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901.
by Someone 1y ago
> I will never not find this kind of project incredibly impressive I wouldn’t call it incredibly impressive. The path on how to write a minimal multi-tasking kernel has been beaten decades ago. Writing a kernel that can boot and do a f
902.
by Someone 1y ago
They use the glasses as camera and to display the results of identification, but identification (of course) uses backend infrastructure. The glasses make it easier and less conspicuous, but their method would work equally well using any dec
903.
by Someone 1y ago
If it’s the only alternative to being broken: yes. It could read and parse the file the first time a thread gets created, too. A cheaper alternative is to check the modification time of the config file, and only reparse it in pthread_cancel
904.
by Someone 1y ago
> Then it needs to sort them if there is more than one address. And in order to do that it needs to read /etc/gai.conf I don’t see why glibc would have to do that inside a call to getaddrinfo . can’t it do that once at libra
905.
by Someone 1y ago
As written, it is UB, yes, but certainly in C++, and, I think, also in C, using a union is undefined behavior, too. I think (assuming isn’t and float to be of the same size) the main risk is that, if you do union { float f; i
906.
by Someone 1y ago
> So why does it take minutes to compile? I’m not claiming anything about it being I/O or compute bound, but you are missing some sources of I/O: - the compiler reads many source files (e.g. headers) multiple times - the compil
907.
by Someone 1y ago
> For portable Apple devices, the max memory you can get currently is 24GB IIRC It isn’t cheap, but you can buy a 16 inch MacBook Pro with 128GB unified memory today.
908.
by Someone 1y ago
If he didn’t get any human help, “carefully reviewed” must mean “LLM X, carefully review this code that LLM Y wrote” or even worse, LLM X carefully reviewing its own code.
909.
by Someone 1y ago
On MacOS and iOS/iPadOS, you can search for them by name. Doesn’t help with “what are they trying to say?”, but does help with your “how do I say FOO?”
910.
by Someone 1y ago
https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html has a list of factors for inclusion (example: “is legible and visibly distinctive”) and a list of factors for exclusion (example: “is overly specific”) I don’t think Unicode.org
911.
by Someone 1y ago
I do not have data, but I do have arguments. If the economics do not work out, why did they chose to create infrastructure and take on the burden of supporting it instead of implementing backups to the popular cloud providers, and not havin
912.
by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “This is the first time we’ve offered a paid feature. The reason we’re doing this is simple: media requires a lot of storage, and storing and transferring large amounts of data is expensive” Those costs are for doing backups to their
913.
by Someone 1y ago
> The way I approached Forth was to create a DSL that made it easier to write the application in You must have had the luxury of zillions (that is: > 16 kilobytes) of RAM and ROM. > The biggest issues that I had with Forth were: […
914.
by Someone 1y ago
I guess that hardware doesn’t make things faster (¿yet?). If so I guess they would have mentioned it in https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/core-ml-on-device... . That is updated for Sequoia and says “This techn
915.
by Someone 1y ago
> And of course there is Forth. Which always felt like it was just around the corner from some kind of breakthrough but it never really happened. Forth, (I think even more so than lisp), is fragmented, because its philosophy is not that
916.
by Someone 1y ago
FTA: “The B-29 had entered service in a little over three years since design work began. "It's very quick, even for World War Two standards," says Kinney” Not for German standards. Near the end of the war, their schedules w
917.
by Someone 1y ago
> For example, a moved-out-from tree in C++ could represent this by having its inner root pointer be nullptr, and then its dtor would have to check for the root being nullptr, delete null is fine in C++ [1], so, assuming root either
918.
by Someone 1y ago
> the only way to do all three would be to have a base class and list that I think the Swift way would be enum FooError: Error { case myError(MyError) case badError(BadError) case thirdError(ThirdError)
919.
by Someone 1y ago
> I think certainly the direction of copying is geos copying from Mac. Given that the Mac shipped with those patterns in early 1984 and GEOS in 1986, it can’t be Mac copying GEOS. That doesn’t mean it was GEOS copying Mac, though. Variou
920.
by Someone 1y ago
I also do not understand the intuition behind the assumption. To tie two knots together, you have to make a cut in both of them, and you have two ways to tie them together again. Doesn’t that introduce some opportunity to get rid of some co
921.
by Someone 1y ago
> I’ve noticed that most commercial Mac OS X software in the early days were Carbon applications, not Cocoa applications I think it’s a safe bet there were many more Mac applications than NeXT applications (that’s one of the reasons Carb
922.
by Someone 1y ago
I think that’s because of the last phrase in this provision in the DMA (article 13.4 in https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%... ): “The gatekeeper shall not engage in any behaviour tha
923.
by Someone 1y ago
If it does, other bijections such as compression or encryption, or conversion to images or movies would also avoid copyright infringement. ⇒ I don’t see that defense hold up in any reasonable court. It does make the infringement harder to f
924.
by Someone 1y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37997640 : “Three Dutch World War Two ships considered war graves have vanished from the bottom of the Java Sea, the Dutch defence ministry says. […] A report in the Guardian says th
925.
by Someone 1y ago
Archaeologists tend to keep such expeditions fairly hush-hush until they’re done with their research. If they don’t, they run the risk of treasure hunters ploughing through their find, destroying information, at night. So, the villagers lik
926.
by Someone 1y ago
- defense in depth means adding such an extra layer is a good idea - an app can 100% stay within its sandbox and still be nefarious. For example, a password manager could secretly send all your passwords to Mr(s) Evil.
927.
by Someone 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_second_law : “Rock's law or Moore's second law, named for Arthur Rock or Gordon Moore, says that the cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four y
928.
by Someone 1y ago
To protect their users they chose to include a feature that allows them to remotely kill nefarious apps on all devices, regardless of how they got installed. A consequence of that is that they cannot answer government requests to kill apps
929.
by Someone 1y ago
> As a result, the last five minutes were played out with neither team's players attempting to score That’s nothing compared to West Germany–Austria in the 1982 World Cup (linked from that page), where “The game progressively deteri
930.
by Someone 1y ago
The demographics of the audience also will hugely influence the value of advertising in your newsletter.

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