zahlman

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by zahlman 3mo ago
I don't see how that implies they won't try. From everything I've seen before, the neither lawyers nor judges tend to have a solid understanding of technology (lawyers might know the parts that will be helpful to them in th
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Your observations don't show a trend and your extrapolation is not sound.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
>explain that DDR4 price increase has nothing to do with supply chain lanes, and it's more of an artificial demand manipulation There's no evidence of anything artificial here, except to the extent that the data center-driven d
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by zahlman 3mo ago
>Daniel Plainview mode What does this mean?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
As much as I'd like to endorse the decentralization model of Mastodon, it's annoying that I'm constantly shown Mastodon messages from new, often very suspicious looking domains that then want me to enable JavaScript yet again
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Giving up anonymity would be giving up on the entire idea wholesale.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> I think we simply don't know how to create online communities that make any sense yet. We do, and we knew decades ago. The problem is, they can't become large or useful. That limitation is inherent, and due to human social be
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> a big part of it is just how incredibly toxic the web has become.... Like what [person in my ideological group] did [allegedly, with no explanation or description] with [thing that happened online]... [this comment made online] I see.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I have heard people speak of AI agents as our "successor species" or words to that effect, seemingly thinking this to be a good thing.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
When I saw the initial discussion I was confused as to how it's supposed to actually add functionality, but I see the current draft proposes an `ExportWarning` for explicit use of non-exported attributes. That... seems like it's g
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Isn't DDR4 like, old and obsolete? I'm posting this from a machine that uses DDR3 and is still perfectly capable of meeting my needs.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> For the skeptical ones The words after this point make you less convincing, not more, as they only serve to confirm the egregious slippery slope of your reasoning.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> we have already regressed at least... It seems worth noting here that DDR5 RAM is faster than DDR3 RAM, and was not even available until 2020.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Nice to finally have this (assuming it goes through) but it's still not a general concept of immutability. It's only being applied to dicts and sets, which have immutable counterparts (i.e., to built-in types that are paired up as
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> The game has been offered to you. Again, this is the text that is shown to me: > You’ve probably done something like mow a lawn or vacuum a rug hundreds of times without thinking much about it. Some part of your brain works out a ro
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I would conjecture that the long tail of GH users are not dependent on any of the CI stuff in the first place.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> You are allowed to skip the game. No, I'm not. If I don't have JavaScript enabled, then I don't see the post-game content. > But offering it is not egregiously unnecessary. It hasn't been offered to me. What is e
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> How can I be clearer? You can try understanding that it is not acceptable for the page to look like this with JavaScript disabled. There is no good reason why the "next sentence" can't just appear on the page, using the
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by zahlman 3mo ago
> Using LLMs for hobby programming is like using a computer to solve sudoku puzzles. The whole point is to do it yourself. (I absolutely relate to your experience with sudoku etc. Of course, writing a basic sudoku solver is also interest
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Clearly, the solution is to judge society by how many currently-un-gamed benchmarks it has produced.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Oof. What's going on here in Canada with that recent uptick? Last I checked it seemed like all the trends were good.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
Making progress requires first not dismissing your ideological outgroup along such lines, and instead trying to understand what actually motivates them.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
In what sense is solar energy not already economical?
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by zahlman 3mo ago
It is egregiously unnecessary to expect me to play the game in order to present the finding . Or even discuss the finding. I will not admit my reaction was wrong, because it was not wrong. If a submission is titled "Why some people
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by zahlman 3mo ago
No, there is not "text after it". There is also no button . https://files.catbox.moe/8nxbo5.png The logos at the bottom are images from the page footer.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I don't understand what the title has to do with the content.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
In my experience, anti-AI coders are nowhere near as obnoxious (or even outright harmful) about it as their artist/graphic-designer counterparts.
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by zahlman 3mo ago
There are all kinds of projects out there that have had significant impact on the world, which were written and maintained over the course of years by a single, highly capable developer. The way people talk about code nowadays, just because
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by zahlman 3mo ago
By the way, it seems that your comments are getting automatically "killed" by the HN system. I don't see a clear problem with them, but I can see why people might think they've been AI generated, which is not acceptabl
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by zahlman 3mo ago
I wonder how much overhead that incurs (i.e. how much slower the exploit code is in the JBIG "VM" versus native).

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