calcopiritus
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
Someone on Microsoft probably needed an excuse for their pay increase.
“I rebuilt/had the idea to rebuilt the taskbar” sounds a lot better to managers than “I maintained the taskbar”.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 2 weeks ago:
Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 weeks ago:
One of the techniques I’ve seen it’s like a “password”. So for example if you write a lot the phrase “aunt bridge sold the orangutan potatoes” and then a bunch of nonsense after that, then you’re likely the only source of that phrase. So it learns that after that phrase, it has to write nonsense.
I don’t see how this would be very useful, since then it wouldn’t say the phrase in the first place, so the poison wouldn’t be triggered.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 2 weeks ago:
the shape of the gap is almost the same as the peak in “other”. So that peak is probably “windows but we messed up with data collection” or “some browser in windows changed its user agent”.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 2 weeks ago:
How dare they collect data and display it in an accurate manner! They should just start by putting Linux at 50% and then move the lines a little bit.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 weeks ago:
That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.
In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.
The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.
Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 4 weeks ago:
The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.
Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.
I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
Simple.
- I’m reading tab A
- Tab A links to tab B
- Open B in new tab, since I know I’m going back to tab A soon.
- Go to tab A
- Go to tab B again
- I’m finished reading tab B so I close it.
Notice how I didn’t close tab A. Because at that point, I was not in tab A, therefore I don’t think about that tab much so I don’t even think if I should close it or not. Tab A will probably stay open until I decide to clean my tabs when there are 50+ tabs on them.
Another common scenario:
- I’m reading tab C
- Something comes up that makes me either switch to another task or shut down the computer
From this point there are 2 paths: either I never resume the task I opened tab C for, so it stays there for a long time, or I resume the task when tab C is too far up (I use vertical tabs), so I open tab D that is the same webpage as tab C. When I finish I close tab D, but tab C remains for a long time.
- Comment on What are your favourite ps2 multiplayer games? 5 weeks ago:
Dragon ball: Budokai Tenkaichi
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 5 weeks ago:
I see you ignored my entire comment.
I don’t know what is more explicit about expect. Unwrap is as explicit as it gets without directly calling panic!, it’s only 1 abstraction level away. It’s literally the same as expect, but without a string argument. It’s probably top 10 functions most commonly used in rust, every rust programmer knows what unwrap does.
Any code reviewer should be able to see that unwrap and flag it as a potential issue. It’s not a weird function with an obscure panic side effect. It can only do 2 things: panic or not panic, it can be implemented in a single line. 3 lines if the panic! Is on a different line to the if statement.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 5 weeks ago:
An unhanded error will always result on a panic (or a halt I guess). You cannot continue the execution of the program without handling an error (remember, just ignoring it is a form of handling). You either handle the error and continue execution, or you don’t and stop execution.
A panic is very far from a segfault. In apparent result, it is the same. However, a panic is a controlled stopping of the program’s execution. A segfault is a forced execution stop by the OS.
But the OS can only know that it has to segfault if a program accesses memory outside its control.
If the program accesses memory that it’s under it’s control, but is outside bounds, then the program will not stop the execution, and this is way worse.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 month ago:
Replace uncaught exception for unhanded error.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 month ago:
“unwrap should not exist” is true as long as you don’t want to ever use the language. If you actually want to use it, you need it. At least while developing.
Some values cannot have a default value. And some cases it’s preferable to panic even if it has a default value.
unwrap is not the problem. Cloudflare’s usage is.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 1 month ago:
It’s really hard to do without Rc (or similar) or unsafe.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 month ago:
Data storage devices are the last items you wanna buy second hand though. A drive failing could mean much more than just having to buy a new one.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 month ago:
I’ll remember this post when someone manages to make a human fly by tieing a cow to their feet.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 month ago:
No it is not. It is the same as saying you can’t have coal energy production without production of CO2. At most, you can capture that CO2 and do something with it instead of releasing to the atmosphere.
You can have energy production without CO2. Like solar or wind, but that is not coal energy production. It’s something else. In order to remove CO2 from coal energy production, we had to switch to different technologies.
In the same way, if you want to not have hallucinations, you should move away from LLMs.
- Comment on sucked in losers 2 months ago:
Heh. Ironic.
- Comment on Yo, fire fox what the fuck? 2 months ago:
This is a windows/hollow knight issue.
Firefox has no way of knowing that you’re playing a full screen game.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
This comment was surprisingly easy to read. Definitely easier than if it were for the “th” sound
- Comment on Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency 2 months ago:
The problem with that is that reviewing takes time. Valuable maintainer time.
Curl faced this issue. Hundreds of AI slop “security vulnerabilities” were submitted to curl. Since they are security vulnerabilities, they can’t just ignore them, they had to read every one of them, only to find out they weren’t real. Wasting a bunch of time.
Most of the slop was basically people typing into chatgpt “find me a security vulnerability of a project that has a bounty for finding one” and just copy-pasting whatever it said in a bug report.
With simple MRs at least you can just ignore the AI ones an priorize the human ones if you don’t have enough time. But that will just lead to AI slop not being marked as such in order to skip the low-prio AI queue.
- Comment on Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency 2 months ago:
I hope they are prepare for the AI slop DDoS. Curl wasn’t, and they didn’t even state they would welcome AI contributions.
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 2 months ago:
Pokemon uranium is playable on PC, I don’t think it works in consoles. Played it long time ago so I don’t remember how good it is though.
I don’t know how easy it would be to find though since Nintendo shut it down.
- Comment on People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off. 2 months ago:
The difference between treason and a revolution is which side wins at the end.
Just make sure you’re enough people doing it.
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 2 months ago:
I don’t think anyone denies that whatever happens after you no longer pass your genes around has no evolutionary effect.
Whether helping your offspring is evolutionarily helpful or not might be debatable (I don’t see how it would not be helpful though)
Even in beings that not form societies it has an impact. Example:
You reproduce, then instantly die. Now your offspring have more available resources around them, since you no longer consume them
Or, your reproduce and you become much stronger, but not aggressive towards non-predators. Now predators are less likely to be near you, and your offspring are probably near you. Therefore, they probably benefit from having less predators around.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 2 months ago:
You’re not stupid for it. Since it makes sense.
However, due to the way we “calculate” the sizes of infinite sets, you are wrong.
Even integers and all integers are the same infinity.
But reals are “bigger” than integers.
- Comment on We're all going home early today 3 months ago:
My microwave has a sticker so you don’t heat liquids without a teaspoon. I’ve heated milk in it every day for years, every time with a teaspoon in it. It also heats up faster with it.
- Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world? 3 months ago:
You can spend millions on building power lines over oceans and such. Or you could just spend that money on building your own power production. Might be more expensive (or not), but you get to control the production.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 3 months ago:
When 2 people that know a language want to talk shit about someone else that doesn’t know the language, the first thing they’ll do is speak that language.
It’s not an unreasonable fear at all.