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by thelopa 4mo ago
I recently left a FAANG. Shortly before I left (for unrelated reasons) the director of my org got scolded by the VP he reported to because token usage in his org was low. After that the ICs in my org were told to use ai for everything or th
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by thelopa 9mo ago
I know someone who works on the macOS permission system. If you submit a bug report and share the feedback number, I will send it their way https://bugreport.apple.com/
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by thelopa 2y ago
I’ve been running Linux for ~20 years. Proton is, without a doubt, a huge leap forward for the ecosystem. I stopped dual booting Windows for games ~5 years ago and haven’t looked back. It’s positively wild to me that native Linux builds for
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by thelopa 3y ago
They needed to compile the kernel because they were using the full kernel. The main package repository (and thus the main binary caches) only include a de-blobbed version of the kernel. To get standard Linux including all the blobs, you nee
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by thelopa 3y ago
I would argue that you should do something similar in Haskell, too. It would ensure that practically everything accessing the allow list fails to compile unless it had been adapted to the new model. Haskell’s strength is the compiler and it
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by thelopa 3y ago
Disagreeing with a particular taxonomic way of describing different types of people simply because it makes it hard to advance your political beliefs does not mean the words involved in that taxonomy are slurs. “Slur” has a particular meani
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by thelopa 3y ago
Cisgender is recent, but it’s also primarily used to serve as the counter to transgender. To understand “cisgender”, it’s useful to study the history of “transgender”. Transgender was introduced as a term because it encompassed a larger gro
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by thelopa 3y ago
And yet, Elon has decided that a term used in academic medical research for nearly a century, “cisgender”, is a slur and banned from the platform. Funny how he wants to protect objectionable speech that aligns with his political view while
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by thelopa 3y ago
The Korean approach is still wrong, arguably. If you want to include the totality of the life of the baby, the next normal stopping point would be conception. That would make the child ~9 months old, not 1 year.
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by thelopa 3y ago
I disable password authentication and use fail2ban. It's unlikely they will be able to brute force my key, but no server is perfect. sshd might be compromised one day. I’d rather have an extra layer of defense just in case.
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by thelopa 3y ago
Many of the str functions in the C standard library assume a nul terminator.
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by thelopa 3y ago
I’ve used Mac’s at my job for about 10 years + a few years of personal use before that. I’ve had ample time to get used to the Mac workflow. macOS’s approach only works nicely if you expect to have one simultaneous task per app OR you don’t
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by thelopa 3y ago
Some models of the Turing machine have an infinite tape in only one direction. Some also don’t require every state to have an exhaustive set of transitions. Those models generally consider going off the end of the tape or failing to find a
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by thelopa 3y ago
A leading candidate for the 2024 US presidential election has made a campaign promise to make healthcare that I rely on virtually illegal. Dozens of representatives in congress have cosponsored a bill that would make it illegal to even teac
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by thelopa 3y ago
I’m assuming I’m the “assertion made below”. I made no such claim. Let me rephrase it. There have been 8 mass shootings in America in the last 7 days. No one was running to twitter to speculate about their causes. No politicians were raisin
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by thelopa 3y ago
But, again, why are you focusing on a group that is statistically less likely to commit mass shootings compared to the average person? Even if you find some root cause for trans shooters, you’d be, at best, eliminating what amounts to abo
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by thelopa 3y ago
You optimize for the common case, not the uncommon one. Shouldn’t we figure out why shootings in general are happening rather than fixating on a specific case because it involved an unpopular minority group?
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by thelopa 3y ago
This narrative about trans shooters is disconnected from reality. If you take every trans shooter in the last decade, you get less than 10… out of thousands. For context, last year America has nearly 700 mass shootings. Trans people are act
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by thelopa 3y ago
Citation needed. Everything I’ve seen indicates that transition rates are roughly equal.
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by thelopa 4y ago
Browser JS definitely never had the ability to unmount storage volumes before Chromebooks existed.
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by thelopa 4y ago
Oh the tons of hours waiting for menus to load to swap your camouflage pattern after crawling onto slightly different terrain…
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by thelopa 4y ago
I also completed MGS3 on euro extreme, and was about an hour from the end of MGS2 on euro extreme (the action sequence right before the MG Ray fight). I was playing the PC port, and let me tell you: aiming the automatic weapons without pres
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by thelopa 4y ago
Back in the day I beat MGS2 and MGS3 on Extreme. The box shouldn’t be your plan for sneaking past any guards. It’s for situations where you are caught out without any cover and you need to hide. Pop in to it right as they are about to round
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by thelopa 4y ago
Yes. That’s how the public domain works.
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by thelopa 4y ago
I had a at-home-only version once. Then I failed to unlock my vault on my iPhone (FaceID issue or something) and it refused to allow me to enter the master key without first passing the 2FA check with the server (did it delete the local vau
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by thelopa 4y ago
In most implementations, redefining an inline function or macro just means you may have some callers using the old code. SBCL warns if you redefine an inline function but doesn’t re-compile old code. Do note that the language has a differ
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by thelopa 4y ago
Most CL implementations don’t “track” the instances so much as have them point at a proxy for the real class object. When redefining a class, the old proxy object is marked as stale and then updated to point at the new class. This allows th
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by thelopa 4y ago
Note: it wouldn’t generate a vtable entry unless the method was declared virtual.
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by thelopa 4y ago
> A macro character is either terminating or non-terminating. The difference between terminating and non-terminating macro characters lies in what happens when such characters occur in the middle of a token. If a non-terminating macro ch
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by thelopa 4y ago
That’s completely incorrect. The parent comment has it right. In normal usage, the meaning of #\) is entirely determined by the implementation for the #\( reader macro. This happens because the reader macro for #\( keeps consuming character

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