dwaite

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by dwaite 5d ago
Google's search AI actually its too dangerous to release to the public. I have relatives routinely citing it as their source for medical advice. I have quite strongly told them, in no uncertain terms, that they are going to kill themse
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by dwaite 5d ago
I think the counter-argument would be that one obviously should have gotten a Kia K4. Otherwise equivalent for everyone's needs excluding hand brake location.
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by dwaite 5d ago
Does Xcode 26 still work on Sequoia? They usually stop supporting N-1 around March.
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by dwaite 5d ago
Not sure. People are saying "Siri" but complaining about space utilization which I assume is for the foundational models. Those are used pervasively, and are exposed as a resource for third party app usage as well. Apple's go
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by dwaite 5d ago
Interesting, I do that and haven't really thought embarrassed about it. I consider it akin to putting away tools once I'm done with them. Likewise, speaking collaboratively or capturing emotion ("We did it!") would just
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by dwaite 7d ago
I've done a mock "what if I wake up naked in Tokyo" for my own recovery several times, mostly because I keep things really tied down. I have not yet done an actual test within Japan, however.
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by dwaite 7d ago
I have over 2,000 accounts. The majority of them have unique passwords. I can count the services that have passwords that I know on one hand, with quite a few spare fingers. Passwords just don't provide a broad recoverability benefit o
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by dwaite 7d ago
FWIW my break-the-glass actual use of backup codes is for access to my password manager. Everything else which has ever given me a backup code... gets stored in a secure note in my password manager. It is just another knowledge-based factor
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by dwaite 7d ago
Right - you can treat the protocol as having: 1. Initiation (QR code, NFC in draft) 2. (Proximal) negotiation (BLE key exchange) 3. Communication (over websockets or a direct L2CAP channel) The challenge is that a devices without bluetooth
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by dwaite 7d ago
That's likely Google's implementation of Local Network Access ( https://wicg.github.io/local-network-access/ ). The browser delegates passkey plumbing up to the core platform typically, so it already should hav
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by dwaite 7d ago
Yes, the passkey flow QR code contains a public key, and a local key exchange is done over bluetooth to prove proximity. That is used to set up a confidential channel. That means attackers need more than to display a QR code, they also need
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by dwaite 7d ago
> But this still breaks the login flow for a very common use case: how do I log in on a device that I don't own? With a password in a password manager I at least have the option of manually typing the password. This is meant to be s
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by dwaite 10d ago
> it's a low level language - ergo you have to literally express more things about the code That isn't really a comparison of the languages as much as the standard runtimes and ecosystems. It is important to consider that each
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by dwaite 10d ago
> Which Java famously does not have. Hmm? Java gets null dereferences all the time, that's what a NPE is. The VM takes on the extra plumbing to surface a dereference of a null pointer in a recoverable way to code. On Windows this is
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by dwaite 10d ago
I've found the challenge of running a non-existent version on a tree that was EOL 16 years ago is typically keeping it up with internal security standards, and not one of new collaborative development.
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by dwaite 10d ago
> They can offer very good performance (often better than Java) when small. But as they evolve over time, or are very large to begin with, they become much harder to keep performant. Generally, efficient memory management is orthogonal t
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by dwaite 10d ago
Java is still excellent when you need to have software that ships and gets integrated into a customer's environment, or need to support a diverse set of such integrations yourself.
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by dwaite 10d ago
A weather app could be asking for your location to give you more convenient local forecasts. It could also be asking for it to help advertisers build a robust behavioral profile about you. This is not a systems permission, nor is it somethi
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by dwaite 10d ago
Identity Verification is the realm of digital credentials. The goal isn't to make putting a driving license or passport on a desk and to verify the picture is of authentic pixels, but to move to mDL / EIDAS2 technology to have a d
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by dwaite 10d ago
That is unfortunately more about adding another edge case for the non-reified Java generics system where it has been forced to partially reify, rather than really addressing the larger complaint.
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by dwaite 10d ago
Historically, Java had a real habit of delaying new major versions for years as features hardened. Some of those features even lost relevance before their first shipping version. So now they have a precise release cadence that features can
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by dwaite 10d ago
Anyone with access to the article know what their sources are on this? This seems pretty out there compared to say adopting UALink.
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by dwaite 10d ago
The article says they are exploring Nvidia networking, not GPUs
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by dwaite 10d ago
I agree except for disparaging the AVP as not being a real computer while the steam frame is. One lets you one-tap download native Microsoft Office, one runs it through a browser or via bespoke vm/wine configuration. Instead, I'd
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by dwaite 11d ago
That isn't really how it works, unfortunately. The foundation models run on the device for access to the local graph database and to interact with local actions (intents). Not everything runs locally, but a local model still needs to r
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by dwaite 17d ago
I think you are describing JavaScript web frameworks, and before that Java web frameworks.
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by dwaite 19d ago
it is a window that starts with usage and continues for five hours. When I was doing an evaluation using a lower paid tier of Claude, I would have a service send a "hello" ping 4 hours before I started my work day, to reduce my fi
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by dwaite 19d ago
Every project I have tends toward coding agents over time partly for this reason - if nothing else, I want have both control, visibility and portability over memory and a log of the reasoning that went into the current state of things.
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by dwaite 19d ago
The business model works by over provisioning, which means you actually do want to cap the people who will attempt fully utilize the service. Once you know someone is going to use 100% of the service rather than 25%, you have to charge them
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by dwaite 19d ago
Why would it need to match Astra? Software companies don't give up and fold because they can't hire one of the five best engineers in the world.

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