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by zaphar 1y ago
I think those are more about ensuring that the user is buying what they think they are buying. They don't dictate exactly what is sold they merely offer protection to the user that what they bought is what was on the tin.
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by zaphar 1y ago
The user can hack the product, install a different OS, Strike it with a hammer, or throw it away. Apple hasn't violated their rights in any way. Sure hacking it or installing a different OS are hard but rights are not meant to guarante
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by zaphar 1y ago
This is the sort of statement that is both true and also completely useless in a fist-fight. A fist fight is both biomechanical movement and also a mind-game comprising physical, mental, and emotional stamina.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Languages with unsafe don't just change where the security boundary lies. It shrinks the size of the area that the boundary surrounds. C++ has artificially limited how much it can improve the memory safety picture because of their quit
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by zaphar 1y ago
I'm not a Rationalist, however, nothing you said in your first paragraph is factual and therefore the resultant thesis isn't supported. In fact it ignores nearly 2-3000 years of history and ignores a whole bunch of surrounding con
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by zaphar 1y ago
It's more like no programmer of any age has the required coding kung fu to cope with C code. It is inevitable that they will introduce problematic code. We have decades of examples illustrating this. We lived with it because there
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by zaphar 1y ago
Are you trying to imply that you know this person? That your assessment is informed by direct experience of interactions with them in the settings he describes? If not then the null hypothesis should in fact be that your assessment is anyth
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by zaphar 1y ago
I don't know. If you are in posession of enough of a controlled substance to kill 300 people I'm kind of okay with a drastic response. For every Preston Thorpe who turns their life around there 100s of others who will just go out
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by zaphar 1y ago
It should be allowed for a system to warn about using a part that has not been certified to work in this type of situation. There is a middle ground where third party parts are allowed but they have to demonstrate that they meet a certain l
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by zaphar 1y ago
Also be aware that the in the case of a TPM and fingerprint sensor there are some very important security guarantees that a part must make in order to preserve the security of the system. So it is not in fact scare mongering to try to get t
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by zaphar 1y ago
I don't agree with your premise at all so I don't think that the rest of it follows from it either. What evidence or reason do you have to bring me to accept that premise?
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by zaphar 1y ago
Why depend on a degree or a leetcode problem when neither is a good proxy for ability to code? Ask to see code that they've made public somewhere, Offer a take home exercise, Hire them on contract to hire. There are so many better opti
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by zaphar 1y ago
Crunching really large amounts of numbers has always been useful. And that's all this really is. Running weather simulations, Advanced math problems, Complicated engineering simulations. The space of possible uses is incredibly wide.
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by zaphar 1y ago
I got my job/career precisely because I developed deep expertise on my own time. So no, that is not the only way to develop that expertise.
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by zaphar 1y ago
The size of the revocation list is irrelevant. As soon as you have to do a call to get the revocation list you might as well just include the rest of it in the call as well.
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by zaphar 1y ago
The LLM trend lines may indicate that further research, experimentation, and investment in LLMs is warranted. But it is a mistake to assume that trend lines predict the future. Yet this is the primary evidence that is raised in support of L
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by zaphar 1y ago
Also apparently still not making a profit.
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by zaphar 1y ago
I don't know why one would think they would perform the extra steps any more than you would expect them to reduce the budget and spend less.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Taxes don't remove money from the supply unless the government is refusing to spend it. In which case that is just "reduce your budget and spend less" with extra steps. If you could do one you could do the other just as easil
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by zaphar 1y ago
I have not seen an explanation that makes the case for taxes as a good tool for controlling inflation. This is sort of what I mean by the discourse ignoring inflation. We already know what how inflation happens. MMT doesn't bring anyth
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by zaphar 1y ago
as long as we keep inflation in check That's the trick though isn't it? MMT discourse tends to gloss over or ignore the dangers of runaway inflation and act as if you can borrow all you want with no consequence. But that
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by zaphar 1y ago
There are several neovim mcp providers that expose bash and neovim as a tool so you can already do that.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Slow is fast is a saying for a reason. It is just as true for a human as it is for a robot.
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by zaphar 1y ago
And yet, Rust doesn't sacrifice performance and it has all kinds of those guardrails.
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by zaphar 1y ago
Counterpoint: Decades of C++/Python/Java/... has strongly biased me against the try/except pattern. It's obviously subjective in many ways. However, what I dislike the most is that try/except hides the error pa
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by zaphar 2y ago
Why? This isn't a contrarian complaint but the problems that Cloudflare solves for an essential service require verifying certain things about the client which places a burden on the client. The problems exist in many cases because t
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by zaphar 2y ago
Cloudflare doing a really good job meeting customer needs doesn't impact my argument at all.
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by zaphar 2y ago
Then don't visit the site. Cloudflare is in the loop because the owner of the site wanted to buy not build a solution to the problems that Cloudflare solves. This is well within their rights and a perfectly understandable reason for Cl
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by zaphar 2y ago
Why? When there are 100s of hopeful AI/LLM scrapers more than willing to do that work for you what possible reason would you have to do that work? The more typical and common human behavior is perfectly capable of explaining this. No r
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by zaphar 2y ago
In most languages that have exceptions you don't have the same guarantees because the values are not immutable so if they were mutated they will stay mutated. The language can roll back the stack using exceptions but it can't roll

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