dicodev @dicodev

Solving problems one WTF at a time Italy Joined March 2013

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dicodev @dicodev

17 hours ago

@tautologer Looks like a pretty complex and dangerous job. It's inherently complex and the chances of getting killed look high. Are you sure that $500k is enough?

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23 hours ago

@TwiztedJCK @2oosm4ll Imagine a tornado hits a whole neighbourhood of razor filled houses

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dicodev @dicodev

a day ago

@xah_lee @grok For the energy problem: maybe joining solar panels and AC units

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Something that keeps me up at night is the amount of miscompiled software running in the wild. There’s a famous story, “the Core 59 problem” from Facebook where seemingly random files were missing in one of their Spark databases. After herculean levels of debugging, they narrowed the problem down to a single worker box, on a single CPU core, that was literally doing math wrong. The initial bug-reproducer was 430k(!) lines of code. Eventually they managed to create a 60-line snippet of assembly that reproduced the issue 100% of the time. What spooks me out is the possibility of an accidental durable artifact getting propagated to clean machines via compilation. Some (small) % of CPU cores in the wild are just plain bad, bad cores can compile static programs, said static programs can get signed and distributed, thus spreading an “infection” to perfectly healthy machines!

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Kai Lentit (e/xcel) @KaiLentit

7 days ago

Europeans right now without AC.

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dicodev @dicodev

6 days ago

Man, this is pure disinformation! Some dumbass out there could actually listen to you, stop using sunscreen forever and get skin cancer thanks to this (and similar) posts!

@levelsio @levelsio

6 days ago

I've been trying to convince my gf for years sunscreen is cancerous but have as of yet been wholly unsuccessful

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dicodev @dicodev

a week ago

@svpino Just like we have gyms, who wants to keep the brain fit, will start doing at least 1hr a day of problem solving exercises

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Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme

a week ago

A russian soldier called “Grom” raped Alisa Kovalenko for four days. Before that, they beat her. They threatened to cut off her fingers and her teeth. They promised they would get to her parents, and to her boyfriend. She was 27 – a documentary filmmaker who had come to Donetsk Oblast to film the beginning of Russia’s war. A taxi driver turned her in. Her partner, the French producer Stéphane Siohan, raised the alarm in the media. The public attention saved her. She was released. She carried what happened alone for more than a year before she could say it out loud – and then became one of the first women in Ukraine to say it anyway. Russia expected that to break her. In 2022, when they came back for the rest of the country, Kovalenko first got the heroes of her unfinished film to safety. Then she volunteered for the front – a mother of a small son, serving as an assault infantry soldier. She put it as simply as it can be put: “When you see even one form of Russian evil, you understand that it must be stopped at any cost.” They wanted a victim. They got a soldier. Source: Ukrainska Pravda

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dicodev @dicodev

a week ago

@parasitoahorro 370k? in my humble opinion: totally unsustainable. He will surely get back to work

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dicodev @dicodev

a week ago

@SandyofCthulhu I think it was burnout from both hard work and too much fame/success. What if the whole team never broke up? We will never know. By the way, you guys really lived the dream! The lakehouse, the coding "deathsprints": the dream! I cannot imagine something more fun for techie kids

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dicodev @dicodev

a week ago

@SandyofCthulhu Even though I played Id's games when I was a kid (Wolfenstein 3d, doom, quake) only recently I got passionate about the people involved and the history: it is pretty obvious that with Quake dev the whole team reached full burnout levels and something broke

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dicodev @dicodev

a week ago

@JesseTinsley Hi Jesse, can you explain the exact structure? I don't get how could something like that be implemented without incurring tax problems

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a week ago

@exQUIZitely @XRPee1983 When you're 20yo 5 years is a quarter of your life, when you're 50 it's just a tenth

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dicodev @dicodev

a week ago

@falconerd Man, what the hell are you talking about! Look at an engine: fuel comes in, smoke goes out. Look at a crude oil plant: oil comes in, gasoline goes out. Look at a human being: food comes in, crap goes out. Look at a banking sw platform: data comes in, data goes out. THAT'S IT!

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dicodev @dicodev

2 weeks ago

@KaliYugaSurfCo "Gradually, then suddenly"

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dicodev @dicodev

2 weeks ago

@marclou Man, it's self-evident that you are working hard, but your genetics must be insanely good

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dicodev @dicodev

2 weeks ago

@GergelyOrosz Considering that they are so happy to sacrifice everything on the altar of machine intelligence, it's pretty ironic that this misstep is due to one simple and extremely human reason: Zuckerberg's fear of missing out the AI train

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John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack

3 weeks ago

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.

Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy

3 weeks ago

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual

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dicodev @dicodev

3 weeks ago

@tibo_maker

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dicodev @dicodev

3 weeks ago

@esrtweet @zarahussain999 What is the point of targeting people that has nothing to do with what happened? Like a migrant that respects the law, pays taxes and is there just to work, grow his family and living a normal life