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Re:GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:41PM (#49637709)
Yes.
Re:Ditch your (mut)ex, you deserve better on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:33AM (#45965647)
Clearly they are referring to the years 1029 and 1032 (decimal). I just want to know what calendar system they're using...
Re:Three Mistakes from Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:32AM (#42409373)
This comment really assumes you know the acronym LLM
Re:Starlark Programming Language on Monday December 09, 2024 @10:45AM (#42367259)
One specific example: many languages use randomized seeds in builtin dict/map types, leading to randomized iteration order.
Sarcastic replies can be fine. Sarcastic replies when you clearly didn't read the article are just annoying.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:16PM (#41052025)
Nationally yes, but states can do it independently (piecemeal).
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:08PM (#41029164)
Top-2 is a primary system, not a voting system. When combined with (essentially a generalized version of) FPTP you get most of the same problems.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate on Sunday July 21, 2024 @06:20PM (#41028770)
Or actually radical: switch from our terrible first-past-the-post voting system to - say - ranked choice (or one of many alternatives; they're almost all better than fptp) and then primaries won't be so important and parties won't have so much power over our kinda-democratic-but-actually-oligarchic political system.
Re:Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:03AM (#38263383)
The answer depends on the specific CRDT algorithm in use. For complex data structures like the ones behind collaborative text editing your intuition that the updates end up looking hierarchical is generally correct.
It is probably an error message on a very unlikely failure path / assertion. Those sorts of messages are effectively just comments.
Re:SolveSpace – Parametric 2D/3D CAD on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:16PM (#31469746)
I looked at a bunch a while back and found this to be a nice middle ground with a usable mobile interface: https://floorplancreator.net/

Paid version can export to DXF (AutoCAD)

To this specific point, SCIFs (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitive_compartmented_info...) are (allegedly) protected by faraday cages.
Re:Quitting Dgraph Labs on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:47PM (#30120153)
A bit of a tangent, but board members (and company officers) do not in general have a specific duty to maximize shareholder profit. They have a duty of care (think carefully about decisions) and a duty of loyalty (act in the best interests of the company as a whole). Those could lead reasonably to a profit-maximizing decision but it isn't a straight line.
Re:The Power and Poetry of Random Digits on Sunday June 20, 2021 @03:02PM (#27572951)
> Psuedo-RNGs typically use an algorithm (such as a hash) which is very hard to reverse.

Note that this is only necessarily a property of Cryptographically Secure PRNGs. Some PRNGs are not designed to be difficult to predict at all.

I don't know much about Lagrange points specifically, but it sounds like this one is an "unstable equilibrium". Even if you could park on exactly the right point, any tiny force (changing gravitational pull of other planets, dust impact, even light pressure from the sun eventually) would nudge you off of it and you would start accelerating away from it.
Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:05PM (#26742478)
There is a `git mv` command that means "rename". Git could (even with its current data model) explicitly annotate commits with this intent, but doesn't. I don't know how useful that would be compared to the current heuristics, but it does mean that git commit "snapshots" are not (quite) isomorphic to a diff format (like posix diff's) that can explicitly encode renames.
Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:52PM (#26742345)
> aren’t commits isomorphic to diffs?

Nearly, though renames are only approximately extracted from the snapshots.

Re:Humans Are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:26PM (#24936126)
You could trigger on any keypress on a first-time site.
Re:Citibank's $900M Blunder on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:53AM (#24222687)
Fiduciary duty does not mean "must make money at the expense of all other considerations".
Re:Citibank's $900M Blunder on Thursday August 20, 2020 @08:52AM (#24222680)
> Brigade has a duty to its investors to fight tooth and nail to keep this money

What kind of duty? Not a legal one, I think.

Re:CRDTs: The Hard Parts [video] on Saturday July 11, 2020 @01:31PM (#23803918)
It's worth noting that you are the author of RON :)
Re:Signal PINs on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:34PM (#23240557)
Check out zerotier; I've been looking at similar p2p techniques and ZT does a good job of packaging them all up with a relaying fallback.
Sounds familiar, but Xcode does actually provide a bunch of CLI tools...
Re:PC-XT Emulator on a ESP8266 (2018) on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:07PM (#22828567)
> something consumable

ESP8266s can be had for ~$1...

Re:A simple file encryption tool and format on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:11PM (#21175884)
You are misunderstanding what you are seeing. The Z does not represent a literal Z in parsing/formatting.

https://play.golang.org/p/Qp-bBtzKpG-

Re:A simple file encryption tool and format on Sunday October 06, 2019 @06:53PM (#21175786)
Go has an unusual way of specifying date formats. The "example" timestamp is a format spec and I believe the 'Z' will correctly handle offset signs.

From the docs:

Replacing the sign in the format with a Z triggers the ISO 8601 behavior of printing Z instead of an offset for the UTC zone.

Re:Spaghetti Sort (2018) on Sunday September 29, 2019 @10:41PM (#21111330)
If the sleep is some kind of busy wait then I think it is something like O(m*n) where m=max number.

If it is scheduled by the kernel then the complexity is hidden in the scheduling algorithm.

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