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That is also true of most smartphones. Smartphone batteries can be replaced, but specialty equipment and training is required. It's the same problem here, but much worse: they have to pack a sig…

I'd be the first one to buy these if they weren't made by Meta. I've wanted a pair of smartglasses for a very long time, and these seem like the first viable pair in terms of capabiliti…

The Magic Leap 1 and 2 were commercially available to some degree, but they were not successful. I can't speak to their PPD, but I can't imagine it was that amazing. The HoloLens devices mig…

...what? Aside from maybe the personal computer, they were not the first to any of those. BlackBerry/Palm/Windows Mobile devices all existed prior to the iPhone; the LG Prada was announced p…

For those not aware, this is a reference to an audience comment at the HL2 E3 2003 presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ddJ1OKV63Q&t=200s …

Is antlr particularly popular these days? I was under the impression that most production parsers are some kind of handwritten recursive descent parsers, primarily because they're better at provi…

Donald Trump has been a public figure for much longer than just the last ten years. By 2008, the Apprentice had already been running for four years. He ran for president in 2000. The portrayal of Biff…

Wikipedia can probably explain it best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

Nothing stopping you! Keep the flame alive :)

The positive note, I think, is that Google won't use your software and you won't have to deal with Google problems as a result :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriram_Krishnamurthi

Those are also jokes.

I would disagree on the first paragraph, if only to say that the majority of Python stdlib documentation is written in that tutorial style, and I loathe it. It is always a chore to look something in t…

A lot of the problems with C++ are more foundational; you can't adopt the changes that newer languages have made, because that would be a new language - and we know this, because that new languag…

Thinking that experience with C++'s many flaws will save you from running into them is delusional - just look at the number of CVEs in projects maintained by world-class C++ programmers. No amoun…

Everything but the relay (but you'd realistically only need the PDS): https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q The relay: https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net…

The modern version of reliable and frequent public transit is reliable and frequent public transit.

Good. The state of affairs today is awful - what happened to "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it"?

The script is not hard to type; in fact, a similar problem is happening there as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia …

The cookie will be invalidated if shared between IPs, and it's my understanding that most Anubis deployments are paired with per-IP rate limits, which should reduce the amount of overall volume b…

Volume, primarily - the scrapers are running full-tilt, which many dynamic websites aren't designed to handle: https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163 …

They don't need to. Their hardware and programming model are already dominant, and TPUs are harder to program for.

The argument isn't that it's difficult for them to circumvent - it's not - but that it adds enough friction to force them to rethink how they're scraping at scale and/or self-…

I'd say they're closer to 2010s self-driving cars; they still need frequent human intervention, even when on the happy path, to make sure they don't make a mess of things.

This rather underplays the experience of riding a Waymo. Where it works, it works: you get in and it takes you to the place, no human intervention required at any point. By analogy, the first hands-of…

Hence the "if" :-) ROCm is getting some adoption, especially as some of the world's largest public supercomputers have AMD GPUs. Some of this is also being solved by working at a differ…

There's more in common with other GPU architectures than there are differences, so a CUDA consultant should be able to pivot if/when the other players are a going concern. It's more abo…

Rust is investigating using sandboxed WASM for proc macros, but it'll be some time before there's any movement there: https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/iss…

It can invoke procedural macros, but those macros need to be built by something, and rustc won't do that by itself: https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2022/07/07/…