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New comment by fractaled in "--dangerously-skip-reading-code"

fractaled — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:30:23 +0000

Even ignoring the AI costs, 'rework' is going to be more expensive as soon as you have customers. For example any sort of data migration. Or UX expectations. Or public API interface. None of these can change without some thought, so one would be leaning on these specs quite a lot.

New comment by fractaled in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

fractaled — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:43:55 +0000

I'm not sure you'd need to directly fetch to determine if they resolve. One could probably inject an img tag and see if it resolves.

New comment by fractaled in "Three Observations"

fractaled — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 02:07:35 +0000

96% of us are already given ~5k a month for 40hr/week of work.

If UBI is just printed, then sure there would be economic problems; but I think the idea is you redistribute it via taxation.

New comment by fractaled in "A Deep Dive into German Strings"

fractaled — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:23:57 +0000

You'd never have a `compare(std::string a, std::string b)` function in your code base. It would make copies of the strings (and destroy them). So it seems to me the article is comparing their new thing to a straw man.

New comment by fractaled in "A Deep Dive into German Strings"

fractaled — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:03:29 +0000

It's hard to know how to take this given that their first example (function call overhead) seems deeply flawed -- you'd never have a 'compare' strings function take std::string by value. (Maybe const string& or string_view). Also, the alternative would have to have a destructor of some type (unless it is a string_view analog) to make it an apples to apples comparison.

New comment by fractaled in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

fractaled — Sun, 19 May 2024 01:52:44 +0000

Does being the destroyer in the dark forest scenario not reveal yourself to other destroyers?

Also while I'm sure a relativistic kill vehicle could neutralize a planet, will it also get all the populated moons/orbitals in the system? What if the target species is already multi-system?

New comment by fractaled in "Chromium bug bounty money tree browser"

fractaled — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 16:23:12 +0000

It might be better to say raw_ptr is a dumb pointer wrapper. raw_ptr is discouraged in favor of unique_ptr/WeakPtr/RefCounted; but it is used in places where you'd have a T* at rest.

New comment by fractaled in "Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around"

fractaled — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 05:14:19 +0000

IMO the friendly fire on his camp was a cover/false flag to begin the "march for justice". The coordination/speed his coup attempt had couldn't be set up in such a short amount of time (since the "friendly fire" incident), so it was planned for at least a few weeks.

New comment by fractaled in "Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?"

fractaled — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 15:20:20 +0000

I don't think this logic applies to the demographics of today. The total number of humans to have ever lived is calculated to be ~105 billion. So assuming you're applying that logic to today, you're one of the most recent ~7%, which doesn't seem that remarkable -- at least not to the point of assuming fatalistic scenarios.

New comment by fractaled in "New AMD side channel attacks discovered, impacts Zen architecture"

fractaled — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 04:24:49 +0000

I'm pretty sure the issue with Spectre/Meltdown is about an OS process reading other processes' (or kernel) memory. These are fundamentally chip issues, not developer issues.

See https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/02/escaping-chro....

New comment by fractaled in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

fractaled — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 02:13:54 +0000

* Planet Nine discovered/spotted * No evidence for Dark matter WIMP theory * Firefox switches to blink

New comment by fractaled in "Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious"

fractaled — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:13:18 +0000

What doesn't work with short division and multi-digit divisors?

New comment by fractaled in "A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy"

fractaled — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:49:40 +0000

A web search says your approach (which I admit I don't follow) is off by a factor of 40 -- the Sun moves approximately 500k mph around the galactic center. A speed 8x slower than the star mentioned in the article.

New comment by fractaled in "Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones"

fractaled — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 04:11:25 +0000

FWIW, Bill Warner's PhD is in math & physics.

New comment by fractaled in "Fixing JSON"

fractaled — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:54:04 +0000

It wouldn't be JSON then. Give this new thing a new name and move on.

New comment by fractaled in "How Blue Lights on Train Platforms Combat Tokyo’s Suicide Epidemic"

fractaled — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:59:34 +0000

I read that to mean there was only one study that was randomized & controlled.

Basically when you say "there are studies that show X" you aren't saying anything because "studies" are cheap unless your methodology is rigorous and sound, which isn't the case a lot of the time.

New comment by fractaled in "Increasing Variety on Pluto's Close Approach Hemisphere and a Dark Pole on Charon"

fractaled — Sun, 28 Jun 2015 02:11:24 +0000

Speaking of scale, Pluto is more than 2.6 billion miles from Earth at closest approach :).

New comment by fractaled in "Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011)"

fractaled — Sun, 21 Jun 2015 03:25:33 +0000

Setting up the wait for 10k file descriptors will still be O(n), the actual wait is O(1). And presumably you're waiting many times, and not changing which 10k files you're polling for each wait. Each wait is O(1) because the kernel just calls you back when your wait is satisfied -- it associates a list of waiters for each file descriptor.

New comment by fractaled in "Why Our Brains Love High Ceilings"

fractaled — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 02:52:58 +0000

So, to paraphrase, "if things were not as they are we could come to a different conclusion". Yes, that is a thought, it was not worth writing down though.

New comment by fractaled in "Why Uber Might Well Be Worth $18 Billion"

fractaled — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:48:35 +0000

In Seattle, over the last 8 years I've averaged 2933$/year on my car (which I own outright). That includes insurance, licensing fees, parking, gas, maintenance, tickets, rental costs, gps, and tolls.

I don't think you can make a compelling case for a taxi service vs car ownership based on cost -- but rather convenience.

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New comment by fractaled in "-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code"

New comment by fractaled in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

New comment by fractaled in "Three Observations"

New comment by fractaled in "A Deep Dive into German Strings"

New comment by fractaled in "A Deep Dive into German Strings"

New comment by fractaled in "Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates"

New comment by fractaled in "Chromium bug bounty money tree browser"

New comment by fractaled in "Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around"

New comment by fractaled in "Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?"

New comment by fractaled in "New AMD side channel attacks discovered, impacts Zen architecture"

New comment by fractaled in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

New comment by fractaled in "Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it makes them anxious"

New comment by fractaled in "A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy"

New comment by fractaled in "Multiplying and dividing with Hindu-Arabic numerals and with Roman ones"

New comment by fractaled in "Fixing JSON"

New comment by fractaled in "How Blue Lights on Train Platforms Combat Tokyo’s Suicide Epidemic"

New comment by fractaled in "Increasing Variety on Pluto's Close Approach Hemisphere and a Dark Pole on Charon"

New comment by fractaled in "Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011)"

New comment by fractaled in "Why Our Brains Love High Ceilings"

New comment by fractaled in "Why Uber Might Well Be Worth $18 Billion"

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