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by fweimer 8mo ago
> A human can't search 10 apps for the best rates / lowest fees but an agent can. Why would those apps permit access by agents? It's always been the case that “agents” could watch content with ads, so that the users can wa
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by fweimer 8mo ago
The IEEE 754 standard covers decimal floating point arithmetic, too. Decimal floating point avoids issues like 0.1 + 0.1 + 0.1 not being equal to 0.3 despite usually being displayed as 0.3. Maybe it's reasonable to use that instead? So
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by fweimer 8mo ago
Those tools exist, but you have to pay by the token. I'm not sure if they scale financially to large code bases such as the Linux kernel. They are far more accessible than Coccinelle or Perl, though.
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by fweimer 8mo ago
How does LibreOffice handle ODF standardization? If they want to add a new feature that result in changes how things are formatted visually, write they papers to update the ISO standard for ODF, working with other office suite implementers
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by fweimer 8mo ago
There is the VEX justification Vulnerable_code_not_in_execute_path. But it's an application-level assertion. I don't think there's a standardized mechanism that can describe this at the component level, from which the applica
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by fweimer 8mo ago
Minor correction: The message doesn't get bounced, it gets de-duplicated against the first message. Effectively, it's deleted.
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by fweimer 8mo ago
There is one non-technical countermeasure that Apple seems unwilling to try: Apple could totally de-legitimize the secondary access market if they established a legal process for access their phones. If only shady governments require exploi
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by fweimer 8mo ago
If I send it first, the real message won't get delivered. The real message could be be a newly reported security issue.
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by fweimer 8mo ago
The Gmail requirement is actually slightly different: the header must be present and unique. Gmail only keeps one copy of a message per user and message ID. Combined with a mail source that uses predictable message IDs (such as Github), y
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by fweimer 8mo ago
It should be possible to get a better idea where the filtering happens with a tool like tcptraceroute (possibly patched to use other segments beyond the default TCP SYN). I haven't found evidence of extremely widespread filtering. Why
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by fweimer 8mo ago
Aren't Mali GPUs designed in Europe?
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I don't know if the 20 limit is large enough in practice. People do weird things (after migrating from non-DNS naming services, for example). Then there is label compression, so you can have theoretically have several thousand RRs in a
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by fweimer 9mo ago
The last time this came up, people said that it was important to filter out unrelated address records in the answer section (with names to which the CNAME chain starting at the question name does not lead). Without the ordering constraint (
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by fweimer 9mo ago
For most client interfaces, it's possible to just grab the addresses and ignore the CNAMEs altogether because the names do not matter, or only the name on the address record. Of course, if the server sends unrelated address records in
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by fweimer 9mo ago
There already is an I-D on this topic (based on previous work): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-...
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by fweimer 9mo ago
Does it make sense to implement constant folding using peepholes for an ISA like this (with plenty of registers and limited scope for immediate operands)? I would expect the constant loads to float away from their use sites, so that more in
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I'm concerned that companies spend their advertising budget on these redirects because those have the best metrics, instead of actually making the brand and its products more known.
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by fweimer 9mo ago
A lot of people enter the company or product name into the browser's search field and reach their intended target through an ad at the top of the results. If they proceed to purchase something, does this count as a conversion? I think
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by fweimer 9mo ago
For a task like this, I expect the tool to use web searches and sift through the results, similar to what a human would do. Based on progress indicators shown during the process, this is what happens. It's not an offline synthesis pure
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by fweimer 9mo ago
Being Jewish (even if lapsed) was more of a disadvantage. U.S. immigration policy at the time was heavily influenced by eugenic ideas, and designed to prevent further Jewish migration, particularly from Eastern Europe. Princeton University
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by fweimer 9mo ago
In 1935, Albert Einstein relocated to Princeton permanently, so it's certainly an odd choice of a year in this context. Random graduate students won't work on classified projects. The vast majority of non-classified studies will n
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by fweimer 9mo ago
It's also oddly self-defeating. If Greenland is made the 51st state (as proposed here: https://fine.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1... ), it's reasonable to assume that the balance of power in
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by fweimer 9mo ago
It's nice for a C simulator to avoid condition codes. It's not so nice if you want consistent overflow checks (e.g., for automatically overflowing from fixnums to bignums). Even with XNOR (which isn't even part of RVA23, if
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I saw weird results with Gemini 2.5 Pro when I asked it to provide concrete source code examples matching certain criteria, and to quote the source code it found verbatim. It said it in its response quoted the sources verbatim, but that was
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I didn't intend to dismiss your experience. From the opposite (software) side, these things are hard to document, and unclear hardware requirement documentation result from the complexity and (perhaps) unresolved internal conflict.
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by fweimer 9mo ago
For integer workloads it seems closer to 60% of RPi 5 performance. There are some benchmarks that depend on vector support or dedicated CPU instructions for good results, and they skew the results.
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I'm not completely sure, but I suspect Fedora will stick to the current baseline for quite some time. But the baseline is quite minimal. It's biased towards efficient emulation of the instructions in portable C code. I'm not
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I'm not sure if it's intentional. AWS doesn't have CPU features in their EC2 product documentation, either. It doesn't necessarily mean that they can disable CPU features for instances covered by existing customer contra
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by fweimer 9mo ago
Is there an actual U.S. RISC-V CPU that achieves competitive performance? I think the performance leaders are currently based in China. There's a difference between announcement, offering IP for licensing (so you still have to make you
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by fweimer 9mo ago
I think visa processing has had serious issues for quite a while: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/visa-inf... This could just be an attempt to frame (what is in effect) a serious cust

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