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> Seriously, please don't use C0 (except for LF and, I cede grudgingly, HT) and C1 characters in your plain text files. It is (or, at least, used to be) common to have FF characters on plain text files, as a signal for your (dot mat
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> Other languages like German, Tamil use verbs at the end Doesn't German have the main verb on the second position? (For a simple example, "I drink water" would be "Ich trinke Wasser")
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> > Windows 2000 was peak Windows to me. > These days Microsoft is openly and aggressively hostile to the user and its getting worse every update. In my opinion, the moment at which Microsoft started being actively hostile to the u
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> Any ideas why it isn’t more popular and more well known? While git-annex works very well on Unix-style systems with Unix-style filesystems, it heavily depends on symbolic links, which do not exist on filesystems like exFAT, and are pro
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> It does however store complete files (unlike a VCS like mercurial which stores deltas) The logical model of git is that it stores complete files. The physical model of git is that these complete files are stored as deltas within pack
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> They could do what Windows has done, and build OS code that checks if the running application is a known-legacy game, and lie to the game about various capabilities so that the game runs well and looks good. Or, even simpler (and AFAIK
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> OK, so you have the username and password. But what about where to use the credentials? Is that also copy-pasted from somewhere? At least keepassxc has IIRC a field for the website, and a button to copy it to the clipboard, right next
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> If someone started reading all the package descriptions and READMEs we're meant to be thoroughly familiar with when Trixie was released a few days ago, they'd still be reading them. That used to be viable back in the late 199
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The article does not explicitly say it, but it's clearly a defense against the CLOUD Act ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act ); it all makes sense once you add that missing puzzle piece. The CLOUD Act conflict
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> What was novel about the smart phone - really it's defining characteristic, was it wasn't a primarily single purpose device like a PDA, or phone, or MP-3 player/iPod, or camera, or handheld web browser, but rather a univ
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The smartphone is nothing more than a merge of a traditional cell phone (what we now call "feature phone") and a PDA. Such a merge would happen sooner or later, either with PDAs acquiring the ability to also act as cell phones, or
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> There's no AI, we have fancy chatbots. "Fancy chatbots" is a classic AI use case. ELIZA is a well-known example of early AI software.
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> So the CEO was a red herring? Just a timing coincidence? In the code fragment shown on the blog post, the problem would only manifest itself when the "ListUserRepos" call on "ghClient" failed. The CEO account probab
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Because each byte would be an embedding, instead of several bytes (a full word or part of a word) being a single embedding. The amount of time a LLM takes is proportional to the number of embeddings (or tokens, since each token is represent
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Disabling things can be done through "chicken bits" on configuration registers, no microcode necessary. Do you know of any ARM cores used on smarphones which actually have updatable microcode? I've never heard of any. All err
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> tar cf metadata.tar.zstd *.json From a quick look at the tar manual, there is a --files-from option to read more command line parameters from a file; I haven't tried, but you could probably combine it with find through bash's
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> But humans we can feed ascii, whereas LLMs require token inputs. To be pedantic, we can't feed humans ASCII directly, we have to convert it to images or sounds first. > My original question was about that: why can't we jus
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> As it stands, besides preventing the user from making modifications to CPU functionality, the user is also forced to "trust" updates that might be created for specific anti-consumer purposes (say, compelled by government secu
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> > Adding cpu instructions is something that you can't physically do > You can physically do it with a microcode update. Do these ARM CPUs even have microcode? Unlike on x86 CPUs where there are some very complex instructio
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> Is guaranteed that every offset you can try to read is guaranteed to create a segfault? The offset is fixed as part of the compiled code; the JVM can enforce that it's less than 4k (otherwise it can use an explicit NULL check), an
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> For the vast majority of online businesses, accepting exclusively crypto, or exclusively bank payments, would result in much less business. Orders of magnitude less business. I would add a qualifier to your statement: for the vast majo
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> The private citizen has the option to pay cash, bitcoin, trade goods or services, etc. As far as I understand, this isn't an option. I'm Brazilian, so I can easily pay with PIX (and I have never used a credit card with Steam,
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> Fewer transistors and pipeline stages required for the decode unit, which is a real but moderate advantage. Isn't having fixed-size naturally-aligned instructions (like on 64-bit ARM) enough to get that advantage?
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> It's at the microcode that the ISA lives and that's changeable. No, it's not. In modern high-speed CPUs, many instructions are decoded directly, without going through the microcode engine. In fact, on several modern Inte
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> they were just impersonating Googlebot. Which is something that shouldn't work. Google used to require sites to show the same thing to Googlebot and normal users; cloaking used to be banned. Were Google still enforcing that rule,
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> Code and math are similar to chess/go, where verification is (reasonably) easy Verification for code would be a formal proof, and these are hard; with a few exceptions like seL4, most code does not have any formal proof. Games lik
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For those who don't know the source of that quote: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html which was first published in 1997.
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> I'm trying to understand why all command line tools don't use io_uring. Because it's fairly new. The coreutils package which contains the ls command (and the three earlier packages which were merged to create it) is deca
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> What kinds of attacks was Secure Boot designed to mitigate? Boot sector viruses, or their modern equivalents. Basically, anything which injects itself into the boot chain before the antivirus can start; after that point, the antivirus
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> I might be misremembering it, but initial plans for Secure Boot were less open. It was only the stink raised that resulted in it being an option. That, and fear of antitrust enforcement. The only reason we're still allowed to disa

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