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Re:FreeCAD in the Browser on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:13PM (#48867519)
Why would I want to run this in the browser vs locally?
Re:Should DayQuil Be Legal? on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:44PM (#48807164)
Okay question was about drugs that are contraindicated for all medical purposes like heroin.

Also do you see any ironic connection between your two examples: easily accessible antibiotics and a medically resistant infection?

Re:Should DayQuil Be Legal? on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:15PM (#48806727)
What is the argument for legalizing drugs that are contraindicated for all medical purposes, are toxic, and have a high addictive potential? How does it benefit me or society if my neighbor is permitted to choose to basically roll the dice on afflicting themselves with a debilitating chronic illness (severe addiction)? If I don’t want to do illegal drugs why would I ant to support this?
I’m pretty sure that “closed loop” in this context would mean that the water is recirculated and not evaporated.
Re:The (real) dead economy theory on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:16PM (#48578844)
I think you are confusing Charles Stross with Cory Doctorow
Re:Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:34PM (#47146568)
Do you think you will be moving towards drifting models in the future for even more speed?
This reads as completely schizophrenic
Don’t we have the jvm?
You sound paranoid and schizophrenic you should honestly try explaining your situation to someone you know or a professional. I think you’ll realize that your thinking is a bit delusional. I can’t really understand what you’re saying here.
At certain companies and it’s org structures yeah
Re:The Helix Text Editor on Thursday September 11, 2025 @04:28PM (#45215796)
I would like project wide search and replace
I dont see how thats pejorative
I just found a subtle bug caused by a vector expressed in the wrong coordinate frame. Been thinking a lot about something like this
Re:We Made CUDA Optimization Suck Less on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @07:40PM (#43990342)
Cuda optimization actually doesn’t suck that much. I think NSight studio is amazing and super helpful for profiling and identifying bottlenecks in kernels
Re:Electromagnetic coil gun seized in Japan on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @10:22AM (#42184411)
They’re very underpowered compared to an actual gun.
There are actually neural networks with explicit optimization layers but I don’t think these have really had much success.
All energy we use eventually turns into heat so it doesn’t matter that helion skips a step and converts fusion directly into electricity
Re:America's 60-Year-Olds Are Staring at Financial Peril on Saturday July 27, 2024 @05:36PM (#41089506)
A lot of people struggle with regular literacy despite being educated on it for their entire life. I don’t think more education will help these people.
I think a lot of the time you would be correct. But this is published to arxiv so it’s not peer reviewed and doesn’t boost the authors credentials. It could be designed to attract attention to the company they work at. Or it could just be a cool idea the author wanted to share.
I definitely wouldn’t call vscode performant. The UI elements have noticeable latency and most things feel slow. Startup takes multiple seconds.
I don’t understand the design constraints and goals that would lead to someone choosing this design. It seems like an insane amount of complexity. I also don’t know much about web development. Wouldn’t it be much simpler to just build a C++ application? I think one possible reason for choosing a web based design is because web frameworks can look really good. But I think this is not an important thing to optimize for in an editor, especially if it’s coming at the expense of performance.
Re:Code Models on Friday June 21, 2024 @06:55PM (#40754689)
In general it’s impossible to trace the flow of an entire program due to the halting problem. Also most programs have a lot of branches and this would lead to an explosion of possible paths through the code to trace.
It is kind of a requirement. Scientific papers will typically describe the motivation for a work to start the introduction. The real motivation of course is “I need to publish something”.
I think the reason for this is that most people don’t even know the answer. If there were only 2 options when this question was asked then 49% of people saying the s&p500 is down would indicate a low confidence result I think. The number is basically a meaningless coin flip.
Re:The Second Golden Age of Emacs on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:16PM (#39529198)
Really? Do you have any links to explain this? I find this to be a super unintuitive result because I would expect compiled code to be faster than interpreted. My recommendation to you Mabel native compiling is just based on personal experience not benchmarks. Emacs feels faster after enabling it.
Re:The Second Golden Age of Emacs on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @03:08PM (#39529085)
I highly recommend compiling emacs from source with the option for native lisp compilation enabled. Emacs is way faster when you do this.
This is not an inherent feature of capitalism. This is a failure of the government to create a fair market. This is caused by people that are subverting the rules to out compete the people playing by the rules.
I skimmed through the tests in the benchmark and it seems like they’re testing based on throughput and I didn’t see any tests specifically to measure latency. It would have been really useful to see that.
Re:Epic Games' "The RAD Debugger" on Saturday January 13, 2024 @03:15PM (#38984088)
Fun fact, you can plot variable values over time with gdb. You just have to create a gdb extension to do it: https://github.com/jyurkanin/gdb_extensions This blew my mind when I figured out how to make these extensions and everyone should be making their own extensions. It's a force multiplier. Literally life changing
Re:On Sleeper Agent LLMs on Friday January 12, 2024 @11:05PM (#38977245)
Uh why are you doing this

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