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by drpixie 4y ago
Modern x86_64 and ARM designers absolutely know a lot about computers, and the expectations of modern software. That’s why we see constant advancements in things like vector instructions... Perhaps the designers know a lot, but Intel and
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by drpixie 4y ago
Nice to see someone taking privacy a little more seriously. The cloud has it's place but I've never been happy with the underhanded way that Office 365 "encourages" users to save to the cloud. When someone pays for one
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by drpixie 4y ago
I don't think it matters what generates the page. Wordpress/etc could generate plain html pages and the author's points would apply equally. Personally, I prefer html with a little embedded css. It works, it's quick, it&
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by drpixie 4y ago
You're probably right about the effort - but I expect that such "boilerplate" code contains (or leads to) much more than 20% of the bugs. This 90% of code is not genuine word-for-word boilerplate (copy/pasted from a know
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by drpixie 4y ago
My takeaway from the article - the success of their language model illustrates what a huge fraction of our code is boilerplate. Yes, it's helpful that the system shows bugs, but it does this, not through careful analysis of the control
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by drpixie 4y ago
For "an astronaut riding a horse" the system is filtering/selecting but nowhere does it understand (or claim to understand) horses or astronauts. It's giving you an image that "syntactically" agrees with other
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by drpixie 4y ago
And ... Question: Is the meta company doomed? Answer: To explain, the Meta company is doomed because it is a company that is not profitable.
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by drpixie 4y ago
Yes - that's the whole point of language models ... to model the language, and not the content. Similar for image generation - the model addresses what looks acceptable (like other images), not what makes sense. It's amazing t
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by drpixie 4y ago
You asked the obvious question - you already know the obvious answer ... the only difference is bitcoin got there first and that scheme grew bigger than the other schemes.
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by drpixie 4y ago
Similar, I know lots of people who were interested & curious, but none who are now involved. That's a small sample, but it's what I see.
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by drpixie 4y ago
I've found make to be fine, if you avoid those fancy newfangled "features" and use rules and variables. It even has default rules for building C and for linking!
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by drpixie 4y ago
I hadn't noticed LibreOffice lags any worse than MS-office. But, if you haven't tried, for anything bigger than a chapter or so, do yourself a favour and try a "proper" typesetting system - LaTeX, SILE, or the like. The
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by drpixie 4y ago
This has come up occasionally on HN, but is worthy of acknowledgment and genuine discussion. Fabulous to see someone talking about our world with optimism and hope, instead of falling back onto the primitive marketplace ideology that has se
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I won't let you pay me for my open source(world.hey.com)
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by drpixie 4y ago
We (the industry) are still so quick to disregard the benefits of strict typing. "Back in the day..." I worked on a collection of vital (to the company) infrastructure apps written in Borland Turbo (object) Pascal. Strong static t
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by drpixie 4y ago
zlib might be infringing, and obviously they CAN do it, but: Why the USPS? (They presumably have no direct rights over the material.) And presumably the USPS has no actual rights in Poland or Hong Kong. :(
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by drpixie 4y ago
Apart from the physical convenience of absence of wires (for phones and tablets) wired networking just works better.
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by drpixie 4y ago
Agreed - unfortunately many extensions going in too many directions. It might be more practical to require extensions to conform to a hierarchy, so if you implement Z, you must also implemented X and Y. Given the low cost of transistors, it
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by drpixie 4y ago
I'm with CleverLikeAnOx on this. I known it goes against the prevailing HN ethos, but more-features-more-monetisation does not necessarily produce the best product. (In fact, I don't think it will ever produce the best product.)
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by drpixie 4y ago
It is a hack, but given the complexity and non-timeliness of what's going on behind the scenes, and the lack of control that the user has, perhaps a good hack is the right solution. My choice would be a cron job to run every few hours
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by drpixie 4y ago
Yeah - Covid seems to be one a few topics that bring out "special" opinions. It's a pity, and not confined to HN, but seems to be a sign of the times.
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by drpixie 4y ago
The Economist is reporting on 1 new paper ... of the 100k or so written so far. Almost clickbait :(
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by drpixie 4y ago
Separate FP registers - it seems most modern architectures have distinct register sets for integers and floats. This looks to have started when FPUs were optional and/or physically separate, but that's no longer the case. Any exam
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by drpixie 4y ago
Does anyone feel that the Linux API (and so the kernel) is slowly getting more and more complex and cumbersome?
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by drpixie 4y ago
Yes to all - and also don't include boilerplate text, or at least limit it to the minimum polite for your audience. So if you must show a stack dump: - don't put in lots of whitespace - it might look pretty but it makes it harder
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by drpixie 4y ago
While I personally agree with the spirit of your definition (though I think it's incomplete) I don't think it's universal even amongst humans. You don't have to look far to see societies or people for whom "what is
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by drpixie 4y ago
Mentioning DALL-E, you've hit on something. The world seems slightly mad about these things that produce "almost" pictures from text. We forgive DALL-E when it produces a twisted eye or an impossible perspective, because its
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by drpixie 4y ago
> The thing that I would say is a bad idea is what many routers refer to as "DMZ" mode or similar, where you broadly send incoming connections to a system. That's got a lot more risk since you have to be a lot more cautiou
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by drpixie 4y ago
Unfortunately, the Sony Open devices seem to be hard to get (at least in Oz). I use LineageOS but there it's only available for a limited set of devices :(
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by drpixie 4y ago
Just take care. Port forwarding is perfectly valid, and sometimes the only practical way to do things. But: - only open/forward the ports you need. - only expose ports that use appropriate security - try to avoid plain-text, NEVER use

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