johannes1234321

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Comment · 1 day ago
An article like "I don't have much of a problem and the folding aspect is cute" doesn't engage in any way and currently there are mostly experimental apps and not yet the absolute killer app.
Comment · 2 days ago
Well, if they drive away interesting questions or interesting answers that matters, too.

The problem is that measuring the unknown is tough.

Comment · 2 days ago
> So users wanted it how it was.

A group of active users wanted it that way. Some other group of users didn't necessarily understand the power mechanisms, others would would have liked to be active users were driven away.

It's however tough to know what a quiet diverse majority would have liked.

Comment · 4 days ago
Compiler output is somewhat deterministic and there is a logical path (even if caused by a compiler bug) and not dealing with it will definitely(!) lead to a broken product. Also at least I rarely read the full output, but I have an intuition, as the structure is consistent, what to look for in the output.

LLM output may or may not be relevant, may or may not tell me something new and by the way it is structure is often hard to quickly oarse for the relevant piece in a wall of text.

Comment · 7 days ago
For code it also has tools to verify correctness. From specifications to compilers and tests.

With humans language, sometimes "wrong" is in fact "right."

Comment · 8 days ago
I recently played a little bit with quite naive and simple prompts like "convert this DOS game to run using SDL without dosbox" and in quite a few cases it made a good plan for porting using a custom tailored x86 16bit real mode emulator and then hooking IO on modern foundation and then having it port to some modern language (a few experiments in C++, some Rust) For some games I didn't get to a working state, but for many, especially around transition to VGA, where EGA/CGA had been supported too, they seem to have somewhat isolated and simple graphics for this to work with an okayish amount of tokens.
Comment · 10 days ago
> Or perhaps we should dial back on how many firefighters we keep employed at all times.

When there is a fire you still need enough at location in time.

The fact that there are enough in short distance with good equipment is one of the things which causes the low number of big fires: once the mandatory detector goes of for a little fire they are on site before it becomes big.

Comment · 17 days ago
They became big, cause they had their customers first. They were tough to negotiate good prices and put customer experience quite forward. Any complaint and they replaced stuff, not many questions asked.

They then invested heavily in logistics, so now they could replace their support to annoying bots and use their market position to increase their margin.

Comment · 19 days ago
When there is "legitimate purpose" there isn't reason to as soon items are put in the shopping cart this has to be tracked (be it session in url, cookie, local storage, ...) and no consent is needed.

The exact definition of "legitimate purpose" is unspecific (which is important to be able to adapt to development of new services) which leads to some lawyers being careful.

I also claim that some lobby groups promote having too many and too big consent banners to move blame from tracking companies to the EU ("stupid EU forcing all those banners!") in order to reverse the policy on tracking, which seems to have some effect.

Comment · 20 days ago
I assume that's only their own data centers, not where they rent space in other data centers.
Comment · 22 days ago
The reason is that probably the coffee machine vendor doesn't know what is going on. They probably got that module from.some third party, like "hey, you want to cheapen your smart coffee machine? - take out network stack!" and then they don't have to hire developers doing all the work to implement a network configuration system and all that stuff, but have a simple API for the App telling you coffee is ready
Comment · 23 days ago
The scanning is malicious.

The frequency etc. leading to 1TB is probably ignorance, but that doesn't matter as it is consequence of malicious scanning either way.

Comment · 24 days ago
Yeah, bombs are found regularly. A special case was about 15 years ago when there was a bomb in Munich they couldn't diffuse and which in consequence has been exploded purposly right in the city: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dJwE2wLJKKc

That was a quite impressive experience. Windows in the surrounding area broke and straw, which they used to damlen the shockwave, caught fire and was thrown around.

Comment · 25 days ago
So it's probably missing features which should make a good 1.0 mailer.
Comment · 27 days ago
I am not big in F1, but my understanding is that the primary goal is to have the driver be more relevant over the car/firmware producers.

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