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by _dain_ 17d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-0tCy4P1U at 21:30 for modern Visual Studio and then 35:51 for Windows XP era Visual Studio.
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by _dain_ 24d ago
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a rollicking fun read
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by _dain_ 24d ago
"What if I'm the normal one and the rest of society is wrong" This kind of framing-inversion might work as a coping mechanism to get you through some dark times as a spergy adolescent. But eventually you have to reconcile you
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by _dain_ 26d ago
The memories of dreams evaporate remarkably quickly. Much faster than anything else. It can't be accidental; I think our waking brains must be purging those memories as a matter of urgency. If we remembered them, we'd "learn&
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by _dain_ 1mo ago
I work at Antithesis, we're happy to test out any Raft implementation that has so far escaped our notice :)
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by _dain_ 2mo ago
IIRC it was overflow when you do (a + b) / 2 for the midpoint. It took so long to find because you need a >billion item array to overflow the 32-bit integer, and that much RAM wasn't common until the 00s. The right way is a + (
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by _dain_ 2mo ago
Is there anything -- any possible scrap of evidence whatsoever -- that would convince you that this is not merely a marketing scheme? This is becoming an idée fixe among the HN crowd. Seemingly nothing can dislodge it, no matter how alarm
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by _dain_ 3mo ago
I hope theft deters people from wearing these perv glasses. They're easier to nick than phones since owner isn't gripping them at all. I'd tolerate a fair amount of crime and public disorder as part of this tradeoff, like how
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by _dain_ 3mo ago
>It's a medium to pack the idea into "something" that represents the idea. It was never about a finished and polished product. It's the sign language for deaf people - a way to show your thoughts. Sign language is a
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
We still speak today of Charlemagne, Muhammed, Caesar, Alexander. Napoleon and Columbus have secured for themselves their seats in the pantheon of history and it will take longer than a thousand years for mankind to forget about them. All t
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
That "weapon" quip from TFA really pisses me off. It implies actual malice on the part of the person copypasting GPT. But people aren't being malicious, they're mostly just clueless. "Weapon", "weaponized&
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
States got strong and organized enough that they could consistently defeat the raiders. Castles, feudalism, better lines of communication, bigger and more professional armies.
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
Makes sense. Hope you get better sleep!
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
This is cool don't get me wrong, but surely overcomplicated? Why not just record audio to disk the whole night then eyeball the waveform for loudness spikes? If you just don't connect it to any network at all, there's no data
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
As you add more code between the "open" and the "close", you introduce more opportunities for control flow to accidentally skip the "close" (leak), or call it more than once (double-free). It forces you to use
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by _dain_ 4mo ago
Okay fine, I'll voice my concern: I'm concerned.
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by _dain_ 5mo ago
I have a lot of issues with this one: https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com/laws/premature-optimiz... It leaves out this part from Knuth: >The improvement in speed from Example 2 to Example 2a is only about 12%, an
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by _dain_ 5mo ago
(I work at Antithesis) Yes, this is (more or less) how we regenerate the system state, when necessary. But keep in mind that the fuzzing target is a network of containers, plus a whole Linux userland, plus the kernel. And these workloads of
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by _dain_ 5mo ago
The other's in Albert Hall
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
VBA, PowerQuery, structured references, the newer formulae like XLOOKUP, dynamic array-spill formulae, map/filter/reduce/lambda, various obscure financial stuff. Sheets and Calc don't have these.
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
>The only worthwhile change in desktop environments since the early 2000s has been search as you type launchers. Add to that: unicode handling, support for bigger displays, mixed-DPI, networking and device discovery is much less of a faf
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
Yeah it seems like we're still in the "XYZ ... but on a computer!" stage of AI.
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
Oh wow, I've never seen that "list of iterators" trick before. I always thought you needed an explicit queue for breadth-first. Thanks!
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
ebay
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
The existence of countries other than the US is not a "technicality". But it doesn't matter because the whole article is AI generated.
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by _dain_ 6mo ago
how do I get a rich synthwave wife
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by _dain_ 7mo ago
>Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Nevermind Claude, does that mean Anthropic's offices can't use
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by _dain_ 7mo ago
The implication is that they got divorced.
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by _dain_ 7mo ago
>-sure, but weirdly the effect has to be wavelength dependent, but there are no color fringes. I do think you can get colour fringes in some circumstances. Try doing it in a dark room with a bright light coming through a small gap (e.g
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by _dain_ 7mo ago
!!! I've been bothered by this for decades . I remember arguing with my HS physics teacher that this couldn't possibly be single-slit diffraction, for the same reasons the article brings up. I was never able to figure out a satis

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