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Comment #49219521
We are 7 years into a cycle of people baselessly claiming that "AI" will soon develop superhuman abilities and might just take over the world, before killing us all. I don't think …
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Comment #49214488
> the hard part is figuring out if the output makes sense. I think for Java specifically, it's also very much: which prompts make sense to write. Java has had a storied history of …
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Comment #49197721
In Denmark we briadly call this distinction "the good life" (det gode live). Children are usually made to write something (an essay mostly) about it during their last few years in …
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Comment #49192797
Triangulation usually requires an incicrle operation at some point, and that requires doing multiplication on the result of multiplication, without loss of precision. 32-bit triang…
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Comment #49188932
You don't really need a new protocol. If you trust your consumers, you can just give them a paginated "/events" endpoint and have them poll that. The delay will be variable, but tu…
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Comment #49159966
What amazing windows drivers have you sold?
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Comment #49156142
Thats not enough. This problem pops up everywhere people do CVE analysis. If a tertiary part of some library is hit by some arbitrary CVE, why should that affect the core functiona…
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Comment #49143681
> Usa exports tons of digital services that balance the trade ledger. In the accepted framework of global trade, where exchange value is either confounded or accepted as a use valu…
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Comment #49143622
> More productivity means less labour per productive cycle, hence less profit. That might give the reader the wrong impression. It is the same labour, but spread out over more comm…
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Comment #49070172
Exactly the same reason you should probably clean the rest of the house when you're selling it. Theoretically, the price of the house before cleaning should be equal to the value i…
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Comment #49062215
I live in Europe. We have in fact invented air conditioning here too, but I am not concerned with what we should be doing next year. That's a trivial matter. I'm concerned about wh…
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Comment #49056251
You never need to do that. git-reflog(1) is the most general solution if you will ever need.
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Comment #49055795
We should be careful not to confound a call to reduce with a call to eliminate. I don't think most people want to completely abolish modern air travel.
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Comment #49055431
> However this kind of statement was not released for crypto, or for the Internet. Yes they were. Educators have been talking about how access to the internet has affected their st…
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Comment #49025070
They're doing a real API instead of the magic annotation hell that JavaEE fans love. Thank god. I welcome this, because Java has a lot of need for a good, common, performant, and w…
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Comment #48984792
It's an article in an official publication. It's like a "letter to the editor" of a scientific journal, and has always been published alongside the more fact based research reports…
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Comment #48971568
> Without something like those ESP32 modules, this would be much more difficult. I don't disagree. It's important for us to recognize that we stand on the shoulders of giants, but …
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Comment #48969489
Ncurses is how people used to do it.
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Comment #48961195
I don't know what regulation you're talking about. Nothing of the sort is being proposed in the part of the world PHK occupies.
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Comment #48961098
Is anyone proposing age verification to file taxes? I'd hope you already have to provide some sort of stronger proof of identity to file a tax return anyway.
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Comment #48961082
Did you continue reading? His argument is exactly that, like all the previous model checkers, LLM's are going to give us some bugs for a while. Then that is going to stop. His argu…
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Comment #48960997
And please remember that Poul-Henning is an old-hat and well respected in the field, he's also not a product of American culture. Consider that he might have some useful insight th…
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Comment #48957394
I wouldn't be so categorical. This isn't really a kernel concern, and I could completely believe that there are some distros out there that pull in random packages based on hardwar…
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Comment #48957329
> Blizzard Entertainment You mean "Microsoft Xbox Activision Blizzard King Bethesda Mojang"? I wish you luck with your boycott.
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Comment #48957309
I would be very surprised if some random manager of some low level engineering team made this decision. It seems more likely this was a marketing or partner relations department id…