gemstones

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Contract Concerns [pdf](open-std.org)
1 points by gemstones 1y ago|1 comments
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by gemstones 1y ago
C++ is proposing pre- and post- conditions to verify functions in C++26; notably, Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ creator) is opposed
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by gemstones 1y ago
It's about a specific type of debilitating fear. The DSM has a rule for criteria that, to be considered as having a condition, it must seriously affect your ability to live a normal life. Most social anxiety is not debilitating, and w
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by gemstones 3y ago
If you're already an American, move to St. Louis. - North enough that climate change will not affect it as much - Inland so not at risk of sea level change - Next to a large fresh water source - Food security - weather suitable for all
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by gemstones 3y ago
But a mountain would work, yes? And if you already need the mountain lab for physics, what is the extra cost to staff military personnel there?
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by gemstones 3y ago
(This is not China-bashing, as I assume lots of other nations do this for the same reasons.) It's a lot harder to have unwanted intruders, and satellite surveillance is less likely. This lab will 100% have a military research purpose.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Do you think that most businesses have the consistent cash flows needed to pay out wages every hour? I’m not sure this is a technical problem, I guess. Maybe a financial engineering problem but is the demand there?
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by gemstones 3y ago
Aren’t most security vulnerabilities in C or C++ code? Seems a bit rich to point to C’s write-your-own approach as being a security benefit. I’d want to see some data on that before I arrive at that conclusion.
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by gemstones 3y ago
One suggestion - it would be really cool to allow FFI. Something like <script type="text/javascript"> const foo = (bar) => { document.getElementById('my-element'); //
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by gemstones 3y ago
Are you serious?
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by gemstones 3y ago
The interesting stuff tends to be webapps, that people pay for and are often internal to a company. If you just care about sites that are document based, of course you’d prefer the static content stuff! But he wouldn’t be working on a proj
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by gemstones 3y ago
Oh it's not good advice for everyone! If they're a lead on a team you must interface with, they fall into my "you must work with them" bucket, and then the article is pretty good advice. Eh, I disagree that it's ch
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by gemstones 3y ago
As in software, the best tool for avoiding errors is to not have the software in the first place. If you must work with someone, or consider yourself to have an ethical obligation to follow this, this is good advice. If you don't... Ju
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by gemstones 3y ago
Oh haha I forgot how much information was not exposed in the API at all. I remember having to bring in a senior engineer because I thought I was going crazy. I could only ever find like half of the useful data on a server I just provision
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by gemstones 3y ago
This was almost a decade ago, I assume (hope?) things have changed in a decade of trying. But it was official VMWare advice! It was literally in their documentation too.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Oh my lord, I remember dealing with a VSphere API early in my career. They didn't have a concept of service accounts so the official advice for our nightly automation was: Pay a sysadmin to be up at night, then before your job is mean
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by gemstones 3y ago
China is closed to us! Not super surprising from that lens. They make nice EVs, though. It's political suicide to entertain making things easy for China, particularly in auto manufacturing, where there are several big union voting bl
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by gemstones 3y ago
I would vote in anyone who recognizes what a giant problem it is that the first suggestion for someone who only wants to write SQL for one specific database is our federal government. I do not want the government to be the landing place for
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by gemstones 3y ago
Well, with the hollowing out of OpenAI, it seems that someone else will easily take the lead! They're not my personal hopes - this move destroyed OpenAI's best chance at retaining control over cutting edge AI as well. They destr
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by gemstones 3y ago
And people with money will want to make UBI happen because...?
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by gemstones 3y ago
The board vote did it! They had a tender offer in the works that would have made employees millionaires. The board clearly signaled that they viewed the money-making aspects of the company as something to dial back, which in turn either s
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by gemstones 3y ago
Ilya torched peoples' retirements by signaling that it would be very hard to cash out in OpenAI as it is now. You don't have to be emotional to understand the consequence of that action, just logical. You have to think beyond yo
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by gemstones 3y ago
What percent of those devs don’t do a valuable thing and become homeless? Maybe devs are a bad example, so replace them with “retail workers” in your statement if it helps. Is “put out of work” a good thing with no practical limits?
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by gemstones 3y ago
I’m not sure this article was as sympathetic as the author intended - the vignette didn’t help too much. Neither person in the example couple brings much to the table, marriage-wise. But I will fully agree that the father in the story shou
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by gemstones 3y ago
I bet the data breach being covered up is not customer data, but IP. My #2 theory is that the breach is prompt data and it went to a nation-state adversary of the US. Plenty of people putting sensitive work info into ChatGPT when they sho
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by gemstones 3y ago
My bet - security issue involving data loss, but the data loss was the GPT model itself.
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by gemstones 3y ago
Oh man, I didn’t realize it was 3%! NYC has a ton of people at the top of their fields in a really dense setting. I wonder what city services cause such a big shortfall! On paper it should be easier to finance NYC than any other big city,
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by gemstones 3y ago
In my walkable neighborhood you know how this problem is solved? The same way it was solved for centuries, high foot traffic incentivized a small grocer to pop up within walking distance. People in the neighborhood generally take jobs in t
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by gemstones 3y ago
Out of curiosity, I wonder it there's a group that would be willing to sponsor a C++ standard that is just a subset of the current C++ one? Having the standard, and the ABI, seems valuable. And it would be a lot of trouble to write on
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by gemstones 3y ago
My present job is as the R&D department. Just me. Every time I have seen a difficult-to-work-with or autistic person told to be a 1-man R&D department (3 jobs), it has been a way for managers to get that person out of the

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