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tyree731 commented on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft   theregister.com/2025/04/1... · Posted by u/rntn
ryao · 8 months ago
Drivers can crash the rest of the kernel in Windows 7. People playing games during the Windows 7 days should remember plenty of blue screens citing either graphics drivers (mainly for ATI/AMD graphics) or their kernel anticheat software. Second, a “proof of correctness” has never been made for any kernel. Even the seL4 guys do not call their proof a proof of correctness.
tyree731 · 8 months ago
tyree731 commented on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other   fuelarc.com/news-and-feat... · Posted by u/NotInOurNames
redox99 · 9 months ago
The shortcomings of 2 year old software is not relevant, because that's not what the cars run now.
tyree731 · 9 months ago
By this argument, since Tesla regularly updates the software, no one can discuss the weaknesses in their self driving software.
tyree731 commented on Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages   nolanlawson.com/2024/10/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
bsder · a year ago
> Lots of very smart people have worked very hard on Python tools written in Python, yet the rust rewrites of those tools are so much faster.

So?

Some tool got written and did its job sufficiently well that it became a bottleneck worth optimizing.

That's a win.

"Finishing the task" is, by far, the most difficult thing in programming. And the two biggest contributors to that are 1) simplicity of programming language and 2) convenience of ecosystem.

Python and Javascript are so popular because they tick both boxes.

tyree731 · a year ago
Don’t disagree about finishing the task, but personally I don’t find more performant languages any less productive for the sort of programming I tend to do.
tyree731 commented on Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages   nolanlawson.com/2024/10/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
jpalawaga · a year ago
Anyone who has done a programming contest, advent of code, etc knows that the language doesn’t matter so much as your algorithm.

Yes, the language can bring a nice speed up, or might give you better control of allocations which can save a lot of time. But in many cases, simply picking the correct algorithm will deliver you most of the performance.

As someone who doesn’t JavaScript a lot, I’d definitely prefer a tool written in go and available on brew over something I need to invoke node and its environment for.

tyree731 · a year ago
Lots of very smart people have worked very hard on Python tools written in Python, yet the rust rewrites of those tools are so much faster. Sometimes it really is the programming language.
tyree731 commented on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/jimbob45
viccis · a year ago
>Outlawing them, like with prohibition in United States, just moves it all to black markets.

Ok, good, fine. You should have to seek out a black market connect to gamble on sports.

tyree731 · a year ago
Maybe a fine approach for the individual, but then the black market, and its general disregard for the law or the well being of others, comes along with them.
tyree731 commented on In the US opioid-maker Purdue is bankrupt. Its global counterparts make millions   washingtonpost.com/health... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
jart · a year ago
It's easier on people emotionally to blame the drug rather than blame the person.
tyree731 · a year ago
It doesn’t sound like you’re familiar with the case and why it’s being brought against Purdue Pharma. There is a whole lot more to this than “the drug” and “the person”.
tyree731 commented on Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran   gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-... · Posted by u/doruk101
38 · a year ago
I mean, so? Why should it matter where they are located?
tyree731 · a year ago
You may be surprised to discover that services will filter traffic by location.
tyree731 commented on Google is a monopoly – the fix isn't obvious   theregister.com/2024/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn
Someone · a year ago
> I don't know how Microsoft is not up for discussion when it's a behemoth

Because we think interfering with the free market is necessary when a company misuses market power, not solely when it is a behemoth.

tyree731 · a year ago
But Microsoft has misused their market power plenty of times, such as when they bundled Microsoft Teams with their enterprise contract at zero cost, destroying Slack's market value overnight.
tyree731 commented on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default   heise.de/en/news/For-adve... · Posted by u/firebaze
sotix · a year ago
Can companies not see how their ads are performing by looking at their income statements? An ad campaign costs x dollars. Widget sales increase by y dollars. Companies were able to run this method for a long time. I think ads have gone way too far. It’s shocking we’ve gotten to the point of this discussion on data collection to fuel ads.
tyree731 · a year ago
In the aggregate, yes, but in the specific, no. Companies nowadays want to see which advertising channels and specific ads, over a given period of time, are performing, so as to decide how to better invest their ad spend
tyree731 commented on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate   dronedj.com/2024/06/14/dj... · Posted by u/huerne
throwaway_j12 · 2 years ago
Doesn't this seem at odds with the facts?

China isn't militarily supporting Russia or Ukraine. Ukraine's drone army is built from cheap Chinese drones. China is neutral. The argument that it hasn't sanctioned Russia means it is a party to the war on Russia's side is an argument of the form "if you aren't with us, you are against us." But then, you'd think the US would levy the same kind of vitriol at e.g. India.

China is led by a General Secretary of the Communist Party's central committee. Taiwan and China are recognized by the United States by international treaty as one country.

China is "attacking" the US? The US and China are in economic warfare (an economic war started by the United States under the Trump Administration). The reason for this is the US sees China's economic rise as a threat to its global position.

tyree731 · 2 years ago
> China is neutral.

Neutrality in the face of gross violations of international law amounts to tacit support. And yes, I understand that you have addressed this point in your comment, but whataboutism gets us nowhere. If a country is violating human rights, they should be held accountable.

> Taiwan and China are recognized by the United States by international treaty as one country.

A treaty not worth the paper it's written on. It's clear that the United States would defend Taiwan militarily were it to come to that, so mentioning as a reason to punish China that China continues to provoke Taiwan militarily is very relevant.

> The reason for this is the US sees China's economic rise as a threat to its global position.

Ahh yes, of course, this war being entirely the US' fault.

u/tyree731

KarmaCake day319April 8, 2010View Original