cwillu

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871.
by cwillu 1y ago
The same set of tools exist with different names to punch the same sorts of holes automatically in ipv6 firewalls, so are ipv6 firewalls also not security measures?
872.
by cwillu 1y ago
Nobody is seriously claiming that current language models are AI in the context of ai-risk; you can tell because the argument is always “In the next few decades, it’s entirely possible that AI with an IQ of 300 will arrive”
873.
by cwillu 1y ago
Impersonation is not what you seem to think it is.
874.
by cwillu 1y ago
The article talks about using handles, which reintroduce all the same use-after-free issues that the borrow checker is claimed to solve.
875.
by cwillu 1y ago
It's (mildly) concerning how the answer to complicated ownership situations is (sometimes) to defeat the borrow checker by reimplementing a pointer system that the borrow checker can't check.
876.
by cwillu 1y ago
Yes.
877.
by cwillu 1y ago
That is correct answer to a data eating bug on a stable filesystem uncovered during RC, but the correct answer is also to then perform a thorough and public soul-searching for how such a bug got introduced to the development tree from which
878.
by cwillu 1y ago
It's the same coin.
879.
by cwillu 1y ago
Please review https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250627144441.GA349175@fedora/#... and https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250628015934.GB4253@mit.edu/
880.
by cwillu 1y ago
Slipping feature code in with bug fixes is a abuse of good faith.
881.
by cwillu 1y ago
What do you expect california to do about american federal law?
882.
by cwillu 1y ago
“More and more people get information from LLMs” this is the part I'm horrified by.
883.
by cwillu 1y ago
“Ridiculous statement… not.” was annoying when gen-x pushed it in the 90's, and it's not less annoying now that gen-z spells it “/s”.
884.
by cwillu 1y ago
For-profit-of-outside-investors
885.
by cwillu 1y ago
Works on chrome/linux as well, but you do have to know how to drag from outside the link, or switch to caret browsing (f7)
886.
by cwillu 1y ago
For what it's worth: “All Chromium extensions are supported and work right away, by default, including all MV2 extensions. We'll keep support for MV2 extensions for as long as possible.” Whether that's worth much is of course
887.
by cwillu 1y ago
And yet it's a reasonable question, because who's to say that it isn't slightly more complicated? Almost everything else is after all: “Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) made a recommendation on the use of electronic dev
888.
by cwillu 1y ago
Thermal cycles is murder on rigid electronic connections; the mechanical connection between the heatsink on each side of the peltier cell being a prime example.
889.
by cwillu 1y ago
“Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".” -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel
890.
by cwillu 1y ago
Classic externality: at their scale, the power costs offloaded to their clients will also be enormous.
891.
by cwillu 1y ago
The site which may not be linked from hn had a post tangentially about this today.
892.
by cwillu 1y ago
..for now. Just like last time.
893.
by cwillu 1y ago
“You're using a suspiciously old browser You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're us
894.
by cwillu 1y ago
I didn't say or suggest otherwise.
895.
by cwillu 1y ago
I'm going to push back on “the value was already known”; my understanding is that the candidate value was known, but while there was a single machine with behaviour that was not yet characterized, it quite easily could have been the re
896.
by cwillu 1y ago
Purely academic, there are no direct applications or anything unlocked by knowing the value; the benefits are all in what was learned along the way.
897.
by cwillu 1y ago
Because it's utterly irrelevant nitpicking, acting as if a blog post is something that was inflicted on hk1337, followed by a question about a pretty basic concept demonstrating a very limited understanding of the domain, which would b
898.
by cwillu 1y ago
I commend you for your patience with this comment section.
899.
by cwillu 1y ago
If a bank is required to reverse fraudulent charges (and they are), that means they're liable for those charges.
900.
by cwillu 1y ago
Hence “might”, “maybe”, “bit of stretch”

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