repelsteeltje

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by repelsteeltje 9d ago
Add CoolBlue (Netherlands) to that list. Initially a post order-only for consumer electronics, but added bricks & mortar stores because many customers (of all ages, btw) prefer IRL service, viewing and touching actual hardware.
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by repelsteeltje 9d ago
That's the same issue I hear Apple users complain about: how it's such a drag to copy paste screenshots from keynote into powerpoint, every time they can't present from their own laptop.
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by repelsteeltje 15d ago
I don't think the reason for copyright law is compensation, per se. It's ownership : being in a position where the creator is able to decide what to do with it. Compensation being one option, but also restricting use our controll
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by repelsteeltje 16d ago
Sounds like the question Ylvis posed [1], years ago. :-) [1] https://youtu.be/mbyzgeee2mg
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by repelsteeltje 19d ago
The first part boils down to any civil servant: inflexibility and lower wages aren't for everyone, but it should not be impossible to attract talent intrinsically motivated to contribute to public cause. Especially when it's OSS
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by repelsteeltje 19d ago
Well put. Would it make more sense if this Sovereign Tech Agency behaved less like a Sovereign Tech Fund and simply hired the developers? Or is civil servants developing OSS commodities too much of a heresy?
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by repelsteeltje 20d ago
While I usually prefer to attribute incompetence rather than malice, it's hard to deny corruption is a likely factor here too. But the "freakton of money" aspect IMO needs nuance. I wager that the wealth of those cronies does
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by repelsteeltje 20d ago
Okay, but isn't it likely that the outcome of those scientific investigations will be that the Himalayan foothills should not be inhabited at all, except maybe a couple of places? What I mean is: Sure, politicians and contractors could
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by repelsteeltje 2mo ago
But that would simply result in Most Americans don't want AI Data Centers , which isn't the same as NYMBYism. I think many Americans see the benefits of having access to unicorn farts and may even support having more data centers
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by repelsteeltje 2mo ago
The ambiguity of the word "Open" has a long history. Going back to at least late 1980s, when X Window "skin" OPEN LOOK (by AT&T - Sun consortium) had license issues and Open Source Foundation started work on OSF
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by repelsteeltje 2mo ago
That would be truly ironic: companies get big harvesting any data with questionable copyright implications, then hide behind DMCA if access to the harvest is used "inappropriately".
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by repelsteeltje 2mo ago
> [...] would be protected from the market. One might step back and ask: why would a well funded company with free mining access to all the information in the world need to be protected from the market, if the market suggest less money
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Sample accurate editing is with AAC is a pain though. Especially if you also have video, because frame rates are usually incompatible. If you want flexibility without fully transcoding both audio and video, Opus is your friend
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Why not use a lossless codec if you care about quality? Or use Opus, descent for specht and works pretty much anywhere these days.
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
The correlation between job cuts and ai growth is real. But it's related more to ai cost than ai performance. Especially in Oracle's highly leveraged case.
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Etymologically you're correct that semites refers to [all] people from middle east and horn of Africa. But the label is from the European perspective, where it was used to refer to Jews. I'm sure that if they'd had a say in i
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
> Sorry, but to me an LLM is nothing but a tool. It is not a replacement for my expertise and it is definitely not something to outsource my thinking to. Great on you, that's indeed how LLMs should be used, proper. But if anything,
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
I agree that's fine in that at least it's doesn't cause unmaintainable garbage. And might even get you up to speed quicker that reading the docs old school. But the GP point, that you're better off finding people that al
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
You mean, use encryption (+base64 or something) as a "poor man's" string-escape? Interesting idea!
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
There will always be cases (like audio processing, car brakes, pace makers) where hard real-time constraints prohibit GC languages (as well as l1 cache, instruction reordering and other optimizations). Also, consider that Python's perf
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Interesting. I'm know nothing about Apple, but maybe you can explain how idiomatic Swift handles Blobs and how that interfaces with C or C++ around void ptrs, std::spans etc.?
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
There is a difference between UB in C, and something being undefined in some version of Microsoft C on Windows. Many of C's UB is specifically, intentionally left undefined in the standard to express code that relies on some specific w
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
+1 And SAL annotations aren't even C++ proper.
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
I don't think the cloud (someone else's computer) is the best solution. The sanitation problem can be mitigated by compartimentization but the cloud aspect also adds brittleness and new attack vectors. Why not set up proper cont
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Would that mean the original owner gets it back? Would they have to pay property tax backlog retroactively? Might be huge ..
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Hadn't thought of that and I think you're right. Having been exposed to Java < 5 (before generics) Arrays felt somewhat like JavaScript or PHP3. It's a lot more ergonomic today. But there are still many remnants (like null
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by repelsteeltje 3mo ago
Haven't yet used Zig in anger, but it looks more like a successor to C (with a bit of Go), whereas Rust is a successor to C++, first and foremost.
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by repelsteeltje 4mo ago
Distopian, what an insightful frame
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by repelsteeltje 4mo ago
There is more to math, than input (money) and output (power). Sure, there is some relation between applied sciences and how knowlegde can assist effecting world events. But for the most part, math discovery relied more on human curiosity th
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by repelsteeltje 4mo ago
That might change the odds, but unless you fork diligently (and monkeypatch each and every future vulnerability) you might ship a compromised fork forever.

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