ajross

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by ajross 1y ago
Never really understood Mozilla's position on remote device access. Yes, it's a risk, essentially by definition. It's no less so (and in particular absolutely not helping your browser product or the web platform!) if you jus
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by ajross 1y ago
> I confess that this kind of excuse drives me batty. The use case was "compiling code". My assumption was that anyone buying hardware for that application would understand stuff like filesystem performance, system tuning, als
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by ajross 1y ago
> Plenty of reports of people getting locked out of their Workspace accounts None substantiating the "most AI-kafkaesque process imaginable to regain access" upthread though. I mean, I don't know what you're citing s
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by ajross 1y ago
Sure, because it's not my logic! The founder in the linked article thought that she was on the right side of the line. She wasn't. You personally might think you're too smart to[1] fall afoul of this kind of thing and that
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by ajross 1y ago
I won't buy or recommend one just on principle. I've spent way too much of my life advocating for open firmware and user-customizable systems to throw it all in the trash for a few hours of battery. I absolutely tell everyone th
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by ajross 1y ago
> can't figure out what to do with even a fraction of the horsepower That's sort of the funny thing here. Apple's situation is almost the perfect inverse of Intel's. Intel fell completely off the wagon[1], but they
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by ajross 1y ago
Potato/potatoe. Existing taxi medallion holders were absolutely harmed by Uber. Existing licensed hotel operators were absolutely harmed by AirBnB. And we all celebrated that to great effect here. But it was breaking the rules.
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by ajross 1y ago
> she bragged to her lead engineer she wouldn't go to prison So... obviously she was wrong. But the line between "just cutting a few corners" and prosecutable criminality isn't nearly as bright as we in the peanut ga
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by ajross 1y ago
Right, it doesn't change the direction of criminality. But nonetheless JPM is out that money regardless (maybe some will get clawed back, but probably most of it was spent). "I got scammed and the perp is going to jail" is
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by ajross 1y ago
> - The USD is definitely losing value. That also means stocks from US companies would be cheaper from a foreigner's point of view. That's actually not quite right. You can only buy securities on US markets with US dollars. Y
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by ajross 1y ago
Citing the completely-unused ancient law in support of a claim that the fed is somehow "fixing prices" or "making outrageous course corrections overnight" or that they can "make another law any time they want"
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by ajross 1y ago
Again, that's all just conspiracy nonsense. Yes, there are old laws. No, they don't effect macroeconomic policy and to claim they do is silly. This is of a piece with the Trillion Dollar Coin nonsense[1] being hawked in equally
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by ajross 1y ago
That's wildly misunderstanding things. The fed doesn't trade, regulate, hold or sell gold. That price you're quoting is for a historical artifact called a Gold Certificate. These things have a value set by law (not by the
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by ajross 1y ago
Indeed. But even so, it's mildly shocking, as struct file_operations has been one of the deepest (and most promiscuously) integrated and most conservative bits of the kernel API. This stuff dates back decades and almost never changes
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by ajross 1y ago
It's "valuable" to the company and to new investors. It's quite the opposite to old investors. In the world of public companies, a "liquidate a shell company" trick like this is presumptively fraud. If you w
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by ajross 1y ago
> You're assuming that the intended result of this apparent campaign is to actually start a war between the EU and Russia. Your original framing of your question was: "Does anyone else feel like there are actors now trying to m
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by ajross 1y ago
> Does anyone else feel like there are actors now trying to manufacture consent for a war with Russia? Your prior is that Denmark wants a shooting war with Russia? Or do you have a weirder antecedent in mind for "actors"?[1]
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by ajross 1y ago
There's a "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" angle here. That Russia has been escalating drone activity against Danish allies is not in question. Some level of heightened c
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by ajross 1y ago
> I learned today Chuck Grassley plans to run again and would be 95 years old in congress. This is insane. The age of the senior senator from Iowa is like 537th on the list of major problems this country is facing. I mean, let's be
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by ajross 1y ago
> I'm sure people were saying that about commercial airline speeds in the 1970's too. Or CPU frequencies in the 1990's. Also we spent quite a few decades at the end of the 19th century thinking that physics was finished.
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by ajross 1y ago
That's true. But if anything that cuts in the opposite direction in the argument: modern CPUs are doing all that optimization in hardware , at runtime. In software it's a no-brainer in comparison.
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by ajross 1y ago
> VLIW is not binary forward- or cross-implementation-compatible. It was on IA-64, the bundle format was deliberately chosen to allow for easy extension. But broadly it's true: you can't have a "pure" VLIW architectur
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by ajross 1y ago
It's just a lock. It's analogous to a pthread_mutex_t (which on Linux is a futex), where the operation in the uncontended case is a single atomic access to shared memory. The contended case needs to enter the kernel to suspend,
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by ajross 1y ago
That's valid jargon but from the wrong layer of the stack. A Harvard bus is about the separation of the "instruction" memory from "data" memory so that (pipelined) instructions can fetch from both in parallel. And
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by ajross 1y ago
The compilers did arrive, but obviously too late. Modern pipeline optimization and register scheduling in gcc & LLVM is wildly more sophisticated than anything people were imagining in 2001.
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by ajross 1y ago
Economy of scale is basically all of it, honestly. The lede is that Denver pays ~60% more than Singapore[1] per bus. Because Singapore ordered 24x as many buses. [1] There's an even worse number for Cincinatti.
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by ajross 1y ago
FWIW, the headline is spun. Apple is providing feedback for the law via a routine legislative process. But yeah, they hate the law and they want it repealed, and they said so. I mean, I think they're wrong. But that said... what&#x2
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by ajross 1y ago
Both are likely true. It's easy to wave it away in hindsight, but there was genuine energy and excitement about the architecture in its early days. And while the first chips were late and on behind-the-cutting-edge processes they wer
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by ajross 1y ago
This is sealioning. Demanding people on internet forums provide proof of really-not-very-controversial statements, hiding behind appeal to authority arguments and then feigning outrage when called out on it isn't really the right way
930.
by ajross 1y ago
Again though, I don't see a lot of value there. You seem to be implicitly repeating the prior that rust prevents race conditions, and it emphatically does not. It detects and prevents concurrent unlocked[1] access to a single memory

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