Uyghur slavery represents a very small fraction of Chinese labor. Yes, it is a human rights abuse and should absolutely be stopped, but bringing it up every time someone talks about a Chinese product with no known ties to slave labor is an anti-asian dogwhistle.
China is a big place, with 10x as many people as in the U.S. Let’s try not to generalize about 3 billion people.
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Hello and welcome to the club! It depends on your skill level. For some it can be very difficult to install any OS, Linux or not.
I’d recommend practicing on a VM first to verify your technical chops.
Step 1: Download virtualbox and create a new Linux virtual machine with 30 GB of disk space.
Step 2: Download a Linux ISO and mount it in the VM.
Step 3: Maximize the VM window and install Linux.
Step 4: Play around with your new Linux installation as though it were your real OS.
An interesting project I quickly threw together after finding out that Godot can call javascript’s “eval” function. You can really do anything with this engine....
Corporate murders happen, but usually overseas, and usually not when they’ve already testified.
Do you have a source for that? I doubt there’s graph of “workers murdered by companies, by country” or “murders, pre- vs post- whistleblowing” so it sounds like that might be at best an educated guess, or at worst pro-US bias.
The only stats I could find show that historically the US has had a terrible record for worker deaths during labor disputes.
But doesn’t your post show exactly why it would have been a good choice? Because now some random unaffiliated person on the internet is arguing that it was an accident.
I’m so tired of this freepressjournal trash, it’s always some clickbait article that looks like it was written by a child for a middle school book report. Can we stop posting throwaway sources like this and use real sources instead?
Anyone else think the play store has had such a constant decline to the point where you can barely find an app without being flooded with ads. I pretty much only use f droid at this point because the quality of apps is just higher
Let’s say we don’t care about the backendfrontend interconnection we see in most JS frameworks. We just want to program the backend. What would be the language of your choice?
Go could be a good option. I say this as a Rust and Kotlin fanboy.
Rust is great but it’s heavyweight for a simple webserver. Kotlin is great but requires a lot of setup. Golang is super small, compiles very fast and predictably, and has easy concurrency. It’s possible for anyone to contribute to a Go project at any level of experience.
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This person is not being banned, they are being suspended.
It’s not due to a conflict of interest or lack of disclosure
It’s not for having the wrong opinions or being weird
Everyone including the moderators agree that this person is generally kind and respectful in tone
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I do all my development on the cheapest MacBook Air, which has the old M1 and only 8GB of RAM. It was $500, which is cheaper than most Windows workstations. I’ve never noticed performance issues, and I work on some absolute monsters of projects, including game dev in Rust and Godot.
In particular, it works waaaay better for Rust and TypeScript dev than my $3k Dell laptop, because unlike my Dell laptop it doesn’t crash every 3 hours and the battery lasts longer than 30 minutes. I can run docker with my full stack and it stays cool as a cucumber, no noticeable lag.
Just because you can buy 64GB of RAM doesn’t mean you need it. Laptops these days are more powerful than supercomputers used to be. If you just spend a little time tuning your applications you barely need any RAM.
Nit: I don’t have a lot of confidence that category theory will be useful here. Category theorists spend more time re-proving existing mathematics than doing anything novel. As evidenced by the Wikipedia article for Applied category theory being bereft of real-life examples.
But I agree, objective driven AI (reinforcement learning) has shown much more promise. It needs more work on neural net architectures and data efficiency, though, which are improvements that usually come from traditional supervised learning.
So the problem discovered is that the compiler can’t optimize the loops by unrolling them (due to floating point issues?). The proposed solution is to unroll the loop manually.
But wouldn’t it be much cleaner and more performant to just have a macro like #![allow lossy floating point optimizations] and let the compiler figure out the rest?
Compilers exist to compile and optimize things. Manually unrolling loops might improve performance on one machine, but completely break the program on another. It’s much safer and more performant in the long term to allow the compiler the leeway to optimize things the optimal way.
Every single time (programming.dev)
Biden announces 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles (www.theguardian.com)
White House levy to protect US makers from cheap imports likely to inflame trade tensions...
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT (www.tomshardware.com)
I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Bad Apple but it's made of browser checkmarks and is also in Godot. (www.youtube.com)
An interesting project I quickly threw together after finding out that Godot can call javascript’s “eval” function. You can really do anything with this engine....
Shower thought: Linux would be more popular if we could all agree on a distro
Linux is super fragmented (and generally has been historically)....
With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant
…and I don’t know which possibility is the least worrying
Second Boeing whistleblower dies in less than two months (www.newshub.co.nz)
For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report (www.freepressjournal.in)
play store is a nightmare
Anyone else think the play store has had such a constant decline to the point where you can barely find an app without being flooded with ads. I pretty much only use f droid at this point because the quality of apps is just higher
If you were to create a Fediverse server, with frontend being plan simple HTML only, what programming language and stack would you choose?
Let’s say we don’t care about the backendfrontend interconnection we see in most JS frameworks. We just want to program the backend. What would be the language of your choice?
Jon Ringer, a significant contributor to the NixOS project, has been banned (discourse.nixos.org)
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
But how would they be able to live on that? (lemmy.world)
Evidence is growing that LLMs will never be the route to AGI. They are consuming exponentially increasing energy, to deliver only linear improvements in performance. (arxiv.org)
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance in Rust (chrs.dev)