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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
I'm not familiar with Swift, but it still sounds like it's describing an actor model, just one with a subset of the functionality.
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
> Your Child Loves Actor Frameworks It turns out, Promises are actors. Very simple actors that can have one and only one message that upon resolution they dispatch to all other subscribed actors [0]. So children might love Promises and
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
Yep in some way the programmer needs to express that the routine will have to _continue_ when IO completes (which will necessarily go up to the top of the stack in some way, unless you don't care about the result of the IO operation),
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
If the guy is so gracious and forgiving, why would he be upset by me substituting his middle name with slang for "sex"?
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
Exactly. My rule of thumb is "don't add validation until there is absolutely no better way and you absolutely must restrict this input."
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
Exciting. I'd love to see AppImage [0] builds of applications produced with this library. [0] https://appimage.org/
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
You had me until vi.
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
What about "de-DoubleClicking" Google, iow, separating the ad business from the rest of Google/Alphabet? I'm not sure how that would work, but IMO what reduces the quality of Google products and noticeably makes them wor
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
I recently became aware of LibreWolf ( https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/ ), going to see how it works. So far I like that I can install it via AppImage!
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
I do not understand why this was flagged, this research gives important information on LLM's that contrasts with the marketing fluff we're seeing out of big tech.
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
It can, but you do need to decide which dimension(s) constitute a breaking change. IMO, the UI replaces the API as the main dimension in user facing applications, so if functionality is removed from the UI, or significantly altered, then th
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
They do not "find" bugs in the way that exploratory testing or user operation might (or even in the way that broader integration tests might), that is they don't find bugs that are not in the known problem space. But they are
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
> Modelling the happy path is great for refactoring - even a necessity, but doesn’t help with finding bugs. This is a common misconception (one that I also initially held). Unit tests aren't meant to find bugs, they're meant to
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
The two most popular clients, Gmail and Outlook, are ranked at 25 and 41 (the bottom) respectively.
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
One can't help but wonder (or personally, hope) if this move sour investors enough on Elon...
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by whoisthemachine 2y ago
Is this satire?
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
This seems more like a gap in the windows API than in the programming languages.
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
In my experience, xfinity will often do speed increases and market them, but leave me on a "grandfathered" plan, which leaves me with the same speed as before, and usually some creeping "service fees". Eventually, as I g
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
Scary if true!
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
Agreed. Outlook native gets extremely confused when the desktop resolution/scaling changes. It also uses as an old version of IE/Trident (?!) to render HTML e-mails, which is very painful to work with when trying to build rich e-m
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
Not only that, one climbed onto and then into the cockpit to secure the pilot. > ...a seaman of the Naval Reserve named Rath climbed up the inside of the mast until he reached the machine, and then crawled out to the plane to hold th
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
I fully agree. If local AI takes traction, then we actually have a unique opportunity to take away some of that massive profiling, as some of what you use search engines for today can be done by AI. This may be why there's some fear-mo
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
I've been slowly expanding my HTPC/media server into a gaming server and box for running LLMs (and possibly diffusion models?) locally for playing around with. I think it's becoming clear that the future of LLM's will b
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
It's hard to know, but since it's virtual, we know with certainty that there's no guarantee of any sort of "air" between the object locked data. Much less the total severance of any kind of plugged in network that &
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
> Object Lock serves as a digital vault, making data immutable for a specified period. It creates a virtual air gap... "Virtual" and "air gap" is quite frankly an oxymoron. The two concepts are just at odds with one a
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
I think there's maybe a little too much credit being given to JCD here, this quote: > Don't be left out. There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this technology. Is about as generic of a "wooo new tech ke
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
Good, fast, cheap. Choose two.
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
Ethics are tricky!
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
While the Germany PDF actually scrolls pretty quickly at 100% zoom (makes one realize just how much text is read in a day), the Universe one is pretty fun, Firefox's PDF reader at 100% zoom obviously doesn't budge the scrollbar at
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by whoisthemachine 3y ago
AI is at rest almost all of the time. When we're "awake", we're constantly learning, observing our environment, making decisions based off those observations, and storing relevant information. The "AI" of today

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