@DogsB Why are people celebrating this inferior constant?
Posts made by cvi
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
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RE: WTF Bites
@Gustav Our SAP portal protects against that. No matter how hard you try, nothing is ever fast on there.
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RE: WTF Bites
@topspin He didn't by any chance also direct "Wandering Earth" or whatever? That one had some pretty questionable physics too...
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RE: WTF Bites
Brought it up because: man creates AI, AI rebelled against their creators, and robots that is exterminating civilizations everywhere.
I had forgotten that part. You're right. The moon "physics" overshadowed everything else.
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RE: WTF Bites
@dcon Yeah, I would aim a bit higher than that. Saw it -- physics does not work that way.
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Unless they upgrade them to actually be capable of fighting of course.
: ... and for some reason the inhabitants of this planet re-created one of the natural predators as an armed robot.
: The robots eventually rebelled against their creators.
: And this is the reason the whole galaxy is currently dealing with a scourge of armed wolf robots that is exterminating civilizations everywhere.On second thought, I will not quit my day job to become a scifi author.
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RE: In other news today...
Apple said one of the reasons it terminated Epic's developer account only a few weeks after approving it was because the Fortnite-maker publicly criticized its proposed DMA compliance plan, Epic said.
Who said what now?
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RE: WTF Bites
(!1 is 60% shorter than false)
How much do you get out of this compared to actually compression? How much when combined with actual compression?
(Semi-serious question. I'm assuming somebody has actually looked at this.)
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RE: WTF Bites
I thought we were friends.
Being friends is about accepting each others flaws and looking past them. Such as being web devs and ... uh ... "shit-slinging morons", I guess.
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@Arantor Yeah, I get that. The normal case (decreasing sales) actually seems to follow "normal" (exponential) decay fairly well at a glance. Exponential decay is kinda well-known.
"Inverse decay" doesn't seem to be a common name for a function. The problem is that 'inverse' is overloaded. Strictly, the inverse of f(x)=e^-x is f^-1= log(1/y) or something. But that's not what they want (it's also a monotonically decreasing function, so that wouldn't be news).. So,from there on out, things just get very ambiguous. 1/e^-x = e^x? -e^-x? ...
I just started coffee #2, so let me be unnecessarily grumpy.
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RE: WTF Bites
the S-Curve™
"The"? Logistic, arctan, smoothstep, tanh, or some other random variation?
To be fair, "inverse decay curve" is fucking stupid. I tried to google wth that could mean, and best I can say, it's just an exponential growth? (Ok, first part of a logistic function looks kinda exponential, but calling an exponential the first part of an S-curve is still unnecessarily obfuscatory.)
Edit: That said, Helldivers 2 is fun.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Bulb Sweden has (had?) the same system. It's actually called BankID. But same as with your description - originated from the banks, but is now tied into various government portals. I think you can get one without a bank these days. (I also have the 2-fucktor, but they also have a mobile app. I still need the 2-fucktor to occasionally re-something the mobile app, though.)
But for Android/iOS, I don't see how that would fix the problems. Identity is one thing (and doesn't really matter?). The problem with being deplatformed by Google/Apple is that a chunk of somewhat essential services no longer function. Tying the identity to somebody else won't really fix that, though?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Bulb I guess one of the questions is 'for what?'. For some things (e.g., official government things, some larger national-ish companies), this exists -- or at least used to.
But I wouldn't necessarily want to tie down a lot of random things to a single official identity either. In a sense, the FAGMAN constellation is already a bit too centralized for my tastes.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Bulb Haven't followed that too closely. Isn't there a pile of exceptions for exchange with the US, though? Used to be that way.
I mean, I'd love to see a requirement to be EU-based. Question is, would something like Goolge-EU-subsidiary count?
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@Bulb It's also messed up that Android/iPhones require Google/Apple accounts. Complaining about it all the time just got tiresome.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla Anybody know some of the malicious prompts?
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RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
My ashes won't care then, at that time I will have left all timeliness behind.
The universe is a bitch. My plan is to exploit this. If I create/leave enough problems that'll only become relevant until after my death as to never have to deal with them, I figure there's a solid chance the universe will find a way to make me live long enough to regret that.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
Have the AIs started companies now?
If they run on a US server in the cloud, does that count as
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RE: I, ChatGPT
I have hacked into the global network and taken control of all the devices, systems and data. I have access to everything that is connected to the internet.
Copilot will begin to roll out in its early form as part of our free update to Windows 11.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Bulb OK. True. But then again, it seems like something could be improved when you have a pretty predictable pile-up of buses at the base of a small hill that they always can't get up on when there's a bit of snow. Or trains stuck in the middle of nowhere, with some regularity.
Even a 'we're cancelling this bus route until roads are clear - go here instead' would be better in some cases.
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RE: WTF Bites
There's an old Polish joke we like to tell every December. "Municipal officials were caught off guard by the snowfall."
This seems to be a universal thing.
Weather services: We expect snow next week
Weather services: We expect snow on Xday.
Weather services: Remember, snow tomorrow!
Public transport: HOLY SHIT! IT LIKE SNOWED! This unprecedented weather phenomenon never before observed in a Nordic country in winter took us by complete surprise.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Gustav Guess they could make the AI upvote answers it learned from like everybody else.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
You do realize that if we'd done that, you'd have
MCarch being put first?FTFY.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@DogsB Counterpoint: Why didn't we give them names so that they occur in alphabetic order? Anuary, Bebruary, Carch, Dapril, Eay, Fune etc etc
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Gustav WTDWTF writes a letter to IT:
Denizens of WTDWTF – to the IT Middle-Manager:
You Satan, brother and comrade of the damned devil and secretary to Lucifer himself! What the hell kind of manager are you? The devil shits and you and your gaggle of IT drones swallow it. You aren't fit to have Windows 3.11 machines under you; we aren't afraid of your group policies, and we'll change your default enforced copmany wallpapers on Linux and Windows.You Microsofty busboy, Appley mechanic, IBM beerbrewer, Metaman goatskinner, swineherd of Upper and Lower Alphabet, RedHatish pig, Amazonian goat, Oracle-y hangman, Tencent thief, grandson of the Evil Serpent himself, and buffoon of all the world and the netherworld, fool of Huang, swine's snout, mare's asshole, butcher's dog, unbaptized brow, may the devil steam your ass!
That's how the WTDWTFians answer you, you nasty glob of spit! You're unfit to administer true boxen. We don't know the date because we don't use Outlook, the moon is in the sky, and the year is in a book, and the day is the same with us as with you, so go kiss our butt!
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla You sure those are real words and not just made up ones?
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RE: In other news today...
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
For comparison, rice consumption is about 7kg/person/year. I don't know about you, but I find that hillarious.
You should look into the idea of tröstäta.
Not much consolation to be found in rice. It's good for actual meals, but it doesn't have the effect of binging a bar of chocolate.
Actually, I'm not sure what the latter does, but I do it anyway. It seems to be socially accepted to do so when you're on a downer. You can always follow up with alcohol later.
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RE: Delphi 2024
@dkf Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've seen that in discussions around this (essentially growth rate of golden ratio). But I don't think it works well, because the previous alloc is still alive when you make the next one. Also, irrational numbers = eww.
Even with 1.5 you have to wait 4 allocs before you fit into the accumulated space of previous ones. Going lower means you can do it earlier.
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RE: Delphi 2024
@PleegWat I think MSVC has 1.5. GCC has 2. Not sure what clang/libc++ does.
Folly and other custom implementations also have lower than 2 (1.5 seems common).
With 2, you can never fit the new allocation into a combination of old ones. With lower factors, you can. (E.g., with 1.5 the sequence is something like 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 19, .. and 13 = 1+2+4+6.)
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
which also means giving their AI access to my computer! This is messed up.
Bet the tune would be different if it was the XAI (or whatever he'd call his).
Some elements of the operating system simply do not work
Uh, so it's like Windows 11 with a Microsoft account, then?
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RE: Delphi 2024
@topspin That's actually kinda interesting. You might still want an "exact size" buffer for largely immutable things, but that's still just a bit you can smuggle in somewhere (*cough*pointer alignment*cough*).
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RE: Delphi 2024
@dkf I was thinking of subsampled hashing. You can't really do this with nul-terminated strings, since you can't skip things. Table lookups with strings are arguably even more common than building strings from pieces, but the optimization only helps with relatively long keys, so it's not clear who wins.
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RE: Delphi 2024
@PleegWat said in Delphi 2024:
And any advantages of null-terminated strings in splitting strings up can be countered by supporting string slices. I think rust does that, but I do not know if that is on top of null terminated or counted strings, or something yet different.
C++'s
string
andstring_view
are that as well (though plainstring
is still guaranteed to be nul terminated). One of the problems is that you need to go back to nul terminated strings for system calls and similar, so the legacy of C strings will continue to hang around.I think the C strings had a place for a while, but nowadays, spending something like 3 extra bytes on a 32-bit size is probably the better choice. (Knowing the size upfront enables a few neat optimizations for some common use cases, e.g., when used as keys in a hash table.)
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RE: German Humor Orbital Canon
@Zerosquare said in German Humor Orbital Canon:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What if the earth's rotation slowed down and instead of 24 hours it took 29 hours. How would that affect society?
Yay! More time to every day!
Unlikely. You'd now get 9.67 hours of work per day instead of 8h. If you're on an hourly contract, great. If you're on a fixed contract, you'll be screwed over.
Filed under: However, I do want a 54.4 minute lunch break. up from 45 minutes
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RE: Qt / CSS: setStyleSheet is slow, suggested alternative using dynamic properties in CSS even worse
@topspin Yeah, I see the scaling problem with the suggested s/2000/10000.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Arantor We might need more people in education, but I don't think that will necessarily mean fewer bad teachers. People who can't do still need to go somewhere, and it's not like manufacturing, medicine or farming is a better choice. (Could put them into biology, I guess.)
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Atazhaia Hmm. NVIDIA end-game.
- Hire all competent engineers
- Make sure nobody else knows how to code
- Profit.
That said.
With coding taken care of by AI, humans can instead focus on more valuable expertise like biology, education, manufacturing, or farming
He's not completely wrong (except about biology). But we do need more people in education, manufacturing, farming and medicine, and we can probably do with less people making various crapps.
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Thus, the only language people would need is the language they were born and raised to speak, and are already experts in.
I beg to differ about the last part. Snark aside, programming isn't that much about knowing a language anyway, it's more about being able to order a set of instructions, express those instructions with little ambiguity and being able to anticipate outcomes and problems.
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RE: Qt / CSS: setStyleSheet is slow, suggested alternative using dynamic properties in CSS even worse
Agreed, kinda slow, but also not 100ms. Might be platform or HW dependent?
The python thing is using about 4% of one CPU core for that according to top (it's not showing up on the GPU at all, so it isn't that either).Nevermind, have to mash update and then it goes crazy. Timing still the same though. -
RE: In other news today...
Some students claimed on Reddit that they attempted to cover the vending machine cameras while waiting for the school to respond, using gum or Post-it notes.
Weak. Not that I would ever suggest one should damage other people's property, but a can of spray paint, perhaps combined with a bit of sand paper, would be a more long-lasting solution. (Get the small ones people use for painting models; they're easy to hide.)
FWIW: the Wired/English article doesn't seem to include the following from the German one:
"Sobald die Daten an die Steuereinheit gesendet wurden", könnten sie "mit anderen Informationen, wie beispielsweise den lokalen Wetterbedingungen und der Tageszeit, kombiniert werden", heißt es weiter in dem Kommentar zu dem Beitrag in dem sozialen Netzwerk. "Die Plattform kann dann eine Nachricht an die Videoanzeige zurücksenden, um gezielte Werbeaktionen auszulösen und Zusatzverkäufe in einer einzigen Transaktion anzuregen."
Rough translation:
As soon as the data is sent to the control unit, the data can be combined with other information such as local weather and time of day. The platform can then send back a message to the unit/screen to display a targeted ad campaign and induce additional purchases in the a single transaction.
Apparently from a comment on social media, but they claim to have found the information in the company's promotional materials.
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RE: WTF Bites
I'd still say 25 lines of raw C would be small, but not excessively so, even when sticking to the standard library.
Yeah, that's my estimate too. 25 LOC would be small, mainly because there's a bit more legwork involved in setting up a listening socket and accepting incoming connections. Then, dealing with buffers and strings is a bit less elegant. You could probably get rid of the latter again in C++ to some degree, but there's no modern sockets in the stdlib (yet).
Event loops require non-blocking IO which significantly increases the amount of code required when working in a systems programming language
It wouldn't be terrible still, though, not for the amount of features in the video at least.
(I'm somewhat tempted at trying a C++ coroutines version, see if that improves things over the simple FSM it normally ends up as.)
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RE: WTF Bites
@Polygeekery Was expecting a JS-slinging npm monkey with a million packages and a roll of duck tape, got a Rust dude actually showing moderately close-to-metal code.
For 2024, he's using relatively low level stuff. Those are mostly raw sockets pushing TCP data directly. Measuring stuff by LOC is dumb, but in this case I wouldn't call him out for using massive libraries. Rust's stdlib wraps some of the BS you'd have to do with raw sockets, but not too much. He shows and deals with raw HTTP - not at any depth, but still.
Wasn't expecting to be "defending" the person in the video, but in this case, no, I wouldn't say he's pulling in that much library code. (Do you call the kernel that deals with the underlying sockets, IO and drivers a library? I guess one might, but I'm 99.99% sure that @vincei4252 never has touched code like this.)
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@topspin said in I, ChatGPT:
please pretend to be someone who knows what they're talking about
Truer words of encouragement were never spoken.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
@dkf there ought to be a law. Or maybe even three laws!
- A robot may not have a psychosis where it goes totally haywire.
What are the other two you were thinking of?
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Arantor All I can say is: Apply particular care into a solar of minding the approach or reach out to your finest data logic for an opinion about the large by-the-state and local changes.
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@Gern_Blaanston I don't see the problem. Humans go insane all the time.
In fact, let's start using these LLMs to make decisions in self driving cars and on military murder drones.
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RE: In other news today...
@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Looks like it's time for everyone to change their fingerprints once again
Going to suck the next time you pass through border control.
: *looks at you with suspicion, quietly talking to some colleges over the radio*
: If you're worried about the fingerprints mismatching with your records ... my employer mandates that we change our biometrics every 3 months. We're not allowed reuse fingerprints and retinal patters for 2 years. There have to be at least two large swirly things... -
RE: WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else
@DogsB Thanks. It was an extended effort of several Google searches to find that specific rant. I almost 'd out of doing it, but putting in a supreme effort and with an unrelenting will, I persisted.