optionalsquid

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Comment · 19 days ago
It looks like 18 of the 30 issues listed in table 4 had already been fixed when that paper was released, and there is activity in most of the rest. One was recently flagged as being fixed by -Znext-solver, and another has the submitter write that it is fixed, but the issue is not closed. And that's before you consider the impact of the individual issues; how many of the remaining issues impact "real" code?

So I don't think it's fair to claim that "no-one cared".

Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Putting aside whether or not being an "associate member" counts as being "half in" the EU, of which there were already examples during Brexit, it should not be forgotten that the UK did not want to be "half in" the EU. The people who wanted to remain in the EU probably did want to stay "half in", but they did not set the agenda, so what the UK got was a hard exit
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not so sure that the argument that some humans will survive would placate anyone who is worried about a catastrophic outcome from AI development. You could make the same argument for climate collapse or global nuclear war, but I also don't think that's gonna make anyone feel better about those scenarios
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Comment · 1 month ago
While a Steam account is supposed to be personal and non-transferable, it obviously isn't so in practice. So unless you provide additional information to prove that the owner is still the same person, then it is probably not sufficient to prove the current owner's age.

Looking at the "marketplace" G2A, about 15% of the Steam games sold there are sold in the form of accounts: Instead of a key or a gift, you get a login and a password for an account owning the game being sold. Making the account age a form of identification would no doubt also create a market for aged accounts without games.

Comment · 1 month ago
That was conclusively disproven by Schwarzenegger et al., 1994.
Comment · 1 month ago
How does memory usage compare between your two runs?

The benchmarks report 687M for their run of zstd, and 12178M and 18301M for the two runs of BZip3. Which itself is a bit eyebrow raising

Comment · 2 months ago
> The only advantage of uv is to have support for parallel async extraction. If pip extracted multiple files/wheels in parallel without being blocked by the GIL, pip could easily match or outcompete uv.

That sounds like it would be relatively easy to demonstrate: You could tweak uv to perform downloads/extractions sequentially and then compare its runtime with pip. Has any such comparison been done?

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
There is no "next step" in evolution, nor any concern for what is or is not "detrimental for us as a spieces".

Evolution is much simpler, at its core: Is autism heritable and do autistic people leave behind more viable offspring than the non-autistic? Then the proportion of autistic people can be expected to grow, otherwise it most likely won't

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Is that flip-flopping or just different developers having different preferences? Those who complain now would have had no reason to complain back then, and vice versa
Comment · 2 months ago
What do you mean that it ruins integrity?

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