stonemetal12

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Comment · 9 months ago
They probably need to account for parents allowing kids to use their account, so account age can be a factor but not an automatic pass.
Comment · 9 months ago
Something I recently found out about ARM Cortex M0s, they are small enough and cheap enough that they get used in USB cables to handle protocol negotiation between devices.

Given that the moon lander had a 1Mhz processor and 4kb of ram means we landed on the moon with the compute power of a Vape or USB cable. Wild times indeed.

Comment · 9 months ago
For non 3d graphics people AABB -> Axis Aligned Bounding Box.
Comment · 9 months ago
Using the data provided, memory safety issues (use-after-free, memory-leak, buffer-overflow, null-deref) account for 67% of their bugs. If we include refcount It is just over 80%.
Comment · 9 months ago
>receptionist answering phones and scanning paper records in

They were also converting paper records to digital. Asking the data entry person where the data is or how to find paper record xyz in the digital system doesn't seem odd.

Comment · 10 months ago
On Android, Gmail reports as being under 200 MB. So I agree, they probably include way to much for portability.
Comment · 10 months ago
> Even "hacker", which started out meaning only breaking into computer systems

No. The Etymology of Hacker in the technical scene started at MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club in the late 1950s/early 1960s, "hack" described clever, intricate solutions, pranks, or experiments with technology.

A hacker is one who made those clever solutions, pranks, and technology experiments. "Hacker News" is trying to take it back from criminal activity.

Comment · 10 months ago
> I didn’t feel confident enough to evaluate what the agent was doing

So don't. It is vibe coding, not math class. As long as it looks like it works then all good.

Comment · 10 months ago
It is kind of like how modern art doesn't mean modern today. It means that time period where people called art "modern". Novel meant new as in "novel science results". It was used differentiate prose (the new style at the time) from epic poetry back in the 16 hundreds and stuck. How that translates to Russian IDK.
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Comment · 10 months ago
>My pet theory is that the younger generation never realized Publisher existed

For most it didn't. The non 365 Office came in 3 tiers Student, business, and enterprise. Publisher only came with enterprise.

Comment · 10 months ago
Fiction is I have a hypothesis, and since it is not easy to test I will make up the results too. Learning anything from it is a lesson in futility and confirmation bias.
Comment · 10 months ago
Because good code checks pre conditions and returns early if they are not met.
Comment · 10 months ago
So? At 10M revenue what are the chances they don't have an accountant who does their taxes and already has all the relevant info? Asking their accountant to crank out one extra form is not going to break the bank.
Comment · 11 months ago
Would that work for LLMs though? They hypothetically trained on news papers from the second half of the data so they have knowledge of "future" events.

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