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by blahgeek 4d ago
Right but I think it’s due to the shortage of chips (and data centers), instead of shortage of money
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by blahgeek 5d ago
There are two types of coding in my life: work and hobby. Before ~3 years ago, they are more or less similar to me: it's mostly pure creation and sparks joy and makes me fulfilled. I love working and it pays well, and my hobby improves
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An open letter: On transparent AI cyber protections(freefable.org)
3 points by blahgeek 3mo ago|0 comments
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by blahgeek 3mo ago
I would assume that it’s like the Chrome browser does not allow you downloading Firefox using it, surely that would be illegal, wouldn’t it?
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by blahgeek 3mo ago
I’m a noob about laws but isn’t this abusing its dominant market position and violates some antitrust law?
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by blahgeek 3mo ago
OrbStack works really well for me. I wonder how it’s compared to this performance wise
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by blahgeek 3mo ago
Reminds me of an anti-crawl mechanism I encountered some time ago in a financial data provider's website: for all numbers in the table, a special font is used where 0~9 are randomly rendered as different chars (e.g. '0' is re
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by blahgeek 3mo ago
> Prioritise running as many type-checkers as possible on your test suite. Run at least one on your source code. There are two types of tests: those that test against the public API, and those that test internal codes with various mocks
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by blahgeek 4mo ago
The more precise title should be: How we copied code from Linux kernel without fully understand it and missed its follow-up fixes, now it bites us
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by blahgeek 6mo ago
Reminds me of Cython vs CPython
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
Yeah that’s totally reasonable. I’m just curious about how do they make a thicker and heavier laptop with less capabilities… do they intentionally make the case thicker or something?
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
I completely understand that as a cheap one, it has to be worse than macbook air in some aspect to make the product line work. However I'm genuinely curious why it's thicker and no lighter than the Macbook Air, while at the same t
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
Same. And I don’t understand why you are being down ranked. The HN guideline specifically stated that political news are not welcome, yet, this is the post with most comments in the front page. I didn’t come to HN for this
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
Apple is and always has been a hardware company. I would like to use the Linux ecosystem, however there’s simply no laptop other than Mac that is light and powerful and runs 15 hours in battery.
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
It may be related to the fact that some non-native English speakers (including myself) would sometimes use AI based tools to revise or translate their writings before posting online
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
Although macOS do provide many little known useful tools (besides this, there’s also dtrace, pf, etc), I still run a Linux VM in my MacBook for daily work. Thing is, the effort I spend on learning these tools is almost wasteful unless I’m d
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
I would always refer to Hanlon's razor on things like this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I'm not trying to finding excuses for them, just saying that most likely there's no dee
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
Given the name of DNS-01, you would think it would be called DNS-02...
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by blahgeek 7mo ago
If human is at, say, 80%, it’s still a win to use AI agents to replace human workers, right? Similar to how we agree to use self driving cars as long as it has less incidents rate, instead of absolute safety
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by blahgeek 8mo ago
> Apple could take just 7% cut and still make 20% profits. We can say this to any company, "$X could reduce price by $Y and still make $Z profits", but it doesn't really make any sense. Making profits is what makes a compa
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by blahgeek 8mo ago
Fun fact - back in 2009, iPhone 3GS sold in China does not have WiFi feature. If that's possible, I can totally see a new iPhone model with restricted satellite feature selling in Iran and China.
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by blahgeek 8mo ago
I guess by "Everybody I know who grew up in China" you mean those elites who speaks English and have already bypassed restrictions to talk to you online or travels to other countries. There's some selection bias here.
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Cursor Raises Funds at $29.3B Valuation(bloomberg.com)
25 points by blahgeek 10mo ago|7 comments
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by blahgeek 10mo ago
I think it's a common term used to loosely describe the geographical region. It's used by many other companies like Microsoft [1] and Google [2] [1] https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/locatio
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by blahgeek 10mo ago
> especially when you are on Linux AND on macOS. I can’t run FreeBSD jails or ZFS on macOS, can I? Definitely not with one file and one command. On macOS, docker actually launches a Linux VM to run containers. If this counts, then yes, y
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by blahgeek 10mo ago
This. Is Zig an interesting language? Yes sure. But “a totally new way to write programs”? No, I don’t see a single feature that is not found in any other programming languages.
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by blahgeek 10mo ago
There are actually two part of mechanisms in China to wall its garden. The first part is GFW, with which people outside of China is more familiar. It operates at every international internet cable, analyzing and dynamically blocks traffic i
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by blahgeek 11mo ago
Speaking from a developing country with a large population of less educated people, I think you would be surprised to find out that a majority of the people in the world simply don't do "research work". Successfully booking a
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by blahgeek 11mo ago
> could have been a 10 Megabyte TUI app Wow, in a world dominated by gigabytes of electron application, people thinks 10 MB is the optimal size for a simple utility TUI app. As a reference, (from archlinux repo), vim’s install package is
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by blahgeek 11mo ago
> taking inspiration from command-line interfaces IMO the take away from command-line interfaces is compact, precise and minimal design. In a transitional shell prompt like #~$, each character has its meaning. Merely copying these symbol

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