adwn

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by adwn 6d ago
> Norwegian state through its participation in NATO murdered millions of people in the middle east I'll file this under "blatant lie" unless you can provide at least three reliable sources for your claim.
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by adwn 7d ago
Both the world's population (with 88% to 12%) and landmass (with 68% to 32%) favor the northern hemisphere, so it makes sense to favor it in a general map as well.
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by adwn 14d ago
A plastic bag protects against water and dirt, and it has handles for carrying. I'm not necessarily defending the practice, but it has its reasons.
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by adwn 22d ago
Please elaborate. Where does my comment leave the "right direction"?
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by adwn 23d ago
> they just want volunteers for the hard-to-staff weekday shower-cleaning shift This may sound like a loaded question, but I assure you, that's not my intention. If you want to provide for those "invisible" homeless, who
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by adwn 23d ago
This attitude, if followed without qualifications, is dangerously naive and shortsighted, as the last few years of geopolitical events have shown.
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by adwn 26d ago
Off-topic: I have absolutely no idea why my comment got downvoted. I shared a personal anecdote that's directly relevant to the discussion at hand and which counters the claim of the comment I replied to. Does someone think I'm ly
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by adwn 27d ago
> […] I don't think anyone who grew up in a bigger family under one roof could agree with that. I do. I grew up with 5 siblings, and having brothers and sisters is very, very different from having your own children. My relation wi
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by adwn 28d ago
> The idea being that getting your tokens from Provider A is no different than Provider B, especially if they both offer the same model. You're describing a commodity . However, the commodity isn't the tokens, but the compu
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by adwn 1mo ago
> Step 1 could be not turning the world into a an Orwellian nightmare and outlawing mass surveillance, from both government and private corporations. That would make society better, I agree, but I don't see how that would lead to
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by adwn 1mo ago
> Theft is solved by making society better, not worse. Phew, good to hear. Here I thought it would be a hard and complex problem, with lots of unknown unknowns, difficult political compromises, a generation-spanning efforts and many po
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by adwn 1mo ago
For pondering trolley problems, maybe?
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by adwn 2mo ago
> You just listed examples of unbounded lifetimes. You're just splitting hairs and trying to weasel around the fact that yes, you really can create any lifetime you want using unsafe . > Not sure what you meant by this exampl
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by adwn 2mo ago
Please try to interpret comments in the context of the discussion, not floating freely in a vacuum. The context of the discussion is the Bun port's excessive use of unreviewed unsafe blocks. unsafe in Rust can easily be misused to
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by adwn 2mo ago
> The only thing unsafe does is let you have an unbounded lifetime. No, you're wrong: You can create any lifetime. Proof: fn oof<'desired>(x: &u32) -> &'desired u32 { let ptr = x as *cons
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by adwn 2mo ago
"Fun fact", it lets you largely circumvent the borrow checker by creating arbitrary lifetimes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974824
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by adwn 2mo ago
True, but unsafe let's you conjure up any lifetime you want, or any lifetime necessary to satisfy the lifetime requirements in safe code. If you generously sprinkle pointer dereferences in unsafe code, you effectively disable the pro
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by adwn 2mo ago
Let me guess: you know that it's literally true because everyone repeats it, right?
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by adwn 2mo ago
People repeat that figure of speech because it's a meme (in the original sense of the word), not because it's unconditionally true.
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by adwn 2mo ago
Those systems you're alluding to received ungodly amounts of work and resources, vastly more than most projects can ever hope for, and yet they're still full of holes and security exploits. You're unwittingly making a great a
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by adwn 2mo ago
Are you sure about "rms types" specifically? Stallman is very ineffective in his proselytization, owing to his complete refusal of any kind of compromise or concession to dissenting positions. This stance may keep your soul pure a
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by adwn 2mo ago
The human brain hasn't solved NP-hardness, either. We make it work using heuristics and automation tools, which in turn use heuristics themselves. I see no reason why AI wouldn't be able to take the same approach.
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by adwn 3mo ago
Solving the halting problem is neither necessary nor sufficient to prevent DoS attacks. It isn't necessary, because settings timeouts or other resource restrictions works way better to prevent DoS. It isn't sufficient, because eve
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by adwn 4mo ago
> Hardware isn’t where the margins are Baseless speculation > probably is somewhat of a loss leader for small-batch users Wrong. AMD/Xilinx doesn't sell devices directly to customers, they sell them to distributors in hu
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by adwn 4mo ago
> […] that violates universal causality I think you're conflating qualia with free will . These are very different concepts, and the experience of qualia has nothing at all to do with "violating causality". > So t
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by adwn 4mo ago
No, there is at least one other option, which is that consciousness [1] is a phenomenon that we can't replicate in non-biological brains [2], but from which the existence of a "God"-like being, as the term is understood by ma
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by adwn 5mo ago
I thought we were way past the "bigger brain means more intelligence" stage of neuroscience?
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by adwn 5mo ago
And yet another "AI doesn't work" comment without any meaningful information. What were your exact prompts? What was the output? This is like a user of conventional software complaining that "it crashes", without a
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by adwn 5mo ago
> We could probably slash gas prices by banning oil exports, thus removing domestic oil supply from global market pricing (barring smuggling). To my understanding, you couldn't do this, no. The US is a net oil exporter, but many
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by adwn 6mo ago
> ironically because he thought it would avoid making him look weak and incompetent Trump is what a weak man imagines a strong man to be like. Just look at his official portrait [1], trying to look tough and dangerous. Compare that to

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