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by comex 2y ago
> iPhones share the location of nearby AirTags with apple. Good for the owner of those AirTags, but the owner of the iPhone may not want this. You can turn this off. Though, doing so is bidirectional: it also prevents your phone from se
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by comex 2y ago
I'm curious too. Among the major language implementations I can think of, almost every single one is dogfooded as much as it can be. In other words, dogfooding is almost always derivative of other technical decisions, not an independ
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by comex 2y ago
When I write code for fun, I use Git. But I only have the master branch, most of my commit messages are some variant of “asdfghjkl”, and instead of isolating logically separate changes into their own commits, I just commit the state of my
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by comex 2y ago
This blog post wasn’t written by Google themselves, but by Buf, a confusingly-named startup that makes their own protobuf implementation.
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by comex 2y ago
Even then, you still need ABI consistency between compilers if you want to link together codebases written in different languages (e.g. C and Rust). In practice this almost always 'just works' because most cross-language calls sim
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by comex 2y ago
Apps don't need it, and it probably shouldn't be offered. But as things stand, many of the OS's fundamental time APIs return time since boot, and for some reason, most of those aren't even listed as required-reason APIs
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by comex 2y ago
Do you actually need ctypes here, or can you just use np.reshape? That would cut out the unsafety.
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by comex 2y ago
Some of the synonyms chosen are not really synonymous. "Person is walking normally in a circle." turns into "Human is walking usually in a loop." But at best that's ungrammatical. At worst, it sounds like "us
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by comex 2y ago
And yet C, an even lower-level language, achieves the same effect without the duplication of PIMPL. You just forward-declare a struct, and declare functions that accept pointers to it: the header doesn't need to contain the struct fie
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by comex 2y ago
Neural networks can repeat significant amounts of their training data verbatim or near-verbatim. None of the other things you mentioned are capable of doing that. They don’t store nearly enough information.
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by comex 2y ago
Llama 3 is just as restricted as Llama 2. The licenses and acceptable use policies are almost identical; the only real change consists of added attribution requirements. Products that use Llama 3 have to "prominently display 'Bu
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by comex 2y ago
Note that Amazon denies that humans watched live: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133029/amazon-just-walk...
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by comex 2y ago
> and I'd much rather have the 0 calibration that a CRT could provide. Would it really be 0 though? Assuming 60Hz, the bottom of each frame is scanned out 16ms after the top. Assuming that Rock Band 3 renders an entire frame befor
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by comex 2y ago
For the last 80 years. Things will probably change someday, but not anytime soon.
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by comex 3y ago
I read that as saying that /usr/local/sbin will point to /usr/local/bin which will still be separate from /usr/bin. But /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin would all point to /usr&#x2
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by comex 3y ago
I don’t think Lockdown Mode actually prevents you from watching YouTube videos. Some googling suggests that there might be issues when using the YouTube website in Safari – which makes sense, since Lockdown Mode disables a bunch of Safari
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by comex 3y ago
How does it work on WebAssembly, where there's no native support for stack switching? Does it rely on Emscripten's Asyncify transformation?
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by comex 3y ago
True, though don’t forget that the US consumer welfare standard dates only to the 70s, is rooted in judicial interpretation rather than explicit statutory wording, and has been challenged in recent years. In fact this is brought up in sect
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by comex 3y ago
That doesn't really help unless you bundle the game code inside the app executable. Otherwise you still need a JIT entitlement in order to map code as executable.
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by comex 3y ago
I’ve done the same on my Mac perhaps twice in the last few years. Like you, I encountered no crash or any other obvious consequences… I just deleted data and moved on. Though I didn’t try leaving it with zero bytes free for an extended am
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by comex 3y ago
It does allow nested calls, because each function has its own storage for the return address and local variables.
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by comex 3y ago
As of 40 minutes after the event, someone has already created a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Taiwan_earthquake
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by comex 3y ago
Unlike the original version, this version compiles and seems to basically work correctly. However, the design is misleading: `buffer` is declared as an array of 4 bytes but only the first byte is ever used. The code also has suboptimal pe
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by comex 3y ago
Only problem is that the critical `chars` method doesn't actually exist. Rust's standard library has a `chars` method for strings, but not for Readers. (Also, the comment about the iterator element type is inconsistent with the c
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by comex 3y ago
But the xz backdoor didn’t involve a build script that tried to compromise the machine the build was running on. It involved a build script that compromised the code being built. Sandboxing the build script wouldn’t have helped much if at
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by comex 3y ago
This is an old article. Here’s a comment I wrote back in 2018 explaining one major problem with it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889222
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by comex 3y ago
Not only that, but: > The pact would lower the rates by 0.04 percentage point and keep them there for five years. Seriously? I'm no expert and I know the numbers have to be small given costs and such, but… 0.04%? That said, this par
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by comex 3y ago
What a tease! They describe in detail two problems they had to “invent workarounds” for, but say nothing about what the workarounds are. I’m very curious, since both of the problems sound quite hard to work around. I wonder if they’re be
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by comex 3y ago
> There are several alternatives to simply replacing classical signatures with quantum-safe signatures, which could address the performance issues when it comes to PKI. We are currently looking to experiment in this space to gather data
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EU's Breton warns gatekeepers against silencing developers in Apple, Epic spat(reuters.com)
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