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Most of the big OSS AI codebases (LLM and Diffusion, at least) have code to work on any GPU, not just nVidia GPUs, now. There's a slight performance benefit to sticking with nVidia…

UTF-16 is also just as complicated as UTF-8 requiring multibyte characters to cover the entirety of Unicode, so it doesn't avoid the issue you're complaining about for the newest l…

Replying to this one since you apparently can't reply to a comment that has been flagged. Why was the grandparent flagged? Google's S2 library has been around for more than a decad…

This article touched on a point that I feel is very relevant: unexpected show cancellations, apparently now happening for Apple TV+, as well. Netflix and Disney+ trained me to not …

You're moving the goalposts. Your original post had zero mention of unsafe Rust. You have now latched onto this as somehow proving Rust is less safe than Python and Java despite al…

Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41720769 You can absolutely opt-out of lifetime management in Rust. It's not usually talked about because you sacrifice performance…

`drop` is an optimization. You never have to call it if you don't want to, Rust will automatically free memory for you when the variable goes out of scope. Rust won't let you do th…

Agreed. My personal experience is Rust is more safe than Python as you get runtime errors when your interpreted Python code has a type error in it, but that's a compiler error in R…

I personally only use AMD (excepting one test machine), but Intel does have the best single-thread performance[1] so if you have some crufty code that you can't parallelize in any …

The suggestion to use AR glasses with this keyboard computer feels very Ghost-in-the-Shell cyberpunk to me. Stepping onto a train and you find some guy with glasses sitting near th…

That would also be true with analog film when you start reaching the film grain size.

Please refer to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39551017

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I am just clarifying why I consider it impossible. Production is not some place you're supposed to cowboy code, but instead have a reasonable expectation that you will be able to c…

It is impossible if you're being responsible. You don't choose a technology that could potentially block you from solving problems in the future unless it brings a huge value to yo…

The year in this link is very important. In the following year, the Elm team decided to not pay attention to the maxim "perfect is the enemy of good" and crippled their FFI story, …

This feels relevant to the conversation: https://twitter.com/BigSpiderBack/status/864309383106240512/...

> That's a problem with all encryption anyways. Inspection has to be done at the end-user's device. So I don't think it's fair to hold that against S/MIME. I don't think that has t…

I think we agree[0] on this. Email encryption isn't ever going to be a thing because of the way email itself works. But email signing would help a lot. I still don't think GPG does…

Kinda. But S/MIME has its own problems[0], mostly related to you as a recipient being unable to choose who is authorized to send you encrypted email (and so spam and malware filter…

Is anyone else kinda hoping that GPG/PGP loses enough respect in the tech community that something fresh comes along that really solves a lot of the UX and security issues they hav…

The messaging to the user should be actionable, so the exact filename going to them doesn't make any sense, but giving them a clear sentence of what exactly went wrong and what sho…

And you don't think anti-fraud teams use error logs triggered by users as a signal for potentially banning them? These teams are incentivized to eliminate fraudulent accounts that …

That's just security-by-obscurity and doesn't actually buy you anything except a speed bump for a hacker. It was a bogus argument from proprietary software vendors against open sou…

Not with a "White Hat" on, I think. If a user who is not you uses a browser using WEI (implicitly approving of this attestation tech) and connects to a website that uses WEI, that'…