devnullbrain

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by devnullbrain 4mo ago
Weird that you don't understand it. Have you read any of the replies in the multitudes of times you've invariably seen this discussion come up online?
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by devnullbrain 4mo ago
OK. Is it a sensible thought? Did VPNs exist in 1949? No, it's trite and useless. You don't need to refer to popular literature to talk about authoritarianism, there are plenty of examples in real life.
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by devnullbrain 4mo ago
In addition to the sibling comment: I really dislike opening my Photos app in front of other people.
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by devnullbrain 5mo ago
Aw, I missed it
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
I don't see why this wouldn't just lead to model collapse: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y If you've spent any time using LLMs to write documentation you'll see this for yourself:
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
You seem to be blaming the OS for how you broke it?
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
I'm not the PC but I think you miss most of the pain points due to: 'personal' projects. There's not a compatible format between different compilers, or even different versions of the same compiler, or even the same vers
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
Source of quote: https://youtu.be/tzXu5KZGMJk?t=3160
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
How would you have minimised migration costs for std::map?
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
>1. Somebody verifies with the users that speed is actually one of the most burning problems. Sometimes this is too late. C++98 introduce `std::set` and `std::map`. The public interface means that they are effectively constrained to bein
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
> and the missing context is essential. Oh yes, I'd recommend everyone who uses the phrase reads the rest of the paper to see the kinds of optimisations that Knuth considers justified. For example, optimising memory accesses in quic
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
A state machine is a perfect example of a case where you would benefit from linear types. Some things just need precise terminology so humans can communicate about them to humans without ambiguity. It doesn't mean they're inherent
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by devnullbrain 6mo ago
...a far better place than 2011.
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by devnullbrain 7mo ago
Come on, the 6th word after 5 English words is obviously going to be a rare word in your second keyboard language, not another common English word.
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by devnullbrain 7mo ago
>You see, the shapes of roads in real life come from an underlying essential fact: the wheel axles of a vehicle. No matter how you drive a car, the distance between the left and right wheels remains constant. You can notice this in tyre
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
Is your take that the way we view sexuality today is not meaningfully different from the Victorian era?
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
> Do they have ABS sensors that can detect wheel lockup/speed status? Because I don't. You should fix that. Go out on a rainy day and slam the brakes hard enough for it to kick in. There's an obvious vibration and knowing
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
It's his favourite joke, see Space Sex.
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
This is how you end up with O(n^2) algorithms that 'work' until you run it with production-size data. If the context your code runs in is small enough to be in a test, you're probably not working on anything serious anyway.
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
I have the desktop app open right now. In the top-right corner is a nag saying 'Share your plan'. It's an ad for Proton Duo. I just clicked 'Don't show again'. I get a toast saying you won't show me that
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
I had the same problems with Bridge 5 years ago - what platform is it still needed on?
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
The indexing needs to be refreshed almost every time I use it.
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by devnullbrain 8mo ago
I guess you also received the Linkedin Gaming spam a couple of weeks ago? I opted out of almost every category and I never opted in to a category like that. So why is there now a new category which I have to opt out of? It seems to me blata
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
When you (try to) use libre software, the problems you run into tend not to be related to insufficient engineering, but more societal and economic, where they would be less likely to appear if there were more people in your cohort. Examples
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
Ah, the mid-2000s, just before Linux became the dominant user kernel on Earth.
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
I don't understand this comment in this context. Both of these features work on my Steam Deck. Neither of them have worked on any Windows laptop my employers have foisted upon me.
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
And it went from unrealistic paranoia to 'like... obviously?' seamlessly.
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
Yes but before 2005 we didn't have Reddit, so we didn't have people who learned about prescriptivism from there and think it means all discussion about taste and style is immoral.
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
>English Use *h₂enǵʰ-ish please.
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by devnullbrain 9mo ago
This article asserts 7 times that jobs are being replaced by AI and the only data to substantiate it is a link to an EY report that is paywalled, doesn't hold up to the text of the link, and doesn't hold up to what contemporary jo

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