codeflo

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by codeflo 8mo ago
Why the hell would you need a blockchain for automatic payments? Bots that performed financial transactions existed long before “crypto”.
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by codeflo 8mo ago
"We promise that we will not enforce" is perhaps a funny way not to grant a license, but making it sound like they do. This seems almost purposefully designed to look open-source to laypeople, while being carefully written in a
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by codeflo 8mo ago
This is intentional? I think delivering lower quality than what was advertised and benchmarked is borderline fraud, but YMMV.
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by codeflo 8mo ago
I'm not fully onboard with the logic that we just have to live with a certain type of criminal behavior because the technology that could prevent it can be misused to enable another type of criminal behavior. We should aim to stop any
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by codeflo 8mo ago
In my experience, there seems to be a limitless supply of newly crowned "AI shamans" sprouting from the deepest corners of LinkedIn. All of them make the laughable claim that hallucinations can be fixed by prompting. And of course
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by codeflo 8mo ago
> Not sure whether the obfuscation is fully synchronous, i.e waiting for the server response before continuing. The people who designed SSH aren't idiots, and also, you can answer this question by simple observation: When you connec
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by codeflo 8mo ago
Postponed.
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by codeflo 8mo ago
> apparently When someone takes the time to explain undergrad-level concepts in a comment, responding with "are you an expert?" is a level of skepticism that's bordering on hostile. The person you're responding to is
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by codeflo 8mo ago
> their GPUs can’t be used for much of anything (not really much for transcoding nor for AI) It's both funny and sad to me that we're at the point where someone would (perhaps even reasonably) describe using the GPU only for th
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by codeflo 8mo ago
Maybe that's not the dominant mindset anymore, but I for one would love to use a language that's actually built for functional/reactive programming instead of inventing half-baked JavaScript dialects for that purpose. Elm was
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by codeflo 9mo ago
Am I misreading this, or is this person actually implying somewhere in the middle of this unreadable mess of an article that they feed their DIY blood test results into an LLM and then order whatever drugs the machine hallucinates in respon
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by codeflo 9mo ago
> Most bug trackers have ways to triage submissions. When a rando submits something, it has status "unconfirmed". Developers can then recategorize it, delete it, mark it as invalid, confirm that it's a real bug and mark it
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by codeflo 9mo ago
The author mentions in the article text (and re-emphasizes in a footnote) that you will want to use platform-specific APIs for improved accessibility even when this limits extensibility: > you will want to support font fallback, input me
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by codeflo 9mo ago
That's no longer as true as it once was. I get the feeling that quite a few people would consider "benevolent dictator for life" an outdated model for open source communities. For better or worse, there's a lot of push t
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by codeflo 9mo ago
This is unfortunately a pure “feels over logic” comment that doesn’t engage with the parent poster’s argument at all. The point is impact, not what anyone has “in mind”.
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by codeflo 9mo ago
There are plenty of locked down computers in my life already. I don't need or want another system that only runs crap signed by someone, and it doesn't really matter whether that someone is Microsoft or Redhat. A computer is truly
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by codeflo 9mo ago
> Even SSD would be fine on HN, but it probably wouldn't be fine outside HN. The set of people who know the term "solid state drive" is likely a strict subset of the people (mostly tech enthusiasts of some shape) who know
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by codeflo 9mo ago
> Apple cares a lot about phone gaming The kind of gacha games that dominate the in-app sales charts, sure. Actual gaming, they don't care about or even understand.
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by codeflo 9mo ago
My theory: Some manager's KPI is to increase the number of sold GitHub runner minutes. So they did some market research -- not enough to have a clear picture, but barely enough to be dangerous -- and found that some companies use self-
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by codeflo 9mo ago
They have all kinds of costs hosting GitHub, which is why there's per seat pricing for companies. If those prices are too low, they can always increase them. Charging on top of that per minute of using your own infrastructure felt gr
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by codeflo 9mo ago
One problem is that GitHub Actions isn't good. It's not like you're happily paying for some top tier "orchestration". It's there and integrated, which does make it convenient, but any price on this piece of gar
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by codeflo 9mo ago
In the sense that when people want to use a piece of MIT-licensed software in another piece of software, they don't in practice find themselves restricted from doing so by the conditions of the license. "Permissive" might be
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by codeflo 9mo ago
That's a good point, entropy is only a heuristic for the thing you actually want to optimize, worst-case guesses (though it's probably a very good heuristic). > Basically, using the entropy produces a game tree that minimises t
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by codeflo 9mo ago
> For wordle, «most probable» is mostly determined by letter frequency I don't think that's a justified assumption. I wouldn't be surprised if wordle puzzles intentionally don't follow common letter frequency to be
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by codeflo 9mo ago
IANAL either, so my own legal theories are as creative as yours, but I'd like to offer the following data point: All unrestricted open-source licenses that were written by actual lawyers, from MIT to CC0, have found it necessary to inc
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by codeflo 9mo ago
Before Minecraft, basically all voxel engines used some form of non-axis-aligned normals to hide the sharp blocks. Those engines did this either through explicit normal mapping, or at the very least, by deriving intermediate angles from the
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by codeflo 9mo ago
To my eyes, this author doesn't write like ChatGPT at all. Too many people focus on the em-dashes as the giveaway for ChatGPT use, but they're a weak signal at best. The problem is that the real signs are more subtle, and the em
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by codeflo 9mo ago
Once you notice the pattern, you see it everywhere: > Stability isn’t declared; it emerges from the sum of small, consistent forces. > These aren’t academic exercises — they’re physics that prevent the impossible. > You don’t defen
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by codeflo 10mo ago
Are the rumors still hinting at a VR-only experience as they did a couple of years ago when Half-Life: Alyx released, or is that no longer the speculation? Because that would be unfortunate for me, I'd have to play with a bucket in han
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by codeflo 10mo ago
YouTube Premium was originally called YouTube Red. Grandparent poster may have made a Freudian slip. :)

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