ben-schaaf

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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
There's a big reason they shouldn't do that though: Laptops have already standardized enough on LPCAMM2 for the modules to be widely available.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
Socamm is all about data centre capacity. It starts at 128GB and you can only order it in bulk(?) from data centre providers. On the other hand I can go to a local store and buy a stick of 32GB lpcamm2.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that reserved memory is for the framebuffer? The iBoot bootloader also reserves some memory for the framebuffer. dGPUs bring their own VRAM because it's a different type of memory, allowing them to get
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
> the thought and idea is theirs, it was communicated Are they? I don't know how much they used AI, the entire article could be written from a one sentence prompt and so I'd argue that the thoughts and ideas are not their own.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
You're right, the correct term seems to be MAC (Message Authentication Code).
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
Ah that makes sense. I wouldn't call that a checksum though; that's a signature :)
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
I don't follow. The checksum is in "plain text" in every key. It's trivial to find the length of the checksum and the checksum is generated from the payload. Others have pointed out that the checksum is for offline secre
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
That sounds like it's only helpful for ddos mitigation, in which case the attacker could trivially synthesize a correct checksum.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
> can render fonts correctly macOS font rendering has been worst in class since they removed subpixel-antialiasing. It's now a blurry mess on regular displays.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
There was a scare in 2024 where high levels of PFAS were found in the water supply in the Blue Mountains region of NSW. It took months, but they traced it to a single fire in 1992 where foam was deployed. Scary stuff.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
It's a common misconception, but microplastics and forever-chemicals (PFAS) are not the same thing. They're two similar, but distinct pollutants. > Are saunas and blood donations not also effective for this? Yes, plasma & b
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
Sounds like a fun project. And are you committing code for this library? Because it sounds like you are, and if that's the case I don't think you're actually doing what you're talking about.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
How is "fairly close to deterministic" anywhere near good enough? LLMS aren't anywhere near cheap enough to do this either. That said it's so trivial to do, why haven't you done that already?
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
Last I checked there's some rebalancing that looks pretty good, but the real advantage from the custom language is a huge performance boost.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
They're bikeshedding pretty hard, making their own language for the simulation. You can access the unstable branch through steam, it was getting fairly regular updates last I checked.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
Systemd actually manages /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, etc. using a json database called userdb. Adding a field to systemd's userdb is how you add a gecos field.
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by ben-schaaf 6mo ago
> This is the governments first plunge into mandating things on the frontend. ADA mandates computer accessibility, as frequently interpreted by courts. CCPA & GDPR mandate a whole bunch of stuff. Hardly the first plunge.
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
Compilers don't usually write the code that ends up in a PR. But compilers do (and should) generally leave behind some metadata in the end result saying what tools were used, see for example the .comment section in ELF binaries.
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
> And I maintain that the difference cannot be explained by images and font cache alone. It can't be explained by images and fonts alone, I agree, but images and fonts alone are still enormous compared to 70kB. On my screen an &quot
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
> I didn't set the bar to 70kB The GP to your original did set the bar at 70kB, mattmanser then explained that images and fonts easily exceed that, and then you called that poor resource management. Sounds like we're on the s
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
The alternative is that for every glyph you render the entire glyph to the screen using the Bezier curves from the font, and you end up with dogshit performance - like the new windows terminal (not sure if they've fixed it yet). Cachin
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
Completely agree, it would be very helpful to get even just a breakdown of what the ram is being used for. It's unfortunately a lot of work to instrument. > sublime consumes 200mb. I have 4 text files open. What is it doing? To add
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
She's significantly worse with technology than he is. Neither could tell you what an operating system is. These are exactly the type of average people that supposedly Linux isn't good enough for.
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
> Put your non-programmer relative in front of each, have them do some common simple tasks, like print an email on their printer, and ask them. My grandma does this all the time from her Linux laptop. My grandpa needed help getting it to
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
> scale, security, whatever Yea, who needs performance or security in a web framework!?
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
I wasn't able to find the answer on that page or with google, does bluetooth LE solve the dogshit quality when using the microphone?
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
Not sure why you're taking the rk3588 as a milestone for ARM, when it's a low end chip using core designs that were old when it released. Cortex-A76 is from 2018, so if that's the yardstick then the K3 is 8 years behind. Even
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by ben-schaaf 7mo ago
I can't find anything related to division returning an error type. Looking at std.math.divExact, rem, mod, add, sub, etc. it looks to me like you're expected to use these if you don't want to panic.
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by ben-schaaf 8mo ago
The hardened runtime improves things, but it's still a far cry from memory safety. For example `std::vector::erase` has no hardened precondition. And of course the rest of the language around the stdlib is still entirely unsafe, not ju
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by ben-schaaf 8mo ago
As I said, unique_ptr (or any of the others), do not check for null. So you can do this, and it will cause a segfault: std::unique_ptr<int> a; printf("%d\n", *a); Similarly unique_ptr::operator[] doesn't (a

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