ReactiveJelly

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by ReactiveJelly 10d ago
"favored by the NPM package ecosystem" Huh. My story is that 15 to 20 years ago, as a young programmer, I read some of Stallman's writings and I was convinced that copyleft was the only way to keep free software free. Copylef
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by ReactiveJelly 16d ago
It's all just knockoffs of Skype and BitTorrent :) I'm glad there's a competing Rust and Go implementation now. I like Iroh as a Rust user and having tailcat around doesn't hurt me
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by ReactiveJelly 18d ago
So a stronger type system in the boundary between Go and Linux would have caught this?
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by ReactiveJelly 25d ago
Wow that's a lot of snark
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
> Carve something into plastic, on the other hand, and it can survive decades. Substitute plastic for metal, and you just turned decades into centuries. "I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
It is definitely a "Macbook Pro on a wooden table at a coffee shop, owner with tattoos and stylish facial hair" kind of website
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
It looks like Go is memory safe for single threads and channels, but not for shared memory between threads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#Lack... > Go's internal data structures like i
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
A land value tax would fix this
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
The computer / phone should auto-detect and tell you on-screen
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
Today my phone said "Charging slowly" and it wasn't charging at all. I miss MiniUSB. MiniUSB was always good to me.
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
Hm. I wonder how many relays I'd need to make a physical MNIST classifier. That'd be dope
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
It's a subscription service! When the vinyl wears out, buy another!
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
An actual utopia would require never-before-seen democratic mandate from people who are currently on the brink of hot civil war
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
They make all the sports games. Have you noticed all the sports and Mr. Beast type slop that's like "Wow and here we are inn Dubai / Saudi Arabia whatever and it's beautiful and luxurious and we're driving in Lambos
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by ReactiveJelly 1mo ago
I loved that book! Was it that book or its sister that had an image of the pole and said "Spin the Earth the correct direction"? That and "How Things Work" kicked so much ass
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
I don't even use Wikipedia anymore, I use the free online P2P encyclopedia. It's called
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
Just run Rust compiles in the cloud. Really, if you're using a SaaSS LLM like Claude or Copilot or ChatGPT, which already sends all your code to someone else's computer to run on a beefy GPU, they should just send the Rust code to
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
Kinda like how there's no average-sized airplane pilot
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
Remember to use LOCKSS, everyon
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
Glad the news broke. Now the market price for old books will shoot up
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
That's why we should enforce copyleft
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
How it really feels to change gender
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
Wouldn't this add a ton of complexity for anything that extends DNS, like DoH, DoT, VPNs, firewalls, etc., and you'd still need to connect by IP for LAN connections or P2P? Cause what you're asking is not just to do the regul
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
> Everyone already knows floating-point operations are imprecise and it wouldn’t be fun to blog about. Wellll... Yes and no. And I want to nitpick "FP ops are imprecise" because it's important sometimes. It does come up i
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
"The Table-Maker's Dilemma" https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/LOG10HAF.TXT This is the best source I could find, funny enough the author doesn't explain the name "table maker". I su
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
"hooked" is right. I'm trying to tell people, you have to take initiative, you have to have agency and be responsible for your own attention. If you are being "fed" from a "feed" you are being fattened for
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
"I invented a new algorithm" "New algorithm, or fmadd?" "... fmadd."
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
That's no good, I need cybersecurity for groundhogs
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by ReactiveJelly 2mo ago
Finally, an LLM that can run on my i5

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