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by bennettnate5 9mo ago
The simplest example is `memcpy(dst, src, len)` and similar iterative byte copying operations. If the function did not use noalias, the compiler wouldn't be free to optimize individual byte read/writes into register-sized writes,
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by bennettnate5 9mo ago
I find it humoring that this article inadvertently contributes to its statistic
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
The authors are getting their conclusions all wrong; this is clearly convincing evidence that some teachers are slipping HGH in their students' lunch meals! /s
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
When support needs are infrequent enough on the customer end, this effectively becomes a market for lemons--a customer can't know how good your support is until they've bought your product, and by then it's too late for them.
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
> They were named after President Lincoln, but only as a marketing tactic > there's no real connection Funny--I always thought it was meant to be a pun on linkin', as in you're linkin' the logs together because the
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
Not to be confused with the National Archives _Museum_, where you can still readily visit to see important documents such as the declaration of independence.
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
I mean, when its training set includes decades of internet references to `sudo rm -rf /`, why not?
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
The frustrating thing with layer-cake languages like C++ is that it can technically have all the ergonomic APIs that make life nice to write, yet have all this cruft and esoteric edge-case behavior that makes it so, so hard to read. I can&#
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
Agreed, though "doubles remission time for cancer survivors" would be a rather more verbose title
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
> I don’t understand that (or why it’s done for cars either). Are they afraid the OS will be delayed into the next year and would rather its name be a year ahead than behind? My understanding is that it's a marketing gimmick--_you&#
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
...thus raising the bar for privacy-preserving techniques in client side browsing. Aggressive fingerprinting arrived years ago; if we can move beyond cookies altogether and focus on it as the next issue to tackle, I would think that's
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by bennettnate5 1y ago
> All engineers used fuzzing to test for panic safety, and as a result, no Rust implementation has a red mark. I'm curious how they decided whether an implementation had a vulnerability. Did they use formal methods to test for the a
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Here's an important one: never use `mem::size_of_val(&T)`. Rust as a language strongly steers you towards ignoring double (or even triple)-referenced types because they're implicitly auto-dereferenced in most places, but the m
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
> and only applies to their believers (who happen to concentrate in Utah) Worth noting here that the church additionally spends north of $1 billion annually on humanitarian aid across the globe [1] (separate from the redistributions to
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Fun anecdote: Utah's Republicans actually rejected the MAGA candidates in the Republican primary for both Senator and Governer by a wide margin, despite the MAGA candidates having Trump's endorsement. If nothing else, Utah doesn&#
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Thanks!
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Could you list the titles/author of these books? I'd actually really like to get more into DIY home improvement, and having a starting reference like this would be really valuable
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
For those interested in steganography-based encryption techniques, some well-known cryptology researchers designed a system for formally transforming encrypted messages into the (well-formed) contents of arbitrary protocols or communication
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
You mean (almost) a quarter of the population--only 47% of Republicans actually support funding Ukraine less [1]. There are plenty on both sides that disapprove of the foreign policy decisions of the current administration. I've seen t
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Fascinating--I wonder to what extent the performance improvements are due to the better constraints Rust hands over to LLVM for optimization (specifically thinking `noalias` rules) vs aggressiv code optimization by the developers to be to t
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
For communication between carriers and some communications within a given carrier's network components, yes. Base stations all still communicate with the core network over SCTP, though.
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
What sticks out to me is that the overarching UI design is largely unchanged. OP didn't spend time jumping from hot new UX framework to framework, instead they focused on keeping their core customers happy. Seems like a recipe for succ
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Not the OP, but your question got me thinking. I think ends frequently justify means, though I’m guessing that the real question in that adage should be “does the end justify any means?” Our entire decision system relies on endings justif
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
I'm not sure someone intent on burning a person to death in public is going to be very deterred by the knowledge that cameras are recording their acts.
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
Now all it needs is to have that robotic female voice (the one everyone on TikTok uses) read out the main prompt while trendy music is playing in the background
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
> This is a double negative. Not necessarily--one can be unsurprised at both the decision to take or not to take money, the two aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not surprised if it's not cloudy outside on a given day, but th
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
The problem with this is that a pointer value may be passed through multiple functions or nontrivial control flow before reaching a function with this keyword. To effectively check if the pointer is in the stack or .rodata, it would need to
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
> Don't trust incoming calls, text messages or emails. > Don't trust caller ID on your phone. And if you're anyone of moderate fame, importance or cryptocurrency holdings, call back using a phone other than the one you
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
> Why can we only think about one thing at a time? Maybe this is just a perception thing. Sure, you can only really keep up one stream of thought, visualization or inner dialogue (whatever you want to call it) at a time, but perhaps that
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by bennettnate5 2y ago
More than DNS name though--while DNS is susceptible to MITM and cache poisoning, afaik passkeys requires HTTPS so the domain's certificate is validated. Authentication not assertion and all that

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