PhilipRoman

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by PhilipRoman 6d ago
In C, const can also answer B, but only in non-pointer contexts.
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by PhilipRoman 9d ago
The doc won't point it out explicitly and I apologize if my explanation offends anybody, but the intention is basically leftist, state-friendly bitcoin. The authors took a look at the anarchy of real cryptocurrencies and realized they
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by PhilipRoman 10d ago
The way caches are managed in CI is bonkers (at least in GitLab, but GitHub probably does the same). I guess it's built to conveniently work with the simplest of projects. I had to reimplement the mechanism by hand just to get basic th
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by PhilipRoman 13d ago
and for programs that don't respect this convention ./--file
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by PhilipRoman 14d ago
I'd say Java's virtual threads are also a parallelism construct (at least in the performance sense, not logical guarantees), since they're scheduled on a pool.
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by PhilipRoman 14d ago
Just to nitpick, it's a 8MB-sized mapping, not 8MB of RAM.
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by PhilipRoman 18d ago
Write a subleq interpreter with a magnet and a steady hand? (Hopefully the magnet is not compromised)
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by PhilipRoman 21d ago
I can believe that... We've had logging macros break because line numbers no longer fit in an u16 I would love a TV show like "Hell's kitchen" except it's code bases and development processes.
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by PhilipRoman 1mo ago
W^X is typically per mapping, not per memory page and does not interfere with JIT compilation.
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by PhilipRoman 1mo ago
"per band" is also hilarious, as if you could get that kind of data rate in 2.4GHz
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by PhilipRoman 1mo ago
Am I missing something? For practical use you only care if it carries a certain amount of packets per second without excessive retries, not whether it preserves the waveform exactly.
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by PhilipRoman 1mo ago
I even saw it using the -bearing suffix in other cases, like describing a function responsible for 802.11 radar detection as "radar-bearing"
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
This is an underappreciated point when people talk about AI/chat integrations. If they put a claude-level model behind it, I'm sure it could resolve 99% of the situations faster and better than a human could, or at least realize i
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
On the other hand, there are vastly fewer rich people than poor, so for many things it doesn't matter if they can pay the fine. If only millionaires were littering, the streets would be quite clean.
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
It's very difficult to do it smoothly with no downtime, but all it takes is one emergency for the existing workflows to be thrown out. Companies suffer emergencies and data losses all the time and nothing ever actually happens, they ge
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
It still has much better latency than modern NVMEs and much, much better write endurance (probably not critical for AI workloads)
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
I think the only significant mistake was having both prefix and postfix operators for types. If they all neatly sat on one side there would be no problem.
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
There seems to be a severe lack of hash pinning in "modern" software ecosystems. We figured out how to do it 20+ years ago with Git bringing hash addressed storage to the masses. Coming from a different background it was very surp
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
Probably something on your end, it is using a normal letsencrypt cert
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
I expected this to be a font which shuffles characters and glyphs (requiring more effort to type it) resulting in nonsensical text but visually readable page.
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by PhilipRoman 2mo ago
Yeah I have some devices that expect the manufacturer charger (I guess it's pre-negotiated to 19V or something) and I'm not even sure what was the point in giving it a USB C connector.
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
Does the server also handle TLS internally, or is it behind a proxy? For comparison, statically linked darkhttpd is around 138K
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
This is true but I can do the same on free ChatGPT without even logging in. I wouldn't pay $5 a month for that functionality, much less $20 (or >$1000 to be able to run it at home). SOTA AI for "serious" work is in a diffe
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
If you're already losing and losses are capped past some point (worst case just kill yourself), high stakes gambling is quite logical. Of course in reality, gamblers are rarely driven by game-theoretical analysis.
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
When we talk about "E2EE" messenger apps, that usually means more than just using HTTPS. VPNs can certainly help with encryption in transit, but that's a very different concept. Unfortunately this comes up a lot, with people
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
How are VPNs related to end-to-end encryption?
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
Hah, someone from UK seems to have a camera pointing to his cannabis plants... Hopefully the guy has a "loicense" for that, otherwise it would be a hilarious way to get busted
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
Isn't consulting one of the most high-margin areas in general?
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
Right up there with fun, safe math optimizations
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by PhilipRoman 3mo ago
I believe 32-bit was chosen partially due to implementation efficiency reasons. It makes sense because you can allocate a 4GB mapping, so there is no need for a second software virtual memory layer. Also perhaps they internally require tagg

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