KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 1y ago
What do you mean we aren’t at McCarthyism yet? We have blown well past McCarthyism. The US is a bona fide fascist dictatorship RIGHT NOW. Anonymous state agents are kidnapping US citizens off the street for deportation to third world countr
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
If only we’d been warned back in the mid-20th century, when rules could have been put into place to prevent it. Maybe that Eisenhower fellow could have said something.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
On recent US SKU iPhones — don’t know how recent —- you can add a Suica card directly to Apple Wallet annd use it anywhere the physical card is accepted. No weird regional deals.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Seriously, what is your basis for the assertion that we could do it here and Apple just doesn't wanna?
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Oh? How many Android phones are made in America? How about the new Trump phone?
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I don't know, it doesn't seem overly smug to me. It seems borne of experience and helpfulness. "And a parser generator is very overkill for a Lisp parser - just use recursive decent!" -- it's interesting that, as si
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
LLMs can do this well, though, and there are such. They weren't calling themselves AI when I last looked a couple of years ago, but I'll bet any of them looking for VC money have rebranded since.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I had a 2019 Subaru that was pretty smooth at lanekeeping. A lot of obnoxious beeping, though.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I agree that hate makes people blind, which is why you need to get off X. That line doesn’t imply anything other than that SpaceX launches are unstable! The explosions are a highly notable feature of said launches.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
the problem with the post-dotcom market in a nutshell. everything’s a bubble. bubbles have more durability now. until they don’t.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
> They basically immediately regretted using pascal and started a march towards C and basically gave up on pascal before the powerpc. Nonsense. MPW Pascal and Think Pascal were well supported developer tools, and a lot of third-party dev
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
for anyone else looking for tl;dr on WTF KDB actually is, it's buried in the AI slop marketing text in the blog announcement: "KDB-X is […] both a programming language and a database."
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Really crude comparison, but sort of. It would have taken much longer, and dropping the bombs was supposed to bring about an end to the war sooner. But in the long run social media would have been much more devastating, as it has been in Am
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I think we need to move the goalposts to "unrelated to/not in service of AI tooling" to escape easy mode. Replace some core unix command-line tool with something entirely vibecoded. Nightmare level: do a Linux graphics or net
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
But that’s where TFA breaks down: the whole point of this is to claim “hey, C does too have typesafety” —if you use a modern language with actual typesafety, you can just make the underlying representation accessible (probably read-only) an
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Well, it’s either mental issues, or this is the way she wants it. I assume the latter. She had connections. There are people even today who would throw themselves at her feet to make it happen. She was instrumental in helping Bob Moog make
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
West Virginia is a deeply red state; I don't think you want to go there to avoid scams. It's pervasive in the US because the political leadership is all now scam culture, all the time. Trump is, at core, a corrupt, subliterate, sm
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
It's not quite that simple. Your tourism money is valuable. It's a huge influx of money into the local economy. They don't want it to go to zero.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
> Unfortunately over the years, it has become true. The rise of extremely biased right-wing media sources has made things like FOX news arguably centrist given the overton window move. That's not how the Overton window works; you ar
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Nope. AFAIK, full keyboard navigation was first developed for Microsoft Windows, as a necessity, because they couldn't rely on people having a working mouse.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
I don't recall anyone being "objectively-sucks" level of unhappy with proprietary C compilers. Moving to gcc was often a regression -- because it was much slower to run and sometimes generated worse code -- for developers use
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Splitting hairs. It’s a resignation if they haven’t formally fired the person, which it sounds like they hadn’t. And it’s beside the point, which is that right-wing cable news gasbags are now running the country.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
uh https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116823/how-ai-i... https://hai.stanford.edu/news/hallucinating-law-legal-mistak... https://www.reuters.com/technology
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
IANAL, but knowingly leaving a serious defect in your product at scale for that purpose would be very bad behavior and juries tend not like that sort of thing.
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
China and India both know how to handle nuclear weapons and would be interested in ensuring safe handling.
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tl;dr: the Soviet state didn't collapse in the manner of a zombie apocalypse or environmental catastrophe, it collapsed politically; there was continuity in command / control until the weapons were all moved back physically into R
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
Apple cares. The iPhone 16 introduces a hardware camera button. You can use to launch to Camera while the phone is locked. You can use it as a shutter button. And other stuff. https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone&#x2F
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
> I first would question what a user wants to do with a hashmap that uses polymorphic key-values of unknowable type at compile-time. All of Apple's modern platforms use this concept pervasively, because the Objective-C Foundation fr
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SCOTUS is essentially blindly local to Trump — pay attention to the latest Constitution-shredding decisions; they sure wouldn’t be doing those under a Dem president, and they’re twisting themselves in knots trying to make the illogical logi
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by KerrAvon 1y ago
> pretty much every American laptop OEM is in bed with the NSA Can you elaborate on what you mean by this? The big revelation of the Snowden leaks was that the NSA was spying on Americans, which it isn’t (wasn’t) supposed to do. What doe

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