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by inkyoto 2y ago
Hear, hear. A few years ago I worked for an esteemed client whose director said «I want Kafka» for [mostly] synchronous interaction patterns. I said «no», the director said «I want Kafka». That repeated a few more times, and I had to begr
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] the letter ordering from your home alphabet just for simplicity. Other invented scripts like Georgian and Armenian, also retain the Greek alphabet ordering. The Greek alphabet ordering ascends to the Phoenician alphabet ordering, w
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by inkyoto 2y ago
Gradual divergence of spelling and pronunciation is an inherent flaw of writing systems based on an alphabet or abiguda. Pronunciation inevitably evolves, especially over extended stretches of time causing a drift in the spelling. The IPA
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I would ascribe it to the paradigm shift – C++ was the executor, but the advent of the object-oriented programming was the instigator. By the time Modula-2 appeared in the mainstream, «C with classes» (later C++) had already been begot, and
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> WhatsApp, OTOH, is huge, and that’s an app that’s not installed by default and automatically consists of your entire address book as contacts but instead you have to go ahead and download it and explicitly add contacts to it […] … whic
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> Could AI running amok destroy the human race? How do you envisage AI to run amok at the current level of the technlogical progress? Insofar, AI taking over the world and obliterating humanity is the subject of the sci-fi material in
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> SSD manufacturers are likely to store a mapping table of LBAs (logical block addresses) to PBAs (physical block addresses) in the DRAM or Host Memory Buffer. Are LBA's a thing on SSD's nowadays? I thought it was the legacy of
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> It seems like AWS' entire business model is making the pricing so confusing that you don't know what it will cost until after you've used it. This is patently not true. AWS is very transparent with the pricing and offers
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> […] to implement a burst-capacity overflow to cloud strategy for their compute needs. 8 years ago the cloud did not effectively exist yet. Today the available capacity surpasses the needs of the prevailing majority of cloud customers,
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by inkyoto 2y ago
The cost of deployment into the cloud is $0 at a scale that is unfathomable to any rack with the overhead being a near zero as well. Initial capital investment for the cloud is $0 as well. The self-managed rack: 1. Has to exist somewher
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> But the overhead would have to come down dramatically for it to ever beat simply doing the compute in-house and incurring the overhead of managing a physical rack. Out of sheer curiosity, by which metric deploying the pre-packaged code
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> I don't think crossing cache lines is particularly much of a concern? It is a concern if a branch prediction has failed, and the current cache line has to be discarded or has been invalidated. If the instruction crosses the cache
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by inkyoto 2y ago
I am not following the train of thought. All I am reading is yet another wild projection. SMS is the lowest common denominator across all mobile networks and is the ultimate fallback option for a smartphone if more modern messaging standard
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by inkyoto 2y ago
> Not fully decoded though, since it's enough to look at the lower bits to determine instruction size. It is not about decoding, which happens later, it is about 32-bit instructions crossing the L1 cache line boundary in the L1-i ca
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> HN tells me that there's only one more step left after embracing and extending. It is a wild projection, a common one amongst members of this esteemed congregation. Removing SMS supports invalidates and revokes the 3G/4G&#x2F
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> […] at what point did it become inevitable? I do not have an answer to that question, unfortunately. Given choices A, B, C, D and Z, what motivates people to make the worst (short or long term) one out of all alternatives? There is no
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> How it started and might have been prevented, for instance. It does not seem likely that the war could have been prevented. Wilhelm II had surrounded himself with war inclined military advisers, had himself entered a very militant mood
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Such a system would be built on orders of the state and it would not be publicly or widely advertised, esp. in mainland China. Russia, for instance, has built SORM (deep packet introspection of the ISP traffic at the nationwide scale) – to
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Can someone please explain to me what the security threat is? I still haven't understood it. Facial recognition database and tracking people at a global scale. With advances in computing power and unsupervised machine learning, c
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is not common at all, but in Taiwan there is bopomofo, which is used the same way as furigana in Japanese – to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters. In fact, children in Taiwanese schools learn bopomofo first and only later p
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by inkyoto 3y ago
This scam has been going on for a few years and outside the US as well, I just received another two such scam texts overnight. They pretend to send payment demands as local toll operators although links do not look convincing. I ended up lo
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Frankly, I do not know – mine is the '23 model, not the '24 one. According to this video, breaks will be applied automatically, even if it is in neutral or if the engine stalls: https://youtu.be/8WIydvZZ23I
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is just emergency braking (electronic brake distribution across all wheels according to sensor readings), plus ABS in a hard braking scenario. The clutch is not affected.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I have only found one practical application for adaptive cruise control so far: when driving in tunnels where speed cameras strictly and vigorously enforce speed limits, hence 99% of the drivers behave and adaptive cruise control is safe to
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Daytime running lights (which are now mandated in many countries) and headlights are distinct, separate and independent from each other – the former are not as intensely bright (and are oftentimes LED contour light or a separate, dimmer glo
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Camera is only used for lane detection […] That might be true for some vehicles only. Subaru EyeSight cameras (there are 2x front cameras and 1x rear camera) are also used to detect moving and stationary objects, and it will engage t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Making the GOT read only is problematic as the dynamic linking is lazy by default, and R^X'ing the GOT would make the deferred dynamic symbol resolution or subsequent dlopen calls fail. It would be simpler to statically link sshd (or,
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I do not think I am missing out: the supply chain attack which included playing the long game, subverting the trust of the development community is the real issue that the open source community has no defences against – the thwarted attack
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by inkyoto 3y ago
The fundamental question remains: considering the in-depth knowledge of low-level (a small scale disassembler), system programming and the practical application of data structures (i.e. using a trie for all string operations to avoid the us
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Shuffle is different, it is not a foundational SIMD instruction, it is actually a good example of an extension that can be added later as an add-on that does not require a complete code rewrite. Whereas each of the MMX, SSE and AVX extensio

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