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by wvenable 1y ago
It's an issue of mental models. As a developer, his mental model is one of how naive software would sort items with mixed numbers in them. Most people, of course, naturally sort 10 after 9 -- their mental model doesn't contain s
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by wvenable 1y ago
It's not just the one decision though; there are literally thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of these decisions in most software. You want every single one of them to have an option? You want it to support every single combination?
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by wvenable 1y ago
Intel might have been successful with the transition if they didn't decide to go with such radically different and real-world untested architecture for Itanium.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I am sorry to hear what you and your wife are going through. Nothing I say here is meant to dismiss your experience. That said, I think it's important to separate personal experiences from what the larger body of evidence shows. Many v
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by wvenable 1y ago
It isn't hard to find that randomized controlled trials and large meta-analyses show that COVID vaccines are highly effective. No need to rely on media. You can point to one or two observational re-analyses that show otherwise but ov
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by wvenable 1y ago
> But I think we have to realize silencing people doesn't work. Doesn't it though? I've seen this repeated like it's fact but I don't think that's true. If you disallowed all of some random chosen conspira
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by wvenable 1y ago
Except Nixon.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> we get extremely hard to understand code The thing is code without operator overloading is also hard to understand because you might have this math thing (BigIntegers, Matrices) and you can't use standard notation.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Are too many people willingly accepting what is being given to them or do they actually have different needs that are almost entirely met by these products that they can't achieve easily with an entirely different ecosystem?
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by wvenable 1y ago
Overloaded operators are great. But overloaded operators that do something entirely different than their intended purpose is bad. So a + operator that does an add in your custom numeric data type is good. But using << for output is
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by wvenable 1y ago
I love how contradictory this comment is. "There was always some critical failure... this setup isn't perfect... things really only break when..." Everybody has different needs and something you don't care about on Win
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by wvenable 1y ago
> If the latest product seems good, buy it. If not, don’t. There is another aspect to this though. As a user of an ecosystem, you're committed in many ways. As Apple or Microsoft or Google releases a new version of their operating
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by wvenable 1y ago
Reader mode in Firefox (plus sometimes a page refresh) gets me past most paywalls -- including this article.
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by wvenable 1y ago
> caught an actual attacker. But what about next time? What about the time before this where it wasn't an attacker, so they didn't write an article about it, and so we never found out about it?
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by wvenable 1y ago
Also, satisfied people don't have any need to comment.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I don't buy it. Software is not magically using less RAM because it was compiled for MacOS. The actual RAM use by the OS itself is relatively small for both operating systems.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I believe it's the `lock xadd` instruction. It's faster when combined with x86 Total Store Ordering mode that the Rosetta emulation runs under.
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by wvenable 1y ago
By prioritizing efficiency, Apple also prioritizes integration. The PC ecosystem prefers less integration (separate RAM, GPU, OS, etc) even at the cost of efficiency.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I'm also "older" but I don't think that means anything. > Sure you can look at it[1], but you're not expected to look at Apple Photos database. How else are you supposed to figure it out? If you're older th
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by wvenable 1y ago
Except that most often you can just look at it and figure it out.
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by wvenable 1y ago
I saw an ebay listing for one of these Interact computers today and spent a little time learning about it on YouTube. It's so strange to see your post on the same day about a computer I didn't know existed yesterday.
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by wvenable 1y ago
What I've seen with these large services like Google is that once they deem you undesirable (either on purpose or by accident) then they're just done with you forever. They have so many customers and so many bad actors that it&#x
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by wvenable 1y ago
Of course, you are exactly the same person you were in your 20s and didn't improve one bit. Did you make mistakes? Too bad. That's you forever. Learning from mistakes is impossible.
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by wvenable 1y ago
You can always move to new town and start again. The problem with all these social credit systems is that they're designed to follow you wherever you go forever. There is also zero recourse if a mistake was made; at least you can try
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by wvenable 1y ago
It was always obvious that imgur being a service that just provided image hosting and asked nothing was unsustainable. I'm impressed they ever managed to turn it into something.
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by wvenable 1y ago
Because that's how one interacts with AI.
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by wvenable 1y ago
6 months from now when you've internalized this entire thread are you even going to remember where you got it from?
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by wvenable 1y ago
Yes. I get to buy access to them. They're providing an expensive to provide service that requires specialized expertise. I don't see the problem with that.
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by wvenable 1y ago
The issue is that people seem to be conflating badly built scraper bots with AI. If an AI accessed my site as frequently as a normal human (or say Googlebot) then that particular complaint merely goes away. It never had anything to do wit
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by wvenable 1y ago
I respect the desire for reciprocity, but strong copyleft isn't the only, or even the best, way to protect user freedom or public knowledge. My opinion is that permissive licensing and open access to learn from public materials have c

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