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Roguelazer

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    People are literally dependent on it

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  • I was on the bus yesterday and was watching someone copy numbers out of Excel, paste them in Gemini, ask it "what is the total of these numbers", then paste the answer back into Excel. I truly despair for the brains of some of the most AI-pilled folks.

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • MySQL often has moderately higher performance (particularly for workloads where you want your data clustered by PK, which is how InnoDB is natively structured) and its replication system is much more flexible than either of PostgreSQL's. I like Percona personally, but MariaDB is fine too.

  • How did we arrive at today's common word sizes?

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  • To answer your specific question: no. There have been and continue to be lots of CPUs that have things that could plausibly be called a "bit size" that aren't a power of 2. Note that the "bit size" can refer to a few things (the width of the bus between the CPU and memory, the native size of a pointer, and/or the native width of the arithmetic units). I'll give examples of each.

    On essentially every "64-bit" computer, the bus to memory is not 64 bits wide. For example, the Apple M4 ARM CPUs are 64-bit but have a 128-bit memory bus over which they communicate something like 43-bit physical addresses. ARM has always been this way; the original 32-bit ARM1 had 26-bit physical addresses.

    As to pointer size, the best example is probably the currently-being-developed CHERI architecture which is 64-bit arithmetic but 129-bit pointers.

    For an arithmetic unit example, the floating-point unit on Intel CPUs was traditionally 80 bits wide. These days, it's emulated on a 128-bit wide SSE unit but you still see 80 bits in code a bit.

  • My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it?

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  • Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

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  • Who would’ve thought those Arkady Martine books would be so prescient?

  • Question about price discovery and competition in american capitalism

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  • A startlingly high fraction of US businesses rely on a combination of tax evasion, accounting fraud, and wage theft to make the business work. Everyone knows this, but it's still sufficient reason to keep reporting minimal.

  • Gemini : How to wire a plug

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  • Doesn't this just bond neutral to ground? It's definitely illegal and will kill you if some other device has a short and makes ground hot, but at least it's not a suicide cord

  • Reddest vs Bluest american baby names. Note these are NOT the most common names. Just the names with the biggest red-blue state prevalence divide.

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  • So this is just binary red/blue? Seems iffy given how diverse states are (eg there are about as many Republican voters in "blue" California or in "red" Florida because California is way larger). I wonder what this would look like at the county level...

  • Top employer in each state, 1990 vs 2024

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  • no, I'm sure the majority is in poorly paid roles: janitors, food prep, entry level techs

  • Big Beautiful Bill Keeps Falling Apart, Will Pass Anyway

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  • Nobody in that coalition wants to think about their shit real life pulling in social security and living in a ticky tacky detached shitbox off a stroad in a suburb; they all envision themselves as temporarily inconvenienced mega millionaires whose biggest problem would be the capital gains tax rate if only those dang immigrants, brown people, women, and purple-haired hippies would stop repressing them. It's e the American way!

  • California Sen. Alex Padilla handcuffed at Noem news conference in LA

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  • Exhausted with CloudFlare Turnstile becoming the front door of every website

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  • Cloudflare actually does have a way to avoid seeing these, using a zero-knowledge proof backed by a hardware security module (they call it Cloudflare Private Access Tokens). As far as I know, Apple is still the only one who's implemented it and it only works in Safari on iPhones, iPads, and M-series Macs. Maybe some day other vendors will add support too!

    Of course, there are already scrapers that use arrays of real phones to do scraping/app automation, so widespread adoption of PATs would just push more traffic to be proxied through physical devices instead of headless browsers in AWS somewhere...

  • Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?

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  • Jeff Atwood (stack overflow and discourse cofounder) seems pretty cool for someone who made a shitton of money in tech. Everyone I know who's met him says he's a nice and normal human being, and he's currently funding a UBI program as well as giving copiously to high-quality charities.

  • Pocket shutting down

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  • Maybe Kobo will finally make an API for loading articles so we can send them from Instapaper/Raindrop/Pinboard/etc...

  • FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

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  • Until they actually publish the policy, who knows, right? Just because that was the "high risk" list last time doesn't mean that the new FDA won't declare that the only risk factor is having a golf handicap above 3...

  • FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

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  • This appears to be the relevant place to leave feedback, FWIW. I posted a comment this morning!

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    Roguelazer @lemmy.world

    FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say

    www.statnews.com /2025/05/20/fda-vaccine-framework-new-covid-shot-recommendations-vinay-prasad-marty-makary/

  • What Happens When "AI"-Generated Lies Are More Compelling than the Truth?

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  • I'd go farther and suggest that the causation goes the other way. People are willing to use "AI" tools only because we've already shattered the notion of objective truth. OpenAI wouldn't exist today without millions of people gleefully accepting the cry of "fake news" 9 years ago.

  • What Happens When "AI"-Generated Lies Are More Compelling than the Truth?

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  • Artificial intelligence, perhaps humanity’s greatest monument to logical thinking

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  • Java Bros

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  • Poor Visual J# (literal Microsoft Java) isn't even in the picture