeBSD was always the 4.3 licensing lawsuits that gave Linux a momentum that BSD never caught up with. The real difference during that early 00s was th
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by whizzter 8mo ago
I think most bribes to Trump appear after the fact so no issues there (he does have plenty of enforcers to make sure he collects the bribes).
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Yep, SpaceX actually has a track record as an actual leader and innovator in it's niche (that's very CapEx intensive to enter), it's not really a moat but it's a lead that no other entity seems to be closing in on (on th
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Because people are discussing different things. We need to talk more about pages vs applications, web compnents are an excellent choice for making pages more maintainable, but without support for somehow automating translion of internal sta
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by whizzter 8mo ago
This so much, automatic "data struture state -> visual state" without manual synchronization code to update the visual state is the main reason why frameworks are useful, not for components. BUT, these frameworks are most usefu
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Structural subtyping yes, nominal subtyping is a bit pricklier. As a developer I personally prefer structural subtyping, but structural subtyping is harder for a compiler to optimize runtime performance for. Nominal sub-type hierarchies all
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by whizzter 8mo ago
There was a link posted here that showed some hernia surgery in Malawi costing 400$ , some others listed via links at 160$ to 1000$. I honestly have no idea about healthcare costs in countries like that, but assuming the main cost is a surg
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Not familiar with CUDA development, but doesn't CUDA support C++ ? Skipping Clang/LLVM and going "pure" C seems to be quite limiting in that case.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Not a cryptographer but I'm not liking the "advice" of encrypting the first 64bits of the UUID. An user of an opensource application using this known "encryption" will be able to approximate the real UUID values bas
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Exactly, public means to the _public_, just because it's persons of the public doesn't mean that corporations are entitled to be able to use or profit from that material.
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Actually it isn't the same. We can allow access to private persons while disallowing commercial usage and forbid data processing of private information (outside of law enforcement access). Kinda like it was in pre-digital days, no we c
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by whizzter 8mo ago
Open to research yes. Free to ingest and make someones crimes a permanent part of AI datasets resulting in forever-convictions? No thanks. AI firms have shown themselves to be playing fast and loose with copyrighted works, a teenager should

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