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by eichin 6mo ago
Hmm, I have some old daisy-wheel printers in the closet that I've been meaning to strip down for stepper motors, maybe I should refurb them instead :-)
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by eichin 6mo ago
My phone has 327.1G of storage in use right now :-) (years ago a friend of mine who was also old enough to complain about "640k" suggested that we should just denominate storage in dollars, so "reasonable" amounts scal
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by eichin 6mo ago
That was the scaffolding for the Claude 4.6 run discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633855 - if that's all it takes, dealing with Mythos is way too late :-)
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by eichin 6mo ago
Looking online it looks like the newsstand price of an issue is around $10 (which I'd assume is heavily ad subsidized, if anyone is still buying print ads?) which is an interesting data point for a pricing model. (Of course, I looked
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by eichin 6mo ago
I'd love to see snap go the way of upstart...
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by eichin 6mo ago
Also, he did compare with earlier versions that, before 4.5, were dramatically worse at finding the same problems. There's even a graph. That seems to pretty solidly support the idea that this is "gain of function" as it
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by eichin 6mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg is the presentation itself. The prompts are trivial; the bug (and others) looks real and well-explained - I'm still skeptical but this looks a lot more real/useful than
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Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years(mtlynch.io)
433 points by eichin 6mo ago|268 comments
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by eichin 6mo ago
An explanation of the Claude Opus 4.6 linux kernel security findings as presented by Nicholas Carlini at unpromptedcon.
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by eichin 7mo ago
I was just disappointed that they didn't include a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:... joke (or maybe that's also a tell...)
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by eichin 7mo ago
if they're the ones I'm thinking of (wide, but not very tall, good for large flat things - basically map drawers but not quite that big) just be forewarned that the drawers don't fully extend. (There are mods to fix that whi
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by eichin 7mo ago
ooh, new fodder for conspiracies about electric cars not having AM radios :-)
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by eichin 7mo ago
Matthias Wandel - I'd used jhead for years, and I've watched "that experimental woodworking guy on youtube" for years - it was a bit of a mental "record scratch" when I realized they were actually the same gu
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by eichin 7mo ago
If the whole point of sandboxing is to not trust the software, it doesn't make sense for the software to do the sandboxing. (At most it should have a standard way to suggest what access it needs, and then your outside tooling should
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by eichin 7mo ago
Got flashbacks to 1999 from some of those charts - I had a pair of design charts (partly for arguments, partly for onboarding) that were 17 nodes each and a lot of lines. (A coworker snuck in some extra nodes and an arrow labeled "t
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by eichin 7mo ago
that's why you set &udm=14 in the search URL config...
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by eichin 7mo ago
Not convinced of that edit - or at least, my read was "revisit this 5 years from now", not 30...
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by eichin 7mo ago
I was surprised to learn (from this article) that there are local models that can do this (not sure if there are any that run on hardware I actually have though, unlike Tesseract which works fine on the scanning hardware I set up for it ~
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by eichin 7mo ago
Ooh, that's a worthy challenge. Of course, I can imagine getting enough data on all of those cities and deciding to launch everywhere else but not Boston "because your roads are garbage and you all drive like you're impair
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by eichin 7mo ago
Heh, in the early days of C++ (1990ish) I had a notable application of 3+4 involving a doubly linked list with cache pointers (time-sequence data browser so references were likely "nearby" as the user zoomed in; spec was to handle
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by eichin 7mo ago
Listing alumni degree year is generally an "insider" thing (noone who isn't also a Cornell alum really cares which year, especially for a bachelor's degree; likewise Cornell doesn't mention the Harvard '95
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by eichin 7mo ago
On my Polestar 2, I was surprised how in actual use, friction braking was basically zero - to the point where when you start a trip the brakes are used for a few seconds to make sure they're still working (and scrub them a bit.) In a
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by eichin 7mo ago
Somebody recently used a variation of this to get good video of welding - basically a camera synced with a very bright (strobe-ish) light, brighter than the weld itself, so you adjust the camera to the ludicrous-but-consistent brightness le
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by eichin 7mo ago
Same - but mine are also primarily so I can hand out links to specific articles - they're not hidden but they're not advertised either (and they're static sites with almost zero logging, so I wouldn't really notice eit
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by eichin 7mo ago
Interesting detail on the algorithm but seems to completely miss that if you care about non-streaming performance, there are parallel versions of xz and gzip (pxzip encodes compatible metadata about the breakup points so that while xz can s
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by eichin 7mo ago
I'm surprised that this shows anything running usefully on my 2021-era thinkpad (with "Iris Xe"'TigerLake graphics) which inspires me to ask - are external GPUs useful for this sort of thing?
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by eichin 7mo ago
Particularly because, although there are smaller "study" versions as he worked up to it, the painting itself is 10 feet wide and most references don't include that context (at least not visually, they often list the numbers
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by eichin 7mo ago
Some of their earlier videos go into a lot of detail on the safety interlocks (including that the radiation near the device can be lower than ambient because it's basically a large chunk of shielding :-) As for pricing, https:/
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by eichin 8mo ago
Presumably he got better in the intervening decades, but part of how we stopped the Morris Worm was that it was badly written (see the various version of With Microscope and Tweezers for detail, particularly about the "am I already r
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by eichin 8mo ago
Actually, while the Actual Nodes are a linux thing, bash itself implements (and documents) them directly (in redirections only), along with /dev/tcp and /dev/udp (you can show with strace that bash doesn't referen

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