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koprulusector

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About koprulusector

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/koprulu_sector; my proof: https://keybase.io/koprulu_sector/sigs/ErO4Q7-u55_ArbQriBJbhUzrQo2ramkJBlekIhktCAA ]

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    Comment #40354919

    For those that didn’t take the time to read, this is about unikernels

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    Comment #38814466

    Laissez fair capitalism never works. I don’t understand this mindset. Looking at numbers in a vacuum. The labor market is literal wage slavery, with slaves being rented instead of …

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    Comment #37610557

    I just want to thank you for sharing your politics views. These are the same ideas and views, as an American, that I’m struggling with. It helps so much to know other people in oth…

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    Comment #37597681

    OP never mentioned conflict. He just said he zones out and ignores his wife.

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    Comment #37408500

    Just a thought, but could they be worried about privacy features of the iPhone? Whistle blowers, dissidents, etc., would benefit from iOS Security relative to Android. Then again, …

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    Comment #37393682

    Obligatory plug for the book “Bullshit Jobs.” But, what you’ve said is the mail on the head. What blows my mind is how much engineering effort we collectively put into consumerism …

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    Comment #37384718

    There’s should also be a tribble in there, somewhere.

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    Comment #37309495

    This post from today says that Llama 2 7b performs at the level of gpt-4, but 30x cheaper. https://www.anyscale.com/blog/llama-2-is-about-as-factually-...

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    Comment #37300188

    I think you're missing the point of the comment you're replying to, and of the story as a whole. Yes, human beings have agency and are ultimately responsible and accountable for th…

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    Comment #37113702

    How about both groups suffer far more than they should in any civilized, modern society. It’s not a contest which group is screwed over the most, let’s instead focus on why/how/wha…

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    Comment #37113678

    There are now officially 10 year car loans, 40 year mortgages.

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    Comment #37106518

    Vulkan doesn’t come into play here. Vulkan is a graphics API. This project is hardware GPU virtualization in QEMU / libvirt.

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    Comment #37067266

    The FDA has published draft industry guidance for clinical administration of psilocybin. The comment period ends on August 25, 2023 (16 days from now). The existing comments are in…

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    Comment #37048163

    Oooohhh neat! By the way, virtualedit takes a string, can be block, onemore, all, or none.

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    Comment #36717555

    Has it been proven that electrons decay?

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    Comment #36710157

    X is the client and server for rendering pixels on to a screen, which is mapped to one of more monitors. It provides the most basic, bare bones way to draw a window to the screen, …

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    Comment #36709856

    Random thought: should they be “decreasingly negative numbers,” since technically moving left of 0 is a decrease?

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    Comment #36709827

    This is how modern X applications look by default. It’s gtk, compositors, and window managers that add/change the aesthetics.

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    Comment #36666411

    Shouldn’t he have said “awake from 08:00 to 23:59 or 00:00,” instead of “08:00 AM to 12:00 PM?”

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    Comment #36545131

    You summed it up nicely. I followed a lot of tech stuff, and sci-fi, etc, stuff it’s hard to find on traditional social media. Following a tech Instagram will never be like seeing …

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    Comment #36453432

    Isn’t unit testing redundant when also using formal verification (e.g., coq)?

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    Comment #36344903

    That’s what I ask all the 401k nerds. You could literally die next week. Sure seems like a great way to live; when you’re young and in your prime, live below your means to max out …

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    Comment #36344601

    This is explicitly to authenticate payment, cryptographically sign/verify user consent. It’s about authentication and less about the paying.