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Chaosvex··on When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385
That was the original purpose. That market hasn't been the primary audience for a very long time.
Chaosvex··on When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385
There's compromising and then there's just not having a usable machine.
Chaosvex··on When will this stop? The Raspberry Pi 5 16GB SBC now sells for $385
He's telling you that it'd run terribly with 1GB. He's not wrong.
Chaosvex··on Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser
> 2006 year old me

Whoa!

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Chaosvex··on The Flash C Compiler
Yet another vibecoded compiler.
Chaosvex··on Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
Never understood those repositories. Always viewed them as a collection of junk.
Chaosvex··on The result of the C++26 DIS ballot
Man gets out of the game, recognises things have continued to advance, decides he's no longer best placed to evaluate reports. Not really related.
Chaosvex··on Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
Eero needs to make sure that they're the only ones exfiltrating data from their products. :^)
Chaosvex··on The result of the C++26 DIS ballot
Assuming you're talking about Scott Meyers, that's a fabrication.
Chaosvex··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
I think you may be slightly biased about your wife's ability to replace an entire IT team with no technical knowledge, no offence.
Chaosvex··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
> test if the key exists

Double lookup.

Chaosvex··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Name a more iconic trio when it comes to exploits.
Chaosvex··on Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
iPhones actually can. I'm guessing some Androids have an equivalent.
Chaosvex··on The Wormhole Hall of Shame
Yeah, that's right and I believe that was the episode that introduced McKay. I've been binging Stargate over the last month or so, so it's pretty fresh.
Chaosvex··on The Wormhole Hall of Shame
Isn't the whole CG effect of flying through a magical tube seeing the wormhole?

Although the explanation of how it all works is rather inconsistent in Stargate. Initially, gate travel was something that people experienced and it was only later changed to being dematerialised.

Chaosvex··on Static Allocation, Constant Work
Windows doesn't support overcommit, so you can't unless you have a ridiculously huge swap set. It is an issue.
Chaosvex··on Static Allocation, Constant Work
When most of the elements are no-ops/unused, I don't think we should be making any assumptions about the performance at max capacity. Contiguous iteration is cheap. The author may call it the constant work principle but I can't agree.

In the context of HFT, since the author drew inspiration from the domain, there's also the issue of now having introduced new branches into the hot path. A lot of work goes into reducing branches and priming the predictor in advance of orders actually being placed. Granted, you could potentially be avoiding branches elsewhere as a byproduct but that's probably getting into the weeds and nitpicking the examples.

Chaosvex··on The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
It's generally a little more complicated than that. Not up to writing paragraphs about it so I'll just leave this as a note so anybody that's interested can do their own research.
Chaosvex··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
> Do you think it's impossible for someone to have a 25K line PR / diff but not know what's going on in the system?

If you didn't write any of it? Yes, you only think you know what's going on.

Chaosvex··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
Given the decades of consumer and enterprise GPUs often being identical or near identical hardware, it'd be interesting to see if there's any evidence of this actually being true.
Chaosvex··on How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
Too slow to edit this post but *morale. I'm blaming lazy phone typing.
Chaosvex··on How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
On complex codebases, I've seen this strategy absolutely decimate team moral.

A large tech company decided to stop having subteams responsible for particular features or areas of the code for one of their products. The result was developers having to spend inordinate amounts of time researching highly complex spec documents and reference manuals on a daily basis for even the smallest of fixes. It drove moral into the ground and developers started a mass exodus to other teams or tech companies.

After some changes of management for the team, the policy had to be reversed to stem the bleeding. Turns out that developers don't like permanently being in unfamiliar territory.

Chaosvex··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
Razer was always low quality garbage at premium prices. Gamer marketing for you.
Chaosvex··on Learning to code is still worthwhile
Funny but also not true unless you have low standards, potentially as a result of just not being very good yourself.
Chaosvex··on Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter
Drink your Mountain Dew verification can to continue.
Chaosvex··on Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
Everybody on HN knows better than OP how to run their own business and could absolutely please 100% of customers or potential customers 100% of the time. Apparently.

Idealism doesn't survive contact with reality.

Chaosvex··on Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674446
Chaosvex··on My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress
What do you mean? What's cost effective about this?
Chaosvex··on Fable created novel 4D splat format
I don't think their writing is supposed to be an exercise in saving bytes. Per se.
Chaosvex··on Captcha proves you're human. HATCHA proves you're not
Let’s say the goal is a human-only social network.

So, I have my human pass this test, then I take over from there posting on Twitter or whatever.

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