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by wk_end 8mo ago
Legally, yes. But everything was well-documented and publicized. As sentient creatures we can use our own eyes, ears, and judgement to come to our own conclusions in advance or lieu of a formal court ruling.
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Just to be clear, ordering a violent mob thousands strong to march on the capitol and "fight like hell" to interfere with the peaceful transition of power is also what a real insurrection attempt looks like.
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by wk_end 8mo ago
It's unclear from your comment whether you inadvertently have bidirectional type inference or if you just...don't have type inference. So, just to be clear, bidirectional type inference is a particular kind of machinery for type
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by wk_end 8mo ago
15 years is more than generous. It's been terrible for nearly 30 - the drop-off around season nine or ten was precipitious and it's only gotten worse since then.
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I guess "shitty" is in the eye of the beholder, but having a pretty vituperative screed written against me (accusing me of being "insecure", "threatened", fixated on "ego" and "control", &qu
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by wk_end 8mo ago
What a weird, victim-blame-y thing to say. Something genuinely shitty was done to this guy by an LLM - who, as an open source maintainer, probably already is kind of pissed about what LLMs are doing to the world. Then another shitty thing
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Based on: MJ Rathbun operated in a continuous block from Tuesday evening through Friday morning, at regular intervals day and night. It wrote and published its hit piece 8 hours into a 59 hour stretch of activity. Not to mention th
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by wk_end 8mo ago
The cover design is nice enough IMO, but it definitely looks like a self-help book or something rather than a technical monograph. The image on the site has incorrect capitalization ("A History of..."), though the one on Amazon ap
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Let's throw on one more: consumers had lost faith in Sega. The Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn (in the US) were all abandoned by the company (for understandable reasons, but still). Why shell out another $200 for yet another system which was
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by wk_end 8mo ago
The perception was: my iTunes library is mine , and it's invasive for Apple to put something in there without my permission. Whereas: the Windows 95 CD is Microsoft's, Microsoft is free to put what they want on there. I bet most
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Everyone in this thread is conflating/misunderstanding various things and seems a little misinformed. "Detention without trial" is a thing in the UK, as well as the US, Canada, and many (most?) other countries, even those c
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I think you're (understandably) interpreting "technocrat" differently than what the author intends and what it's historically meant. Technocrats form the foundation of the so-called "deep state" that Trump rail
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by wk_end 8mo ago
To my knowledge - and I'm not an expert here - the N64 hardware is pretty unique and doesn't really resemble any of SGI's other chipsets. Not in precise capabilities - the XZ, for instance, didn't even support hardware t
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by wk_end 8mo ago
The CPUs are close, but the Indy is otherwise pretty different from the N64. Totally different graphics architecture, and - relevant to getting it on MiSTer - it’s a workstation rather than a video game console, necessitating quite a bit mo
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Yeah, it’s only kicking the can down the road if you’re the actual maintainer of the software. If you’re just a packager, it’s your job to get the package to build and work correctly; for your own sanity, you should be making minimal change
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by wk_end 8mo ago
The beginning of Apple’s backslide far predates any (thus far fairly limp-wristed) attempts by regulators to pry open their iOS walled garden. At least in North America - their biggest market I think? - the iPhone is still utterly locked do
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I don't know where you live, and this is going to be very dependent on where you live, but in most places that are experiencing these issues I think you actually have the problem backwards. For any given parcel of land, building upwa
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I haven’t tried it myself but I don’t think that’s the case. See the documentation here: https://nodejs.org/api/n-api.html I’ve only skimmed this, but it sure sounds like it lets you write C code that operates on JS ob
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by wk_end 9mo ago
V8 itself might not, but, say, Node does and that doesn't torpedo performance. Was Node-API just better designed than Python's FFI?
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Hmm, I think we're talking about different kinds of "number one". The ancestor comment called Scala "niche" and criticized the characterization of it as "widely used". So given that context, I was coming a
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by wk_end 9mo ago
I genuinely don’t understand what you think “these days” means or how what I said was incompatible with it.
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Chisel is very neat but "the number one language for building hardware"? VHDL and SV are the only things in this space that actually matter. Chisel is still a blip for now.
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by wk_end 9mo ago
> It is just math at the end of the day. Not really - it's math, plus a bazillion jigabytes of data to train that math, plus system prompts to guide that math, plus data centers to do that math, plus nice user interfaces and APIs to
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by wk_end 9mo ago
No one - neither the author of the article nor anyone reading - believes that Sam Altman sat down at his desk one fine day in 2015 and said to himself, “Boy, it sure would be nice if there were a better way to scam the elderly…”
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Yeah, I've got a New 3DS and never actually tried the 1st gen model. It might be a very individual thing, since everyone's vision can be quite different; if you enjoy it more power to you.
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by wk_end 9mo ago
The thing is, the 3DS was a success mostly despite the 3D, rather than because of it. No one was excited about it or all that impressed - remember that initially the 3DS was such a flop at launch that Nintendo needed to pull a Hail Mary,
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by wk_end 9mo ago
Wario Land VB is really, really good. It's a bit slight but seriously one of my favourite Nintendo platformers. There's always been a very very small and intense VB fandom, but outside of them I don't think there's a ton
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by wk_end 9mo ago
The Waste Land has been one of my favourite pieces of writing for decades now; hearing it brought to life like this is incredible. Thank you.
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by wk_end 9mo ago
I'd say, though it's certainly a debatable point, that it's precisely because the passages are deliberately written not to have a clear narrator that there is no "right" reading, but rather a multitude of interpre
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by wk_end 9mo ago
You're assuming it was the only incident in America that day, rather than an exceptional outlier stacked on top of the usual day in America. Yes, a single car crash killing 150 people would make the news. It would be among the worst,

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