praptak

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Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce"(evanhahn.com)
38 points by praptak 2d ago|57 comments
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by praptak 5d ago
The optimal level of cable regrets is non zero.
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by praptak 1mo ago
Terrorism went from "kill one person to scare millions" to "stir shit up to cripple the adversary with the costs of prevention".
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by praptak 1mo ago
https://archive.is/L1DPH#selection-1889.0-1889.54
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Enshittification Is Coming for Everything(ft.com)
7 points by praptak 1mo ago|3 comments
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Majorities of Americans say wealth inequality is a problem(yougov.com)
3 points by praptak 1mo ago|1 comments
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by praptak 1mo ago
Monkey see, monkey do: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-car... "It's not about utility. It's not even really about the chatbot. It's about visibility, the fear of looki
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by praptak 3mo ago
Releasing the steriles blindly is not enough, you gotta monitor the pest too. This is prohibitively expensive in rainforests and other areas with poor infrastructure. Okay, maybe you could release the flies in large enough numbers not to ne
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by praptak 3mo ago
Big AI is intertwined with these two via data centers, isn't it?
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by praptak 3mo ago
This is alienation as described by Marx. If you optimize a thing, at some point it becomes separated from its nature.
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by praptak 4mo ago
> First you need someone to be physically in there Bluetooth works fine through walls.
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by praptak 4mo ago
There's a good article about it. Saying no is a budget. In other words you don't have enough veto power to stop all bad projects so you need to be strategic about spending this budget. https://lalitm.com/post/
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by praptak 4mo ago
The problem with this kind of armchair economy is that you can argue both ways. "End of ZIRP and the raise of just-say-no engineers": with capital being more expensive companies need to invest it wisely, therefore the need the jud
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by praptak 4mo ago
Appending stuff to bypass blacklists is eternal. My first job, decades ago. I couldn't update something on my laptop because client's gateway blocked ` http://foo.com/update.exe `. Guess what, ` http://fo
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by praptak 4mo ago
It's pretty stupid that big customers like Railway are not somehow protected from this.
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by praptak 4mo ago
When I studied CS one of our professors told us the US military had chips with self destruct ops in the 1980s. I could never confirm this particular story but there was a much later DARPA program which aimed at self destructing electronics
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by praptak 4mo ago
"In absolutely no way am I scheming on how I might leverage it to shut down whole industries" I don't think even the ultra rich who own the technology are directly scheming to do that. But they do accept it as a side effect
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by praptak 4mo ago
As a Polish IT worker I feel that we enjoy hardwork too much. I'm talking here about "kultura zapierdolu" [0] which is what we call the specific Polish version of culture of unhealthy work/life balance. [0] https:/
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by praptak 4mo ago
I remember this kind of slop from times well before the LLM explosion. I'm specifically thinking of a print magazine that was designed to make you feel like you are a smart reader of science articles, without any useful information a
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by praptak 5mo ago
There is no party capable to take responsibility on the other side of the handover protocol.
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by praptak 5mo ago
Maybe tell it to output rhyming slang pig Latin. Or, since you are in a terminal anyway, rot13
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by praptak 5mo ago
You could make a similar noble call for everyone to just stop using cigarettes in 1950. It would not work. What ultimately worked were laws designed to curb tobacco use combined with public education campaigns.
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by praptak 5mo ago
> Let me know of any resources that helped you (anyone) For me it was "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa. A meditation textbook which tells us what to practice, how to practice and why. Especially useful if you need the finer p
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by praptak 5mo ago
If you also add "don't break the previous rule", you should be 100% safe.
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A dev restored features that Bambu Lab killed–then the legal threats arrived(xda-developers.com)
1 points by praptak 5mo ago|0 comments
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by praptak 5mo ago
You still need to explain why this case creates a positive feedback loop rather than a negative one. I mean left/right fuel intakes in cars and male/female ratios somehow tend to balance at 50/50.
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by praptak 5mo ago
I wonder if you could measure the difference in power consumption. I mean, not for zeroing because we know from the TFA that it's special-cased anyway. But maybe if you test on different registers?
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by praptak 5mo ago
The internet reports that D100 is impractical to use but it's cool if your game design calls for a relatively rare "ritual value".
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by praptak 5mo ago
Xor swap trick has perfect profile for underhanded C contests. It generally works until a specific condition triggers its failure. The condition is "the arguments are aliases", so for example XOR_SWAP(a[i], a[j]) when i=j.
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by praptak 5mo ago
Iran messaging: we got attacked by mad apes but we are cool and funny and we carry on unbothered USA messaging: UNGA BUNGA BIG EXPLOSIONS

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