eqvinox

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by eqvinox 2mo ago
No, it was testing in the context of a kind of coding I simply don't do. If an AI harness asked me to permit just one of maybe half of the suggested commands, I would stop the harness since something has gone very wrong. To be clear: I
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
Yeah, that data is junk. I know because I'm in it a whole bunch, and I'm just not a web/devops person. Half the commands made no sense to me. I normally wouldn't have approved them, but you also get penalized for false d
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
ACK. I hadn't read the other arc of this thread yet, I think we're having a failure of communication... along the lines of looking at things from the perspective of a different layer, or something like that.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
> if a writer enters an infinite loop while writing the shared data, that will stop progress in any other algorithm No, it won't, not in a wait-free algorithm. For lock-free algorithms, yes, it's a matter of scheduling and sto
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
That's not the point of my argument. The compiler declaring things UB needs to be addressed by telling the compiler to not be silly, not by forcing every single access to be on the byte level. And especially not if those are SeqCst at
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
I think you missed the point; seqlock based approaches will lock dead if you suspend/abort a thread in the wrong place. Other lock-free approaches don't have this issue. This isn't about a thread writing garbage, it's
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
No, it's neither wait-free nor lock-free. Wait-free guarantees all threads make progress, lock free guarantees at least one thread makes progress even if another thread is suspended or dead .
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
I've recently started doing crude drawings on my reMarkable when needing something like explainer diagrams. It looks like a toddler did it, but, you know what? It works. I just stopped feeling weird about it. Pen-type input systems
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
You're fixing a theoretical problem (mismatch between CPU and compiler memory models, the CPU is perfectly fine doing these reads and writes, it's only the compiler declaring them "UB") by throwing away a shitton of perf
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
I guess the point is that the concepts are needed, which is true. But the Rust way (more explicit and targeted) of dealing with these concepts seems better than how either C++ or D handle it.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
> # calls helpers that eventually call commit() Show, don't tell. The article should've included an example of these helpers. All in all, this feels poorly written, but also poorly thought out. The DB layer can and should throw
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
UPnP is the standard way to get CPE firewalls to allow a port. Other than that, discussing IPv6 on HN is… draining at best. It's all been argued a million times at this point. People hate it. People love it. People love to hate it. Peo
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
IPv6. (Let's skip the discussion, I don't feel like watching groundhog day today.)
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
> > (Richard Branson is "only" worth about $3B btw) > Yes? And? And if that's how far down the list one needs to go to find a billionaire of good repute, that's not a good sign for billionaires.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
> Cloudflare spreads everywhere and kills the drive to do nice things. How about an internet where we don't need CloudFlare? One without zillions of AI crawlers and script kiddies with Terabit DDoS capability… (the latter being the
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
Oh no, if only you could pay someone to figure out ethics concerns for you… maybe if universities offered majoring in Philosophy or Ethics? (Richard Branson is "only" worth about $3B btw)
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
Arguably, being a billionaire and being a compassionate human being are mutually exclusive. You'd spend your wealth and not be a billionaire anymore. The only question is how much of a grey zone is there between these 2 points.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
Nah, he's talking about accelerating his net worth, it just happens to be that right now slowing AI might do that. Especially if it affects his competition.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
RCU needs discussing in an article like this. It arguably fudges the definitions of all 3 things a little, but you do get them all.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
It's not quite innovation, from TFA: > X11 (the X Window System) has its own multi-seat extension called Multi-Pointer X (MPX), which I also had a lot of fun with a couple of years ago.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
WDS is not something a client/STA can ask an AP for, it's a different mode of operation. What you need is 802.11ak GLK (General Link). Unfortunately, that one also isn't really negotiable and never gained much traction.
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by eqvinox 2mo ago
The FOSS MTAs generally don't implement any of the HTTP features… because they require HTTP.
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
This post makes no sense, the EU doesn't have any rights of interior taxation, the member states haven't devolved that. It only does trade agreements and sets (not: collects!) import/export taxes. The only thing this could
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
AIUI the fines all go directly to the EU. As for the taxes — nothing goes directly to the EU, cf. root level post.
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
Well I didn't say it would be generations of humans ;-)
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
It's impossible to know without trying, but I suspect those checks would be too easy to bypass/fake in a crawler. You can submit a PR and then we can try…
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
Things can escalate further… PTP and/or PPS/GPS
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
and yet, it works.
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
They're already working on federation. But also I disagree with your assessment.
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by eqvinox 3mo ago
You confused iproute2 and iptables.

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