danielheath

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by danielheath 6d ago
The two challenges there are firstly - that analog design has been a separate electrical engineering school for most of a century, so there are few who could design it - and secondly - that every single chip will have subtle variations in i
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by danielheath 7d ago
Arguing in court over whether the details in question were functional or copyright is time-consuming (thus expensive), and risky. Once it's established that person A has given _any_ details to person B, the upper bound on "expecte
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by danielheath 9d ago
Functional details can’t be copyrighted, but once you’ve seen a copyrighted implementation, it’s an argument in court over similarity and function. A clean room implementation by people who haven’t seen the original work means there can be
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by danielheath 9d ago
Person A has failed to secure private material, and person B can hardly claim their implementation is “clean room” if they based it on other work.
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by danielheath 10d ago
> what if person a and person b are unrelated and person b found it on their own That's what's referred to as a "clean room implementation" further up the thread. However, this specific thread is about the scenario wh
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by danielheath 10d ago
> NDAs apply to all of humanity The NDA doesn't apply to people who haven't signed it, but copyright law does. If you know the material you're receiving is under copyright (eg proprietary source code), and you publish work
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by danielheath 11d ago
"Person A was under NDA, so we got them to pass their knowledge to person B, then had person B do the work - that's clean-room, right?" Judges, as far as I know, do not generally take kindly to such arguments.
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by danielheath 21d ago
I'm seeing people who _used to be_ like that losing that understanding without realizing it's happening - they have a superficial idea of what the code is doing, enough to feel like they understand it, but the change is apparent w
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by danielheath 27d ago
If you're going to put the graphics and NIC into separate VMs, surely the secure screen can be another of those semi-privileged VMs rather than part of dom0
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by danielheath 29d ago
Apps built with a toolkit which ships its own filepicker will immediately attempt to enumerate directories in `/`, `/home`, and probably a few other places. Apps with a config file will often try to read `~/.config/myapp
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by danielheath 1mo ago
I did some quick testing with `cjxl --progressive`, different quality levels, and https://google.github.io/attention-center/ A 1536w / 2048h jpg selfie: 244kb Progressive JXL at quality=70: 151kb Loaded 7kb of tha
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by danielheath 1mo ago
Does that prove you didn't photograph a display showing the digital image?
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by danielheath 1mo ago
One particularly interesting (to me, at least) approach using progressive decoding was described by Jake Archibald ( https://jakearchibald.com/2025/present-and-future-of-progres... ). If browsers extended `srcset` with
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by danielheath 1mo ago
Most useful code comment I have encountered read: “”” After you give up on trying to refactor this code, increment the following line accordingly. HOURS_WASTED_HERE=26 “””
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by danielheath 1mo ago
Loneliness is hard. Maybe believing that it was real was the only thing keeping him going.
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by danielheath 1mo ago
They may well have used suppressors.
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by danielheath 1mo ago
Tyre pollution is significant regardless of fuel source.
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by danielheath 1mo ago
Also, promotions can be a different job. I've seen a few senior developers who weren't great programmers, but could communicate effectively, manage up and down, etc. So long as they were willing to defer to others on harder techni
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by danielheath 1mo ago
IMO it's because they don't get burnt out by a lack of results. After 5-6 consecutive approaches fail, I need a reason to think the next one might work out to stay motivated. Claude will keep burning credits trying new approaches
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by danielheath 1mo ago
In many parts of Europe prior to 1970, it was very common for children to be given watered down wine.
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by danielheath 1mo ago
Back in the day, my 200mhz Pentium remained just-barely usable while listening to WinAmp, but there was noticeable latency.
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by danielheath 1mo ago
It’s bloody difficult to catch someone on one of these if they don’t want to be caught; bikes can take alleyways at some speed, etc.
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by danielheath 2mo ago
Excessive xylitol consumption causes digestive problems, yes.
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by danielheath 2mo ago
> Is there some limitation that WASM has that JS doesn't? You need a JS trampoline to call your WASM and make browser primitives available to it, and IIRC calls into browser code incur some extra overhead, but those are pretty manag
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by danielheath 2mo ago
I suspect partitioned tables would be great for this - with a stored procedure to create partitions on-demand, you could split tasks up by date-range and type, and then drop the old tables once their time-range has passed and their jobs all
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by danielheath 2mo ago
And... wolves? https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy....
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by danielheath 2mo ago
Equating someone not wanting you on their website with tyranny sure is a take. You’re welcome to host it at your own venue. Or , I guess, to keep whining that you’re not being given free services by someone who dislikes your work.
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by danielheath 2mo ago
Debians apt repositories come to mind.
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by danielheath 2mo ago
Among _many_ other things, 3 degrees Celsius globally means more evaporation over oceans, which makes the air denser. Denser air carries more momentum, which means more frequent (and more severe) hurricanes.
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by danielheath 2mo ago
> I don't know how it's really used in the wild, so to speak. Commit signing primarily exists because linux kernel development happens via email, which isn't a secure channel. In that context, signing is used to prove prov

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