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by anitil 5mo ago
There's a few interesting threads in the article that I found interesting. One is about the aggregation of power using social pressure. I've heard whispers of similar things, but it was interesting to see the specifics of how it w
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by anitil 5mo ago
I agree with the accusation (conspiracy without specifics) but I think you could make that point in a more helpful way
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by anitil 6mo ago
I had never considered the idea of passing too few register params so I didn't immediately think of the reuse problem. And I had no idea about Itanium's Not-a-thing bit! Always a good read from Raymond Chen.
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by anitil 6mo ago
This is one of those things where I've been wondering how something like this could work for a while, but never ended up building anything. I'll definitely be playing with this, there's so much structure to code and it seems
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by anitil 6mo ago
I'm only on to chapter two and already it's explained some plumbing details that I somehow have missed all these years. This is great
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by anitil 6mo ago
That's a very thoughtful decision, I always enjoy your updates on D
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Ben Goldacre: OpenSAFELY in Brief(bennett.ox.ac.uk)
7 points by anitil 6mo ago|1 comments
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by anitil 6mo ago
I have heard about this project on a few podcasts and it came up during the recent post about the UK BioBank leak on Github [0]. In this case, Ben is working on making GP information available for researchers in a protected manner, where th
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by anitil 6mo ago
It's certainly an interesting idea, I remember he was on a few podcasts talking about it. I might submit it here to see if it gets some conversation going
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by anitil 6mo ago
In classic soft-launch style, their blog is quite good. I really liked reading how they're doing ssh forwarding similar to http reverse proxies using the 'host' header [0] [0] https://blog.exe.dev/ssh-host-hea
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by anitil 6mo ago
I've opted in to Australia's version of the biobank knowing that it's inevitable that it will be leaked some day, I think the data is so valuable in perpetuity that it's worth it. I remember Ben Goldacre has been working
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by anitil 6mo ago
I believe all captive ones are cross-bred, so are distinct from the native species
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by anitil 6mo ago
I was wondering how they'd convert (arbitrary?) jsonb into hashable values, but pulling out the json path and hashing that makes a lot of sense. This is definitely going into my list of tricks for one day if I ever need it. And I someh
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by anitil 6mo ago
This is an interesting proxy for ... something, though I'm not quite sure what. I would say a bigger issue here is more cultural around our aversion to risk. This impacts funding (Need $2m for a house? no worries. Need $50k for a start
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by anitil 6mo ago
I found this quite nice to read, and it does express a lot of friction I experience in my work, but haven't been able to express well before. Here is some (small) discussion about their announcement: https://news.ycombinator
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by anitil 6mo ago
I think if it's interesting to you then it's worth posting, and letting the voting system do it's thing. I only rarely post because by the time I've seen something it's usually already been posted
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by anitil 6mo ago
> And, in some ways, PyPy What do you mean by that? I'm not familiar with PyPy
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by anitil 6mo ago
Oooh it's a bytecode interpreter! I was wondering how they'd fit a parser/tokenizer in 500 lines unless the first was `import tokenizer, parser`. And it looks like 1500ish lines according to tokei I think because python is a
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by anitil 6mo ago
> The real improvements are going to be in tooling and harnessing I don't have any special knowledge here, but the guy in the podcast (who worked/works with one of the big AI firms) is the one who made the claim. In the future
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by anitil 6mo ago
I would _hope_ that the double combo would be better, but honestly I have no idea
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by anitil 6mo ago
This was a really good introduction to both libc++ and libc++abi for me as someone who have worked in mostly-C, in particular his thread-safe initialization example. If you look at the PR description it's clear that a lot of care went
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by anitil 6mo ago
On that latest episode of 'Security Cryptography Whatever' [0] they mention that the time spent on improving the harness (at the moment) end up being outperformed by the strategy of "wait for the next model". I doubt tha
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by anitil 6mo ago
Thank you for the recommendation on that video! I've already adopted to using DuckDB for my ad-hoc analytics work but I didn't know the background
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by anitil 6mo ago
I had a look at your github and blog but couldn't find the game, is it public? Or do I need to watch your streams to see it?
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by anitil 6mo ago
There is a premium on risk reduction. I believe this is one of the reasons why companies like to incorporate in Delaware as the courts there are notoriously fast (I'm going off my memory of a Planet Money episode so could be wrong here
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by anitil 6mo ago
On and of course, the discussion board is itself hosted in a sqlite file!
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by anitil 6mo ago
The sqlite project actually benefited from this dogfooding. Interestingly recursive CTEs [0] were added to sqlite due to wanting to trace commit history [1] [0] https://sqlite.org/lang_with.html#recursive_query_examples [1]
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by anitil 6mo ago
> Silicon sampling removes the messy, costly part of asking people what they think Sometimes I wonder if I'm too cynical, and at other times I wonder if I'm not cynical enough
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De-Obfuscating Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA)(blog.trailofbits.com)
2 points by anitil 6mo ago|1 comments
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by anitil 6mo ago
This is an interesting de-obfuscation tool that Trail of Bits has built. I'd never come across this technique of hiding logical/arithmetic operations so it was interesting to learn about it and how they've attempted to de-obf

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