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armitron

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Somewhere in Berlin

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armitron
·18 days ago·discuss
This seems like it could accelerate the transition to sub-1nm nodes (previously projected to mid 2030s), maybe by the end of this decade.
armitron
·20 days ago·discuss
That must do wonders for antibiotic resistance.
armitron
·25 days ago·discuss
Experts know that copy/pasting and/or reimplementing code is not an issue in practice regardless of how often it comes up as an anti-pattern in freshman CS courses. The (amalgamated) software system can still be audited in reasonable time as long as the number of third party dependencies is kept low.

Rust has thrown the baby out with the bathwater in that regard resulting in software that is practically impossible to audit without putting in enormous effort.
armitron
·25 days ago·discuss
I've never seen a C program use hundreds of dependencies. This is typical in Rust (and Node). I know a few high assurance teams that dropped Rust for this very reason.
armitron
·last month·discuss
Would be a lot better from every possible angle (immersion, depth, replayability) if it was sandbox multiplayer. Otherwise, I'd rather play TIS-100.
armitron
·2 months ago·discuss
The level of delusional wishful thinking here defies belief. Seattle and all other US "left" strongholds are decomposing and falling apart, with parts of these cities worse off than the third world. Instead of realizing that it's ineffective, incompetent and detached from reality politicians that have brought ruin and misery, you want to hand them even more money.

Brilliant.
armitron
·2 months ago·discuss
As has happened in nearly every European state with wealth taxes. But the elephant in the room is that these policies give the same ineffective, corrupt and entirely worthless politicians even more money to "manage". The very definition of delusional wishful thinking.
armitron
·2 months ago·discuss
This level of naivety is characteristic of certain SV types where wishful thinking is the order of the day. We're already living through the disastrous effects of the "social media" revolution and this is going to be much more of the same, with even worse negative effects on society.

Just imagine what this will do to critical thinking, interpersonal relationships and family dynamics in a country where illiteracy is rapidly climbing. I don't think it's a stretch to write that if the unrestrained capitulation in terms of societal costs towards big tech continues, we're setting ourselves up for {generational, class-based} conflict that will rip our country to pieces.
armitron
·2 months ago·discuss
netns, wireguard
armitron
·2 months ago·discuss
I was scratching my head trying to figure out how he got Internet to access qbittorrent on a private IP, but then I read this:

"you see, at some point in time the password was bypassed for users on local network 192.168.1.0/24, however the traefik ingress lives on 192.168.1.1"

which of course is his real problem (reverse proxy, microservices). And of course he has to double down and pile on even more complexity as the solution, instead of throwing out all the crap he's stacked together and coming up with something simple, performant and sane.
armitron
·2 months ago·discuss
They never made good notebooks. Compared to German and Japanese notebooks that even cost less, moleskine is terrible.
armitron
·3 months ago·discuss
If you're a power user, the sooner you learn Emacs the better as the synergies with any Lisp language (particularly Common Lisp) are simply too strong to be ignored and there is no contemporary alternative that rivals it.

For new users, this looks like a welcome alternative to messy things like Lem that never really worked very well for me.
armitron
·4 months ago·discuss
Dwarkesh is your run-of-the-mill vapid influencer idiot. Fridman on the other hand, when in the presence of greatness, knows to STFU and listen.
armitron
·5 months ago·discuss
Very smart people on discord sounds like an oxymoron: why would anyone very smart contribute to the siloization of knowledge and support grow a corporate entity possessing highly questionable incentives? Discord is not a great place to discuss anything of substance.

If that's not clear to some now, it will be once monetization kicks in and the inevitable blowup and loss of accumulated knowledge follows.
armitron
·7 months ago·discuss
Assuming he shows up, he'll still probably be trying to defend the indefensible..

Disabling Nagle's algorithm should be done as a matter of principle, there's simply no modern network configuration where it's beneficial.
armitron
·7 months ago·discuss
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·7 months ago·discuss
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·7 months ago·discuss
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armitron
·8 months ago·discuss
This is why I left California and utterly done with you people.
armitron
·8 months ago·discuss
You're implying that those who are throwing hissy fits about "master" are aware of bitkeeper documentation and their (wildly unchecked) emotional response to this matter is nuanced enough to take "provenance" of technical terms into account.

Do you even realize how ridiculous these nonsensical "arguments" sound?