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Now that I see this in the light of the recent sama article, I wonder whether the point of the "it's too dangerous" rhetoric is to enable "Open" AI to avoid open-sourcing the weigh…

https://somethingdoneright.net

rad! sponsored

It's the first section in the article - "I have implemented manual memory management via cpp/new and cpp/delete. This uses jank's GC allocator (currently bdwgc), rather than malloc…

When you’re debugging, especially a complex system, especially during an outage or postmortem, understanding when your commands executed relative to when your log lines appeared is…

fun fact - this person (jcs) also founded lobste.rs

This is the thesis of Bullshit Jobs!

When you use a tap-to-pay card to enter the subway, what happens? There’s some kind of communication over NFC, but after that, how does the OMNY system talk to e.g. the Visa networ…

I love the crossover with the Prince of Persia, which was also an early computer labor of love.

What was the original?

Wait, this busking happened on the way TO work and not the way home? No wonder why no one stopped!

Thinking through the implications of building batteries for homes and coordinating them for demand response programs a la Tesla Powerwall. Distributed battery storage can help alle…

A "prior art" section is especially useful for people evaluating your library!

pictures please! :)

Electron can save you a lot of time but that doesn't mean your app has to be slow. https://keminglabs.com/blog/building-a-fast-electron-app-wit...

Immer [0][1] seems like a really serious attempt at bringing high-quality persistent data structures to C++. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q [1]: https://sinusoid.…

A 150m walk on a bald Texas street does indeed sound miserable. A tree-lined one, though, can be quite nice: https://twitter.com/brent_bellamy/status/1411133447062441990

A nitpick but arguably an important one for your point - this article argues that the efficiency cores aren’t for “browsing the web / watching YouTube / checking emails” but for no…

It might be already happening? https://twitter.com/AriaCallaghan/status/1375154205233721348

That paper is really frustrating - it seems to be written for laypeople like us, but conflates the theory that humans made a containment mistake and COVID escaped from a lab so (we…

On iOS now, if you’re setting up a new device, Signal will prompt you to transfer your messages from your old device. Not exactly a backup feature but it covers one use case (I don…

Isn’t freezing/lagging after a couple of minutes of use a symptom of an ailing software ecosystem, not a criticism of the hardware?

Not a precise answer, but they show video of a figure skater in the product reveal video and it looks usable! Link with timestamp: https://youtu.be/A9qrURPAtnY?t=109

What's the refresh rate?