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by gary_0 3y ago
Only a secret and privileged few actually get to boot and talk to a modern physical CPU. The rest of us only get to run on top of an abstraction. Wake up, Neo. The Matrix has you...
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by gary_0 3y ago
On the one hand, I love the idea of living a slower-paced, less competitive life. Most humans ending up crammed into urban rat-races is a horrible outcome. On the other hand, I like not dying in agony of easily treatable diseases. I like th
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by gary_0 3y ago
A certificate that says "this installer really did come from the owner of exampleapp.com" is better than users just trusting whatever random file came up in a Google search. And meanwhile, in Linux land, people will install things
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by gary_0 3y ago
We need a LetsEncrypt for executable signing. Although I suspect Microsoft and Apple are making distributing executables for their platforms costly and inconvenient on purpose in order to drive developers onto their app stores. If that&#x27
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by gary_0 3y ago
I worked on designing computerized machinery in the past, and having sensors for as much stuff as possible just seemed like a good idea. We had quite a few current sensors for various components. Then we could do stuff like log in to the un
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by gary_0 3y ago
Devil's advocate: Google was awesome for over 10 years while making a huge profit with unobtrusive ads. Yes, relying on ad revenue is a strong driver of enshittification, but it's not the only factor; would Google have turned out
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by gary_0 3y ago
> 20-30% of power is spent on fans Wow. It makes sense if I think about it; heat is the primary byproduct and therefore a typical server rack is chock-full of chunks of spinning copper coils and plastic fins. But still... wow.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Speaking of denial of service, it looks like HN killed the guy's server. https://web.archive.org/web/20231028021348/https://boston.co...
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by gary_0 3y ago
Also I don't think the Standard requires that data() returns a valid pointer after only calling reserve(), so it's technically UB.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Like I said in my comment, they're all out of date and don't show the new version.
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by gary_0 3y ago
No screenshots? The website has a screenshots page buried in a menu, but they're all very out of date.
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by gary_0 3y ago
And confusable with lambda/function and pattern matching operators in other languages. Imagine only being an occasional C++ user, seeing =>, and thinking they added terse lambdas! You'd be in for a [big]<T>(){disappointme
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by gary_0 3y ago
Are there any other programming languages that have this feature? I'm fairly certain Rust, Zig, C#, JavaScript, and Python do not.
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by gary_0 3y ago
> It fell not because the owners sought to grow it unreasonably Twitter was nicely profitable in 2018 and 2019[0], then went on an overzealous hiring/spending spree in 2020 and was in not-great financial shape by the time Musk happ
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by gary_0 3y ago
Coca Cola, Nike and Pizza Hut are products that everyone buys. It makes sense they would advertise during the Superbowl. But I don't personally know anybody non-techy who knows anything about crypto, never mind has any use for it (alth
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by gary_0 3y ago
I feel like that took too many words to point out that we can probably ignore the rich guy saying that everything will be great if we all just let rich guys tell us what to do. I also feel like we as a society have a lot of hard work that n
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by gary_0 3y ago
Yeah, you have to run GCC with `-MMD -MP` so you get .d files along with your .o files. Then in my own Makefile I have: include $(shell find $(BUILD_DIR) -type f -name '\*.d') so that make will check for header file chang
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by gary_0 3y ago
There are plenty of overt attempts at legislating surveillance and censorship, so there's no point in being paranoid in cases like this, where the government is probably just trying to prevent cheapskate companies from buying backdoore
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by gary_0 3y ago
> In authoritarian states this is probably a net good Crypto doesn't fix the problem with authoritarian states (or the drug war, or backwards prostitution laws), though, it's just another workaround. There's no shortcut ar
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by gary_0 3y ago
EUV has quite the history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph... > "Congress denied Japanese companies the necessary permission as they were perceived as strong technical competitors a
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by gary_0 3y ago
I just read a similar review: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/review-michael-lewiss-go... > Far from providing an incisive inside view into a historic collapse that saw billions of dollars go up in flames at the
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by gary_0 3y ago
An occasional 100ms pause while I'm editing a huge 1GB file wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me, as long as regular-sized files have <10ms latency. It's been a long time since I opened a text file that huge, and I think the
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by gary_0 3y ago
https://nitter.net/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1708905454544282083 (full thread for non-Twitter-users)
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by gary_0 3y ago
The Google of 2005 was running circles around the stupid, lumbering Microsoft, now they're the stupid lumbering ones.
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by gary_0 3y ago
Unfortunately, he gets an SWD connection in the video but there's no debug Access Port (AP) found, as you need an exploit to debug the iPhone and he doesn't show that.
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by gary_0 3y ago
I found some details about the prizewinning research here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Krausz#Research
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by gary_0 3y ago
UFO-tier or semiconductor fab tier[0]. But even then there are very few physical and economical situations where you can say "let's deposit X number of atoms per square nanometer of substrate" and not get laughed at. [0] htt
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by gary_0 3y ago
I've always considered magic_enum pretty useless because if your enum is large enough to need such automated features, it's too large for magic_enum's template hacks so it fails, crashes the compiler, or makes your build time
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by gary_0 3y ago
We were talking about "looking a gift horse in the mouth", as in it's still a positive thing regardless of the semantic quibbles about open source. Nobody would argue that a hypothetical openly licensed Windows binary-only re
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by gary_0 3y ago
No, but if the Windows binary code was made available with no restrictive licensing, I'd be quite happy, and the WINE devs would be ecstatic. Sure, the source code and build infrastructure would be nicer, but we could still work with t

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