DowsingSpoon

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by DowsingSpoon 1mo ago
> Those 20% would just figure that there's no need to have children when you can just focus on yourself and go largely extinct within a generation, replaced with some people from the higher tiers, but not nearly enough to make up fo
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by DowsingSpoon 4mo ago
Write once run anywhere? But C already is a "write once run anywhere" language! Though, you usually have to recompile first :) The criticisms related to UB are not about understanding the target platform and the target compiler&
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by DowsingSpoon 4mo ago
If you want to avoid string manipulation then you can construct queries with a query builder API like C#'s LINQ. Other languages have similar libraries, e.g., Rust has Diesel. If your objection is to the SQL language itself then you mi
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by DowsingSpoon 5mo ago
No, not really. I bought an $800 pair of designer sunglasses a couple of times, but usually, good frames are only a few hundred bucks.
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by DowsingSpoon 6mo ago
I’ve thought about this myself. Couple of points: 1) It’s not my job to fix all the problems of Capitalism. It’s painful to try to fight the system without collective action. My family and I have to eat too. 2) We have had a solution all al
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by DowsingSpoon 7mo ago
The Department of Defense was established by the National Security Act of 1947. If the Congress wanted to change the name then they would pass another law to do so. An executive order is not law.
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by DowsingSpoon 7mo ago
What are you trying to communicate in this comment? That you have spite for your users? Why? That you consider not bothering with Firefox support to be a good way to, what, express your spite? Do I have that right? And you thought it good t
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by DowsingSpoon 7mo ago
You’re not wrong. You’re not the only one saying this either. Though, I’m currently of the mind that the concern is overblown. I’m finding Opus 4.6 is only really capable of solving a problem when the prompt explains the fix in such concret
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by DowsingSpoon 7mo ago
This article does not make it clear what a metaproject actually is. That said, I _believe_ the author is describing a concept similar to something I do. Choose a very small number of open-ended, broad projects. Each project should basically
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by DowsingSpoon 8mo ago
This is why, of course, nearly all open source projects are written in Java.
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by DowsingSpoon 8mo ago
The Instruments suite, plus sanitizers like ASan, is basically the valgrind equivalent on macOS. It’s not exactly the same, but it comes close.
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by DowsingSpoon 8mo ago
Memory management in Swift is almost broken? How so? This is a fascinating assertion, and I’d love to learn more.
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by DowsingSpoon 8mo ago
There more to stability than continuity of government. Though, that definitely is important. It’s bad enough that America’s foreign policy lately swings wildly every four years. More recently, it’s been acting aggressive toward allies, and
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by DowsingSpoon 8mo ago
I think black hole accretion disks and jets are something like several orders of magnitude less dense than would be required for that.
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by DowsingSpoon 8mo ago
Yes. As far as kernels go, NT was pretty damn good. So is Mach, by the way, if you can afford the microkernel performance overhead.
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by DowsingSpoon 10mo ago
I don't think it's strange at all that the scientific framework of today is capable of investigating physical phenomena in the real world. It would be strange if it _couldn't_.
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by DowsingSpoon 11mo ago
PsyOps, you say? Operations by which organizations? Which specific individuals were involved in the planning and coordination? How are they funded? Who got paid and who paid who for this PsyOp work? To what end? Who approached Margaret Atwo
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by DowsingSpoon 11mo ago
If you’re looking at the AI-generated output then you’re not Vibe Coding. Period. Let’s not dilute and destroy the term just as it’s beginning to become a useful label.
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
RISC vs CISC is nonsense. Pre-RISC CPU designs were pragmatic responses to the design constraints of their time. (expensive memory, poor compilers) RISC was a pragmatic response to the design constraints of its time. (memory becomes less ex
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
I had been planning to explore Lima tonight as a mechanism to shackle CC on macOS. The trouble with sandbox-exec is that it’s control over network access is not fine grain enough, and I found its file system controls insufficient. Also, I r
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
Just two days ago, I asked Claude Code (running as a restricted non-admin user) to generate a unit test. I didn’t look too closely at exactly what it wrote before it ran it for me. Unbounded memory use locked the system up so hard it stoppe
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
How so? In this context, “tedious” clearly means “not very exciting for the reader.” Were you hoping for more relationship drama, or romance? I’d be down for that. Though, it doesn’t seem to be what Banks was most interested in writing abou
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
While I've fortunately never had this happen to me, I'd be tempted to say something like, "Wow. Well, I sure hope you don't get fired over this. Good luck. We'll scope it out and let you know how much time we'l
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
That’s a bad analogy. It works against your point. It seems entirely, entirely reasonable to avoid a clothing store that refuses to stock hip styles simply because they’re “offensive”. For an example using the cliche, many people find a nak
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
It’s highly dependent on what I’m viewing, of course. Some people just… talk… so… slooowly. If the content is interesting then they get 1.5x. Some people talk a mile a minute with dense information and they get 1x. For myself, 2x is usually
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
throwaway4496 knows what’s best for you better than you do. So, of what use is liberty?
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
IMO, it would not be unreasonable to give important public officials preferential protection. Federal judges already have a special status and legal protection baked into the law. So, some must agree with me, at least. Is this fair? It’s a
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
I’m certain you’re right. I was trying to proactively address responses along the lines of “it’s just a pizza” by pointing out there are unequivocal threats being made.
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
I find this and similar stories to be strange. If a person calls a Federal judge on the phone to threaten them then law enforcement should take it seriously. Right? “Seriously” here means a full and complete investigation. Subpoenas to phon
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by DowsingSpoon 1y ago
Murder also doesn’t adhere to my leftist values, which is to say, your statement is useless without being specific about which values AI doesn’t adhere to, and why you think that’s not a problem at all. The article explicitly calls out the

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