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Comment · 7 days ago
Sure, but on android, there's just a setting that effectively says "Play on start up"

Not sure if there's something for the apple equivalent.

Comment · 7 days ago
That's part of sustained demand. The current spike seems to mostly be due to developments in Iran/the Straight of Hormuz.

This is, however, one of the reasons Germany is hit so hard by the current spike, I'll give you that.

Comment · 8 days ago
At least on the android side, that's a setting. Not sure about the defaults though
Comment · 8 days ago
To be fair, the current spike in prices definitely wasn't from anything europeans were able to vote on...
Comment · 8 days ago
When you know you're looking for an exploit, it's easily verifiable and you can iterate fairly rapidly and get fast feedback, you can just have a test that you don't get a 403 back or something. LLMs, in general, seem good at problems like this.

When you're developing, there's a ton of degrees of freedom, and security encompasses only some of them. To be sure, if you set up a quickly verifiable test for every security flaw, you could probably get LLMs to satisfy them somehow, but there's a lot of those, and it's not necessarily practical.

Comment · 9 days ago
I mean, if you want to be at that point
Comment · 11 days ago
They said race conditions and specifically exempted data races. You can absolutely write race conditions in rust, they're a logic bug.

As an example, let's say you have two functions A and B. A only works properly if B has never ran for some reason. Let's say they both accept a reference to a value C, and B changes C's value somehow. Because this is rust, we can't have data races, so we wrap it in an ArcMutex or what have you. That doesn't impact the ordering of A and B at all.

If we spawn threads that execute A and B at the same time, it's up to the scheduler if A functions properly.

Comment · 15 days ago
Dude, like everything tanked today.
Comment · 1 month ago
This seems to be that there's just so many degrees of freedom, that there's a pretty reasonable chance on any day that you're in a situation where nobody has been before. Or as PG put it once, my job is to think thoughts nobody has ever had before.

That being said, that doesn't mean the majority of the situations you're in are completely novel, just that there's a reasonable chance of at least one occuring.

Comment · 1 month ago
> there's a whole quote about the 'arc of history bending towards justice' but it's not an inevitability

I think it probably is inevitable, but it probably happens the reverse of the direction that the quote implies.

That is to say, I think our definition of justice bends towards whoever wins historical conflicts.

Comment · 2 months ago
You're not wrong, but something can work well enough to still be useful despite falling short of the idea of a proof or any formal definition.

Let's say that 95% of individual humans can pass it and only 2% of bots. For someone maintaining a website, who has to decide between using this system and shutting down their site because of the increased costs, that may very well be good enough

Comment · 3 months ago
> Compare an early magic staple, "Demonic Tutor" with https://bossminis.co.uk/cdn/shop/products/881e5922-b464-4a1a... with just the box of one of the latest sets: https://unicorncards.co.uk/images/thumbs/0246004.jpeg to get a sense of the vector.

I mean, you're comparing a black card to the set as a whole? And you think that's fair?

Here are 3 of the top 6 black commanders:

https://cards.scryfall.io/display/front/d/6/d67be074-cdd4-41...

https://cards.scryfall.io/display/front/4/f/4f087b1c-97e0-43...

https://cards.scryfall.io/display/front/7/2/72e4548b-c171-4f...

The culture of magic (and nerd-dom in general) has definitely changed, I won't argue that. But when you use an example like this, it kinda undercuts your entire point.

Comment · 3 months ago
I don't think you're committing career suicide. I've seen people get serviceable results out of it, and it always involves reading the code in depth. Reading the code being slower than writing it, they're almost never getting a speed up.

That being said, the better coders I've seen aren't looking for a speed up, they're generally looking for something to bounce ideas off of, or to get a first draft going to defeat writer's block or something (I guess this is technically a speed up, but not the way people mean when they describe slinging tokens around). It's generally to wind up at a better solution at the end than to get a sustained speed up (which seems to only be possible in boilerplate heavy domains, but those were previously slowed down by the boilerplate and are really only coming up to speed with everything else, at significant cost).

Comment · 4 months ago
Their post said that load growth had a mitigating effect on prices. Not letting the data centers come online would, presumably, result in higher prices.

That seems slightly weird, but that sounds like there's some large fixed costs that they can spread over the entire subscriber base, so the extra data centers are picking up some of those fixed costs.

Comment · 5 months ago
> I just read what it produces.

I don't think that's average right now.

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