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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Yep. Super important in lock free synchronization primitives like ring buffers. Cache line padded atomics are really cool :)
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
I still like them. I have almost no real complaints about their products. They just work for me. Here is an example: I had a Netgate with pfsense for my home gateway. My primary home internet provider can be a little flaky, so I have a beef
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Right, THEY can't, but cloud providers potentially can. And there are probably other uses for everything not GPU/TPU for the Google's of the world. They are out way less than IBM which cannot monetize the space or build data
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Thing is, I am not /really/ worried about private citizens with access to this. There are just limits to what a private citizen or even massive corporation can do. What concerns me is when governments get involved and aggregate th
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Doing this as a private citizen is one thing. When the government does it the implications are vastly different. That is kind of the whole point of the constitution.
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Yep, and just paid all the fines if / when he got them.
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
People may not understand how deep this goes. With municipalities eagerly allowing companies like Flock to hoover up license plates and centrally aggregate this data there is a very strong argument this is true and amounts to 4A violations
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Chronic Lyme where the bacteria persists does not exist. There is no evidence the primary bacterial infection persists as far as I have been able to discover. So, that is a faulty starting point in terms of your framing. Now, what is chroni
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
It can be, but the more specific context you can give the better, especially on your initial prompting. If it is opaque to you who knows what it is doing. Dialing in the initial spec/prompt for 5 minutes is still important. Different L
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Something else to consider. I often have much better success with something like: Create a prompt that creates a specification for a pacman game in a single html page. Consider edge cases and key implementation details that result in bugs.
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Take antibiotics. They generally just work.
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Lyme disease and bacteria are always temporary. The long term disease/syndrome many people attribute to it is something else similar to long COVID and still debated.
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
I like it too. It is reliable, predictable. Removes a common source of opinionated friction.
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by bitexploder 10mo ago
Where I work the formatter is the final arbiter of formatting code. If you don't like it, good luck justifying a change and you had better have really thought about it and why your change is good, because thousands of engineers have tr
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
Your brain is just like: okay, it works, the conscious mind knows what it is talking about. <performs it works hormonal and mental response> lol
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
This gets to the heart of why visualization works. When you’re conscious mind visualizes outcomes, around say work or sport performance or really anything, your subconscious mind can’t differentiate it from reality; the better you are at vi
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
I like smaller more focused tools on the terminal. You can make these all work together pretty reasonably with a little glue. Hurl, mitmproxy, httpie with http-prompt. I tend to prefer mitmproxy sessions and massaging that with Python/
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
iOS is tremendously more complex than it used to be. Still relatively easy to use but it has definitely lost the simplicity edge.
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
Over time people learned the key APIs and classes that you needed to interact with. And obfuscated Java is like an order of magnitude easier to work with than machine code. Once someone figured out how to do something it was generally prett
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
This is all truthy but loses nuance and is too tidy. The oligarchy is not a unified body, but it often resembles one.
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
It truly is not easy IMO. I am just picking a nit here but "if you have the fortitude" is doing a lot of work. I ran a company for a while and you not only have to have the fortitude, but principles and an ability to weather the c
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
Without any sort of formally posted bug bounty program explicitly authorizing this sort of activity the CFAA prohibits unauthorized access of "protected computers". I would classify this as legally risky. If FIA had a stick up the
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by bitexploder 11mo ago
I immediately stopped reading when I saw the yellow. I like colors. I like rainbow delimiters. I will not change at this point. I am okay with minimalistic highlighting. Used to use visual studio with more minimalistic highlighting, and tha
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by bitexploder 1y ago
LLMs have ingested the social media content of mentally disturbed people. That all lives in the large models somewhere.
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by bitexploder 1y ago
The negative spiral will take hours or you are predicting a company ending negative signal will soon appear in a matter of hours?
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by bitexploder 1y ago
The 50x distinguished engineer is real though. Companies and fortunes are won and lost on strategic decisions.
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by bitexploder 1y ago
That all seemed pretty adult and tame. Maybe slightly stand-offish at worst. And I tended to agree with Andrew in that thread. A project like Zig is an absolutely massive undertaking. I can cut Andrew some slack. Not everyone is perfect all
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by bitexploder 1y ago
Grief is a very difficult emotion and I like the analogy of it being a deep ocean. When you experience profound grief you are dropped almost immediately into that ocean. If it is your rodeo with grief you don’t know how to swim. You don’t k
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by bitexploder 1y ago
It feels to me like someone who is managing their own existential needs. To make a mark. To have done important works. But it always comes off as unauthentic. It is amusing considering how good things like Mathematica and many of his less b
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by bitexploder 1y ago
There are plenty of great books that treat a topic right for a lay reader while still leaving you satisfied at having learned something interesting and novel. But there are also a lot of books like I described that cash in on the desire for

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