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by fweimer 2y ago
Similar discussion (2024): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557098
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by fweimer 2y ago
Slices are base pointer, length, and capacity, so three words. But there's a garbage collector, so you can install a thunk if the slice is updated in a way that torn reads cause problems. It makes reads slightly slower, of course. Two-
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by fweimer 2y ago
I think it's possible to retrofit race-safe slices and interfaces into Go, and I expect it to happen one day once some actually relevant code execution exploit shows up. There's going to be some impact and low-level libraries that
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by fweimer 2y ago
They removed country borders from the time zone selection in a Windows 95 update: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=42... In Bing Maps, I expect them change country borders based on localiz
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by fweimer 2y ago
Would it help to use separate processes and share the data on demand only, via IPC with a robust speculation barrier?
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by fweimer 2y ago
At a very abstract level, maybe. But it's common not to log changes that can trivially be rolled back, like insertions into a table that was created or truncated within the transaction. Of course, such optimizations are incompatible wi
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by fweimer 2y ago
It's odd that they don't include a real-time clock. Signatures include timestamps, and those better be trustworthy.
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by fweimer 2y ago
The change rate for Chromium is also so high that it's hard to spot the addition of code targeting whatever you are doing on the client side.
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by fweimer 2y ago
Don't the hyperscalers outsource datacenter construction and operation? Maybe it's not clear where to draw the line because the datacenters are owned or operated by disposable shell companies for various reasons.
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by fweimer 2y ago
It can make laws that prohibit or discourage publishing certain content. It can also shape the discourse in such a way that these laws are not viewed as restrictions on free speech.
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by fweimer 2y ago
If the Nvidia system runs reasonably well with stock distribution kernels, it may well be worth the extra price. Usually, an optimized, custom kernel is a warning sign, but maybe they have upstreaming plans, and support for other distributi
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by fweimer 2y ago
I had not seen the System76 systems before. They don't have distributors, and unlike the major OEMs, they don't take care of the customs details for intentional shipments. Prices for systems built with these older Ampere CPUs have
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by fweimer 2y ago
If they end up actually shipping this, lots of people will buy these machines to get an AArch64 Linux workstation—even if they are not interested in AI or Nvidia GPUs. At $3,000, it will be considerably cheaper than alternatives available t
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by fweimer 2y ago
True, but is that unusual? I know that U.S. notes are same size, but that seems to be the exception to me?
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by fweimer 2y ago
Admittedly, I forgot about %f/%g and the decimal separator. I think the rest is fairly obscure (such as %lc for wide character to multibyte character translation). For integers you need %Id (variant digits) or %'d (grouping). The
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by fweimer 2y ago
Isn't localization triggered for specific format strings only? There are many corner cases when typical printf implementations call malloc, but it's usually not too hard to avoid them. If you are worried about including <stdio.
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by fweimer 2y ago
I have some doubts about the efficacy of spectrum allocated per device class/manufacturer. This in itself is not a congestion management mechanism, although some vendors probably treat it as such. The majority of applications probably
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by fweimer 2y ago
The last iteration of German paper money was cotton-based and had raised markers, so it's not an either-or. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Mark#/media/File:5_Ma... (the : in the bottom l
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by fweimer 2y ago
GNU coreutils already has tons of Linux-specific code. But it would be a bit of a kernel fail if io_uring were faster or other preferable to copy_file_range for cp (at least for files that do not have holes).
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by fweimer 2y ago
Starting in the early 90s, Germany invited Jews from the Soviet Union to settle in Germany, but their ancestry was not considered German. Germany did not strip them of their citizenship during the Third Reich, so that type of right-of-retur
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by fweimer 2y ago
That depends on what the CLA says. A few do not permit arbitrary relicensing.
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by fweimer 2y ago
Someone with pretty much all the rights of citizenship (including that deportation is only a very distant possibility), except for voting rights and the formal recognition of citizenship status. Kind of what you get if you move within the S
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by fweimer 2y ago
I'm not sure that's actually true for the userbase that Kagi is targeting. I think they are mostly interested in curated, original content, mostly text, not derivative slop, often in video form. Locating that stuff for indexing mi
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by fweimer 2y ago
I had not thought about it that way. It's not such a great deal if you feel you belong wherever you are living now in Europe, and view yourself a quasi-citizen and European (even in case if there's no realistic path to citizenship
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by fweimer 2y ago
Fair point. Creation might not be such a challenge, but sustaining operations might be. On the other, hand I feel like the amount of content that would be beneficial to me in search results has not grown as fast as computing and networking
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by fweimer 2y ago
For Kagi, there is a big question mark around the availability of the third-party search API endpoints they rely on. If search evolves further and further away from textual matching, that will impact them as well. (For search providers, it
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by fweimer 2y ago
I think it's a bit of a cultural defect that we consider a product with 29K (supposedly satisfied) users a failure. More problematic (for Kagi) is that it's not a free-standing engine (“Our search results also include anonymized A
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by fweimer 2y ago
The flip side from this assumption about their technology is that if some service is not working, people are very quick to blame the impacted (paying) user. “You are running into rate limits”, “Google is applying anti-abuse controls to your
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by fweimer 2y ago
Most peoples in Europe do not have their own nation state. In fact, pretending that those peoples with their distinct languages (often called “dialects” despite lack of mutual intelligibility) and cultures do not exist is a key part of the
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by fweimer 2y ago
It looks like Hardy used Dedekind cuts from starting with the second edition (1914), but not in the first edition (1908). What's the advantage of Dedekind cuts over say equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers? Parti

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