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by ablob 12d ago
I think the crowd will split into those who just cared about it being rust and those who wanted some kind of leverage to tempt others into doing something. The former crowd will cease being, while the latter looks for something new to push.
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by ablob 16d ago
A red herring is a bait planted specifically to derail a conversation. I will make an example to demonstrate this in a setting which is less loaded. Beware that all analogies are flawed in essence, so a direct transfer to our conversation w
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by ablob 17d ago
They are saying that in bureaucratic countries there is not a single entity that can be held accountable, which means that "bad" decisions, are not easily undone. Likewise it means that "good" decisions are hard to chang
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by ablob 29d ago
I don't find it particularly surprising that a company tries to influence legislation influencing their business. What the headline is missing is that, according to the article, Meta is paying influencers to advertise for existing pare
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by ablob 1mo ago
Surely the King is doing it, so that must be the correct way. Look, the King even wears clothes and is totally not naked at all. That the world runs on Kubernetes is no qualitative statement about the correctness of its Raft implementation.
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by ablob 1mo ago
If you can predict other things by understanding something, is it truly lossy compression?
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by ablob 1mo ago
So we are reduced to code monkeys mindlessly re-typing what an LLM wrote to increase potential understanding... Whatever this approaches, it is not a state of software engineering I find desirable.
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by ablob 2mo ago
I think that's a stretch. People can care, but be unwilling to spend the time researching it or accept the trade offs that come with small browsers (which are often unsupported for applications you might want to use). There are many th
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by ablob 2mo ago
It's a nag-box that appears every time someone visits a new website. Of course people are going to click it away as fast as possible. In the few cases you repeatedly visit a website one might want to reconsider, but by then it's
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by ablob 2mo ago
You can always set the editor in your --global or --local config though: git config core.editor "vim" I do agree that using the default editor is a mostly a bad choice due to it being vi/vim rather often.
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by ablob 2mo ago
I think the only missing thing for me would be to group commits, essentially squashing them for a clean history while allowing to unsquash them in case you need it.
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by ablob 2mo ago
I don't understand your question. The person you replied to never said anything about a boycott. They said that diversification is kind of necessary, so to use both Russian and American services, as both sides do censor/block diff
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by ablob 2mo ago
Given the recent chat control disaster I'd say our say is rather slim when it matters. Just put a decision into urgency mode (even though technically that's only allowed for the first hearing) and let it be a default pass unless t
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by ablob 2mo ago
I'd like to add an anecdote about machining. Some designers impose incredibly tight tolerances on part shapes that hardly change the overall behavior of the final machine, but are so difficult to produce that sometimes special tools ha
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by ablob 2mo ago
You have to deal with this no matter what unless you can live with wasting storage space. You have to arrange extra sales or try and donate stuff (basically, go through all possible options that exclude it from being exempted) if you want t
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by ablob 2mo ago
funny enough, 2>&1 >/dev/null cat file appears to yield the same output. So i wonder where the not "order-independent" chimes in.
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by ablob 2mo ago
Don't phones have identifiers outside of phone number anyway? I feel like you have to trust the hardware/os vendor anyway. So if you don't trust apple to not misbehave, maybe not getting an iphone is better than chasing the
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by ablob 2mo ago
I feel like your example is flawed, I just can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's because I don't see how sleep regularity is a factor you can change as willingly as visits to the fridge, or maybe its because I don't see
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by ablob 2mo ago
Sigh, I don't know why a blog-post against micro benchmarks should alter my opinion on this topic. There are more metrics than just "speed" regarding an interface. You also want it to be discoverable and visually distinct. Ho
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by ablob 2mo ago
Most knowledge about human computer interfaces was obtained through metrics. Groupings, menu bars, corner buttons, context menu orderings, and other things didn't just spawn into existence. There was a time where human pattern recognit
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by ablob 2mo ago
The existence and growth of the codeberg project does, however.
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by ablob 2mo ago
You're right it doesn't. At least not completely. I was thinking about precision (i.e.: if the test is positive, what are the odds that its prediction is true). It turns out, that accuracy is not defined as "true positive &#x
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by ablob 2mo ago
There are implications by linguistics. If you learn a language you also passively obtain insight into cultural norms and expectations. Moreover, Learning a language is much easier if you're friends with natives and converse with them o
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by ablob 2mo ago
The mentioned accuracy in the comment you are replying to already encapsulates the relation of true positives to false positives.
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by ablob 2mo ago
There is no progress without possible failure in medicine. Each treatment starts with assumptions and you can only go so far until you start testing on actual people. Until we understand the mechanisms completely there is no way around that
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by ablob 2mo ago
What exactly do you mean by "solved NP-hardness"?
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by ablob 2mo ago
I wonder if it will feel significant. I can't remember being limited by the controller battery. The runtime on a single charge is probably still going to be measured in weeks, and at that scale I feel like it doesn't really matter
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by ablob 3mo ago
Douglas afaik. Boeing moved HQ and quite a few engineering practices were abandoned.
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by ablob 3mo ago
I wonder by which metric you measure these scripts. Clearly it can't be on pronounciation or information density. If "amount of letters" is your pick, then Latin might be "objectively" the best system - you'd j
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by ablob 3mo ago
You may not be able to mix encodings, but mixing languages has always been possible. If you used a French encoding you would be able to write in English, but not the other way around. I'd wager there are similar cases for cyrillic text

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