jcranmer

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by jcranmer 9mo ago
Brand value is definitely a moat. Not the deepest of moats, but it is a moat nonetheless. > It's pure logic that Tesla has to pursue bets that would justify billion dollar valuations and being a car company isn't that. Tesla is
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The basic rule of writing your own cross-thread datastructures like mutexes or condition variables is... don't, unless you have very good reason not to. If you're in that rare circumstance where you know the library you're us
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
The first casualty of LLMs was the slush pile--the unsolicited submission pile for publishers. We've since seen bug bounty programs and open source repositories buckle under the load of AI-generated contributions. And all of these have
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
Your comments of trust reminded me of an analysis of the PGP strongly-connected component of the "web of trust," back when keyservers were a bigger thing, and essentially found that, in practice, "web of trust" turned ou
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
I really shouldn't be so gobsmacked by people's ignorance of history, but it is astounding to me the number of replies here that seem to believe that the press really was well-behaved in this time period. When learning about the S
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The prefix structure has been enforced starting with the VEX prefixes (which is a lot later than it should have; AMD made a mistake not enforcing more rules around the REX prefix). The legacy prefixes are of course an unfixable mess because
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There is utility for having a reserved set of opcode space for "NOP if you don't know what the semantics are, but later ISAs may attach semantics for it," because this allows you to add various instructions that merely do not
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You do have some influence in where you get posted, but that is mediated by several factors including most importantly how desirable a posting is. While I'm not certain of how desirable an Arctic posting is, I do know that Antarctic po
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by jcranmer 9mo ago
From what I understand of the advertising market, companies like Google and Facebook make bucketloads of ads primarily because they own so much of the vertical integration of ad markets. Meanwhile, the way OpenAI appears to be integrating a
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
In the current drafts of C++ (I don't know which version it landed in), memory_order::consume is fully dead and listed as deprecated in the standard.
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It's a persistent misunderstanding that release-consume is about Alpha. It's not; in fact, Alpha is one of the few architectures where release-consume doesn't help. In a TSO architecture like x86 or SPARC, every "regul
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
> How is Palantir a loophole? The big legal loophole is that the government needs a particularized warrant (per the 4th Amendment) to ask for any user data, but if the government buys commercial data, well, there's no warrant needed
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I've heard AdS/CFT described as a correlation between something that doesn't describe our universe (which is maybe de-Sitter, but definitely not anti-de-Sitter space) and something else that doesn't describe our universe
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> I think they should have pushed for a gecko based electron alternative. They did! At least three different versions of it!
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The C pointer provenance is still in TS form and is largely constructed by trying to retroactively justify the semantics of existing compilers (which all follow some form of pointer provenance, just not necessarily coherently). This is stil
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
> 1. It's the C programming language represented as SSA form and with some of the UB in the C spec given a strict definition. This is becoming steadily less true over time, as LLVM IR is growing somewhat more divorced from C/C+
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
Given some of the discussions I've been stuck in over the past couple of weeks, one of the things I especially want to see built out for LLVM is a comprehensive executable test suite that starts not from C but from LLVM IR. If you&#x27
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
The main trunk lines are in Long Island are about 3-4 miles apart. Northwest of around Cupertino or so, the mountains edge too close to the bay shoreline for you to make a second trunk line viable. Your best bet would be plonking a line aro
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That doesn't matter. It's not enough that they were doing their job beforehand, their actions at stake have to comport with their actual duties. So is it part of their official duties to walk in front of a car of someone who is tr
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
Federal officers aren't immune from state prosecution just because they're federal officers, or because they're doing their federal duties at the moment. They also have to be acting in accord with their federal duties. See, e
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, which was a decade after the George Zimmerman/Treyvon Martin case. I wouldn't put the chance of a conviction here at 100%, but it's certainly well above 0%.
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The president can do jack shit to stop a state prosecution, one of the blessed advantages of federalism.
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Earlier today, an ICE officer murdered a woman, a story that's kind of dominated the news cycle today.
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The current POTUS is not a credible source.
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> It can be difficult to figure out whether the theoretical limit is 10x or 100x in my mind because there isn't a reserve ratio federally (well, there is one, but it's zero) I know what you're thinking of here, but it does
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
> I found the hypot method on f64 interesting. It computes the complex norm in a numerically stable way. Supposedly. The docstring gives some very hand-wavy caveats around the numerical precision and platform-dependence. What it does is
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by jcranmer 10mo ago
When clang was first coming about, the number one cause of Debian packages failing to build with clang was that (at the time) clang defaulted to C99 whereas gcc defaulted to C89.
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Missiles are functionally the same things as bombs in this scenario, since the thesis of strategic air bombing is that destroying civilian infrastructure will demoralize the populace and press them to end war, and the various kinds of cruis
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There is a bigger underlying point, which is there is no trump weapon that defeats everything in war [1]. Everything has a counter, and if you're basing your entire strategy on saying that this weapon doesn't have a counter that
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The goal of the First Gulf War was, expressly, to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control and (to a much smaller degree) to remove Iraq as a possible regional hegemon for the next decade or so. Which it succeeded at. Once you've succeeded a

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