the_hoser · HackerTrans

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The policy isn't necessary to close the PR. The policy just helps to shut down the ensuing discussion after closing the PR. It helps in quickly dealing with well-meaning onlookers asking for clarification when you block PRs from the account.

the_hoser

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I have a long-standing theory that the most significant factor is the weather.

the_hoser

há 5 mesesdiscuss

Blame Perl. As far as I can tell, they started it.

the_hoser

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You're already the product. They're just looking for the buyers.

the_hoser

há 7 mesesdiscuss

An LLM cannot lie to you. Lying would imply that it somehow knows the truth, and chooses to tell you something other than the truth. The LLM doesn't know anything. It's just providing you with answer-shaped responses.

the_hoser

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For those of us that have been using Linux for a long time (since 1999, here), the improvements have been incremental, and hard to spot over time. But sometimes I encounter something and it just blows my mind how good desktop Linux has become.

I just bought a laptop that came with Fedora installed. This isn't anything new, but what really blew me away is that everything... just worked. No tinkering. No alternative modules built from source (hopefully with a good DKMS script). Everything... just worked. I'd blocked out a few hours to get everything working in a satisfactory state and... I had nothing to do, really.

And when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING, not just the features that were significant to my own use cases. Mind-blowing, if you think about it.

the_hoser

há 7 mesesdiscuss

NVIDIA is more than happy to forget about gaming.

the_hoser

há 7 mesesdiscuss

That would require that they actually make the effort to develop Linux support. The current "it just works" reality is that the games developers don't need to support running on Linux.

the_hoser

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One of the biggest optimizations it offers is shrinking the size of the classes by obfuscating the names. If you're obfuscating the names anyway, there's no reason that the names have to be the same length.

"hn$z" is a heck of a lot smaller than "tld.organization.product.domain.concern.ClassName"

the_hoser

há 10 mesesdiscuss

And it puts a red "M" hat on if you search for Mario.

the_hoser

há 11 mesesdiscuss

An art lost to the ages. Granted, their purposes were so different than they are today. Most of them would be replaced by a social media presence today.

the_hoser

há 11 mesesdiscuss

It's probably that nobody with the ability to pull it off really cares enough to try. Lots of obscure devices never get jailbroken.

the_hoser

há 11 mesesdiscuss

The problem is that in order to attract developers to create those apps, you need users ready to buy those apps. The price of the Vision Pro is still the ultimate limiting factor for its success.

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That's a whole lot of airtime for an autobiography. Hubris, much?

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You presume that the people in charge have the best interests of the government in mind when they make their decisions.

the_hoser

há 12 mesesdiscuss

This is it 100%. Zuckerberg and Musk aren't doing anything more awful than Page or Brin, but they're smart enough to understand that it's WAY easier to get away with sketchy stuff when you're not someone that the average person knows about. There's a huge amount of value in keeping your mouth shut.

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Now?

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    (void)this.ptr;  // Explicit deallocation, very readable

Except it's not very readable? That appears to be the same syntax used for casting.

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Not likely. In the PCMAG article, they stated that he said that he'd rather someone else do it.

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