afiori

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by afiori 6d ago
my point is that that a lot of people shit on js for having "weird crazy stuff in it" and then the example is 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 !== 0.3 or NaN != NaN which has nothing to do with js semantics JS is weird, and not having a stronger s
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by afiori 6d ago
NaN means only NaN, 0/0 is NaN at the cpu level. to my weak undestanding only pow and hypot behave like this; pow for math reasons and i could guess that hypot does that to sorta have |x| <= hypot(x,y)
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by afiori 6d ago
yes, source release on day one, proprietary license valid forever, free license becomes valid after X time and users need to only satisfy one of them. Many projects already do this; proprietary source does not mean closed source, it can sim
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by afiori 6d ago
> But using locks is bad for performance and latency and thus UX. yeah but this way you have only one lock, with free threads or preemptive multitasking you have to have them sprinkled into every data structure each with its potential f
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by afiori 13d ago
A lot of the bitching about react always had the same flavour of the complaints that JavaScript dares to have a NaN To be fair it is stupid that NaN !== NaN but that is how IEEE and CPUs made floats to be
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by afiori 13d ago
JavaScript's execution model uses cooperative concurrency to avoid a tons of data races, preemptive non-parallel concurrency would make all web development incredibly harder
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by afiori 18d ago
C++ and python are exactly where I would expect this problem to come up
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by afiori 18d ago
True, but in a sense a single frontier model of today would be of incredible historical significance in the far away future.
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by afiori 18d ago
Sure but each of them is being priced as if each one is gonna have 90% marketshare in the future.
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by afiori 19d ago
Markets and rationality are sometimes just acquaintances
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by afiori 19d ago
For a lot of people writing prose is a chore
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by afiori 20d ago
> (2) There is nothing actually forcing the open source release. the anti-cloud-use license would include it, with no need of a separate release
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Ask HN: How about delayed MIT/GPL?
5 points by afiori 21d ago|6 comments
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by afiori 27d ago
I cannot answer your main question, but i can give you recommendations wrt what you are gonna try to do. Very likely there will be a lot of parts of the app you are not going to understand, those will be the main problems so help claude hel
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by afiori 28d ago
An Oxford comma before the or would make it clearer maybe
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by afiori 28d ago
you are right a stack of printed qr codes is better
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by afiori 28d ago
Yes, but i cannot create a robot that can get married, people do not have the right to give personhood to tools
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by afiori 29d ago
Woke activists love the word "systemic" for a reason. If a bunch of good people acting in good faith produce a result an evil mastermind would want does it matter if they are good? On many levels obviously yes, on some practical l
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by afiori 1mo ago
Weirdly I think humans should have more rights than machines
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by afiori 1mo ago
A legislative solution to Flock seems a lot more feasible than one for literacy
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by afiori 1mo ago
Most uses of .env files are for apps or containers imho, so you could just have a .env file in each folder and configure docker compose /node / whatever to pick it up
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by afiori 1mo ago
courtesy of chatgpt there is also this abomination ht tp://[\x00::gg]\t/foo\nbar/%/%QZ/%F?q=<\"|{}>##
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by afiori 1mo ago
% characters must be escaped in URIs at the very least, and _ is not valid in domains also this one is valid too for the regex %_%://%_%.%_%/%_%?%_%#%_%
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by afiori 1mo ago
Also the more companies go in this direction the more "soft power" the EU has on the topic
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by afiori 1mo ago
The elitism of direct democracy is a mystery to me, especially in the case of the US where it is not technically direct and the powers and role of the president are deeply modelled after those of the British crown of the times
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by afiori 1mo ago
> well-formed URI A parser that assumes the input to be already valid is usually not enough for most applications according to that regex this is a valid url __..__..%%%zz..
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by afiori 2mo ago
I would guess that the film was still mastered/produced digitally
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by afiori 2mo ago
you can, but many of those repair can be delicate and require specialized equipment. The difference between the 2 requirements is the level of technical knowledge needed and the necessary investment in tools
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by afiori 2mo ago
IMO most of these appointments should be done by congress itself, the only reason they are done by the executive is because the role of president was a created on the template of the role of king. except that without a "prime minister&
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by afiori 2mo ago
as the term rule of law suggest the legislative branch has the power to make the rules

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