ethin

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by ethin 11mo ago
If I could upvote you, I would. I have never liked the mob of people that think we should all be super diplomatic corpospeakers who hedge everything and who think that not doing so is "offensive" or "unprofessional". I d
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by ethin 11mo ago
I mean I guess I could... But threads are pretty heavyweight. Though there may be a more lightweight way of implementing them in kernel mode (not coroutines or fibers, but actual threads) and I just have never heard of it.
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by ethin 11mo ago
Oh really? That's perfect.
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by ethin 11mo ago
It is insignificant when they're spending more than $115bn to offer their service. And yes, I say "more than," not because I have any inside knowledge but because I'm pretty sure $115bn is a "kind" estimate and
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by ethin 11mo ago
One thing the old Zig async/await system theoretically allowed me to do, which I'm not certain how to accomplish with this new io system without manually implementing it myself, is suspend/resume. Where you could suspend the
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by ethin 11mo ago
> In this case, even though rax is needed to hold the full 64-bit long result, by writing to eax, we get a nice effect: Unlike other partial register writes, when writing to an e register like eax, the architecture zeros the top 32 bits
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by ethin 11mo ago
Thank you for this. Networking is tricky (at least in person networking) because I live in an area that pretty much has no tech hub at all. I call it the state nobody talks about because the only time I've ever heard it mentioned is in
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by ethin 11mo ago
I'm literally one of these people. My only work experience is a GSoC internship in 2021. I have yet to get hired and I've been looking for 4 years, graduated in 2022 right before ChatGPT came out. I've had no choice but to be
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by ethin 11mo ago
Or a pragma? Like how OpenMP did it?
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by ethin 11mo ago
So this makes me curious: is there a reason we don't do something like a __builtin_ct_begin()/__builtin_ct_end() set of intrinsics? Where the begin intrinsic begins a constant-time code region, and all code within that region must
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by ethin 11mo ago
They're hoping the word "later" is synonymous for "never".
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by ethin 11mo ago
This is just one reason I'm not the biggest fan of Rust. The language is good (as well as what it solves), but this tendency to force it into everything (even where it would provide no benefit whatsoever) is just mind-boggling to me.
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by ethin 11mo ago
This is such a wild take. And not in a good way. These LLMs are known to cause psychosis and to act as a form of constant re-enforcement to the ideas and delusions of people. If the NYT posts this and it happens to hurt OAI, good -- these c
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by ethin 11mo ago
I've found that it still can't really ground me when I've played with it. Like, if I tell it to be honest (or even brutally honest) it goes wayyyyyyyyy too far in the other direction and isn't even remotely objective.
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by ethin 11mo ago
I ran into this firmware bug with the two drives in my computer. They randomly failed after a while -- and by "a while" I mean less than a year of usage. Took two replacements before I finally realized that I should check for an f
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by ethin 11mo ago
NVMe has read recovery levels (RRLs) and two different self-test modes (short and long) but what both of those modes do is entirely up to the manufacturer. So I'd think the only way to actually do this is to have host software do it, n
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by ethin 11mo ago
But I don't use the mouse, I use the keyboard primarily. And yes, evolution is fine when it's actually needed. But trying to get rid of Minimize and all that because workspaces exist? Going in the trajectory Gnome is doing feels l
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by ethin 11mo ago
I can't stand Gnome. I don't like how they dumped the desktop or the app menu, or really most of their decisions lately. From what I've seen they're trying to cater to some amorphous "new user" instead of just
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by ethin 11mo ago
The fact they're resorting to hacks like this to resolve problems is just pathetic. I say pathetic because MS is a trillion-dollar company -- they have absolutely no excuse whatsoever for not knuckling down and fixing these problems pe
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by ethin 11mo ago
Do you know of a much more accurate deep dive? I'd love to learn all this from a source that is actually trustworthy/authentic.
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by ethin 11mo ago
Yeah, definitely not at all a fan of stealth editing. I suspected LLM rewriting or generation but I don't possess enough knowledge into how the Apple pre-boot environment works to make an accurate judgement on the accuracy of the post.
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by ethin 11mo ago
This is a really interesting deep dive but why does the article hedge so much? For example, in the first few sections it says things like "... typically reveals the following sequence" or "The Boot ROM sets a specific control
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by ethin 11mo ago
Did you or anyone else figure out how to work with the Aarch64/ARM32 open-source JSON schemas? I could never figure them out and I feel like if I wanted to work with them I'd have to manually write Pydantic models for them or some
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by ethin 11mo ago
I wish I could say the same. I don't know what wall I'm hitting which causes it not to click for me, otherwise I'd go off and write my own Wasm interpreter just for the fun of it lol
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by ethin 11mo ago
Wasm is such a cool technology. The spec though for me leaves a lot to be desired. Oh, the first few chapters are fine, but when you get to the binary and text formats that's when it all breaks down for me. For whatever reason, Wasm lo
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by ethin 11mo ago
Because writing even a remotely modern OS is really really hard. I speak from experience. Even getting old hardware from the 90s and early 00s to work is a pain. Then of course you have the more modern standards (although even SATA is still
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by ethin 11mo ago
Where are you from? In the US, there are well over a thousand laws on the books. Might be more like 10000 with respect to criminal law alone. And that's at the federal level. Factor in all the various states and criminal codes for thos
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by ethin 11mo ago
That's so gross. Like that tells me everything about your boss. Lol. But that's what I mean. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if we start seeing calls for the LLMs of today to be banned. AI (and I mean the other types of AI) has
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by ethin 11mo ago
Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if in a year or two we start seeing bans on AI because of the tactics of these corporations. And I mean full-on blunt instrument legal bans on any use or creation of the things. Nobody will care about
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by ethin 11mo ago
Okay, I think your conflating systemd, the project and package, and systemd, the init part, which is obviously also the dependency resolver. Yes, systemd is PID 1, and solely handles service init. But the systemd project and package contain

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