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901.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Yeah sure. Now tell the people who are designing config languages to make them both powerful and non-Turing-complete. You see, it is a very hard problem for a powerful language to be non-Turing-complete.
902.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Config updates are not so clear cut from code changes. Once I worked with a team in the anti-abuse space where the policy is that code deployments must happen over 5 days and config updates can take a few minutes. Then an engineer on the te
903.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
No. Safari is already so buggy that it often crashes with the “a problem repeatedly occurred” message. That same message is shown when a webpage requests too much RAM. The problem did not disappear. People rightfully blame iPhone.
904.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
What do you mean “might be” trying their hand? It’s been widely reported that they are doing exactly that. It’s even known that they are doing it with Broadcom. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/openai_br
905.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Agreed. The RAM in my current PC is 64GB of DDR4 from Crucial. Now I seriously don’t know which brand I can trust when I build my next PC.
906.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
I cannot agree more. That’s also why personally I strongly prefer to work on infra rather than product teams. You get so much insulation from random whims of the leadership or PMs and you get simply pursue technical excellence. I don’t want
907.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Yeah but Google won’t expect you to use AI tools developed outside Google and trained on primarily OSS code. It would expect you to use the Google internal AI tools trained on google3, no?
908.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
It’s just faster when you accidentally dump large amount of text or binary onto the Terminal. You can measure this by running `time cat` on a multi-gigabyte file and observing the wall clock time.
909.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
The power requirement is only an issue in western countries, where utilities build at most a double digit buffer, and are used to overall energy use leveling due to efficiency improvements. Now look at China where they routinely maintain a
910.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
What they mean is that they are rewriting low level synchronization primitives in order not to penalize AMD CPUs. For example on the AMD Rome CPUs, the cross-CCD latency of atomic instructions could be as high as 200 nanoseconds even when t
911.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Even supporting just 8 registers that would take up 8/256=0.03125 of the instruction encoding space.
912.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
There are multiple variants of nop mainly because you sometimes need the nop instruction to take up a certain number of bytes for alignment purposes. You have the 1-byte nop, but there is also the 9-byte nop.
913.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Not negligible on its own. But negligible when you compare it to the transport sector.
914.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
The article quotes from Codeberg, > Running CI/CD pipelines can use significant amounts of energy. As much as it is tempting to have green checkmarks everywhere, running the jobs costs real money and has environmental costs. Honestl
915.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Because the charge controller likely does not run software that can easily be modified by the end user?
916.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
These days it is rare for a phone to be able to be used without a battery. The reason is that the max energy consumption when the CPU and GPU are running 100% exceeds the wattage that the device can accept over USB PD.
917.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Well with the style of tech interviews we have, luck is definitely involved. Some questions are simply my style (I like graphs and dynamic programming for example), and I’m lucky if the interviewer happens to choose these. But I don’t like
918.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
I appreciate your insights about formal verification but they are irrelevant. Notice that GP was talking about security-critical and you substituted it for safety-critical. Your average web app can have security-critical issues but they pro
919.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
OpenAI does worse than that. It tried to make GPT a trademark but USPTO rejected it. So it’s not even a trademark let alone a generic trademark. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn97733259&docI...
920.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Non-residents not non-citizens. See, the administration still cares about the green card holders and H1B workers, who can still visit the national parks at the lower price.
921.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Yeah I made that mistake when visiting Paris for the first time: budgeted half a day for the Louvre and an entire day for Versailles. Should the other way around or as you say, skip the Versailles.
922.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
Yeah of course adding the extra dot will work. The dot at the end simply means do not try to append the local search domain. Interestingly bad “security” software will often block domains without the trailing dot but permit the one with the
923.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
That’s different. Now you are asking the user to do an action.
924.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
It’s madness that Apple can dictate that you have to sell it for at least 24h, not less. Ideally the manufacturer shouldn’t dictate how the property is being rented.
925.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
I just added a link to the code with a brief comment. Basically, it simplifies the leap year date calculation. If February is the last month of the year, then the possibly-existing leap day is the last day of the year. If you do it the norm
926.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
I wrote my own date calculation functions a while ago. And during that, I had an aha moment to treat March 1 as the beginning of the year during internal calculations[0]. I thought it was a stroke of genius. It turns out this article says t
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by kccqzy 11mo ago
Yes. Internal documentation stored locally in Markdown format alongside code. CLI tools run in a sandbox, which restricts general internet access and also prevents direct production access.
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by kccqzy 11mo ago
This is what reasonable people disagree on. My employer provides several AI coding tools, none of which can communicate with the external internet. It completely removes the exfiltration risk. And people find these tools very useful.
929.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
As much as I hate to say it, the fact that the attacks are “known issues” seems well known in the industry among people who care about security and LLMs. Even as an occasional reader of your blog (thank you for maintaining such an informati
930.
by kccqzy 11mo ago
A channel can be backed by a priority queue if you wish. It’s just an abstraction. The channel internally probably uses mutexes too; it’s just that it’s helpful not to see mutexes in application code.

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