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by zephen 6mo ago
> So by your own description, ANYONE sending you a newsletter, by complying with Google’s rules, they piss you off and make you mark their email as SPAM because, according to you, they made “javascript execute on your computer”. Are you
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by zephen 6mo ago
As a gmail user who may or may not have had to enter an email address to do something on the web, and who gets annoyed by spam, let me describe my decision points (anecdote is not the plural of data, of course, but here I am) when it comes
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by zephen 6mo ago
Did you maybe mean to respond to the parent of my comment?
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by zephen 6mo ago
> so it's not truly a single nested operation. Some of us had the wondrous epiphany as children that we could build any digital device we could dream of (yes, up to and including a full computer, CPU, RAM, peripherals, and all) ou
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by zephen 6mo ago
> The real question is what emoji to use for eml when written out. Some Emil or another, I suppose. Maybe the one from Ratatouille, or maybe this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_i_L%C3%B6nneberga
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by zephen 6mo ago
Judging by the title, I thought I would have a good laugh, like when the doctor discovered numerical integration and published a paper. But no... This is about continuous math, not ones and zeroes. Assuming peer review proves it out, this
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by zephen 6mo ago
Hell, I'd be happy if, when I started reading text, the websites would just let me keep reading text rather than popping up an interminable number of ads, video, alert/app/notification options, etc. I mean, you know that if
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by zephen 7mo ago
The problem is that the same word is used for different things. The comment you are responding to was correct in what "property" means in some settings. The article itself says: > A property is a universally quantified comput
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by zephen 7mo ago
Too many MBAs, not enough concrete.
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by zephen 7mo ago
No, it's more just drying the river up entirely. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/texas-data-center-wa...
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by zephen 7mo ago
> The economy is not zero sum. This is true. But it's not always positive sum, either. > Megacorporations making profit is not some evil that needs to be stopped. Externalities are a thing. It's not about the profit per
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by zephen 7mo ago
That's a bit different. - The ROM was used to build the emulator (which didn't include the ROM but was only able to use it like any other hardware) - Then the ROM was used to derive a specification and do A/B testing on (simi
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by zephen 7mo ago
The initial convo went: > Paying with your phone just seems like one of those separation of concerns problem. Followed by: > You could then separate the audio system from your car and drive around with a boombox The first discusses b
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by zephen 7mo ago
despicably detrimental
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by zephen 7mo ago
> The RVA23 profile was ratified a few months ago If you're like me, you're suffering the typical time dilation that comes with getting old. For everybody else, this was 18 months ago.
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by zephen 7mo ago
My comment was in response to the parent's > FWIW, this is a weak argument for what computers should do; if LE is more efficient for machines then let them use it I should have fleshed it out more fully, but basically, it was about
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by zephen 7mo ago
If you're mapping datatypes, or dealing with bit arrays. The root of the problem, which manifests itself in scenarios far more often than you might think, is that in big endian, the location corresponding to 2**n within an integer maps
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by zephen 7mo ago
> why involve Git at all then? I made a similar point 3 weeks ago. It wasn't very well received. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411693 You don't actually need source control to be able to roll back to
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by zephen 7mo ago
That does sound like an intractable problem. My problem, if and when I get started, would be tangential to this. It is clear that communication with LLMs is changing so rapidly that there may not be any universal long-lived lessons to be l
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by zephen 7mo ago
Right. I've done plenty of postscript/PDF. But 99% of the time the x-coordinate and the number increment from left to right.
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by zephen 7mo ago
I've done plenty of assembly language. It was the bulk of my career for over 20 years, and little endian was just fine, and big endian was not.
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by zephen 7mo ago
So, to be clear, I was writing about when you design a computer. It truly is the same number of gates either way. I have written my fair share of verilog. At one level, it's just a convention. For the use of a computer, yes, if yo
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by zephen 7mo ago
Your example is only for dumping memory. > this is a weak argument for what computers should do; if LE is more efficient for machines then let them use it Computers really don't care. Literally. Same number of gates either way. B
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by zephen 7mo ago
> BE is intuitive for humans who write digits with the highest power on the left. But only because when they dump memory, they start with the lowest address, lol. Why don't these people reverse numberlines and cartesian coordinate
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by zephen 7mo ago
From personal experience, especially don't point out that you foresaw the problem and warned against the path in a putative "lessons learned" meeting, lest ye be admonished that the true meaning of "disagree and co
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by zephen 7mo ago
> In closing, let me reiterate this point so it is crystal clear. If you are a maintainer of a libre software project and you refuse a community port to another architecture, you are doing a huge disservice to your community and to your
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by zephen 7mo ago
Your position makes an immense amount of sense for your described situation. As I said, I'm retired, and so I've never had to clean up AI slop at $DAYJOB. Since the whole AI thing would be a learning experience for me, it would in
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by zephen 7mo ago
> After a while you learn to ignore criticism. Valid and useful criticism is rare. Critics providing other sorts of criticisms fall into a bimodal distribution. There are those who criticize because your proposal seems risky and they do
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by zephen 7mo ago
> This is bullshit. Yeah, the there-are-no-problems-only-opportunities crowd hates to be told that their proposal contains an insurmountable opportunity.
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by zephen 7mo ago
> This is a classic meta shutdown - the exact thoughtless criticism the article rails against. No, it's not. Read the rest of his comment. I agree with it wholeheartedly. The article describes a terrible way of surfacing a new id

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