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by Someone 4mo ago
FTA: Norway will start building the first full-size ship tunnel in the world And “Full-size” means what? Sea-faring? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_tunnel lists several tunnels that ships can pass through, and ht
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by Someone 4mo ago
> how to insert struct in an object oriented language as an intractable problem, whereas a good implementation with .net (as far as I can tell) has been out there for nearly 30 years. And C# was shameless about stealing from other langua
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by Someone 4mo ago
FTA: The reply I received a few days later did me the favour of putting the violation on the record. Their position, in their own words, was that "in order to receive marketing / offers, it is a condition to be a member of the cus
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by Someone 4mo ago
> How .net got so many things right where java did not is a mystery to me Part of the reason for that is that Java is older. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)... : “In interviews and techn
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by Someone 4mo ago
There’s a “Repositories” link at the top of the page that links to https://lore.org/#repositories , WhyHow links to various GitHub repos, including https://github.com/EpicGames/lore , which claims to hav
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by Someone 4mo ago
Maybe, but that text says “as if” and even “If an error occurs, the resulting value of the file position indicator for the stream is indeterminate. If a partial element is read, its value is indeterminate.” so it doesn’t in any way requ
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by Someone 4mo ago
> For now I think Hide My Email is for power users! It's on the user side to manage their identities. My current workflow: > - Label Hide My Email with the service name I registered with it. I think the ‘normal’ way to do it is w
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by Someone 4mo ago
> The standard says that fread calls fgetc multiple times for each object: >> For each object, size calls are made to the fgetc function and the results stored, in the order read, in an array of unsigned char exactly overlaying the
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by Someone 4mo ago
They haven’t been actively maintaining it for years. https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/26/apples-dormant-cups/ : “It looks like nothing has happened with Apple’s code since a security fix in 2022, and
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by Someone 4mo ago
I glanced at https://github.com/busterb/libc-openbsd/blob/master/stdio/fr... and https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/third_party/gli... . The latter (as usual when
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Which basically expanded back in the day to 65k reads of 1 byte for several MB file. Each fread translated to 65k reads of ReadFile Windows API What software did that that badly? If the code asks for (up to) 65,536 single byte items, w
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by Someone 4mo ago
I would think the color spaces of most displays have that, don’t they? The bevel of a black iPhone is darker than its screen, even when powered off. Similarly, switched off CRT displays aren’t truly black.
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by Someone 4mo ago
FTA: I was serializing asset structs directly to disk (pak file) that had raw pointers in them I’m surprised that that works in WASM. Wouldn’t a tiny change in your memory usage (say if you toggle your “log startup progress” flag) load data
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by Someone 4mo ago
> And that was Jobs argument, that it was too resource intensive. One of his arguments, and not the most important one. Looking at https://newslang.ch/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Thoughts-on-F... , he s
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by Someone 4mo ago
Correct link: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/13/pcc-severely-li... Alternatively, correct title: Accessing Private Cloud Compute
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by Someone 4mo ago
> because it is essentially the hosting that they are providing as a product That would be true _if_ they were forced to open source all their code, but it isn’t today. > Even if, say, google open sources its whole search infrastructu
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by Someone 4mo ago
FTA: “The final authority must sit behind a deterministic, non-bypassable gate. AI must never hold direct permissions for destructive, irreversible actions (deleting a production database, moving funds, pushing to prod). So the last line o
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by Someone 4mo ago
Some parts still are wastelands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_rouge : “The Zone rouge (French for 'Red Zone') is a chain of non-contiguous areas throughout northeastern France that the French government
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by Someone 4mo ago
That, and more, is available from Jordan Mechner’s site https://www.jordanmechner.com . Prince of Persia info at https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/library/#pop
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by Someone 4mo ago
Neat trick, but for binary logical operations, C++ already has alternative tokens. See https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/operator_alternativ...
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by Someone 4mo ago
> I plan on using this as a sort of benchmark for future AI discussions: "how do you plan on separating data from instructions?" You let a second LLM supervise the first, and don’t give the user/customer any way to send in
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by Someone 4mo ago
> Apple has significant metrics on the rates at which users are upgrading to a new OS, or not. You can opt-out of sharing that data How? Aren’t all update requests made to, and all updates downloaded from their servers? Also, doesn’t the
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> I am not quite sure they look like bears From the front, they somewhat do. See https://uconnladybug.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
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by Someone 4mo ago
> which is actually a notification that your child made it to school safely. Look at the screenshot closely (i don’t think you did). That’s a genuinely useful feature. Is it? I would think that the useful notification would be “Erica did
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by Someone 4mo ago
> where you want to guarantee no table scan ever. If hints are what they say they are, they cannot guarantee anything. And they indeed are hints. FTA: “The documentation is explicit: advice "can only produce plans the core planner
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by Someone 4mo ago
AFAIK, that wasn’t solely a matter of picking the optimal compilation flags. It also included profile-guided optimizations and kernel tweaks.
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by Someone 4mo ago
I see I wasn’t clear enough. The tool I discussed generates multiple binaries and then packs all of them into a single binary. I was referring to the former. https://github.com/ronnychevalier/cargo-multivers : “After b
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by Someone 4mo ago
Google Cloud, but, the way I read it, not Google’s AI offerings. They, basically, hire Google servers to run their software on it. They also (claim to) ensure those servers run only software they have approved to run on it. (Part of their s
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> so instead it's piecemeal implementations mostly in numeric packages like eigen and lapack. Because that’s where the user-noticeable gains can be made. Using popcount in code you run once is going to shave off, maybe, 100 cycles.
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by Someone 4mo ago
Users do not care about that, but they want to not see type errors or warnings when they integrate your API in their code. That’s why you want to run their type checker on your API. you cannot know what “their type checker” is, so you want

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