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by jcranmer 4mo ago
AIUI, the 8087 was essentially at the extreme cutting edge of what was possible to produce with the technology of the time, and even Intel at the time was largely treating it as a likely-to-fail project.
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
std::map and std::unordered_map are just unbelievably shitty implementations. The former is a red-black tree, which in my entire programming career I have needed to reach for like... twice? It's just not the right container for almost
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
Would you consider it theft if you asked someone to watch over your house, and when you came back, they told you they sold your house but give them a few months and they should be able to buy it back? That's basically what SBF did here
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
Another article in the same vein is this one, criticizing the increasing role of former special officers people in military planning roles: https://secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/p/the-triumph-o... , seeing it as
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
So Hashcash was, as far as I'm aware, the first PoW system ever developed, but I'm not aware of it ever actually being deployed as an antispam measure. And indeed, the history of bitcoin also demonstrates why Hashcash would have
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
In 2026, pushing for encryption of emails is a sign that you care more about box-checking requirements rather than actual security practices. Encrypted email sounds good--it's encrypted, how can that be bad?--but when you actually work
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
When I was peripherally working on some HPC stuff, there was a comment by one of the hardware guys that it mattered which national lab you were building the supercomputer for, because the guys at high altitude like Los Alamos get a lot more
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
Eyeballing the map: For largest absolute net gain of land area, I guess Mongolia wins the cake, getting a very large slice of Siberia while losing almost no land. For a percentage net gain of land area, maybe one of the European microstates
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
Not all components rise in cost at the same time. Overall, prices have roughly doubled since the early 2000's--things that I expect to cost, say, $10 would now cost around $20. However, some things have risen in cost much more quickly:
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
Randall estimates in the alt-text of https://xkcd.com/1279/ that there's about ¾ of a million people who just use somebody else's email on gmail without realizing it's not their email address.
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
I chuck IP address literals (both IPv4 and IPv6) on the list of things that you should care about for email if you're writing an MTA or an MUA but should otherwise generally not care about supporting if you're using email for some
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by jcranmer 4mo ago
How would they do that? The ACME protocol is "take the basic artifacts you use for certificate signing, wrap them in JSON (cryptographically, using standard JWS), then send them over using HTTP + TLS." Every part of that is someth
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Jacobin has a reputation of being in the category of affirm-your-biases news media, albeit one that is left-leaning. Something strong enough that you'd have a prior that any Jacobin article is going to blame all of society's ills
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
It is a little rich to simultaneously complain that the article is too long, that it didn't go into enough detail, and that it didn't support your pet theory. Maybe if you'd read the article, you'd find out that not only
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Calling that elegant is a path dependence of the history of fork+exec. In an alternative world where fork+exec never existed, a lot of those "usual APIs" would probably have had an explicit pid argument to them that let you modify
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Hell, after the 'competition' was announced, many commentators observed that it was pretty much written with Arlington, VA in mind, and the competition was less a serious competition and more a ploy to try to get a lot of subsidie
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
The title is "failing grades soar" (one 'l', not two), not "falling grades soar."
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Drones are not a strategic weapon. When you talk to the Ukrainian military, with their actual expertise in drone warfare, the general consensus is that drones are an inferior replacement for artillery (note that ex-Soviet military systems a
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
I live in a town with municipal power, and the general consensus in the area is that the towns with municipal power are loads better at it than the main private utilities in the area. There's no intrinsic reason why a publicly-owned ut
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
In the case of Alaska, the oil is literally on land owned by the State of Alaska (as in, the titleholder of the land is the state itself), and the rights to oil extraction is leased by the state to oil companies. By contrast, data centers a
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Strictly speaking, that's not accurate. Article 1, Section 8 has the general taxation clause: > The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Judging from reported figures, roughly 80-90% of households in the US [1] have a household net worth of at least $0. That means that most people do in fact have an estate. Median household net worth is in fact somewhere in the $100k-200k ra
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Because doing so gets them out of obligations to release tools that may be difficult-to-impossible to release to comply with the law.
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
One of my first lessons in open source was just because I could imagine an architecture where a feature was easy did not mean that the software had an architecture where said feature was easy. And I don't see any reason to doubt GP&#x2
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
First off, Mamdani does strike me as the kind of politician who is genuinely happy in his role and not someone who's treating it as a stepping stone to a higher office. Secondly... the track record of NYC mayors' post-mayoral care
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
From what I can see in the WG14 document log [1], it never made it to the committee in the first place. [1] https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/wg14_document_lo...
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Let's go through the list: > 1) Every function has a color Every function either throws an exception to indicate failure or doesn't. There's actually several different function colors available here, based on how failure i
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
What I like least about this article is that it's completely soured the entire context of asynchronous programming. Invariably, any time someone discusses design of an async functionality, function coloring is brought up, with almost n
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
"How bad can it be, I mean I know that numerics are not many people's strong suit, but..." ... ... ... oh wow, the math functions are really bad implementations. The range reduction on the sin/cos functions are yikes-l
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by jcranmer 5mo ago
Your example is somewhat apropos because one of the more algorithmic portions of law is sentencing. Since the 1980s (i.e., after the development of compilers!), the US has enacted guidelines for sentencing (see https://en.wikiped

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