balsoft

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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t that like saying, that you can’t control your mouse?

That's a bit ableist. Some people have issues with motor skills, or just a bad mouse that jumps all over the place. You have to make unnecessary stuff like this at least opt-out.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Sure, but at that point you can also just write assembly. I'm talking about "idiomatic" code in the language itself.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Rust is fundamentally more limiting than C, even with unsafe. It is often faster if you write naive code (because the Rust compiler can optimize more aggressively due to those same limitations), but an experienced developer with a lot of time for optimization will probably be able to squeeze more performance out of C than they would out of Rust - as you can see in this example. Rust is still better because those limitations all but guarantee that the resulting code will be safer, and the performance differences would be negligible all things considered.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't have any specific technical info. I just know that even 3 years ago the face recognition tech in Moscow could successfully match people even with sunglasses on.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I respectfully disagree -- fully automated luxury gay space communism or bust!

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be so pessimistic. When more people personally experience survelliance abuse, things will get interesting.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Sunglasses alone are not enough either. Modern face recognition tech is way better than just distance ratios

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Are there any AES countries without mass surveillance though? Honest quesion.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

There is no effective technical solution for political problems. If you find one, it will soon be outlawed or rendered ineffective (eg if you wear mask and sunglasses, prepare to be harassed by law enforcement). Lobbying to stop unconstrained surveillance is the only option.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did you read the article?

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's quite obviously := a.k.a ≔. Already used by Go and others.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

I'm not gonna lie, I ate the meta-onion on this one

 

This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710

Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363

Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

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Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215

I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

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I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)

This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.

The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

 

Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.

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