samatman

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by samatman 12d ago
I hadn't seen the NYT submarine, no. Thanks. For me that's the conclusive piece of the puzzle: this is a work, not a shoot. YMMV. I learned what I came here for.
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by samatman 13d ago
> This is easy to do with the proper support for monomorphized generics, see C++'s std::list. It is awkward in C, where the implementation has to be macro-generated. Fairly pleasant in Zig, through abuse of @fieldParentPointer and
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by samatman 1mo ago
Nothing at all. They're not designed to, so they don't. Change that, and they would. The question is the wrong one. The right question: why aren't frontier models designed to work that way? The answer: it's slow and expe
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by samatman 1mo ago
It's in the user name: he's metalman. He collects metals. Made of men.
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by samatman 1mo ago
Keeping in mind that I'm going strictly off the commit[0], a bit-packing layout is very much the kind of thing which is not subject to copyright in the first place. Neither are algorithms. Ideas, in general, are not subject to copyri
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by samatman 1mo ago
True story: I have a moisture issue in my furnace, such that it needs vacuuming out. This involved detaching a length of tubing, but that puts stress on said tubing, sometimes knocks other things out of alignment, and involves completing th
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by samatman 1mo ago
Not really. They're an AI company: they develop AI and sell it. There's some room for pulling off flashy marketing stunts, but not all that much. This is division of labor, and it's a good thing. I'm sure OpenAI employee
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by samatman 1mo ago
If the Judeo-Bolshevist theses were true, then Operation Barbarossa was the logical thing to do, and everything which came with it. Powerful word, `if`. "You're not only wrong you're a fulminating psychopath" is a perfec
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by samatman 2mo ago
You may want to read this comment again and really evaluate it as if you didn't write it. Maybe shop it around. Ask your wife, or better some random people with the names scrubbed so they don't know it's you, to tell you who
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by samatman 2mo ago
Yes, the word 'if' was in that sentence. The only people who have a need to judge the quality of the report (not aesthetically, I mean) are those few who know enough about the subsystems of the kernel it implicates to do something
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by samatman 2mo ago
I don't care if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. Translation: if this nails-on-chalkboard LLM spew identifies a kernel bug, which is then patched, its aesthetic qualities do not interest me in the slightest.
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by samatman 2mo ago
You've created a throwaway account specifically to post against the HN guidelines: > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Please don't post insinuations about ast
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by samatman 2mo ago
Heh. Literally, welcome to: Hacker News. It's always been like this.
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by samatman 2mo ago
Like Ghostty, you mean? The best terminal emulator out there?
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by samatman 2mo ago
It's actually a good comparison. Because if a club had a prominently posted rule "no shit on the soles of your shoe", I would not be asking "Well, how much shit is on the soles of my shoe?" I would be asking, "
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by samatman 2mo ago
> Why would they have different rules for one potentially copyrightable material versus another? There is a longstanding distinction between expression (copyrightable) and facts and ideas (not copyrightable). Nor is this merely used a
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by samatman 2mo ago
> COUNTEREXAMPLE TO EULER'S CONJECTURE ON SUMS OF LIKE POWERS > BY L. J. LANDER AND T. R. PARKIN > A direct search on the CDC 6600 yielded: 27⁵ + 84⁵ + 110⁵ + 133⁵ = 144⁵ > as the smallest instance in which
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by samatman 2mo ago
You can't call it a bell curve unless it's from the Charles Murray region. It's just sparkling statistics.
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by samatman 2mo ago
I am doing so such thing. You are ignorant and you are being rude, it's a bad combination. The English Rule has several variations by jurisdiction, you'll find a handy map here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E
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by samatman 2mo ago
Perhaps you will find page 27, "USB signals over USB Type-C®", clears up the strangeness. At least when you get to the first section, "USB 2.0 Signaling Over Type-C".
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by samatman 2mo ago
Why say 'brisance' when you could say 'jounce per ounce'.
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by samatman 2mo ago
It does, and it absolutely has a chilling effect in countries which don't do things this way. Sue someone who can spend millions of pounds (for the sake of argument) on defence? Better be certain you can win... against someone who can
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by samatman 2mo ago
Scenario A: A program has a memory vulnerability. That's bad, and the reason it's bad: attacker-controlled data can potentially trigger this vulnerability, which could even lead to privilege escalation. Scenario B: A program write
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by samatman 2mo ago
This seems too strong to me. I agree with reliable as "repeatable", it's the determinism which seems excess to purpose. If I have a great meal every time I go to a restaurant, that chef is reliably good. I do not require that
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by samatman 3mo ago
Vorons are great! https://www.vorondesign.com You've come a long way, RepRap.
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by samatman 3mo ago
In five years Europe will be buying their inference machines from Apple, like everyone else.
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by samatman 3mo ago
Yep, American tourism is in shambles. Everyone's terrified ...because the USA made it into the knockout stage. really scary stuff
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by samatman 3mo ago
You're not wrong, Walter...
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by samatman 3mo ago
I love it. Easily one of my favorite things about the language. Example: shifting more than the width of the shifted integer is illegal behavior in Zig: therefore, the, what, shiftand? let's go with that, the shiftand for a u64 must be
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by samatman 3mo ago
I understand the reaction, but I don't agree. I suggest reading the associated proposal[0] along with the devlog, and having a real think about what's going on here. I'm responding to you saying that you "don't und

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