pxeger1

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by pxeger1 2mo ago
One possible argument in favour of what happened here: If you wanted to implement a package manager in the build system and keep it in the compiler, what abstraction for it would you provide between the compiler and the build system? This p
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by pxeger1 3mo ago
How many people have died because the people who could've saved them didn't think it was possible to save them?
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by pxeger1 3mo ago
How are they going to enforce this?
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by pxeger1 3mo ago
This rests on a lot of assumptions that the published figures for "planned" datacentres, "committed" AI spend, etc. are irreversible. I suspect that at least some of it is possible to back out of.
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by pxeger1 5mo ago
You're talking about Gödel encoding, not Godel's incompleteness theorem.
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by pxeger1 6mo ago
The bureaucracy isn't trying to be utilitarian, it's trying to be democratic, and the people don't want utilitarianism. No politician wants to be the one who removed the red tape that would've stopped the reckless profes
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by pxeger1 7mo ago
I've had a Discord account for 10 years. They seem to assume all discord users are at least teenagers, so surely they can't think I was 8 when I created the account. So can't I have the "full" experience automatical
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by pxeger1 8mo ago
> If somebody doesn't know what double parking is - it's when cars parallel park beside one another, implicitly on the road, making it difficult to see what's beyond them This is not called double parking. Double parking i
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by pxeger1 8mo ago
Is it at all realistic to expect the stable and/or fiscally conservative countries to accept the high bond yields imposed by the more fiscally loose or perceived-risky countries? Could this ever happen without the EU centralising more
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by pxeger1 9mo ago
> this capability was leaked I think the policy Harris is referring to is based on the _risk_ of something like this - it is easy to imagine wireless devices being vulnerable and enabling this capability - rather than being based on defi
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by pxeger1 9mo ago
Profile of llm generated comments
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by pxeger1 9mo ago
I don't understand
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by pxeger1 10mo ago
Why does the IACR use the term "cryptology" rather than "cryptography"?
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by pxeger1 10mo ago
> if it is on Windows it is not called a futex What is it called?
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by pxeger1 10mo ago
iPhone was released before iPod touch
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by pxeger1 10mo ago
> by far the most popular effect system around Crazy claim to make without providing any evidence
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by pxeger1 11mo ago
The "Architect" live migration tech seems super cool and useful on its own. Is it available independent of your kubernetes stuff?
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by pxeger1 11mo ago
> the most valuable resource is rack space I've always heard it's cooling capacity. I'm also pretty confident that's true
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by pxeger1 11mo ago
> folks still win the lottery, and you’re more likely to get struck by lightning than win the powerball jackpot I'm more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery, sure. But it's much more likely that someone win
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by pxeger1 11mo ago
> I'll do you one better I think this is a weaker example.
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by pxeger1 11mo ago
They must be at least partly automatically generated. Lots of IKEA items because their dimensions are easy to scrape from the website?
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by pxeger1 1y ago
> Someone once said to me that cooking can increase particle pollution in the air to dangerous levels. Is this true? I suspect not. Were they talking about gas hobs? Surely that's much worse than the electric/induction one you
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by pxeger1 1y ago
I think that might be intended as an example of how to allow a specific newsletter only
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by pxeger1 1y ago
This must be great for OSINT. I wonder if intelligence agencies already have something like this for the whole world.
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by pxeger1 1y ago
Boeing 787
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by pxeger1 1y ago
Did he resign because he wants to do something different, and Microsoft decided not to replace him and bring GitHub deeper into Microsoft? Or did Microsoft decide to bring it deeper into the company, removing his position in the process? Ma
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by pxeger1 1y ago
Ignoring the cadmium problem, is fluoride really harmless? I don't know what concentration of fluoride you'd end up with from converting typical PFAS pollution, but if you get enough fluoride it is acutely poisonous, which might b
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by pxeger1 1y ago
Oh I guess it is supposed to be Melon-King, but I firmly read it as Melonk-ing at first. What could it mean to melonk?
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by pxeger1 1y ago
> interviews should: be applicable. reflect the actual job duties No, it doesn't matter that much what task the candidate is doing in the interview. It matters what the interviewer is looking at. I'm sure plenty of interviewers
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by pxeger1 1y ago
Why can you use Hacker News but not Google Images at work?

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