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IsTom··on Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown
> Unlike Android

My experience with android apps seems to be different. Every other app seems to be asking for contacts or calling or access to files.

IsTom··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Sunlight is unevenly distributed in the arctic during the year to say the least.
IsTom··on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
I wonder if some day people will use {"joke": ...} instead of <joke>
IsTom··on EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline
I don't personally own infrastructure to import LNG either. Grid-scale renewables don't require people to own property.
IsTom··on EU must become a 'genuine federation' to avoid deindustrialisation and decline
That is still better than russian pipeline oil.
IsTom··on My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
IsTom··on C++ Modules Are Here to Stay
Notably many languages in ML family have first class modules.
IsTom··on Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries
Hey, but at least it will know that Raid: Shadow Legends is one of the biggest mobile role-playing games.
IsTom··on Are arrays functions?
I think it's just that you can make alternative (to set theory) formalizations of mathematics in terms of functions and in consequence anything that is thinkable of in terms of mathematics (which includes all computation).
IsTom··on Are arrays functions?
What are relations, if not an indicator function of a cartesian product?
IsTom··on Can you slim macOS down?
> 99% of commercial plugin vendors don't support Linux.

It's a bit softened by the fact that many of them can be replaced/recreated with stock bitwig devices (if you're into that). There's also yabridge, though for me personally it has been a bit hit and miss.

IsTom··on Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
Did you check that it did the things it claims it did?
IsTom··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
That's possible only if fabs are operational after the invasion.
IsTom··on Tesla Patent Don't multiply, add. It saves time and energy
So, they invented the slide rule?
IsTom··on Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)
Acid rain isn't great either
IsTom··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
I've seen people organize for boardgames on facebook neighbourhood groups.
IsTom··on Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop
Unfortunately trust isn't transitive.
IsTom··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
> lacks mature frameworks that make development for macOS

Really? And windows does?

IsTom··on “Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”
> it's rare that the theorem statement itself is particularly hard to formalize

That's very dependent on the problem area. For example there's a gap between high school explanation of central limit theorem and actual formalization of it. And when dealing with turing machines sometimes you'll say that something grows e.g. Omega(n), but what happens is that there's some subsequence of inputs for which it does. Generally for complexity theory plain-language explanations can be very vague, because of how insensitive the theory is to small changes and you need to operate on a higher level of abstraction to have a chance to explain a proof in reasonable time.

IsTom··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
> limited in scope, ultra-well defined, testable

Are we talking about the same CSS?

IsTom··on Using fewer syllables to express numbers
Well, they're mostly in my native language, but it would be something like "hor-ses jum-ping e-ver-glade" to count to 7 in 2-2-3 grouping
IsTom··on Using fewer syllables to express numbers
Personally I prefer to use non-numerical word phrases (especially in odd meters) with the right number of syllables instead. If you want to you can even place accents where they're supposed to be with right words.
IsTom··on Google broke my heart
Only for the small guy. Big guys always get their copyrights protected.
IsTom··on Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
Still, if you eat enough complete protein sources you'll have all the amino acids you need.
IsTom··on Anti-aging injection regrows knee cartilage and prevents arthritis
I don't get what's the supposed mechanism of action here. Collagen is a hard to digest protein and it has to get digested to be processed and then it's no longer collagen. Why not just eat any other protein source instead?
IsTom··on Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022)
> the data bus is 128 bits wide: 64-bit for the data and 64-bit for data's type

That seems a bit wasteful if you're not using a lot of object types.

IsTom··on The Venezuelan Oil Narative Is Pure Theatre
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what UN is. It's a forum for discussion, kicking a big nation out achieves nothing. Do you believe US/Russian/Chinese voice would be unheard if they couldn't speak at the UN?
IsTom··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder
A counterpoint is Amazon's profit on revenue until 2017 or so.
IsTom··on AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos
> AI summaries are actually rather good, in the general case.

The google ones for me seem to be talking about something unrelated to what I'm looking for a significant percent of the time because it interprets it as a much more popular concept that looks like my query if you squint very hard. Other times it pulls up seo-spam tier answers that are plainly wrong.

IsTom··on TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models
> If Sora/Kling/whatever ran cool locally 24/7 at 60FPS, would anyone ever build a UI?

I like my buttons to stay where I left them.

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