debugnik

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by debugnik 4d ago
I assume that part was for entertainment, this wouldn't fly in court. But they also show the dark patterns used to make you consent to it, and how certain features seem unaffected by these choices or send one last request when revoking
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by debugnik 5d ago
Except most people that get actually good at a field do so through their day job. By removing mathematician as a viable job, most can't afford to spend the necessary hours to become a good mathematician at all. We're going back to
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by debugnik 6d ago
We thought your Rust.NET comment was somewhat in jest. No, Microsoft isn't porting Rust to .NET, they barely try to support anything other than C# on it nowadays, but the article mentions an internal adapter for MSVC codegen. The proje
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by debugnik 7d ago
I think Minecraft gets it right by using procedural generation to add depth to the existing content rather than making different content. There's a fixed set of biomes and notable geographical features designed by the devs, so there&#x
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by debugnik 7d ago
I assume the fear was an uninterrupted burn until the gas depletes, as in the Darvaza gas crater but atmosphere-wide.
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by debugnik 8d ago
Windows downloads the driver first, then the driver itself uses an AddSoftware directive to install a companion app. Which is ok when the app is a GPU control panel or similar, but here it was clearly abused.
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by debugnik 8d ago
Keeping up with competition is part of trying to stay in the frontier. If they stop training the profit disappears in a few months.
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by debugnik 10d ago
Last time my city had a water cutoff due to a broken main, the city hall posted on Twitter (and I think Facebook?) where and when to queue for drinking water sooner and much more often than on any other channels, their own website included.
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by debugnik 13d ago
Turing never proposed that test as an actual benchmark of machine intelligence. On the contrary, the whole point of his thesis was that passing the test only shows the capability to pass that test, which only matters as far as we find that
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by debugnik 15d ago
A professor at a vocational training degree shared us a VM for a class project. Filled with dozens of porn bookmarks. He eventually realised and stayed after class to delete the VM from every class computer, deleting all the work of classma
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by debugnik 15d ago
Off the bat, you said that there shouldn't be expectations of privacy, not just that there currently isn't, which is not the exact same thing. I've never used company equipment for anything personal beyond a quick Google se
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by debugnik 15d ago
Since you can't really go buy the same work translated by a different publisher, voting with your wallet means boycotting it. I agree it would be the right option to punish publishers, but people find it frustrating to miss out on both
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by debugnik 16d ago
It's impressive how bad it is even for machine translation, I've seen examples. You're imagining them using a good LLM and a decent harness, but I'd bet it looks more like an intern copy-pasting snippets through an LLM o
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by debugnik 16d ago
I've got some heavy reader friends and they keep complaining that many of Spains's fantasy book translations are ridiculously bad and blatantly machine translated now: Senseless terms that require looking up the original to unders
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by debugnik 16d ago
I remember having more visual thinking until preteen, but then it gradually turned into a monologue and I hate it, because I can tell I got slower at mundane thoughts even if it helps me think through complex stuff.
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by debugnik 16d ago
Unluckily for us, and the author at the time of writing, we're in 2026.
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by debugnik 19d ago
The text you linked simply says that for individual analysis instead of bulk one, there will be false positives. I already acknowledged that, and I still need some filter anyway whether you want me to have one or not. Mistaking your blog po
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by debugnik 19d ago
Why? Does TFA rhyme, repeat itself, use archaic language or otherwise looks adversarial? It doesn't, so we can assume Pangram's usual false positive/negative rates apply. Yeah there's a chance it's wrong, and they&#
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by debugnik 19d ago
Legal would remember to pay the fee for their abandoned works, just in case, while the rest of the company does nil with them. I'd rather address the issue directly and expire the copyright after X years since it was last published. Th
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by debugnik 20d ago
> and when I asked why it did that even though I expressedly asked it not to Just be clear, it can't know, and by asking you're just making it roleplay as someone excusing themselves. It's very unlikely that the choice to
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by debugnik 21d ago
And who seeds it? If you're going to pay a host to seed it, they might as well just provide HTTP and let you add them as a web seed to your torrent, which we could be doing already. But if you don't pay a host to seed it, either t
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by debugnik 21d ago
> I have not heard any one say they avoid syntax high-lighting. Here's one of the Go creators "explaining" why the Go website lacks highlighting. https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJH
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by debugnik 21d ago
Torn reads are probably coming as a separate attribute to opt-in. It's technically already there but not stable, and I don't think it does anything yet to unbox values on fields/arrays.
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by debugnik 21d ago
Right, I didn't mean those are bad things! Just that value classes don't change the semantics of regular objects as much as value semantics do in other language. I like that the remaining features will be orthogonal and opt-in. Go
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by debugnik 21d ago
I'd say it's the other way around than escape analysis. The method ABI can always scalarize value class types without escape analysis, but if they ever need to get type-erased or written atomically you end up with extra allocati
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by debugnik 21d ago
Even a smart compiler can't break the program semantics, and without a closed world assumption it simply can't assume that an entirely different part of the program doesn't expect to observe object identity for a type. Java i
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by debugnik 22d ago
Pure Datalog can't express peano up to infinity, its terms can't be functors as in Prolog. At best you could hardcode a successor relation up to a limit.
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by debugnik 22d ago
I'd argue dotnet is about AI. The official blogs and conferences have been hijacked by AI products, much like VS Code.
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by debugnik 22d ago
> Lobsters has a funny obsession with being anti-AI, but the most commented posts on the front page are usually AI related. Reminds me of gamer-gate: Back then, NerdCubed graphed the top posts from both pro- and anti-gamer-gate subreddit
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by debugnik 23d ago
> My full middle name is a single letter though. I guess you could follow the Simpsons joke and spell the letter's name. I'm adding this one to my personal list of falsehoods programmers believe about names.

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