bluGill

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by bluGill 2mo ago
The "Better" is where I have an issue. There isn't enough information here to say one is better than the other. Both are useful tools is clear.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Hard to say what AI has been used in SQLite unless someone is talking. My impression is the maintainer doesn't talk about this type of thing much, but maybe I'm wrong.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Curl has a well earned reputation for high quality code. If you find something there it means you are good. There is a lot of software where finding a vulnerability mostly means you bothered to look and are not completely stupid. Nobody
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by bluGill 2mo ago
You can structre the code differently to get around that. There is a real desire to use NRVO "one" in cases when it is returned as well, if possible.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
But that isn't what happened! Mythos has found issues in the past - which are now fixed (or so we should assume, I didn't verify but curl is very good about fixing issues). At most we can say the current version of mythos isn&#x
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Curl has been scanned by mythos and several other AI tools several times over the past year already. Mythos found nothing this round, but when it was first released it found issues which have been fixed - and several other AIs had already
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Even given an unlimited token budget for AI and some form of paycheck to do this I don't think I could maintain a fork of firefox along. There is far too many things that need to be done for one person to pull it off.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
> C++ could probably add the same deinitialized/moved-from state (with an opt-in for back compat sake) purely to avoid dtor bloat, without having to add safety of borrow checking. There is a lot of talk in the C++ committee about th
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by bluGill 2mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic have both been studying CURL for a while though. Anything they found was already fixed. If you want to compare you need to start with something that none of studied. Somebody please take the source to a 2023 release o
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Can you use the cotton bag 173 times? Cotton wears out over time. They also didn't ask about the cost of washing the cotton bag, which really should be done once in a while since they collect dirt and food particles - this will incre
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If you look close there is either a unvote or undown added to the line. However that is easy to miss. I've learned to always check that line on a touch device because there is no way to consistently hit the tiny arrow correctly (at l
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I think eventually HN should see something getting a lot of votes and count everything as an upvote. (presumably if it is bad long before then a mod should have noted and removed the bad post)
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is still a lot of work to take the raw data and put it into a useful format. LLMs are really good at that (when they don't hallucinate data).
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by bluGill 2mo ago
std::move is a great tool when used correctly. However used incorrectly it makes code worse: more verbose and less performant. Since I have no idea how you are using it I can't comment on your experience. My experience is people (inc
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The simple cases are simple. However the complex cases get hard. mytype foo() { mytype one; ... if(something) { mytype two; ... return two; } return one; } Is going
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by bluGill 2mo ago
All the existing "forks" that continue past adding/removing that one feature are regularly merging firefox back. That is they are not a fork there are a derivative that never forked. All the forks that remain a fork that I
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Something like Firefox is so complex that I could not fork it and make my own. I mean, I could, but the amount of changes I could put in would be trivial unless I'm getting paid full time. Even if I was paid full time, realistically, o
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by bluGill 2mo ago
They were not impossible to control. It wasn't easy, but you quick got used to it and got enough. Partially that was learning to plan a head so you didn't need to much control. Or you learn to enjoy drifting the back wheels.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There are no easy answers. In not in favor of the current laws, but there is a real problem that I don't one how to solve.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Computers are useful tools. That is why we can't and shouldn't ban then. However they can be accused and how to prevent that is a real concern.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I'm not against devices. I'm against some of the things that can be done with them.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
These are school devices. The school has the contract with Apple not me. The Eula applies to either the school or the life - in the latter case with all the normal kids can't enter into contracts that a lawyer would need to explain the
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by bluGill 2mo ago
My kids school provides them iPads and often sends homework that must be done on them. I careful lock up their smartphone except when I want they to have it, but I can't control the school devices.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The problem is strict controls is not helpful. My kids teachers often assign homework which is watch some YouTube video - which means I have to give my kids access to all of YouTube including channels i don't approve of. In turn i have
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is no way no know. Any number is an acceptable answer. For a good answer you can find lots of reasoning/logic/history to justify your guess, but it is still a guess.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Be careful that you're not able to fight the next war because all your effort is working on solving the problems of the past war when your enemy has found a better way around it. It would be nice if humans could find ways to not kill e
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by bluGill 2mo ago
You might be right, but I think we need at least 10 years before we can really start this discussion, and the discussion itself needs to take many more years.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
You could always do that with copyright programs. The only thing that changed was the cost. The only example of somebody doing this was with the BIOS of the original IBM PC, but it was always possible and since nothing was copied it is lega
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by bluGill 2mo ago
They don't need atomic clocks on board. NTP is close enough for most purposes. Sure your error goes up, but often within 100 meters is good enough. The exceptions though do need accurate clocks and are a problem.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Approval in aviation is hard, no argument there. Everybody making a GPS is aware of jamming issues and looking at what their options are. I doubt there is any option that isn't expensive and years out from airplanes. However they are

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