josefx

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by josefx 8mo ago
It is 2026, people still use cheat software on public servers. It works about as well as DRM. > Vendors couldn't care less. There are more than enough games that are designed around microtransactions that use grind and gambling mech
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by josefx 8mo ago
Shipping GPL headers that explicitly state that they are part of GCC with a creative commons licensed compiler would probably make a lot of people rather unhappy, possibly even lawyers.
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by josefx 8mo ago
I prefer the question about CPU pipelines that gets explained using a railroad switch as example. That one does a decent job of answering the question instead of going of on a, how to best put it, mentally deranged one page rant about regex
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by josefx 8mo ago
RFC822 explicitly says it is for readability on systems with simple display software. Given that the protocol is from 1982 and systems back then had between 4 and 16kb RAM in total it might have made sense to give the lower end thin client
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by josefx 8mo ago
I think it will be quite some time before you can prompt Genie for the next GTA, Skyrim or Call of Duty.
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by josefx 8mo ago
Money from Google internally might be subject to internal power dynamics and come with strings attached. Having reliable outside funding from people who don't get a say in things might be a better alternative for a project that doesn&#
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by josefx 8mo ago
> You can easily trade gold if ww3 starts If you want something you can trade post ww3 also stockpile alcohol, tobacco, coffee, etc. . Small luxuries everyone will be willing to trade for in a post war country.
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by josefx 9mo ago
> it's the compositor doing an internal optimzation to avoid a copy when it's not necessary. Yeah, it avoids doing the compositing part of being a compositor. It bypasses the entire pipeline.
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by josefx 9mo ago
They are citing a blog post from the German magazine Auto Bild, which talks about the Auto Bild special "TÜV Report" edition. They are probably three or four layers of indirection removed from the original report produced by the T
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by josefx 9mo ago
> I don't think Wayland ever supported Isn't that true for even the most basic features you expect from a windowing system? X11 may have come with everything and the kitchen sink, Wayland drops all that fun on the implementati
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by josefx 9mo ago
It isn't always pure overhead, but also jitter, additional delays and other issues caused by the indirection. Most systems have a way to mostly override the compositor for fullscreen windows and for games and other applications where v
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by josefx 9mo ago
Security certifications are one reason. OpenSSL maintains a module for FIPS compliance, which includes an entire boatload of weak and broken algorithms nobody else bothers with.
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by josefx 9mo ago
> Conan and vcpkg exist now and are actively maintained I am not sure if it is just me, but I seem to constantly run into broken vcpkg packages with bad security patches that keep them from compiling, cmake scripts that can't find
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by josefx 9mo ago
It is pretty consistent. It is part of the C Standard and a feature meant to make string handling better, it would be crazy if it wasn't a complete clusterfuck.
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by josefx 9mo ago
> Even if a machine generates them. Why? If it is a purely machine generated report there is no need to have dozens of third parties that throw them around blindly. A project could run it internally without having to deal with the kind o
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by josefx 9mo ago
Aren't all Microsoft products OpenAI based? OpenAI has always been burning money.
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by josefx 9mo ago
> one, unnecessary destructor calls on moved out objects That issue predates move semantics by ages. The language always had very simple object life times, if you create Foo foo; it will call foo.~Foo() for you, even if you called ~Foo(
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by josefx 9mo ago
Was the thought process: "Anything involving C string handling is fundamentally security hostile, lets fix it by breaking %n!"
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by josefx 9mo ago
> that the rich and powerful are spending billions trying to establish multiplanetary civilisations Citation needed. What are the current projects to make this happen? Starship is a work in progress, but that by itself wont be able to cr
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by josefx 9mo ago
> Can't say the same for either Mac or Linux. From my own experience things tend to keep working on Linux if you package your own userland libraries instead of depending on the ever changing system libraries. More or less how you wo
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by josefx 9mo ago
Of course by now processor manufacturers decided that blowing holes into the CPUs security model to make it go faster was the way to go. So your micro kernel is stuck on a hardware security model that looks like swiss cheese and smells like
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by josefx 9mo ago
There is the evil bit RFC for IPv4
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by josefx 9mo ago
Especially on a system from the 80s, did they plan to address every bit of memory available on the planet?
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by josefx 9mo ago
It may not just be NVIDIA. From what I understand any open source solution is stuck with second rate graphics support on Linux, simply because the groups behind HDMI and other graphics related standards have overly restrictive licensing agr
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by josefx 9mo ago
Mick Gordon hid satanic symbols in the DOOM 2016 soundtrack.
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by josefx 9mo ago
That sounds funny, until you realize that there are people who pull ingredients from the waste bin if they still look "good enough". At least one restaurant chain owner in germany was banned from entering his own restaurants after
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by josefx 10mo ago
> If you intend to purchase an item from the merchant anyway, why would you pass on 20% off? Most discounts I run into seem to be based on incredibly inflated pricess to begin with. If a shop offers me a 20% discount on something it is o
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by josefx 10mo ago
> Fixed size strings don’t save bytes on storage tho I have seen plenty of fixed strings in the 8 to 20 byte range, not much, but often enough for a passable identifier. The memory management overhead for a simple dynamically allocated s
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by josefx 10mo ago
> Maybe I've just been lucky so far, A lot of the issues are local, some are time constrained. There is a CCC talk on youtube "BahnMining - Pünktlichkeit ist eine Zier (David Kriesel)", that concludes that any train travel
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by josefx 10mo ago
What the blog doesn't mention is how try finally can mess up your control flow. In Java the following is perfectly valid: try { throw new IllegalStateException("Critical error"); } finally { return "Move along, nothing t

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