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You're not managing thousands of fridges across a country.

What's your long position? You can't pick winners or losers in a bubble. All the leading AI companies are valuing themselves as if they each own the entire TAM without any clear moat. It's obviously not going to work out.

The slop has always been there, and Valve makes it easy to refund it. I don't see what more can they do. At the end of the day the players decide what they want to play and pay for. Ideas have always been cheap in this industry. Threes was cloned immediately and most people only know the clone.

"shot him dead" doesn't even begin to describe it. ICE put 10 bullets into the back of a restrained citizen.

Swing and a miss buddy. The point is that big tech is political by its own choice, and you have to be extremely ignorant to look past that.

Yes, but it's not collecting excessive data and handing it over to a fascist state.

Buddy, ICE is chasing down and killing US citizens. Musk is openly supporting European neo-Nazis. The US tech sector is supporting the genocide of Palestinians, and interfering with foreign elections.

In Poland you can block your PESEL (SSN equivalent) to prevent this kind of fraud. One click in our government app or website. If PESEL is needed to confirm identify with a corporation you can unlock it temporarily.

I can't understand why, out of all the options, people go with the Nazi AI that's used to create revenge porn.

Good luck with your prompt "startup". I'm sure it's working as well as you're saying, and people are definitively paying for prompts they have to tweak themselves anyway. I'm sure this is a real business and you're not just living off stocks and pretending to work.

They cannot win, but they can invade. We're already in a hybrid war. The threat is real and Europe needs to be prepared and be able to stand on its own, especially now that also the US is not only directly threatening EU countries, but is acting against EU security both globally and internally by supporting separatist neo-Nazi pro-Putin parties.

This article complains about the discrimination in the SV founder space and the 0.1% of engineering jobs. The article is comically disconnected from reality, but your whataboutism is misplaced.

This reads like something straight out of 2014 Twitter.

The EU closed a tax loophole, and I'm happy to support small local businesses over people shipping things from overseas. I'm sure there are edge cases, but overall I don't see an issue here.

Fandom Wiki leaves 5 lines of readable text on my iPhone after about 3 seconds of loading.

Would love to see Carmack create a product with AI, instead of stealth promoting his shovel company on the worst website on the internet.

My only issue with WASM is that it forces me to contort my platform abstraction later to terrible web APIs. Other than that it's great. I can compile C++ with plain clang or the WASI SDK, and it runs everywhere at near native speeds with minimal boilerplate.

The reason Tesla acquired SolarCity was to bail Musk out. Same as xAI, and then SpaceX, bailed out his Twitter purchase.

Solar Roof was vaporware when it was presented by Musk. It was blatant fraud. There's no "free energy" here. The roof was way more expensive than a regular roof covered in solar panels.

Nobody's forcing you to buy products in plastic bottles. It would actually be better if you didn't. "Technology and progress" are so far producing mountains of trash and pollution that you're privileged to not have to see, unlike those children in Africa, and other impoverished places where your garbage washes up. You're proud of winning the lottery. Have some self-awareness.

Europeans were blowing each other up 80 years ago. Now we have complete freedom of movement and trade. You're missing the forest for the trees. The EU is the greatest achievement of our parents' generation.

I don't think this is a solution. I do this often naturally, I walk around and "plan", and it feels like I'm just avoiding sitting down and doing the actual task.

The author talks about it; when facing a difficult problem, they go get a glass of water, and get distracted. That's what this is. Anything but doing the actual task. If you're going to take a break, take an honest break and rest, but then go back to work. That's the real solution, and boy is it hard to do these days.

OpenGL is still the simplest way to start learning hardware accelerated rendering, and it runs on all modern platforms.

Yes, OpenGL 4.1 is available, just deprecated. It's emulated through Metal, and so will work on M chips.

I maybe be a complete moron not familiar with Github, but I wanted to have a look at the code and it took me solid 5 minutes of going through the website searching for a link to the repository, and the only one I eventually found was when I scrolled to the bottom and clicked the Github icon. Removing the path from https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/index.html leads to 404, no idea why that doesn't just lead to https://github.com/eliemichel. Don't know if it's just me, but I get unreasonably frustrated by things like this.

As I said, a slab allocator is included as part of general purpose malloc implementations. Rust is not going to be smarter here. I would bet it uses malloc underneath anyway.

Using a fat pointer to address individual bits is a waste of memory. You'd need an offset and length, and you'd have to deal with byte boundaries when accessing data. The only way I see this working is if you had a language that natively supported sub byte types and could deal with alignment of such types natively. Your best bet would be bit fields, which Rust doesn't support natively.

Dynamically allocating tiny amounts of data is a niche issue. You don't want a genetic solution to this anyway, because the efficiency will come from the constraints specific to your problem.

You mean 4 bytes? You can't even address 4 bits. Small allocations can be handled by a slab allocator. Most likely implemented via a free list. A general purpose malloc should have that feature. TBH, I would consider allocating such tiny amounts of memory as a programmer error.

DOGE gutted SSA, IRS, directly affecting seniors and other vulnerable people getting checks, gutted CFPB taking away fraud protection, not to mention gutting of USAID which caused countless deaths, though I'm sure you don't care. Musk used his wealth and social platform to greatly help elect a man, whose personal gestapo is now chasing down non-white US citizens and disappearing them.

But sure, he didn't personally punch anybody, and doesn't wear an SS uniform in public.

Are AI comments allowed on HN?

There's a vague correlation between wind direction and sailing speed, but there's nothing real here. The mechanics of sailing upwind, downwind, or the cost of tacking are interesting mechanics that aren't explored here whatsoever. The dead angle on a ship with a square rig should be massive. This ship goes upwind like it has a motor.