simias

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by simias 2y ago
My subjective impression as a web user since the late 90s is that now things break relatively rarely (I think it's the first time I have any such issue with DDG for instance) but when they do a huge chunk of the web becomes unreachable
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by simias 3y ago
Well I suspect that eventually you just run into hard limitations with C's introspection facilities, or lack thereof. I like C a lot but one of the reasons I like Rust more these days is the ability to trivially implement complex seria
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by simias 3y ago
Sort of off-topic but I see a lot of round screens in sci-fi and especially retrofuturistic settings and that always wonder if there could be an alternate reality where they took off instead of rectangular monitors. After all for CRTs they
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by simias 3y ago
While I don't use TikTok I often see videos from there and it's really spooky to me how aggressive and omnipresent filtering seems to have become in that community. Even mundane non-fashion non-influencer "vlog" style co
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by simias 3y ago
I guess every generation experiences this type of nostalgia for the novelties of youth, but I still feel heavily privileged for having been able to live through the nineties and early 00's and experience the incredible technological ex
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by simias 3y ago
I dislike JavaScript and shell scripts equally, but sometimes I have to add a feature to a web page and I have to use JS, so I do, and sometimes I need to automate some un*x system task in a portable way and without heavy deps and shell scr
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by simias 3y ago
That's a bit of a strawman though, no? I'm definitely not worried about AI being used to write erotica or researching drugs, more about the societal effects. Knowledge is more available than ever but we also see echo chambers deve
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by simias 3y ago
>the AI safety ninnies I am one of these ninnies I guess, but isn't it rational to be a bit worried about this? When we see the deep effects that social networks have had on society (both good and bad) isn't it reasonable to fe
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by simias 3y ago
Most people developing GameBoy emulators these days do it as a toy project, not a serious effort to create an ultra-accurate general purpose emulator. It's like writing a raytracer or a Pong clone. The best GameBoy emulators like Gamba
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by simias 3y ago
It really is, but I still favour "unsexy" manual poll/select code with a lot of if/elseing if it means not having to deal with async. I fully acknowledge that I'm an "old school" system dev who's comi
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by simias 3y ago
I don't like it either but if it's like the moonlander it's fully customizable and uses QMK under the hood, so the sky is the limit. I don't really like having a lightshow on my keyboard so the LEDs are off all the time
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by simias 3y ago
Perhaps, but I wouldn't mind if the models just answered "I'm sorry but I don't have an answer to your question at the time". In fact I think that would be a great answer that would increase the amount of trust I ha
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by simias 3y ago
I'm not sure but given that I haven't paid anything I believe it's 3.5.
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by simias 3y ago
>For one, we can test the software by running it As long as the tests are not also written by ChatGPT... Many critical security issues require a deep understanding or the code or some intense fuzzing to discover, it's not enough to
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by simias 3y ago
I haven't tried ChatGPT for coding yet but I have used it to study human languages (I've been studying Japanese for a little while) and it's so easy to get it to spew complete nonsense with perfect aplomb that it makes me sup
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by simias 3y ago
All of these reasons boil down to "if it ain't broke" and "that's what we're used to". Switching VCS for a project of this size is always complicated and OpenBSD devs are famously "old school" an
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by simias 3y ago
How else would I upload my public key?
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by simias 3y ago
How else? If you notice that some of your confidential info made it into next generations of the model, you'll be able to sue them for big $$$ for breach of contract. That's a pretty good incentive for them not to play stupid game
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by simias 3y ago
I started with tcsh because it was the standard on BSD at the time, then I moved to zsh and never looked back. Using shells with non-POSIX syntax is nice in theory but the pros don't outweight the massive con of not working out of the
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by simias 3y ago
I found this article in the citations of the Wikipedia article for Final Fantasy VII and found it extremely interesting, containing many interesting bits of translation lore from both the technical and linguistic sides.
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Richard Honeywood on the Rise of Square Localization (2012)(web.archive.org)
1 points by simias 3y ago|1 comments
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by simias 3y ago
> There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file. As someone who basically started coding with C I feel the other way around, unsurprisingly. Even in scripti
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by simias 3y ago
It's perhaps not as life-changing as some of the sibling replies but one thing that has really amazed me over the past few decades is how much lighting has progressed. When I was a kid in the 90's I already enjoyed electricity and
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by simias 3y ago
Conservation is not just about preserving info, it's also about not adding information that's not here. If you upscale without those gradients (effectively sharpening to the max with nearest neighbor extrapolation) you introduce h
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by simias 3y ago
Precisely! I also find it interesting how, from an information theory standpoint, audio processing and image processing are effectively the same thing (audio resampling is fundamentally 1D image scaling for instance) but because humans proc
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by simias 3y ago
Ten years or so ago I was working on a video chip that had an upscaler feature. While prototyping and simulating it, we first started by applying a mathematically-correct (i.e. information preserving) FIR filter to do the upscale. Then we c
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by simias 3y ago
I admit I'm mostly familiar with the Intel (formerly Altera) side. There are no restrictions at all on the Xilinx side? That's pretty neat.
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by simias 3y ago
This is unfortunately still the norm in the FPGA world, which I think is a poor decision in the long term for Intel/Xilinx. I wanted to seriously get into FPGA dev a decade or so ago, I learned to write Verilog and everything but the t
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by simias 3y ago
Yeah that's a good point, I definitely that automatically generated passwords should be limited to alnum, using symbols is asking for trouble.
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by simias 3y ago
Can you specify what in practice could be an issue with a "forced" password? Are some characters harder to input than others or is it a different problem? For the non-American aspect, it's extremely common for websites to for

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