klabb3

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by klabb3 7d ago
> VisaNet & friends make the modern consumer world go round. I mean, as opposed to what? You could apply this to any infrastructure cartel like with AT&T in the 90s or Comcast or 100s of historical examples. The alternative to a
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by klabb3 26d ago
100% agree. Wow I can’t believe how many think sandbox builds is an actually good idea, on a per language basis too. There are completely standard QoL issues in cargo that have been open for years and nobody is working on. Maintaining a san
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by klabb3 1mo ago
I believe that in all of EU you can just look at the ”comparison price” which is per-weight and listed below the normal price. It’s also very useful for quickly comparing similar products directly in-store. It’s a great piece of no-nonsense
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by klabb3 2mo ago
1000%. If you have the luxury/curse of _building_ the house on empty land simulating light is extremely important imo. It determines everything from layout of rooms to window placement to furnishing etc. (You probably don’t want eg sun
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by klabb3 2mo ago
This reminds me of this argument with libertarians/ancaps: A: rich people pay less % in taxes than wage workers, we should close the loopholes B: but taxes are immoral to begin with A: ok, but can we do something now about the unequal
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by klabb3 2mo ago
> Maybe the more interesting thing is how far people are going to 'fight' against AI? All ”AI resistance” I’ve seen is not against the tech, but against human bad actors behind AI: unethical procurement of training data, reckle
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by klabb3 2mo ago
There were two major flaws with the rollout of USB-C, none of them technical: To have unmarked cables. This should have been explicitly forbidden by spec as non-compliant. Today unmarked is the norm , even with premium brands. And the few
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by klabb3 2mo ago
Why stop there? If you _use_ handwritten products you’re ngmi. I only use vibe coded operating systems, JavaScript sandboxes, compilers, TLS libraries, databases, rendering engines..
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by klabb3 2mo ago
Im not a security engineer at all and I have an instant gut reaction to floats in regular code. ”How big can this get? Is it deserialized? What arithmetic ops are happening? Any risk of rounding error propagation?” etc. Now, I wouldn’t ne
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by klabb3 3mo ago
In engineering you have tolerances to deal with non-determinism. ”Within these bounds” and ”given these assumptions then…” is the foundation of building something _on top of_ those things. LLMs are the same, it relies on heavily exact Turin
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by klabb3 3mo ago
It’s not necessarily symmetrical, and in fact would be very surprising if it was. It’s a probabilistic algorithm on both sides, so the energy use to find any working program vs all bugs in a working program are fundamentally different s
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by klabb3 3mo ago
> Only very rarely I have seen examples with obvious differences between monitors when showing green objects, e.g. some documentaries with certain vividly colored animals, like some insects, birds, frogs or lizards. According to the arti
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by klabb3 3mo ago
This is truly an (accidental?) setback of color reproduction as it has progressed over time. For LED lights R9 is also crucial for skin tones which makes it so bad to just leave that out. Now, the mass produced LEDs are even optimized for C
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by klabb3 3mo ago
> The report made it sound like it is some kind of semi-official EU-endorsed project, but its just... a closed source, for-profit social network? This is so stupid. It’s really like truth social. Having a private company with closed sour
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by klabb3 3mo ago
> Sure, but the process is "what you do" which directly contradicts what you're saying. ”What you do” was just short for the _activity_ that you’re doing, eg ”I am coding” or ”I am building a car”, which does not determine
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by klabb3 3mo ago
Both ”creative mythical noble artist” and ”creative work is just work” are unhelpful strawman arguments. One is elitist, the other is reductionist. Creativity is neither a property of who you are or what you do. It’s about how you do it. It
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by klabb3 3mo ago
#0f0 #000
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by klabb3 3mo ago
> What makes this so beautiful IMHO is that it's a trivial jail break, but also a close to unfixable. It’s almost as if identifying security holes is a prerequisite for both fixing and exploiting them. But without knowing the color
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by klabb3 3mo ago
I had a near-instant crash too, but different kind. Firefox iOS. The vibes are leaking
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by klabb3 3mo ago
This is such an obvious observation that I’m surprised to find it often missing. 0.1X is nothing compared to the destruction (ie negative X) you can do with the right combination of recklessness and managerial pressure. Definitely happens w
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by klabb3 3mo ago
UB is especially bad but also not as big as all other concerns combined. Two of the most reliable software ever to exist, curl and SQLite, are C/C++. There are also cases in system programming, drivers etc where the unsafe is necessary
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by klabb3 3mo ago
Video production. Gigabit is 125MB/s. If you’re shooting a day in 10bit 4k (pretty standard today) you have like ~1TB of data. If you need to get that footage to an editor or a post house it would take over 2h at max speed. That’s why
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by klabb3 3mo ago
> None of HDR10, HDR10+, or DolbyVision ever answered the question of how to adapt for varying ambient brightness levels, either, which is again a very important question to answer for portable devices like phones, tablets, and laptops.
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by klabb3 4mo ago
Round trip time is actually much faster than Postgres, since there’s no need to touch the network. You can get massive single threaded throughput. In order to achieve comparable throughput in Postgres you need a large amount of concurrent c
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by klabb3 4mo ago
> As you said it is hard to create with AI without losing your soul but that’s not inherent to the tech. It definitely appears inherent so far. You could say infinite feeds optimized for engagement is just neutral tech too. The biggest m
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by klabb3 5mo ago
> They could inspect stdlib source code to fix compatibility issues with newer compilers and quite prolific with idioms. In order to even say this, you need to have knowledge and understanding about the language. I suspect you are not th
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by klabb3 5mo ago
Yeah I implemented my own in Go because I was unhappy with the 3p ones, so that’s why I reacted. It’s surprisingly hard to get right, in particular: 1. Backoff and timer logic to not flood network. 2. Caching entries for the same reason. 3.
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by klabb3 5mo ago
The fun part is when it’s important you have the right information to make a decision. Eg Russia to invade Ukraine and all top generals claim they can do it in 2 weeks. Similar for a corporation with layers of middle management deception an
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by klabb3 5mo ago
No they don’t? There are several 3p libs for it but not in std. Unless I’m blind and didn’t get the memo.
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by klabb3 5mo ago
Is this working seamlessly? Iirc you needed to switch settings to bypass the contacts only thing. Plus Apple can of course create more adversarial hurdles to lock other vendors out. And, of course this only solves the phone - phone, and not

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