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by emn13 2y ago
Ah, that makes sense in the context of the article - thanks!
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by emn13 2y ago
As a novice in this area, it's not clear to me after reading this what exactly the 2-ahead branch predictor is.
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by emn13 2y ago
The system clearly already behaves that way (i.e. ignores failure) - after all, the fix was to simply delete the offending file. If that's an option, then loader can do that too. It can and perhaps even is smarter, such as "fallb
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by emn13 2y ago
The argument they're making (which I think is actually a fairly good one) is that this is to users benefit; the economic incentives for advertisers to circumvent anti-tracking tech are quite large. They claim that entirely preventing
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by emn13 2y ago
Ideally, the labor market is competitive. If a company tries to offload it's legal costs to its employees, they'll find work elsewhere, at least in aggregate. Ideally (again), shareholders do not have that option. When a company
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by emn13 2y ago
If your aim is to keep profit expectation of violations at no more than zero, then it's also necessary to hold company _owners_ liable for more than their shares are worth. Otherwise, corporations will just play shells games (which th
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by emn13 2y ago
If the fines are meaningful, they'll primarily hurt shareholders. It's possible a corporation will try to mitigate some of the costs by downsizing, but that's no different from any other corporation with a non-working busine
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by emn13 2y ago
Chomsky, even in recent years, speaks in very clearly and well-thought out, structured arguments. The way he phrases it, NATO was essentially at fault and the Russian response followed from that. I don't buy that he misspoke or we mis
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by emn13 2y ago
Exactly. I think it's worth considering that people are using "threatened" in two slightly but meaningfully different ways in these discussions. It seems superficially reasonable to defend yourself militarily when "threa
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by emn13 2y ago
As a very rough approximation, I suspect that html parsing (beyond the streaming of the data anyhow) isn't really all that fundamentally serial. After all, if you seek into an html document at some random point, you can generally inte
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by emn13 3y ago
Latency isn't everything; but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant either. I'm OK with a metric that accurately represents latency with the caveat that feel or other factors may be more important. If key and/or switch
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by emn13 3y ago
My initial gut reaction to this was - yeah, of course. But after reading https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ - I'm not so sure. Why exactly should physical travel time not matter? If a keyboard has a particular
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by emn13 3y ago
Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good. As the XZ saga shows, even clearly exceptionally well organized attackers don't have an easy time injecting hacks like this; and things that increase the attackers costs or risks, or redu
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by emn13 3y ago
It's easier to hide nastiness in a binary than it is in source. And indeed this XZ hack too relied on multiple obfuscated binary blobs. The hash helps because it makes it a little harder to hide things like this. It's not a silv
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by emn13 3y ago
One thing a culture of reproducible builds (and thus stable hashes) however does provide is a lack of excuse as to why the build isn't reproducible. Almost nobody will build from source - but when there's bugs to be squashed and
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by emn13 3y ago
While it's interesting to philosophize about alternatives like this and it's seemingly obviously true that there's no trivial solution to maintainership that solves all problems perfectly, I'm a little wary about present
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by emn13 3y ago
Is it really complex? I think the real reason it gets this reputation isn't because of any complexity or lack of logic, but rather more simply because it's so opaque. Browser devtools are much worse for CSS than JS; there's
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by emn13 3y ago
It's not true. It's also a dangerous rule of thumb. Percentage widths and heights refer to _containing_ blocks, not contents. However, if you size a box as some percentage of a block, and that block in turn has a size that depend
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by emn13 3y ago
Furthermore, even as a website aiming to survive some momentary spike in performance - slowing everything down for everyone _can_ be part of a solution to serve more people but fewer things each. People might not normally be willing to wai
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by emn13 3y ago
Clearly, there's some truth to this perspective. On the other hand, which alternative actually makes this easier? If your schema is non-enforced, and/or your data (and its schema) are in loosely coupled distributed silos, and&#x2
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by emn13 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Perhaps you could point out where your perspective differs from mine? So, as I see it: Open AI _is_ a non-profit, though it has an LLC it wholly controls that doesn't have non-pro
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by emn13 3y ago
While very frustrating, it's just not reasonable at all to call that fraud or corruption. To make that case, you'll need to also make the argument that the CEO's remuneration is unreasonable to the given market rate; and more
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by emn13 3y ago
While this is great brainstorming, that doesn't mean it's a viable business plan. Having a large highly qualified dev-team working on experimental stuff for now over a decade and no likelihood of completion anytime soon and witho
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by emn13 3y ago
Maybe excel can autoconvert the new names to the original ones? Worth a feature request, I'm sure.
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by emn13 3y ago
My assumption is that the involved parties will attempt to use reasonably self-interested common sense unless required otherwise. The text does not appear to say there must be immediate publication, therefore I'm assuming that won&#x27
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by emn13 3y ago
The timetable is eminently realistic. It may be quite the change however; but whether that's a bad thing? The specific criticism in the letter appears to be a little unreasonable, frankly. Presumably any actively supported software is
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by emn13 3y ago
Sure, and most miracle drugs don't pan out. Yet there is some reason to at least hope this is a little better than arsenic - it didn't kill the mice nor dogs, and there are various plausible sounding claims about toxicity made (t
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by emn13 3y ago
For corporate liability to really mean something we almost certainly need to reconsider the very foundational concept of what a corporation is. Because at it's heart, in granting the legal concept of a corporation we assume that it&#x2
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by emn13 3y ago
The point of that quote is of course not that the evidence must have some mythical flavor or whatever - that would be absurd, but rather that if your prior is a strongly held belief that something is not possible and thus the claim to the c
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by emn13 3y ago
I share your concern here, but I can't see a resolution to that being allowing every bit of software to alter any and all user data and alter the execution of any other software a user is running. That's where we came from, and t

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