cibyr

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by cibyr 4mo ago
And Altavista was slow! Google was so much faster, it felt way nicer to use. But LLMs are slow; forcing my google queries through an LLM is destroying that speed.
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by cibyr 4mo ago
It remains to be seen what they actually end up selling for, but it seems like Slate intend to offer a 200 hp motor, 52 kWh battery ... and the rest of a whole vehicle for $28k. That makes $27k for this "eCrate" package (which, gr
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by cibyr 9mo ago
Apple TV
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by cibyr 9mo ago
People fight about tab sizes all the time though.
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by cibyr 9mo ago
Sometimes I wonder if the throat-clearing is an indispensable part of getting to the "good bits" that follow. Like, do those extra tokens give it more "room to think" even if they're basically meaningless in themsel
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by cibyr 9mo ago
It seems to me that the distinction becomes irrelevant as soon as you connect inputs and outputs to the real world. You wouldn't say that a 737 autopilot can never, ever fly a real jet and yet it behaves exactly the same whether it&#x2
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by cibyr 10mo ago
I'm sure it's fine you do it properly ([1] for example). The issue here was the utter lack of engineering, not the specific manufacturing technique (although those do seem to be highly correlated, due to low-end 3D printing having
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by cibyr 10mo ago
The extra fun thing about this is that eval has different semantics if it's assigned to a different name, in order to allow JavaScript implementations to apply extra optimizations to code that doesn't call a function literally nam
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by cibyr 10mo ago
My "will not bailout AI companies" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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by cibyr 11mo ago
What does the word "material" in "material support" mean if advocacy counts?
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by cibyr 11mo ago
The "scraping helped slow it down" theory makes no sense to me. What do you think has a higher coefficient of friction - tire rubber on asphalt, metal on asphalt, or metal on metal?
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by cibyr 1y ago
Good thing the current supreme court has such respect for precedent!
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by cibyr 1y ago
One might even say they have chutzpah .
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by cibyr 1y ago
Do any of the major airlines have a software stack that isn't a legacy nightmare?
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by cibyr 1y ago
"built to the highest Microsoft standards of security, privacy and performance" seems perhaps importantly different from "but to the highest standards".
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by cibyr 1y ago
Similar concept, though an important distinction: QFTF assumes that you have a phone you can scan QR codes with, but that isn't where you want the file to end up. Instead, it displays a QR code on both the sender and the receiver, and
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by cibyr 1y ago
I've been working on a little utility to transfer files between two computers using QR codes: https://github.com/cibyr/qftf It's kinda like Magic Wormhole without typing. It uses iroh for the p2p networking -
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by cibyr 1y ago
So many autoplaying videos on the page, and none of them are the video that the article is about.
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by cibyr 1y ago
Imgur is particularly infuriating because it was initially touted as an alternative to the shitty image-sharing sites of the day (photobucket and the like) - one that would let you just link to an image without any bullshit. Now it's c
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by cibyr 1y ago
Zig's claims of memory safety are a bad joke. Sure, it's easier to avoid memory safety bugs in Zig than it is in C, but that's also true of C++ (which nobody claims is a memory safe language).
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by cibyr 1y ago
Can a C program be memory safe as long as it doesn't have any relevant bugs? Yes, and you can even prove this about some C programs using tools like CBMC.
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by cibyr 1y ago
What's the alternative though? If you're fine with garbage collection, just use garbage collection. If you're _not_ fine with garbage collection (because you want deterministic performance, or you have resources that aren&#x2
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by cibyr 1y ago
I think rdrd just missed that piece of the fine wordsmithing - so long as there's at least one person not included in that "some users", then "we don’t keep logs of who EVERYONE is messaging" is still true.
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by cibyr 1y ago
I really wanted a Palm Pre back in the day, but they initially didn't offer them at all outside of the US, and later only in a handful of other countries. It seemed like they weren't even trying. The tablet saw wider distribution,
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by cibyr 1y ago
It's so depressing to hear that congress can't even do small things that everyone agrees upon.
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by cibyr 1y ago
ClusterFuzz: https://google.github.io/clusterfuzz/
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by cibyr 1y ago
The self-service unpause is brilliant. The worst thing about hitting these sorts of limits is that time window when you think you've fixed the problem but you can't check because you're throttled - so there's nothing you
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by cibyr 1y ago
Also that Python has successfully transitioned its community to Python 3, while Perl 6 flamed out, changed its name, and left the Perl community slowly atrophying.
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by cibyr 1y ago
Anyhow warrants more than an honorable mention, IMO. anyhow::Context is great, and basically always an improvement over unwrap() - whatever complaints you might have about anyhow::Error, it's infinitely easier to handle than a panic.
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by cibyr 1y ago
The threat is not exactly zero. In some cases, thieves can get physical access to the bus from outside the car, and then inject messages to unlock it, start the engine, and drive away: https://kentindell.github.io/2023/

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