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by wyldfire 4y ago
Governments should subsidize in-person interactions -- especially for adults. Darts, trivia, volleyball, book club, escape rooms, group therapy. These kind of things would help bring more people together and could help reverse trends of i
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by wyldfire 4y ago
This one's publicly downloadable? I think I must've missed 1.5. it had been postponed for a while (for good reasons discussed throughout threads here) and I didn't notice whether it had been released.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
depth2img looks really interesting. I was thinking that someone should train an art model like SD on 3d models+textures. This isn't quite that but it seems like it gets some of that effect.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Some many years ago there was a commercial product called Jinx debugger [1]. I think I only ever got to kick the tires and find out I couldn't get the hypervisor to run on my machine. Good to see Meta making more practical Open Source
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Are there any limitations regarding hermit running programs which emit code at runtime?
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> AMA! Eager to try it but encountering the build error here - https://github.com/facebookexperimental/hermit/issues/11 Do you have a reference build log / environment you can share? Last known good
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> thread interleavings I was going to ask if it could do the flip side - instead of stabilizing the scheduler, make it less predictable. AFAICT, it can! Awesome, looking forward to giving it a try. hermit run --chaos --seed-from=Sy
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by wyldfire 4y ago
When you use inline assembly, in fact the compiler does preserve the semantics of the surrounding program considering the target's ABI -- if you tell it correctly what impacts the inline asm has. Lots of rules must be followed in or
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by wyldfire 4y ago
yeah - split the difference maybe and have the UI indicate "second chance" somehow. but I suppose HN likes to keep things simple (even if it's a bit confusing).
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> This extends to video games, usually of the free-to-play type. Free games are mostly hot garbage, with a couple of rare exceptions. Many of these are also pay-to-win games which strike me as the most preposterous use of time imaginabl
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Of our three-letter agencies, I'd really much prefer the domestic federal investigative arm of the DOJ not become comfortable beating secrets out of criminals.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Yes that's probably the most likely factor. For a while, clang didn't have all the support necessary to build chrome on win-aarch64 but that's no longer the case. Chromium builds exist already so there's probably not muc
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> A generic Snapdragon ARM SoC, say, would deliver notably less performance in this specific scenario that is critically important to Mac users. In some senses it's even more important for Snapdragon - Google doesn't yet ship a
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Nobody wants to be the one parent out of a thousand who has their kid scooped up off the street I agreed with you ... because I misread your comment as being concerned that the cops would come pick up your kid (like happened here in TF
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Her diversion program required 65 hours of community service, which Wallace completed at an early childhood center. The program mandated that she only work there during the weekends, when there were no kids around for her to endanger.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Attorneys both public and private pay through the nose for software like this to make their case to judges and juries. I don't think you'd face ridicule.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Is this column written by the same author(s) of PC Magazine's ARF?
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by wyldfire 4y ago
I feel like I am slowly changing my mind about cryptocoins. It always seemed so powerful. Bitcoin's exchange rate may fluctuate but it has value and is nearly indestructible. You could complain that it's overvalued but it'
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Strong stem growth in early plant development relies in part on wind exposure, and without any wind, plants will collapse later in development under their own weight That's interesting - I wonder if there's been any studies
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Given the horrible performance of the LLVM compiler and linker lld is second only to mold in performance. Rui used to work on lld at Google. Apple has a significant investment in ld64 and probably doesn't want to abandon it.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> First of all, the usual suspects who rip off high quality open source projects have been known to just create a fork if the license changes (see Amazon and Elasticsearch). If you do this, you have to have the right license from the sta
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by wyldfire 4y ago
For some situations it's certainly like you say - not important to initialize memory upon allocation. That's how malloc is ordinarily implemented. If your allocation is about to take on a matrix that you will load from a default v
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by wyldfire 4y ago
From my casual understanding, Amazon is executing the same vertical integration strategy used by Standard Oil which resulted in its breakup.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Getting closer to the territory where 32-bit signed integer overflow becomes more likely. Do they ever project the new jackpot if no one wins in advance of the drawing?
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by wyldfire 4y ago
Indeed: maybe not a full "RAII" kind of feature but at least something simple that allows the author to specify (around the same place where a resource allocation happened, e.g.) that some other symmetric behavior should take plac
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> I'm dreaming of a C with only pointers that has an optional VM (with and without GC) and namespaces, string and stream included. It'd be really nice to be able to trigger some scope-exit behavior, too, IMO.
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> It’s not like we have some internal compass that naturally grounds our cardinal direction. I'm reminded of "Story of Your Life" [1] / "Arrival" [2] wherein a character's language shapes their thought
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> how that limits your ability to scale. My guess is that after ~15 years or so, Twitter is probably either At Scale already or never will be. > he will just discover it the hard way when he is confused why all the sudden he can’t shi
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by wyldfire 4y ago
It could be the case that Musk is an a-hole who happens to be right. Maybe Twitter's OPEX expanded to fill whatever seemed right for the massive ad revenue (or "potential" revenue). They probably did not need an enormous en
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by wyldfire 4y ago
> Sudo must be the program with the largest number of buffer overflows I’ve heard about. That news is repeating itself ever since I remember. That you've heard about . There's two big reasons: (1) people often don't try

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