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by dmazzoni 2y ago
If it really was a way to get cheap labor, more companies would be doing it. As it is now, only the largest tech companies with the strongest security records are actually running good bug bounty programs. They have excellent, well-paid sec
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
I've never seen an OS 101 course offered. And how would that course work if every one had a aligytly different laptop with different OS versions?
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
Agreed about Electron apps! But...a really good code editor is a good example of something that's extremely hard to implement using native text controls, but there are great ones based on web tech. I wonder if embedding system WebKit o
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
I was at Google until a few years ago. The purpose of global approvers was exactly things like this. If you want to do a mechanical change to an insanely huge number of files, they can potentially approve it. In my experience, global approv
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
If such a tool became commonplace, bad actors would just run it on their own malware and keep tweaking it until the LLM failed to detect it.
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
Not at all: at the very end it suggests some in-betweens, like building an alternative to Electron or embedded WebViews. There are lots of browser engines like that still around. It'd be really interesting to see one that supports the
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
Do you actually need a local server? Why not have a real url, but have the site use service workers to persist offline? The only issue I see is if you clear your browser’s cache while offline
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
Unfortunately this isn't consistent with how these terms are typically used. This article only explains the simple case where your program is small enough that you can compile all source files at once. That's not realistic or prac
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
It seems to have created a two-tier system. You can get a "real" monthly plan from AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile for $50/month with unlimited data and prioritization. Or you can get a prepaid plan with data caps and no prior
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
Let's say you're a developer at a big software company (not necessarily Apple, this happens everywhere) and you want to add a new optional setting. The bar is pretty high. There are already hundreds of settings. Each one adds cost
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
This is so interesting! I wonder if anyone has ever tried an implementation that prioritizes even more minimal memory usage for small strings? Of the three implementations discussed, the smallest (on a 64-bit system) is 24 bytes. How about
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
I was imagining you’d show someone the simplified struct representations from the top of the article and ask them to compare/contrast them. Not to know this stuff of the top of their head.
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
I wouldn't use the term "garbage prose", but I do agree that many books from the literary canon aren't the greatest choice to assign to kids. Steinbeck and Faulkner come to mind. I understand that they're important,
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by dmazzoni 2y ago
I think the reality is that journalism was a ridiculously inefficient business. A big national event happens. News organizations collectively send 30 different reporters to the scene. Those 30 reporters each write up a firsthand story. Now
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I think the point is that people who have so much medical debt that they’re not even able to make payments on it are not in a position to buy a house or a car either. And more realistically, more people than ever will never be able to affor
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I mean, obviously it’s not the average user experience. For most people Apple products are not perfect but overall very solid and reliable. Also, it’s not bricked. Just needs to be wiped: https://support.apple.com/en-us&#x2F
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Is there a reason for that? Can it handle more?
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Every cross-platform GUI toolkit I've ever seen has accessibility support. You just need to learn how to use it.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Assistive technology keeps growing and improving, though. These days most operating systems already come with a voice control feature, designed for people with a motor impairment to use their device entirely by voice. When you add alt text
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Now you understand why laws like this need to be passed. Because otherwise assholes like you wouldn't do it.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
You should invest as much into accessibility as you do into scaling. Meaning: you should think about it early on, and design for the need, but not over invest in it too early. If you're at the the stage where you don't know if you
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I'm glad you linked to one with subpixel rendering. Considering that when we view text on a modern display we're almost always seeing anti-aliased grayscale pixels with subpixel rendering, it doesn't make sense to me that you
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
FWIW, there’s already a commercially available braille display that uses spinning wheels: https://bristolbraille.org Very interesting approach.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
What do you mean "now"? It has been for years. It's a huge business.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
So are you saying that you don't output tagged PDFs now? For those who don't know, if you use Chromium's print-to-pdf feature you get a tagged PDF. And it's scriptable from the command-line too.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Can you directly answer whether your tool generates tagged PDFs? Of course, you can't guarantee that the resulting document is 100% compliant because you can't enforce that the input is valid, but are you at least outputting a c
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I do agree lawyers will always be needed. But, don't you think AI is already making lawyers dramatically more efficient? So much of what lawyers do is reading - reading possibly relevant case law, reading corporate communication. I met
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Exactly. If I actually wanted to fuzz this I'd use libfuzzer and manually fix the crc32. An LLM would be useful in helping me write the libfuzzer glue code.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Why wouldn't you have an LLM write some code that uses something like libfuzzer instead? That way you get an efficient, robust coverage-driven fuzzing engine, rather than having an LLM try to reinvent the wheel on that part of the code
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
This is similar. Audio algorithms often call OS functions and make use of CPU optimizations. One example they mentioned is the fast-fourier transform (FFT). All OS's include a version of that function but it tends to be optimized over

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