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by jcranmer 6mo ago
WebPKI is derived from X.509, but I don't think X.509 lives on anymore. X.500 was stripped down to form LDAP, which is still in very heavy use today. There's still some X.400 systems in existence. I think some of the early cellpho
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
Yeah, 32-bit x86 is somewhat easier because everything's in the same flat address space, and you at least have a system-wide code32 gdt entry that means you can ignore futzing around with the ldt. 16-bit means you get to deal with segm
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
So I've definitely played around with a lot of these ideas, because the thing that I'm trying to emulate/port/reverse engineer is a 16-bit Windows application, which coincidentally means that a lot of the existing infras
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
Per https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by... , all of the major American AI companies are not respecting robot.txt and participating in the AI-fueled DDoS of the internet.
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
It's amusing because some insist that Fortnite is a battle royale game in the vein of PUBG, while others insist that it's a tower defense/shooter game like Orcs Must Die. And still others insist it's not a game but a ven
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
IEEE 754 basically had three major proposals that were considered for standardization. There was the "KCS draft" (Kahan, Coonen, Stone), which was the draft implemented for the x87 coprocessor. There was DEC's counter proposa
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
Everyone has already made several comments on the incorrect use of EPSILON here, but there's one more thing I want to add that hasn't yet been mentioned: EPSILON = (1 ulp for numbers in the range [1, 2)). is a lousy choice for t
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
One of the major projects that's ongoing in the current decade is moving the standard math library functions to fully correctly-rounded, as opposed to the traditional accuracy target of ~1 ULP (the last bit is off). For single-precisio
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
> Not much hydrogen there, so not much water, which probably is the biggest problem. Actually, the cloud layer at that level is mostly sulfuric acid, from which you can get your water. It also means you need to be in a hazmat suit when y
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
There are 16 /8's in the class E address space that were never allocated, and 19 /8's (by my count) allocated to individual companies. If you waved a wand and returned all of that space to IANA for allocation, you would
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
> US also didn't have Jus soli citizenship until the whole civil war and slavery debacle. Actually, my understanding is that the US did largely follow jus soli . What it wasn't was unconditional jus soli , but the principle w
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
If lawyers use it, they may have the ability to claim work product exemption, although this itself is going to be dependent on a lot more factors I can't analyze.
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
> Well, calling Claude a "third-party communique" here is the stretch. Why? The privacy policy explicitly says that when you're using it, you're sending your data to Anthropic. > Say a person used Excel via Office
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
Non-lawyer discussing their lawyer's communications with a third party has defeated attorney-client privilege for eons, and that's basically what happened here. Especially when you're sharing those communications with a third
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
... that is not how attorney-client privilege works.
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
Reading the ruling in more detail, this is definitely a "this is not even close case." First off, the Fifth Amendment right to not self-incriminate is rather narrower than you might expect. With regard to document production, it o
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by jcranmer 6mo ago
I don't think there is hope if you look at actuarial tables and Knuth's age. It's not clear to me if he'll be able to finish volume 4. The outline he has seems to have enough material to fill volumes 4C-4G to my eyes, an
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
> Coming from mercurial (which is older than git) Git is older than mercurial by 12 days. Bazaar has git beat by about the same amount of time. The major DVCSes all came out within a month of each other. > But Linus pushed git and peo
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
Here's some historical data for employment in category NAICS 5415: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IPUMN5415W200000000 . Which, NAICS 5415 definitely isn't a complete picture of tech employment, but it shou
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
The Everglades mostly aren't as mosquito-infested as Congaree. Except for Flamingo, which feels like it's the mosquito capital of the world.
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
Every other field in history considers it de rigeur that you're liable for the failure of quality in the products you produce. You make drugs that hurt people? You're liable. You build a building that falls down? You're liabl
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
Looking very quickly at some of the votes being tracked, I don't see any vote that remotely qualifies as supporting or opposing free speech. Instead, they're focusing on things like "do you oppose the Federal Reserve making
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
Before today, only ships Iran deigned to let pass the Strait of Hormuz could go through without risking attack from Iran. As a result of the ceasefire, Iran must let any ship through the Strait... unless Iran objects to its passage. There d
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
> Zuckerberg got punished for his metaverse nonsense and investors were correct to be skeptical and reflect that in the stock price. Did they? It's been a little less than 5 years since Zuckerburg announced the all-in plan on the me
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
This is your regularly mandated PSA that the quote about "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater" comes from Schenck v US, which used that analogy to justify why the government could ban people from protesting the draft in
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
> That quote from the article directly-contradicts what multiple tour-guides at the Winchester Mystery House in California have told me over many decades. The house is run by an organization that has a very vested interest in playing up
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
There are a lot of people who are unhappy with the steps the government took to crack down on COVID misinformation, and some people are still upset about Twitter's decision to limit spread of the Hunter Biden laptop story (which was en
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
I think this is skewed by your perception of how frequent wars actually are. If your idea of a typical war is Trump bombing Iran, well, I disagree with your assertion, but it's at least a colorable argument. But those kinds of wars bet
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
> Trump's one quality that may save us all from this quagmire is his ability to do a complete 180 on his previous committed path - "TACO" as his detractors like to call it. If you haven't been paying attention, Trump
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by jcranmer 7mo ago
This was a patch for the compiler implementation of the changes to the standard.

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