bjackman

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by bjackman 10mo ago
This is like cheating in a golf match against a professional and then saying "I got the same score as my opponent, I am not the villain here".
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by bjackman 10mo ago
They get fantastic exposure from the other onboard cameras though! The one by the air intake is the best view for spectating and probably one of the best for advertisers too.
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Yeah I've never had any urge to go in person at all! Also, F1 is EXTREMELY expensive to watch in person at most of the venues. (I assume most other motorsports are at least cheap to spectate).
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by bjackman 10mo ago
It handles OOM by killing processes.
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by bjackman 10mo ago
They have a lot of cameras and they offer a paid service where you can stream from any driver's onboard. Unfortunately this is out of sync with the main broadcast which kinda kills its value for me... I think VR would make most people
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by bjackman 10mo ago
In general the driver's perspective has always seemed underused to me. In F1 at least (where the cars are insanely stiff), unless there are overtakes in progress, watching from the trackside cameras just looks like cars driving round a
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by bjackman 10mo ago
Regarding the giant trucks specific: one pragmatic lever we could pull here is just m parking enforcement. The EU says we have to allow sale of dangerous vehicles to keep Trump happy. But cities can just say "you can't park there
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by bjackman 11mo ago
> A useful analogy here is the rise of AMD in the datacenter. [...] Large hyperscalers found it worth their time and effort to rewrite extremely low level software to be truly agnostic between AMD and Intel As someone who works on such l
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by bjackman 11mo ago
It's fair to complain about Rust complexity IMO. What's _not_ fair is pointing at Zig as an example of how it could be simpler, when it's not memory safe. The requirements are different. At that point we might as well say &qu
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by bjackman 11mo ago
Dishwashers don't boil the water, and they anyway use different kinds of detergent specifically designed for the usecase. Anyway like I said I doubt it's a huge deal. Washing liquid isn't _designed_ to be boiled but I certain
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by bjackman 11mo ago
I agree on this in general. The awkward things here are that: a) textprotos aren't really touted by the protobuf folks as a thing to use outside Google. I'm not 100% sure why this is. b) inside Google, there's a perception th
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by bjackman 11mo ago
Take this with a grain of salt as I haven't tested this claim, but I think C might be a pretty weak language for this tool because you can't really parse it without running the whole preprocessor, which it can't do: https:&#
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by bjackman 11mo ago
Actually I disagree that that's what's going on in the world of hyperscaler platforms. There is genuinely a staggering amount of money on the line with the efficiency of this platform. Plus, we have extremely sophisticated and per
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by bjackman 11mo ago
I have actually been thinking of hiring some training contractors to come in and teach people the basics of applied statistical inference. I think with a bit of internal selling, engineers would generally be interested enough to show up and
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by bjackman 11mo ago
For what it's worth, I work on platforms infra at a hyperscaler and benchmarks are a complete fucking joke in my field too lol. Ultimately we are measuring extremely measurable things that have an objective ground truth. And yet: - we
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by bjackman 11mo ago
It's likely I'm mistaken about details here but I _think_ tee.fail bypassed this technology and the AT article covers exactly that.
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by bjackman 11mo ago
Yeah that's a good point, I don't call that confidential compute though it's a different use case. CoCo = protecting consumer data from the industry. DRM = protecting industry bullshit from the consumer. TBF my understanding
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by bjackman 11mo ago
> no one, not even people operating the inference hardware You need to be careful with these claims IMO. I am not involved directly in CoCo so my understanding lacks nuance but after https://tee.fail I came to understand that
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by bjackman 11mo ago
Speaking of variety in the market: does anyone know how the capital barrier for developing an EV compares to a combustion drivetrain? I wonder if, now that China has a developed supply ecosystem, it's becoming possible to build a car w
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by bjackman 11mo ago
I don't think boiling water with dishwasher detergent in it is a great idea (because of potential fumes). I might have misunderstood what you mean by "make coffee" but maybe something to look into if you do this regularly.
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by bjackman 11mo ago
No that's what I meant - I just didn't report the countries that didn't stamp my passport. To report dates of entry and exit of every country I've visited would be impossible, I don't think I have that information a
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by bjackman 11mo ago
> ten years of travel history, down to the day FWIW I have been asked for this a couple of times and I always just included the transits that were stamped in my current passport. Maybe I got lucky but I got away with it...
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by bjackman 1y ago
I think this is an inevitable side effect of the business model. I signed up for these apps to find love, that's the "strategic" reason I use them. But 99 of the time, the actual reason in the moment that I opened the app is
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by bjackman 1y ago
If apps refuse to run on graphene it's not because of graphene's content it's just a question of whether the attestation is recognised. It's not signed by Google. I guess one reason you'd want to avoid that is that
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by bjackman 1y ago
It seems like if you aren't gonna use Linux and you aren't severely cash-constrained, Macbooks are almost the only credible choice at this point? Pretty annoying coz Linux is non-negotiable for me. I've just bought a laptop a
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by bjackman 1y ago
The actual update: https://asahilinux.org/2025/10/progress-report-6-17/
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by bjackman 1y ago
I guess this must vary by usecase, but in the Linux kernel work I do, expressiveness is just not an issue. C is a dumb language, it's fine. Coding is just such a small part of the engineering task. Schlepping to write nontrivial stuff
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by bjackman 1y ago
> you get spatial memory safety which iirc is more common for security problems than temporal. No, at least in the Linux kernel use-after-free is the biggest memory safety issue by a long way. Maybe this isn't true in some other sys
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by bjackman 1y ago
Not a comment on the book but I hope a slightly off topic thread is OK... As a systems programmer, what is the selling point of Zig? For me, memory safety is the number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 problem with C. A new language that doesn't solve
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by bjackman 1y ago
That's still value that's inherent to the land, it's just that you destroy/create value when you change the boundaries of the property. Land value is not supposed to be attached to what you use it for, but what you _coul

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