vrighter
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- Comment on I need to wake up early 1 month ago:
yes, but you don’t set it from your phone.
- Comment on I need to wake up early 1 month ago:
no, you can’t
- Comment on I need to wake up early 1 month ago:
so you can set alarms on you phone. And have the vibrator vibrate on time. duh!
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
it never knows what it’s saying
- Comment on MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says 1 month ago:
not stole. Were given.
If code is law, then they just found the right way to ask. And the code gave the money to them, because they asked nicely.
- Comment on Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards 1 month ago:
and how, pray tell, do you think contactless cards work?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 1 month ago:
sometimes it takes minutes to load the calendar, only to still fail
- Comment on SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI 1 month ago:
because of ai stuff. For these kinds of things, they are perfectly happy to advertise unprecedented 99% accuracy rates, when in reality, non ai tools are held to much higher standard. If the code I wrote had a consistent, perpetual 1% failure rate (even after fixing it, multiple times), I’d have been fired long ago.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 1 month ago:
it’s all the same web 2.0 bullshit, but for anything with crypto in its name
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 month ago:
have you seen the show Severance? This is exactly the premise of that show.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
if you don’t play certain multiplayer games that use invasive anti-cheat software, then you really should give it a go! It’s gotten to the point where I first buy games and then worry about compatibility. The vast majorityic just work with minor tweaks at the most (setting some launch arguments usually)
- Comment on evangelism 1 month ago:
spooky action at a distance!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
so they’re the stubborn ones who keep wanting to make gnome different for difference’s sake? If so, good riddance. Maybe gnome can start working on becoming my de of choice again
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
both have 16 gb ram. Older desktop, newer laptop, so cpu performance is roughly equal. Both use an ssd
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
in the time it takes my work windows laptop to get from a login screen to a usable desktop, with the cpu idle, I rebooted and signed in to my linux desktop, and performed a restart. Several times.
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 2 months ago:
hydrogen is not a fuel. You have to make it, and you always get less energy out than you put into doing so.
It’s a very inefficient battery. On a vehicle that has no weight concerns.
- Comment on Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records 3 months ago:
alas, we’re still a couple of decaes a way from being fast enough to compile it in the first place
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
because problems in the bank’s software are the bank’s responsibility. If they lose my money, it’s their responsibility to get it back. Cryptocurrencies are the exact opposite, by design. If you’re fucked, you’ee fucked. unless of course half the participants decide to fork, half don’t and you end up with two “currencies” out of thin air.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
Simple, it’s not. If it were, they’d have been using them for decades (blockchains were invented in the 70s).
The consensus algorithm, which is not the blockchain itself, was invented later. But banks don’t need to reach concensus with themselves. They all maintain their own data, and heavily guard it. So the only bad actor they could have is themselves. And they banks all keep watch each other.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
so I put my trust in software instead. And by extension its developers. You’re saying of all people, we should trust some programmers above all else. You know, the “move fast and break things” guys.
As a programmer myself, this thought is both terrifying and hilarious.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
blockchains do not do jack shit with reconciliating records.
- Comment on With AI looming, is there still space for new coders? 4 months ago:
lol. Of course there is. Ai cannot code. it’s a glorified autocomplete that mostly gets things subtly wrong. So you’ll spend more time trying to understand the code you didn’t write and look for any bugs, than if you had written and understood it yourself.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 4 months ago:
that doing more work, takes more time.
Gamers are especially guilty of this.
"that 2013 game runs at a smooth 60 fps. This medern game running at quadruple the resolution with raytracing sometimes dips to 58 fps on the same hardware. Devs must be lazy, they just need to add OPTIMIZATION to the game
- Comment on Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller 4 months ago:
i do use json instead of yaml precisely for the reasons you mentioned. That was my original point in the first place that json does not have these problems. something must have been lost in transmission
- Comment on Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller 4 months ago:
cut out a random piece of your document. is it a partial or a complete document?
paste it somewhere else in the document. you have to fix the indentation because if not then the document won’t work or mean something completely different
- Comment on Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller 4 months ago:
because of the cut and paste problem. It works in json.
- Comment on Everything about TOML format - Orchard Dweller 4 months ago:
write json with comments. Use a yaml parser.
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 4 months ago:
you have to stay 9 feet away as the shockwave expands. That’s the trick
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 5 months ago:
time for the Voight-Kampff test to become a reality
- Comment on Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake 5 months ago:
as a dev, seeing you conflate “async” with “multithreaded” is painful.
And what you’re saying is just not true anyway.