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miffy900 commented on Uncertain<T>   nshipster.com/uncertainty... · Posted by u/samtheprogram
Pxtl · 3 days ago
10 years since commit and no attached documents besides a tiny readme. Pass.
miffy900 · 3 days ago
This is still some code, as opposed to no code. It does seem to model everything in the research paper.

Aside from the original research paper needing to be included in the repo, it definitely does not need anything more than what's already there. It all builds and compiles without errors, only 2 warnings for the library proper and 6 warnings for the test project. Oh and it comes with a unit testing project: 59 tests written that covers about 73% of the library code. Only 2 tests failed.

Even having a unit testing library means it beats out like 50% of all repos you see on GitHub.

miffy900 commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock   wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
miffy900 · 7 days ago
Anyone here arguing that we should just let Intel fail in the market needs to understand that Intel is struggling right now partly because Asian nations like South Korea and Taiwan have for years subsidized their own chip making companies because they knew that in the long term, it was going to be an important strategic industry that would eventually be worth the effort and trouble. Now look where we are. Their long term strategy has paid off. Only TSMC is at the cutting edge, and Samsung is a fairly distant, but still reasonably close, secondary player.

Maybe there are better ways to prop up Intel besides the government taking a stake, but losing Intel would be a huge blow to American manufacturing interests. There's been a failure of strategic vision, both at Intel and in the American government. I think as a short term measure, taking a stake isn't the worst thing the government could do at this time.

Also to go off on a tangent a bit: this is one of the benefits of having a Trump-like character as President; he's clearly not beholden to any ideology and is extremely flexible when it comes to making policy decisions, even when a certain policy might be more at home with the opposing party or side of politics.

miffy900 commented on Uncle Sam shouldn't own Intel stock   wsj.com/opinion/uncle-sam... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
lisbbb · 7 days ago
The handwringing over Trump continues and is completely unwarranted. Obama bailed out the entire banking industry to horrifying moral hazard. The US is bailing out Intel for national security reasons and taking a 10% stake is a better deal for US taxpayers than how typical bailouts like GM played out. Sheesh! It's like you can't even read a news story these days without seeing the anti-Trump bias programmed into the article.
miffy900 · 7 days ago
So, the one bad thing that sticks out about what Trump is doing now, is that he's adding more conditions to the money that has already been legally disbursed by Congress. Under the CHIPS act, Intel is already eligible to receive the money; Trump is illegally adding more conditions for Intel to receive the money, after the fact. To do this legally, the act needs to be amended. As simple as that. Anything more than that is illegal.
miffy900 commented on U.S. drinking rate at new low as alcohol concerns surge   news.gallup.com/poll/6933... · Posted by u/sfjailbird
moi2388 · 11 days ago
“May have”, sure. Everything “may have” negative effects.

I’m saying that in actuality, you won’t be able to see any damage if somebody drank a beer once, because there isn’t any.

miffy900 · 10 days ago
> I’m saying that in actuality, you won’t be able to see any damage if somebody drank a beer once, because there isn’t any.

Which, again, is not a claim that was ever made in the article. You are literally making things up and arguing against your own made up arguments, and framing it as if the article originally made them. No where in the article does it say that.

It's also weird that you would have a such a vehement reaction towards the quote

> "recent research indicating that any level of alcohol consumption may negatively affect health"

to the point of making things up. How on earth is such a statement even at all remotely controversial?

miffy900 commented on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers   fortune.com/2025/08/11/st... · Posted by u/zdw
Arnavion · 19 days ago
Could be a monitor with a mini PC on the back.
miffy900 · 11 days ago
Nope. On closer inspection, it's a tablet resting on a stand; it's not mounted with a VESA clamp or arm like most monitors would be. You can see the USB charging cable is plugged into the side of the tablet as well. When you compare it to the keyboard and headphones next to it, it must be about 11-13 inches in size, so it's unlikely to hold a mini PC on the back as it wouldn't be heavy enough to prevent toppling over. The stand would be bigger too if it could hold a mini PC.
miffy900 commented on Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say   washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/spenvo
ThinkBeat · a month ago
I have spent far too much of my life on SharePoint. Having it internet facing has never been a good idea. Not really what it is meant for, though the promo verbiage on that has changed over different versions.

Some folks wanted SharePoint as their "web server", I would set that installation up entirely separted from all other instances they may have on the network.

miffy900 · a month ago
Actually it wasn't too long ago, in the early-2010's, that Microsoft was promoting SharePoint for internet sites; I think at one point some Europoean car manufacturer (BMW? Ferrari?) had their global marketing site on SharePoint. Of course that didn't last long, as Microsoft licensed it at a crazy price ($40k per site or something like that).
miffy900 commented on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous   theregister.com/2025/07/1... · Posted by u/rntn
peterdemin · 2 months ago
I hate how this is acceptable to make such claims about another country without providing any evidence. Same goes for Chinese or Russian hackers. It’s just whoever the US government is unhappy about.
miffy900 · 2 months ago
The article itself is evidence. There are many more links in it to other stories that report on basically the same or similar incidents. There are also several names in the article itself that you can research or probe on your own to tell if it's coming from a trustworthy source.

Consider also the author: it's written by an actual journalist/editor with a large body of pre-existing work in the field, and many of the claims written are backed up by quotes from a named source. It's not like they're writing all this and hiding it behind the weasel phrase 'according to a source close to the matter'.

The register too is actually UK founded, so it's not even American.

Your reaction is just so typical of people nowadays - just assume it's all 'made up' without any effort in debunking or picking apart any specific claims.

miffy900 commented on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous   theregister.com/2025/07/1... · Posted by u/rntn
abrookewood · 2 months ago
But it is so late in the process to catch them - hours wasted by so many people.
miffy900 · 2 months ago
True, but at that point it's still not too late to prevent paying money that will ultimately end up in the NK government hands.
miffy900 commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
ricardobeat · 3 months ago
Unlikely. Frosted glass blur was introduced almost twelve years ago in iOS 7, and was supported all the way down to the iPhone 4. Many apps like control center have used a full screen blur without any performance issues for a long time.

Apple at the time created their own 'approximate gaussian blur' algorithm specifically to enable this, and it ran crazy fast on devices where a simple gaussian blur would barely achieve double digit FPS. Even if this 'liquid glass' effect is heavier to compute, on the hardware we have today it will be a negligible performance concern.

miffy900 · 3 months ago
> Unlikely. Frosted glass blur was introduced almost twelve years ago in iOS 7, and was supported all the way down to the iPhone 4. Many apps like control center have used a full screen blur without any performance issues for a long time.

"Without any performance issues"? Entirely false - reviews at the time noted iOS 7 dramatically reduced battery life - all across the board for Apple devices, even for the then latest iPhone 5S and 5c (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/ios-7-thoroughly-rev...).

The abuse of transparency/translucency in the UI was the primary reason - you could go to Accessibility settings and disable animations + transparency/translucency and get notable increases in both runtime speed of the OS UI and battery life.

miffy900 commented on Redesigned Swift.org is now live   swift.org/... · Posted by u/lawgimenez
pier25 · 3 months ago
Anyone using Swift for web backend?

I looked into Vapor but it seems much slower than it should be for a compiled language.

miffy900 · 3 months ago
I tried seeing how it ranks on the 2025 tech empower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

And up against C#, Go and C++, Vapor could not make the top 70.

Even just compare Swift vs PHP and its a really poor showing for vapor: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23&l=v...

u/miffy900

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