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by comex 3mo ago
The forbidding of circular dependencies is exactly what makes it hard to achieve parallelism! It means you have to draw nice clean module boundaries and split your compilation units there. Clean boundaries sound nice, except… what if the
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by comex 3mo ago
I wonder how this post was composed. It's full of LLM-isms, but is also pretty informative and not too fluffy - basically, higher-quality than I'm used to seeing from LLM blog posts, especially at this length. Perhaps it was com
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by comex 3mo ago
I don’t know about “almost all”. If the key has been purged but you can read RAM, then you can do two things: 1. You can extract whatever user data happens to be in RAM. 2. If you can either write RAM or reboot into your own OS, and then re
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by comex 3mo ago
> It just seems much much higher than what it would cost to get a human to play 30 rounds I suspect $482 was the total cost for all the models, so more like 11 humans. But still true.
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by comex 4mo ago
It happened a year ago in this country, with IRS sharing data with ICE (breaking a longstanding policy of keeping taxpayer data private within the government).
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by comex 4mo ago
Beware: As of a few months ago, when I tried to use the lifetime features shown off in this post, I ran into constant compiler crashes with very simple programs, until I gave up and wrote off the features as unusable. This happened on both
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by comex 4mo ago
Disabling SIP still leaves the root filesystem as read-only and signature-checked (this is referred to as SSV, 'signed system volume'). There is a separate command to disable SSV, but it breaks the ability to install OS updates a
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by comex 4mo ago
It's true that UEFI and ACPI cover a lot of ground whose equivalent on Apple Silicon is undocumented. But note that Linux on x86 does still rely on lots of reverse-engineered drivers to talk to various devices - not necessarily on ser
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by comex 4mo ago
Gotta walk before you can run.
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by comex 4mo ago
Yes. [1] [1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/due-to-dma-siri-ai-de...
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by comex 4mo ago
It's because of the DMA. [1] The "privacy" angle here is that Apple wants to give Siri access to user data across the system, without offering any way for competitors to get at that data. [1] https://www.apple.com&
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by comex 4mo ago
Not that Raymond.
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by comex 4mo ago
I worry that this post is itself the type of sensationalized gossip it condemns.
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by comex 4mo ago
(Just FYI, polices is not a noun. The plural of police is police.)
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by comex 4mo ago
It doesn’t need to be that complex, but it can be that complex without being slow. Claude Code’s interface is extremely simple. It has tons and tons of headroom to tack on performance overhead without it being noticeable at all. You ju
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by comex 4mo ago
Depends entirely on the forum. I remember it being somewhat common for people to make forum posts consisting entirely of a joke image. However, they weren’t called memes at the time as the word had yet to be popularized.
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by comex 4mo ago
Personally I think I've developed a pretty good sense of when a question is easy enough that I can just trust the AI overview, and when I need to dig deeper. Google's original AI overviews were not reliable enough to ever trust,
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by comex 5mo ago
Also, a large fraction of students these days use Google Docs. I don’t have first-hand experience, but I imagine they would either share presentations with the account the shared computer is logged into, or log into their own account on th
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by comex 5mo ago
Another memory-safe option is Haraka, which I’ve been using for several years now. I recommend it but only for people who need extreme customizability. For everyone else, the customizability is a bit of a footgun, since you can easily end
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by comex 5mo ago
Citation?
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by comex 5mo ago
AFAIK this is not secure. The SSH protocol doesn’t require the server to know the client’s public key for the connection to succeed. Instead, the client actively sends its public key to the server while authenticating, and the server just
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by comex 5mo ago
Public keys can go over channels that an attacker can read. They cannot go over channels that an attacker can modify . (Which would include the SSH connection itself, until such time as you’ve verified the key through a trustworthy chann
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by comex 5mo ago
Well, for one thing: > Decline to buy: property stays with bank (auction abstracted out) Ignoring an entire game mechanic is really stretching the definition of “abstracted out”… Also, at the bottom it defines a “Liveness: someone eventu
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by comex 5mo ago
Fascinating. The training process forces the “verbalizer” model to develop some mapping from activations to tokens that the “reconstructor” model can then invert back into the activations. But to quote the paper: > Note that nothing
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by comex 5mo ago
Yes, it’s a shell builtin that makes the shell execute a chdir() syscall. Therefore it isn’t subject to argument length limits imposed by the kernel when executing processes. But it is still subject to path length limits imposed by the ke
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by comex 5mo ago
They are not perfectly fine. If a task panics then you will get the right stack trace, but there is no way to get a stack trace for a task that’s currently waiting. (At least not without intrusive hacks.)
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by comex 5mo ago
Just because LLMs overuse it doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. The way the OP used the 'not X, but Y' pattern, the 'X' and 'Y' are two clear, specific, and (most importantly) distinct things, as
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by comex 6mo ago
They probably aren’t affected because the buggy code was only added in macOS 26: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blame/f6217f8...
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by comex 6mo ago
The bug was introduced only last year in macOS 26: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blame/f6217f8...
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by comex 6mo ago
It definitely would be unwelcome for EU authorities in cases like the recent US sanctions against ICC officials.

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