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kittieprydeon What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

Would a safe ABI work with sandboxing the C code? I'm a bit unsure how one would construct a safe C ABI from Rust's side,

kittieprydeon Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow

I use visual studio pro and when I hit F5, my game runs in the godot ide. I can pipe the log output back to visual studio. So, I think the integration is quite good, imo. ( sorry for formatting on phone )

kittieprydeon Hello World, Simple Event Broker

Reading, 'ensuring that data is actually written and stays written is rather difficult', immediately reminded me of https://github.com/microsoft/FASTER (its not written in Go though), which is basically dealing with just that outlet ( except I think the KV store might be ram heavy, been a bit since I last looked at it )

kittieprydeon Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1k drug can be made for $5

Are the people running drug companies barely scraping by?

kittieprydeon How to scale nuclear power

Should we shut down all efforts to generate power that uses heat, steam, and turbines?

kittieprydeon Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law

AMP made the internet on my phone work. Most sites seem to dedicate 50% or more of the screen space to advertisements and load very slowly -- AMP sites were just crazy more performant -- I'm not saying AMP was the right move to make, but, it was trying to solve a real problem (similar to this bill also likely being the wrong move)

kittieprydeon Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month

Like making a specfic mechanic in a video game worse so they can sell the fix later on.

kittieprydeon Why Python keeps growing, explained

Neat observation. I wasn't doing much programming in 2004, but, I'm guessing 2004 Python would be like today's Rust. People learn it because they love it.

kittieprydeon Quantum winter is coming

Do you have an educational youtube channel? Will definitely take a look if you do.

kittieprydeon Not Mysticizing System Dynamics

You are right. Thanks for correcting me.

kittieprydeon Not Mysticizing System Dynamics

y=x^a would be an example of an exponential equation;

I guess applied to the metaphor, F=a^m

kittieprydeon NTSB Calls for Alcohol Detection Systems in All New Vehicles

Some libertarians are -- but I think they were trying to employ the slippery slope argument

kittieprydeon EU Open Web Search project kicked off

Relying on sites to be honest about themselves, is even less likely. There are monetary incentives for many of them not to do that. Many sites host dishonest and clickbait content with extreme levels of SEO already. The cost of dishonesty decreases if you can directly modify the index.

kittieprydeon A girl wanted to keep the goat she raised for a county fair. They killed it

An anecdote- my mother's car was stolen, stripped for parts, and the repair shop that stole out, had it visible and out in the open the entire time, police (Virginia, Hampton area, a decade ago) refused to recover property, and we couldn't afford to go to court.

kittieprydeon How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#Definit...

See the provided link. I am used to the source open / source available phrasing, but, I did not know the history behind it.

kittieprydeon All about QBasic and QuickBasic

I think it would need to present at least a little bit more of the qbasic experience. A simple editor, but it still looks different from notepad, and built-in documentation, and immediate access to samples and games.

Something that if found, the average 10 year old would find the sample games in about a minute of clicking around. Gorillas and snake is a must.

kittieprydeon Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient

I think a very intelligent alien could think the same of us.

if you test the human with any known limitation of their architecture (like making conclusions or just changing the form of the question enough) you will immediately see that is in fact very much not even remotely close to sentient

kittieprydeon Carmakers feel chip crisis easing

I don't think bluGill is entirely wrong ( as indicated by the downvoting ), the average driver believes they're better than the average, which isn't possible. But, I'm sure, the average person is much better than then average _some_ of the time, and they're thinking about their best when they rank themselves -- I think this falls into the same reasoning as, 'we judge others based on their actions and we judge ourselves based on our intentions' -- intending to drive error free is likely much more common than actually driving error free

But, it also sounds like, some of the driver assist features aren't so good yet either ( reading many of the other comments in this thread )

kittieprydeon Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urging DOJ investigation

Capitalism (Society?) rewards unethical behaviors, as long as it's even just a little obfuscated. It's a competition for resources.

kittieprydeon Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine

McNamara Fallacy - thank you for posting this, it's extremely obvious, but seeing it in print is super helpful, and I think it's important for anyone working in a corporate setting to keep in mind

kittieprydeon Twenty years of C# with Anders Hejlsberg [audio]

I'm curious about what is going on while .NET is "optimizing"?

I haven't seen something like that, my laptop is AMD though? (I write .net code) Unsure how much of a difference that makes.

I like .Net, it's not without it's issues, I think the same is true with Java, having been the administrator for some Java servers in the past, I've seen plenty of Java issues that seemed crazy ~ but I think we're talking about how great things are now, maybe, while saying it doesn't matter because how bad the legacy tech is?

kittieprydeon Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective

https://launchandscalefaster.org/covid-19/vaccinemanufacturi...

But, we could, at 12 billion doses a year already realizable, getting to 14+ isn't far fetched -- distribution and convincing people to take them would be much more challenging. I'm not which of distribution and cooperation is the hardest, but, manufacturing is certainly not the blocker.

kittieprydeon Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective

https://www.cell.com/trends/cancer/fulltext/S2405-8033(20)30...

Looks early on, inconclusive atm, but interesting ( this is specifically applied to cancer and not a viral infection )

kittieprydeon Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective

Source?

kittieprydeon Israel Finds Fourth Covid Booster Is Ineffective

That's not really how vaccines work. No force fields are deployed, you'll still catch COVID, but, you're immune system is now got some training in how to handle the situation.

I don't remember the promise that, the vaccine would end COVID, I do remember seeing somewhere that if vaccination rates were high enough ( greater than 90%??, been quite awhile now since I read that article ) that herd immunity could be achievable and the spread would eventually end. At least in the US, vaccination rates never even got close.

kittieprydeon Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30793826/

Do you happen to know of good studies to back up --- organizational psych research going back decades showing that teams who work 40-hour weeks will quickly outperform teams working 60 hrs / week --- I've heard this before, but, I've never seen the studies talked about.

I found this study via Googling, it took a little longer than I would like to admit. (I'm probably using the wrong search terms)

It definitely paints a more complicated picture - from a manager perspective, they could say that more hours equals more work - except they should be measuring worker engagement according to the study I linked, because it's more heavily associated with productivity than total hours worked - but they could say this is hard to do, it's just cheaper for the company to make everyone work more? That kind of company is definitely a place I would not want to work, but more studies, might make it easier to justify a change if you find yourself in one of these organizations?

kittieprydeon Better.com CEO fires 900 employees on Zoom call

emotion or desire, especially as influencing behavior or action.

I had to look it up, I wasn't even aware affect had a noun definition - I had believed it was only a verb. TIL

kittieprydeon Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains

Unless they're only paying for a single product ( vs the all products pack? )

kittieprydeon How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?

It might give us an idea of how many types of models we would need to correspond to all genetically reasonable types of neurons.

(my interpretation of the comment) For example, if there are like 8 free variables on neuron formation from the genetic blueprints, and then we find they produce reasonably different neuron types about 16 times over the range of that variable. We could end up with 4 billion possible models that we would need to simulate all possible neurons; then I guess you'd want to reduce those by saying that these two were like these other two and starting condensing them down; I'm not sure where this would go, but maybe we would find something cool or find a new insight by figuring out all possibilities

kittieprydeon Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria, 12500 Years Ago

I was under the impression that, if a modern-ish civilization existed in the near-geological-past, we'd be able to tell by a complete lack low-energy easy-to-acquire resources. Like, anything easy to dig up, would have been, dug up, made into machines, and then dispersed as low density material ( where-ever it ended up as the society decayed )