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oneofone.dev 1y ago

Securing Neovim with Firejail

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www.eff.org 1y ago

Google Is on the Wrong Side of History

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Cleo from Math StackExchange's Identity Has Been Revealed?

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Sabine Hossenfelder: I was asked to keep this confidential

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The Dome Paradox: A Loophole in Newton's Laws

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

I Restored a 1983 PDP-11 Unix Powerhouse–and You Can Log In Right Now

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

(Neo)Vim Made Me a Better Software Developer

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The new Vim project – What has changed after Bram [video]

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Tesla AI Delivered. FSD 13 Is Mind Blowing

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The crisis in physics is real: Science is failing

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

How is this Website so fast?

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

My Kickstarter failed, so I open sourced it

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

The Most Valuable File Format You've Never Heard Of

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Prosthetic sixth finger, so you can claim any pictures of you are AI generated [video]

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

A Systems-Minded Approach to Creating a Music Player Application – Andrew Kelley

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Fire in Amish Land, Barn Raising with Incredible Speed [video]

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github.com 1y ago

Zelda 64 Recompiled: A Revolution in N64 Native Ports for PC

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www.tomshardware.com 2y ago

New SCALE tool enables CUDA applications to run on AMD GPUs

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www.androidpolice.com 2y ago

YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads

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www.hivesystems.com 2y ago

Are Your Passwords in the Green?

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www.theregister.com 2y ago

Microsoft teases deepfake AI that's too good to release

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Elon Musk Threatened with Arrest

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

There's a HUMAN inside Tesla FSD 12.3

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Tesla FSD V12 flawless right-of-way negotiations

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Record Quantum Computation: Millions of Years Down to Seconds

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

New Idea Solves Three Physics Mysteries at Once: Post Quantum Gravity

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Why Rust libraries may never exist

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arxiv.org 2y ago

MathSensei: A Tool-Augmented Large Language Model for Mathematical Reasoning

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Compact Disks Make Comeback: Memory Could Exceed Petabytes

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These companies are in bed with the government, you're not going to be saved by any legislation. Many people on this site supported Google censoring the Covid anti-vax idiots, but it should have made it very clear that Google was working at the behest of the government. They're in bed together; the government gets to do an end-run around the constitution, and Google gets to rely on special government privileges and protection. Win-win.

Instead it is being used to make everything it touches worse.

Your bias is showing through.

For what it's worth, it has made everything I use it for, much better. I can search the web for things on the net in mere seconds, where previously it could often take hours of tedious searching and reading.

And it used to be that Youtube comments were an absolute shit show of vitriol and bickering. A.I. moderation has made it so that now it's often a very pleasant experience chatting with people about video content.

And shovelling leads to actual muscles in our arms. People said that calculators would be the end of mathematical intelligence too, but it turns out to be largely a non-issue. People might not be as adept at calculating proper change in their heads today, but does it have a real-world consequence of note? Not really.

My guess is that guys being replaced by the steam shovel said the same thing about the quality of holes being dug into the ground. "No machine is ever going to be able to dig a hole as lovingly or as accurately as a man with a shovel". "The digging machines consume way too much energy" etc.

I'm pretty sure all the hand wringing about A.I. is going to fade into the past in the same way as every other strand of technophobia has before.

But once an algorithm to drag the colours back in-gamut was applied, would the lost perceptual uniformity still be a problem practically speaking, with DCI-P3 monitors?

Very interesting. Is this just a limitation of our current hardware? How much of this problem would still exist if everyone had a wider gamut monitor, say full DCI-P3? That still doesn't cover the full gamut of Oklch, but would it make the problem practically disappear?

There was nobody named Sophie Wilson at the time the ARM ISA was being developed, and the reason the docu-drama was called Micro Men, is because there was nobody who appeared to be a woman amongst the key players at the time. It's not a good example of women's contribution to the field.

US AI Action Plan 12 months ago

Perhaps, but it is a historical fact that religions often define themselves on their moral superiority. Anyone can claim that their position is the one that is morally correct. If you just assert it without any supporting evidence, you're doing the same thing religions have been guilty of for a lot of history. In any case, it's not useful in the context of a discussion like this one, where it is little more than a blanket dismissal and adds nothing to the argument.

Can you please post a link to high quality images of your own fingerprints? It should be fine, probably nobody has the technology to make them show up on a threatening letter mailed to the government, or anything like that.

Indeed. But the premise of the objection, was that it is understandable, and a shame that we're not putting such understanding before implementing these systems.

If you're right, and it's essentially impossible to understand (and we still want to advance these technologies) we will have to do so in some degree of ignorance anyway.

We see much worse than that all the time. We go to movies that portray horror, torture, murder, depravity, slavery, etc. There are books that contain all those. There are tattoos on people that depict scenes of death and satanism. We put these in their proper place and tolerate them, many people even enjoy them. There are some efforts to keep them out of the public eye and away from children, but it's quite easy to see incidental advertisements, posters, or discussions of all of them.

We should treat social media the same way. There should be a way to filter what you don't want to see, that's your choice. But we shouldn't try to stamp out people saying what they want, or decide what other people should filter for themselves.

Most people who say things like you quoted, aren't killers, i'd guess that most of them aren't even racist. A good fraction of them are just immature, or social outcasts, that are desperate to get a rise out of people. If we could all turn down our reactivity, there'd be less of a draw, for those troublemakers to spew their nonsense.

What we should be the most on guard against, are the unintended consequences of trying to censor this stuff. People shouldn't have their political and social voices limited, just because a relatively few people are disruptive like this.

you're building intelligence without understanding why it works.

But if we do a good enough job of that, it should then be able to explain to us why it works (after it does some research/science on itself). Yes?

Had almost the exact same thing happened here with our clothes dryer. Tech said it was worth replacing the motor on our 20-year-old model, even though it was 70% the price of a new dryer. Said the new ones just aren't built to last, and our restored one would last another 20 years.

We also still use the same 40 year old Coleman camping stove every summer, while other campers only get a few years out of much newer models.

But recently we found a happy exception, when we replaced our Contigo spill-proof coffee mugs (with a button you press to drink). They were always prone to the mechanism getting gross with milk scum, and were very hard to clean. The new models have an updated design that encloses the mechanism and keeps it much easier to keep clean. The metal seems heavier and high-quality, and the top lip has been folded over so it's not sharp like the old model. They've actually improved them a fair bit, for about the same price as the older ones.

It's really not clear in the article. But I _think_ the gains are to be had because you can do the in-memory updating during the time that the WAL is being written to disk (rather than waiting for it to flush before proceeding). So I'm guessing the protocol as presented, is actually missing a key step:

    Write intent record (async)
    Perform operation in memory
    Write completion record (async)
    * * Wait for intent and completion to be flushed to disk * *
    Return success to client

For anyone interested in reading about CGP in Rust, here is the website:

https://contextgeneric.dev/

Just a FYI from their main page:

As of 2025, CGP remains in its early stages of development. While promising, it still has several rough edges, particularly in areas such as documentation, tooling, debugging techniques, community support, and ecosystem maturity.

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At this stage, CGP is best suited for early adopters and potential contributors who are willing to experiment and help shape its future.

It will IMO also be quite difficult to combine stackless coroutines with this approach

Maybe there will be unforeseen problems, but they have promised to provide stackless coroutines; since it's needed for the WASM target, which they're committed to supporting.

Combined with the dynamic dispatch

Dynamic dispatch will only be used if your program employs more than one IO implementation. For the common case where you're only using a single implementation for your IO, dynamic dispatch will be replaced with direct calls.

It's quite courageous calling this approach "without any compromise" when it has not been tried in the wild yet.

You're right. Although it seems quite close to what "Jai" is purportedly having success with (granted with an implicit IO context, rather than an explicitly passed one). But it's arguable if you can count that as being in the wild either...

A lot of the anti-vax people felt like Covid was a made up and didn't warrant being called an emergency. Not saying they were right, but the point is, once you decide something is an emergency, all of a sudden, you're willing to put up with a lot of government intrusion, for the "good of society". That's the same thing the Trumper's _think_ they're doing, too. It doesn't feel made up to them.

I think I understand what an oxymoron is and does

You clearly don't, or you wouldn't have mistakenly thought that phrase represented an oxymoron.

"The Air India flight 171 passenger survived just fine after visiting the hospital."

No need to introduce a completely arbitrary sentence in some attempt to justify your mistake. Just accept that you were wrong and try not to make that mistake again. It's easy.