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masfuerte

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Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful (2018)

vorpus.org
2 points·by masfuerte·2 tháng trước·1 comments

There Was a Time before Mathematica (2013)

writings.stephenwolfram.com
4 points·by masfuerte·4 tháng trước·1 comments

£656m legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead

bbc.co.uk
3 points·by masfuerte·5 tháng trước·0 comments

'Factory flaw' spurs toy horse to instant popularity

chinadaily.com.cn
2 points·by masfuerte·6 tháng trước·0 comments

Mystery of the Quincunx's Missing Quincunx

blog.plover.com
4 points·by masfuerte·7 tháng trước·0 comments

comments

masfuerte
·8 giờ trước·discuss
Holy slopfest Batman!
masfuerte
·Hôm qua·discuss
> Python uses floored division so the remainder has the sign of the divisor instead

Serious question, how is that a footgun? In decades of software development I have never needed a negative divisor for modulo. What would you use it for?
masfuerte
·Hôm qua·discuss
e.g. President Drumpf.
masfuerte
·Hôm qua·discuss
That should call it coccyx. That sounds like something Trump would support.
masfuerte
·Hôm kia·discuss
This is risk scores for celebrities looking for free tickets. Does anyone really care?
masfuerte
·Hôm kia·discuss
I'm old enough to remember Walkmans coming out in 1979, which was the start of the end of the boombox era. Approximately no-one was using 8-track at that point.
masfuerte
·4 ngày trước·discuss
Fire!
masfuerte
·5 ngày trước·discuss
Because the EU passed a law making it illegal and the temporary exemption recently expired.
masfuerte
·6 ngày trước·discuss
Yes. These methods don't work reliably. Apply a blur and they still don't work reliably.
masfuerte
·11 ngày trước·discuss
The American embassy considers them to have sufficient legitimacy to invite them.
masfuerte
·12 ngày trước·discuss
> Shouldn't offending side reimburse the expenses?

In an ideal world. They might even be legally liable in this one. But you still have to sue them to get the money, which is an expensive gamble for a very small pay off.
masfuerte
·13 ngày trước·discuss
Part two:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260626-00/?p=11...
masfuerte
·14 ngày trước·discuss
Eh? We already tax them. The UK is not alone in having a digital services tax.
masfuerte
·23 ngày trước·discuss
How many times have you been to a hospital and thought, I could have fixed that myself if only I'd known how? With no equipment. In my case, never.
masfuerte
·26 ngày trước·discuss
There's one here:

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-global-mycorrhizal-fungi-revea...
masfuerte
·27 ngày trước·discuss
I've been using otvdm (aka winevdm) and it is very good. It works like the original ntvdm did when running on non-x86 platforms. It emulates the processor and translates 16-bit api calls into 32-bit api calls so things work as you'd expect.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
masfuerte
·27 ngày trước·discuss
Is this the same Paul Graham who says that founders need to be the kind of people who are prepared to break the rules? That is, cheat.
masfuerte
·27 ngày trước·discuss
Same, and it is a shame. Reading it is wearisome.
masfuerte
·28 ngày trước·discuss
No, because it's a trade secret. But you might not be in breach of copyright.
masfuerte
·29 ngày trước·discuss
I suspect it's not possible (as an end user) to get a thinking trace from one of the models. But what happens with "thinking" is that the model has a conversation with itself in an attempt to home in on a better answer to the original prompt.

The "amount of thinking" is how long this internal conversation is allowed to progress. The longer it goes on the more it costs. It's all part of the token budget but, because this internal dialogue is hidden, it's not obvious to the end user.