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by Someone 8mo ago
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/the-preview-of-fbounds-safety-i... : “-fbounds-safety is a language extension to enforce a strong bounds safety guarantee for C. Here is our original RFC. We are thrilled to announce that t
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by Someone 8mo ago
Where instructions end up in this visualization depends heavily on the way instructions get encoded. Because of that, I don’t think this visualization is useful for comparing instruction sets. As an extreme example, take the ARM64 instructi
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by Someone 8mo ago
> not least when capturing numbers as the numeric key pad has Enter not Tab. And “Enter” isn’t “Return”. I don’t know how the PC and PC software did it, but the Mac, when it got a numeric keypad, discriminated between return (on the alph
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Would we still get web browsers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system) is from the 1960s, so, technically, it certainly is possible. Whether it would make sense commercially to support a billion us
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by Someone 8mo ago
> unless you had a non-stock debugger attached and can run ExitToShell You could also directly jump into the ExitToShell code in ROM (G 49F6D8, IIRC). Later versions of Minibug had an “es” command that more or less did the same thing (th
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by Someone 8mo ago
> The Classic Mac OS model in general I think is the best that has been or ever will be in terms of sheer practical user power/control/customization A point for discussion is whether image-based systems are the same kind of thi
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by Someone 8mo ago
> I think having num and num32 is a mistake There still are lots of 32-, 16- and even 8-bits CPUs in active use. For those portable code that uses machine integers can make sense (and yes, it is harder to write because the integer limits
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Nothing implicit happens behind your back. And then, we have repeat i in range(0, n, 1) with an implicit “i = i + n”, followed by an implicit comparison. Also, range(0, n, 1) looks like a function call, but isn’t one, is it? O
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by Someone 8mo ago
The fork with malware embedded could fairly easily apply most commits to the main repo in its public repo. They could even have support pages that look real, by copying them from the legitimate site. And the process of creating a repo that
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by Someone 8mo ago
FTA: “For design reasons that are a complete mystery to me, the MMX registers are actually sub-registers of the x87 STn registers” I think the main argument for doing that was that it meant that existing OSes didn’t need changes for the n
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by Someone 8mo ago
If that’s what you have to do that makes LLMs look more like advanced fuzzers that take textual descriptions as input (“find code that segfaults calling x from multiple threads”, followed by “find changes that make the tests succeed again”)
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Advertising = compensating someone to promote a product / company. > It’s about the compensation. That makes it advertising. if you rent a billboard or space on Google.com, you’re not paying to promote a product/company; y
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by Someone 8mo ago
> They point to certain features they'd like them to change, but there is no specific ruling around what you can/can't do. The EU, in general, phrases laws and regulations more in terms of what they want to accomplish with
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by Someone 8mo ago
> What I do take issue with, however, is convincing everyone that your product is FOSS, waiting until people undertake a lot of work to integrate your product into their infrastructure, and then doing a bait-and-switch. But FOSS means “t
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by Someone 8mo ago
I think their primary difference is disc = optical, disk = magnetic. That’s what they mention first. All of that “in the UK”. Looking at the store, they’re using “SSD Storage” for SSD.
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by Someone 8mo ago
https://hylo-lang.org/introduction/ : > Okay, okay. Here’s the kind of program we envision writing in Hylo: subscript longer_of(_ a: inout String, _ b: inout String): String { if b.count() > a.count()
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by Someone 8mo ago
> On a high level, do I understand correctly that SIMD is close to how the hardware works, while Vector Processor is more of an abstraction? Not quite. It still is the same “process whatever number of items you can in parallel, decrease
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by Someone 8mo ago
> I built this because I found the workflow for combining documents on macOS frustrating. If I wanted to merge a receipt (web), an invoice (email), and a contract (Word), I had to "Print to PDF" each one to the desktop, open th
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Thanks to AI, we can play a Roman game again(maastrichtuniversity.nl)
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by Someone 8mo ago
I think the only sane way, if there is one, is to sandbox your LLM behind a fixed set of MCP servers that severely limit what it can do. Reading your mail, WhatsApp and bank transactions? May be OK if your LLM runs locally, but even then, i
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by Someone 8mo ago
> In my view nonnegative real numbers have good physical representations In my view, that isn’t even true for nonnegative integers. What’s the physical representation of the relatively tiny (compared to ‘most integers’) Graham’s number (
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by Someone 8mo ago
FTA: The design assumes S3 eventual consistency is your enemy S3 has done better than that since December 2020. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-update-strong-rea... : “Effective immediately, all S3 GET,
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by Someone 8mo ago
I see a link with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder_model : “The polder model (Dutch: poldermodel) is a method of consensus decision-making, based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policyma
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Why does it have to differ from an EV to a gas powered car? Because they have different design constraints. It didn’t take long for car manufacturers to figure out that a horseless carriage doesn’t have to look like a carriage. Early o
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Rich Oil Sheikh will reconsider their purchasing choices when it gets overtaken by a Chinese EV equivalent at 1/10th of the price. A car that John Doe can afford to buy isn’t a status symbol. Why would a rich oil sheik buy that? T
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by Someone 8mo ago
Is there some legal requirement to indicate the location of airbags because they contain explosives? If not, why does the steering wheel have an “AIRBAG” label at the bottom?
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by Someone 8mo ago
It’s a shader, not a renderer. The images are pre-rendered, but the shading is done in real time. ⇒ I think they’re correct in calling this a 3D shader .
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by Someone 8mo ago
> I guess this would always work with tally marks. This script overlays the marks, it doesn’t put them side by side. So, in the strict sense, this does not work with tally marks. If you write a tally mark on top of another tally mark, yo
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by Someone 8mo ago
> I'm confused at what speculative fiction exists from before the 1910s (or thereabouts) which involves FTL? I bet very little. We didn’t really know how enormous the universe is ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
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by Someone 8mo ago
> The shift from male to female is fascinating. In younger drivers accidents are disproportionately male, I guess due to high testosterone buffoonery but in older drivers it's disproportionately female. When you correct for populati

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