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by mhh__ 4d ago
Quite a cool concept. Seems that things are finally on the edge of moving again in database land (e.g. postgres is great but it's quite old)
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by mhh__ 6d ago
I think it seems sensible to _assume_ anything the LLM reads (if you aren't inferencing it) has a chance of ending up in some database somewhere. Regardless of whether you trust the other party its a sensible thing to plan around.
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by mhh__ 7d ago
The folding phones are genuinely interesting although all the cool demos I've seen people do irl have been quite reliant on android being quite liberal as to what software you can run
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by mhh__ 9d ago
small behaviours are fine, yes, what i was referring to was people making "foobar api skill" with just a bad compression of the foobar docs in a .md
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by mhh__ 9d ago
They're literally just documentation with a hat on. I don't mind a skill saying where the docs are but an overreliance on skills is simply proof someone isn't able to reason about the gestalt
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by mhh__ 10d ago
They already do, you need permission from local government to build almost anything in Britain.
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by mhh__ 10d ago
The renters rights act is already seemingly leading to distortion in the market - it's not really the price controls as per se but the inability to do things when the tenant is in place.
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by mhh__ 10d ago
Why are these cases only happening now? The article is clearly talking about the wider principle anywwy
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by mhh__ 11d ago
Rent controls are great if you already have a place
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by mhh__ 11d ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0817jd9dqo The judge decided that, despite prices suggesting otherwise, the two types of labour here were the same.
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by mhh__ 11d ago
> British state to ignore any possible volume of petitions Do you live under a rock?
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by mhh__ 11d ago
> Is the Economist seriously suggesting we should roll back workers and renters rights because AI makes it too easy for the average Joe to actually get those rights? Yes, both of these pieces of legislation are extremely badly designed f
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WireGuard Protocol Implementation in D(github.com)
4 points by mhh__ 13d ago|0 comments
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by mhh__ 13d ago
I would expect, although have no evidence, that any obviously high entropy crap like base64 and so on probably would get removed whether it's a secret or not.
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by mhh__ 15d ago
this is very "data centres using all the water" coded. the guardian used to be above running this kind of nonsense, now every single issue has pages of prickly "ooh, not a good look!" stilletto-ing. what does "no kn
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by mhh__ 17d ago
I don't think they do. The revealed preference is online safety this online safety that - although in fairness some of this is out of a desire to avoid deeper issues.
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by mhh__ 28d ago
How much do you trust the medical advice of a doctor in 2026?
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by mhh__ 28d ago
The idea that humans were basically retarded prior to about 1901 is a little hubristic
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by mhh__ 28d ago
It works
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
do go on... tease
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
Seems to work pretty well. The alternative is either no food or no prices.
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
The ISA not mattering I think isn't as true when you account cost e.g. in a huge OOO cpu all the fusions and so on are afaict fairly doable but if you are on a cheaper / worse CPU all those extra bytes in the instruction stream do
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
I really believe people who publish huge slop PRs (short of being fired) should have their tokens taxed on the basis that it's an unpriced cost on the colleagues and the firm
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
Yes but it doesn't actually exist yet so anyone saying "just use batteries" is basically either a bit naive or a journalist.
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
Really really hilarious. I commend and ask all centrist parties to continue sending failed comedians as their provincial vassals
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
When these batteries actually exist then sure...
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
The prices do change because (many, at least) renewable projects are subsidised via CFD schemes and so on and atop of that are selling into a spot market that may (it varies) pay them more than what they offer into the market. It's won
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
There still isn't really any equivalent of Excel for the things serious excel users use it for. In large part because Excel is a build system
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
the data is quite slow to be released so i haven't updated my charts for a bit but britain saw a decent spike in HIV / AIDS because of the migratory flows under boris johnson. In large part because we don't test on the basis
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by mhh__ 1mo ago
It's often basically true though - the guarantees that rust can make wrt to lifetimes and memory allocation clearly enable programs to allocate less and be more aggressive with what they do allocate (all while being a fairly high-level

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