csnover

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by csnover 9d ago
> Hey gang “How do you do, fellow kids?” > After thinking about it Just say the thing. > kinds of outcomes What outcomes specifically? > nipped in the bud “stop” > I suggest this probably happened because “I think” > ball
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by csnover 16d ago
Short of blindly outsourcing the work to an LLM and checking to see if its hallucinated problems are actually problems[0], how can more laymen (without the ability to run replication studies, and without degrees in statistics) learn to more
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by csnover 1mo ago
I don’t agree with the parent that the solution for SEO spam is paying for the search engine (I think there are other good reasons to do this though), especially since people have been doing things like naming their company “AAA Auto Repair
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by csnover 1mo ago
> Finally, anonymity didn't exist for my grandparents. Your grandparents could walk to the next town over and give themselves a different name and nobody would ever know who they were. They could get a job, be paid in cash, and depo
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by csnover 2mo ago
Man, this sucks. I doubt there’s anything that I can say to get people to stop doing things like this, but the eventual outcome here isn’t going to be freedom for you to scrape sites that are trying to avoid being DDoSed by bots, but instea
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by csnover 3mo ago
> There is no successful social media company that actually cares about the negative impacts it has had on society. They speak about things such as "providing value" where value = time spent on the platform. They do not care if
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by csnover 5mo ago
As with the cars, those are not alcohol issues, they are violence issues. Whether a drunk person turns to saccharine displays of affection or destructive acts of violence is likely driven by cultural norms and the underlying conditions of t
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by csnover 5mo ago
The article isn’t arguing that if ICL facilities are disrupted, that’s it, no more bromine forever. It is saying that if these facilities are disrupted there will be an even bigger problem with DRAM supply than already exists because there
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by csnover 8mo ago
> real scientists’ This is a classic “no true scotsman” fallacy. Some people working in genetics allow their personal politics to draw conclusions about racial superiority. Some people working in medical science allow their personal poli
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by csnover 8mo ago
> Why are you so insistent that people don’t do what they clearly seem to do? I’m not rejecting the idea that people fixate on stimuli that produce anger. The question is why they do that, and the answer is unlikely to be “people just
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by csnover 8mo ago
> In these gossip circles they brush off anything that doesn't make them upset Things that they have no fear about, and so do not register as warranting brain time. > eager to get to the outrageously stuff. The things which are c
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by csnover 8mo ago
You aren’t the only one who remembers. But in that time it was a self-selecting process. The problem with “the algorithm”, as I see it, is not that it increases the baseline toxicity of your average internet fuckwad (though I do think the a
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by csnover 8mo ago
> When they don't have outrage media they form gossip networks so they can tell each other embellished stories about mundane matters to be outraged and scandalized about. But again in this situation the goal is not to be angry. This
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by csnover 8mo ago
Your response is a non-sequitur that does not answer the question you yourself posed, and you are responding to yourself with a chatbot. Given that it is a non-sequitur, presumably it is also the case that no work was done to verify whether
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by csnover 8mo ago
It used to be the case that a web developer could be reasonably expected to actually learn and know pretty much all of CSS, but it has reached the point where it is actually not possible for a single person to “learn” CSS in the way you cou
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by csnover 9mo ago
As someone who uses Debian and very occasionally interacts with the BTS, what I can say is this: As far as I know, it is impossible to use the BTS without getting spammed, because the only way to interact with it is via email, and every int
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by csnover 9mo ago
> Also, allowing CSS inside SVG is not a great idea because the SVG renderer needs to include full CSS parser, and for example, will Inkscape work correctly when there is embedded CSS with base64 fonts? Not sure. For better or worse, CSS
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by csnover 9mo ago
> - cannot wrap text This is possible, but only in the stupid way of using a `<foreignObject>` to embed HTML in your SVG (which obviously only works if your SVG renderer also supports at least a subset of HTML). SVG 2 fixes this by
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by csnover 10mo ago
As others have noted, this is not actually a Lua engine written in Rust. It is a wrapper over existing C/C++ implementations of Lua. There is, however, an actual Lua engine written in Rust. It is called piccolo.[0] [0] https:/&#x
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by csnover 11mo ago
When opening POSE without a previous session, on Windows it would open a reasonable window with some buttons (New, Open, Download, Exit). On *nix, they instead decided to open a blank window that said “Right click on this window to show a m
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by csnover 11mo ago
Oh, how frustrating. I have no idea how I missed that since I feel like I spent quite a while looking for some later update that included the source. Well, thank you for making sure to release it! I did rewrite most of the Retro68 CMake cod
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by csnover 11mo ago
Yes, I saw that, it would have been really great if the source code had ever been released, instead I had to start from scratch… My implementation does not require editing SDK headers and the goal was to support multiseg. If I had stopped a
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by csnover 11mo ago
It is 64-bit fixed (along with a bunch of other show-stopper bugs in the ancient FLTK code, and I got rid of the bizarre UI they they used only for *nix and replaced it with the UI they used for Windows). There were a couple 64-bit safety i
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by csnover 11mo ago
Last year I tried to extend Retro68 to support Palm OS and made quite a lot of progress, but in the end it ended up being too much work and I abandoned the attempt. I suppose now is as good a time as any to mention that it exists (in a very
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by csnover 1y ago
No. This is why salts[0] are used. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
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by csnover 1y ago
Where I live, ILLs do not work for video games because the format identification for video games is “Electronic”, and their software is programmed to suppress the request button for these items because it is interpreted as “no physical medi
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by csnover 1y ago
In my case it was a last-ditch effort to get them to explain what was keeping them from making raid actually safe. Others have offered more concrete support more recently[0], I guess you could try reaching out to them, though I suppose they
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by csnover 1y ago
btrfs is OK for a single disk. All the raid modes are not good, not just the parity modes. The biggest reason raid btrfs is not trustable is that it has no mechanism for correctly handling a temporary device loss. It will happily rejoin a
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by csnover 1y ago
> But in your case, you’re investing time upfront to avoid a heavier dependency This is very confusing to me. What of this API[0], or this one[1], requires “investing time upfront”? With argh, you already know how to use all the basic fe
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by csnover 1y ago
> Otherwise you’ve abjectly failed to evaluate one of the most important trade-offs in engineering: whether something is even worth your time to think about. Phew, several folks have replied to me about how it’s not worth the time thinki

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