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by comex 6mo ago
From some skimming of the code, it seems like a nightmare quality-wise. But if it works, it works. I wonder what makes it faster.
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by comex 6mo ago
Well, it sounds like a real issue, but the diagnosis is AI slop. You can see, for example, how it takes the paragraph quoted from waydabber (attributing the issue to dynamic resource allocation) and expands it into a whole section without
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by comex 6mo ago
It does in Rust: assert is always enabled, whereas the debug-only version is called debug_assert. But yes, “assert” in most languages is debug-only.
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by comex 7mo ago
Some of what you said is true, but you definitely can’t call close multiple times on the same file descriptor. close always immediately drops the file descriptor and isn’t like non-blocking socket operations that you have to try repeatedly
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by comex 7mo ago
That was a very different case. Out of the two claims, the only one that made it to appeals court was about whether it was fair use for Bleem to use screenshots of PS1 games to advertise its emulator (which was compatible with those games).
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by comex 7mo ago
> Unless they're also implying that the US government should be allowed to go after UK companies that don't follow it's free speech regulations because American citizens can access them. Precedent in the US is that courts
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by comex 7mo ago
Typically, it doesn't have the ability to deal with a full 64 bits of memory, but it does have the ability to deal with more than 32 bits of memory, and all pointers are 64 bits long for alignment reasons. It's possible but rare f
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by comex 7mo ago
See also this video comparing Corridor Key to traditional keyers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abNygtFqYR8
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by comex 7mo ago
It depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want the optimizer to be able to constant-fold a value, then yes, either of those will work. If you want to be able to use the value in the other contexts the parent mentioned that requ
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by comex 7mo ago
It doesn’t strike me as AI. The writing is reasonably information-dense and specific, logically coherent, a bit emotional. Rarely overconfident or vague. If it is AI then there was a lot more human effort put into refining it than most
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by comex 7mo ago
As long as IPv4x support was just something you got via software update rather than a whole separate configuration you had to set up, the vast majority of servers probably would have supported IPv4x by the time addresses got scarce. However
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by comex 7mo ago
This article has a whole lot of "it's not X, it's Y"… In reality this isn't much of a change. For decades it's been a given that mainstream CPUs have vector instructions. RISC-V was the odd man out in _not_ m
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by comex 7mo ago
That would not be a good approach on Macs where most users are using reduced/laptop keyboards that have no Insert key. In this respect, Apple got pretty lucky. Most users were not using reduced keyboards in 1987 when they originally
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by comex 7mo ago
Supposedly the frontier LLMs are multimodal and trained on images as well, though I don't know how much that helps for tasks that don't use the native image input/output support. Whatever the cause, LLMs have gotten significa
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by comex 7mo ago
Based on a search, the SQLite reimplementation in question is Frankensqlite, featured on Hacker News a few days ago (but flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176209
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by comex 7mo ago
LLMs are really bad at anything visual, as demonstrated by pelicans riding bicycles, or Claude Plays Pokémon. Opus would probably do better though.
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by comex 7mo ago
> We wanted to download a clip using yt_dlp (a Python program). Terminal told us, this would require dev tools (which it doesn't). It is offering to install Apple's developer tools package which includes Python. The download i
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by comex 7mo ago
At least they don't allow insider trading like Polymarket does!
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by comex 7mo ago
Not even the most extreme LGBT activist would accuse people who used the name Ellen Page in 2019 of having somehow been insensitive for failing to have a crystal ball. That is as absurd as it sounds. At most someone might be asked to chan
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by comex 8mo ago
Update: It did find the backdoor! It spent an hour and a half mostly barking up various wrong trees and was about to "give my final answer" identifying the wrong function, but then said: "Actually, wait. Let me reconsider on
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by comex 8mo ago
Reply to self: I managed to get their code running, since they seemingly haven’t published their trajectories. At least in my run (using Opus 4.6), it turns out that Claude is able to find the backdoored function because it’s literally the
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by comex 8mo ago
The first one was probably found due to the reference to the string /bin/sh, which is a pretty obvious tell in this context. The second one is more impressive. I'd like to see the reasoning trace.
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by comex 8mo ago
That’s not really fair in the case of a third-party app like this one. Swapping out the website’s default UI for an app is customization.
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by comex 8mo ago
Technically, it’s not just Scheme-like but literally a Scheme interpreter (TinyScheme). However, the Scheme isn’t being executed to make individual sandboxing decisions. It’s just executed once while parsing the config, to build up a bina
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by comex 8mo ago
This project is hardly some emergent property of the Internet or even Internet culture. The existence of VPNs and proxies in general is. They are easy to set up and hard to block. But this project, if it launches, will be a single well-k
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by comex 8mo ago
Yes, but it's only a vulnerability if the app allows rendering untrusted HTML or visiting untrusted websites, which most Electron apps don't.
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by comex 8mo ago
Two issues. First: If Fiu is a standard OpenClaw assistant then it should retain context between emails, right? So it will know it's being hit with nonstop prompt injection attempts and will become paranoid. If so, that isn't a
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by comex 8mo ago
If it works, then it’s impressive. Does it work? Looking at test.sh, the oracle tests (the ones compared against SQLite) seem to consist in their entity of three trivial SELECT statements. SQLite has tens of thousands of tests; it shou
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by comex 8mo ago
V8 is faster than LuaJIT. But sure, it has a large binary size.
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by comex 8mo ago
The announcement itself looks potentially AI-assisted, judging by the bulleted list style and redundant text under the "Charity: Transition to Kuwasha" section. But maybe some people just write that way.

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