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Sometimes I wish English had more words. e.g. I want a separate word for "Snapshot" as a noun, and "Snapshot" as a verb. thanks in advance

Iran at fault for putting school under American Tomahawk missile, military experts say.

@mcc @whitequark @ariadne @lina I haven't really paid attention to what android and apple are doing these days, but i think a lot of this would be solvable by having some permissions be aggregates. e.g. "The web page wants to get the video calling and streaming permissions (fine print: which expand to blah blah blah and blah)". You unfortunately can't really let the application control the aggregate, but I think you could do a good job of simplifying the common use-cases for both apps and users.

@hruske flatpak takes granular permissions but it does not make them usable. Unless you expect the user to understand what "uses a legacy window system" means in terms of permissions. Sandboxing isn't easy, nor is seamlessly injecting permission prompts into applications which weren't designed for it, but the actually hard part is the permissions model. It needs to somehow be comprehensible by ordinary folks, while not overly constricting for 'power users'.

@whitequark @mcc @ariadne @lina

@JoshJers @TomF thankfully there's an easy answer for good avx512 support now - buy amd. :')

Okay one more hot take... To the people suggesting switching from chatgpt to claude because openai supports trump... Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha lmao

It's been nice doing absolutely no side project bullshit programming for the past couple of weeks. Turns out relaxing is much more relaxing when you actually relax.

everyone in the world will respond to a specific number of 2fa prompts in their lifetime. how many will you authenticate?

@pervognsen yeah. it's not a big issue for me really but what a mess. might be a bit more remote work than I was planning for... I haven't actually cancelled or had my flights cancelled yet but I'm guessing theres a lot of people shuffling things around.

hmm my return flight to sweden via dubai next month is looking somewhat dubious...

@steve i guess the thing with gpus is much of that kind of architectural detail is already dynamic-ish. it's less fun to have different wave sizes when you can already choose what width you want to launch at, and when every vendor is already different.

when are we getting big.LITTLE for GPUs

@scottmichaud @rygorous @regehr @joe the original gameboy pulled < 1W, it's super efficient!

@rygorous @regehr @joe 50W!? That's almost 1 whole incandescent lightbulb.

@regehr @joe thankfully with modern computers we also have 64 bits so we can now shift by UINT64_MAX

I wish there was a website like flight tracker - except it's a global parcel tracker.

Today's unhinged Microsoft teams feature. If you hover the user card it will now add fun facts about the person in addition to their title and location. E.g. "sent an email that has 16 reactions" containing a link to open the email. You know. Because that's normal.

@mkj @eniko not really, cmake is a generator for 'make-like' things. Make is a thing which you use to actually execute a build.

@eniko completely different, but cmake can generate make files.

@pervognsen it's definitely one of the games I've been thinking about replaying, eternally surprised that there's not been much else in the spacy scifi ship category. Kinda interested to see how it holds up.