winternewt

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by winternewt 1y ago
Every corporate meeting should start with reminding ourselves that we're all going to die. And it most likely won't be from anything happening at the office.
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by winternewt 1y ago
> The amount of shady things going on in this domain (AI trained on stolen content, no proper attribution, not proper way to audit what's going out to third party servers etc.) should be a huge red flag for any professional develope
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by winternewt 1y ago
You read my mind. City builder games are unrealistic in a bad way that defies intuition and prevents you from modeling a real city. This has been my huge frustration with Cities Skylines, which looks great but where ambulances take three mo
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by winternewt 1y ago
How do they avoid lossy compression?
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by winternewt 1y ago
The trick with L4 is they treat IPC basically like syscalls. Arguments are left on CPU registers instead of serializing them to a message buffer. The only significant work performed is a change of virtual memory map. The called process cont
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by winternewt 1y ago
Two projects: 1. Training my own LLM and other kinds of neural networks, e.g. a network for discriminating cheaters in an online game. I feel like it's very hard for an amateur to get their hands on enough training data. 2. Building my
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by winternewt 1y ago
At least when someone promotes free speech there's a chance that they are proponents of democratic principles. If they are against free speech you know that they have an authoritarian ideology.
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by winternewt 1y ago
My layman observation from tons of pop sci consumption is that the rate of metabolism seems to correlate greatly with life expectancy. Running at 100% all the time would likely wear the system out much sooner, e.g. due to higher oxidation a
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by winternewt 1y ago
I wouldn't think the Firefox license allows them to do that. I thought only binaries built by Mozilla could use the FF brand.
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by winternewt 1y ago
Those animations are a no brainer because they both communicate something meaningful and don't get in your way. While the animation is happening you can keep working with whatever you were doing. I think a great UI can both be animated
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by winternewt 2y ago
So how do you do I/O on stdin/stdiout/stderr without syscalls?
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by winternewt 2y ago
But in order to read from stdin and write to stdout, you must make I/O syscalls.
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by winternewt 2y ago
IMO the problem isn't 10x engineers. The problem is that the workplace is flooded with 0.1x "engineers" that we have to tiptoe around. These people can barely implement Fizzbuzz, and if we write any code that they find compli
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by winternewt 2y ago
What do you mean by I/O exactly? Because to me handling HTTP requests definitely requires I/O, no matter how you technically implement it. Does the program start anew with new arguments for each HTTP request, and if so how is that
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by winternewt 2y ago
I'm curious: would it be a good idea to switch my desktop Linux pc to using huge pages across the board?
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by winternewt 2y ago
Who is cheering, other than clueless boomer politicians?
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by winternewt 2y ago
This is what I miss for important subjects: an actual ambitious, reductionist approach where in-depth cause-effect analysis is performed for each individual sample.
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by winternewt 2y ago
And that's why most of these endeavors are doomed to fail. Every time they enshittify one service there's a new one with attractive UX that VC's essentially pay you to use instead. And so the previous investment would be lost
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by winternewt 2y ago
Yes please
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by winternewt 2y ago
The ban is not targeted directly at TikTok but at the app stores, which will have to pay a fine of $5000 per user if they keep the app available in the store.
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by winternewt 2y ago
Also flattr, long ago. That failed too, unfortunately.
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by winternewt 2y ago
The more interesting question IMO is not how good the code can get. It is what must change for the AI to attain the introspective ability needed to say "sorry, I can't think of any more ideas."
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by winternewt 2y ago
How else do you propose that the web sites you visit should fund their work and infrastructure?
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by winternewt 2y ago
And they did with XHTML, but unfortunately it didn't catch on.
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by winternewt 2y ago
Measuring would attract even more protest because not only am I using my experience to choose (likely) more efficient algorithms, I am also spending yet more precious company time to measure its performance.
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by winternewt 2y ago
In my experience, the people who say"premature optimization it's the root of sal evil" will say that about any and all optimization until the point where all your customers think your product is a slow piece of garbage.
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by winternewt 2y ago
Please elaborate. If each stack is 2KB then surely all of that virtual memory is committed to physical RAM, and hence is using actual memory?
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by winternewt 2y ago
It started as a win32 application without any UI toolkit other than the controls that are built into windows. That's how the binary could be only a few hundred kilobytes in size.
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by winternewt 2y ago
That's the part that made the least sense to me. If he doesn't actually mean to rewrite it twice, what does he _mean_? Copy and paste the old code? Rewrite half it? Typically (my "intelligent application") I will read th
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by winternewt 2y ago
> OpenProcess will happily return a handle with PROCESS_VM_WRITE and PROCESS_VM_OPERATION rights Only if the process calling it has SE_DEBUG_NAME privileges, which you must set by opening your own process and then calling AdjustTokenPriv

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