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by kccqzy 1mo ago
No it’s not. The pace of improvement of CPU compute speed is far greater than that of DRAM throughput. And in fact compression algorithms geared towards speed aims to outperform memcpy (on suitable machines).
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
But zstd is super tunable. Where gzip gives you compression levels from 1 to 9, zstd gives you up to 22 for ultra compression and negative compression levels for ultra fast. The ultra fast options so fast that they are great as a substitu
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Hats off to Xe for spending so much time on backwards compatibility, especially the tidbit about targeting Chrome 66. I have a Mac from 2014 running Yosemite that I occasionally use to test for backwards compatibility in my own frontend cod
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
A colleague of mine recently did a sabbatical. The policies for sabbaticals were nowhere documented by HR. Turns out, at my employer, if the manager agrees you can just go on a sabbatical.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Huh. Very weird. Today I decided to put in a fake Gmail address that I did not own and I got the same error. Perhaps they did not like my residential IP.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
I would love to use Pangram but they simply don’t allow signing up with my custom email domain. The error was “This email address can't be used for signup. Please use a different email.” I’m not about to create a Gmail is to use your s
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
In magit press s to stage and u to unstage. Very intuitive. You can also select specific hunks or lines within a hunk to stage/unstage.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
I’ve done that long ago. In fact on iOS it’s simpler: since Apple doesn’t allow third party browsers to use the JIT, using any browser other than Safari will disable the JIT.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Right and in recent memory Google actually awarded a renderer sandbox escape with $250k [0]. Now you can see actually how serious this is. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861106
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
That’s exactly right, and applies to more than Google. I can’t think of a single browser vendor that would think a single vulnerability materially causes reputational damage.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
In my experience corporate policy is primarily built to control cost. It will not allow booking expensive flights when cheaper flights are available. But when prices are similar, it doesn’t really dictate much. And in many cases having a co
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
The next step, if Anthropic is interested, is definitely performing refactoring to cut down on the size of the proof. It’s clear to everyone including Anthropic that this proof isn’t as concise as it could have been. When it’s concise enoug
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Only a day? COROS has it beat by having 100+ hours of GPS riding. And I think GPS is the key power consumption part here. Have you tried opening one of those background location tracking apps that would require your phone to receive GPS all
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
I already have a transreflective screen on my current mass-produced bike computer. I don’t see a need to make another one, whereas I’ve never seen an eInk one; I think that’s genuinely cool and the main innovation here.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Unless this someone in the travel department knows you and has booked many flights for you before, there are so many unstated assumptions and preferences and hidden utility functions that make that someone unable to find the best solution f
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Wow. You managed to receive ANT+ via BLE hardware?! I didn't know these two protocols were so similar.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
> there will be an incident investigation that treats the situation as serious as if the plane had crashed No the investigation isn’t as serious as if the plane had crashed. In July 2026 nine planes simultaneously had a fuel emergency in
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
GP included the word “specialized” which is a reputable manufacturer. Without seeing anything else, I’d automatically be inclined to believe that any helmets sold by them has warranty and safety tests.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
There’s no exponential function involved, which is why this is easy to intuit. A true exponential function would indeed be difficult to intuit.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
You must be joking. A high schooler with a few hours of physics classes can intuit the answer.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Here is a problem that I had thought about in my last frontend project: the project needed to parse a user-provided string to provide syntax highlighting. The implementation was to parse the string immediately after a user keystroke so the
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
I think it’s overrated to control your glucose to be within a range and not have spikes. It leads to too much stress and anxiety in otherwise healthy people to think about controlling their glucose. Occasional spikes are fine. Spikes during
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Go to a better grocery store, perhaps one in a richer area. The Whole Foods next to me always has no-sugar-added cereals. Yes they taste awful; my instinct would tell me to rather skip a meal than have this cereal. But yes there are still c
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
Actually zstd internally splits data into frames, and frames can indicate the decompressed data size. So if we control the compressor we can make it so that all frames have the size information; it isn’t exactly seekable but at least it wil
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
No MTE and AddressSanitizer are implemented completely differently under the hood and catch different kinds of memory bugs. MTE tracks provenance of pointers which means it catches bugs where a valid pointer derived from one allocation is u
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
If you don’t trust the company to keep their promise, don’t use their products.
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by kccqzy 1mo ago
I did. It’s only for approved users and only until EFS is available. And given no human at Anthropic reviews messages, I fail to see how EFS will be extended to a large enough audience to be worthwhile. As such my comment did not want to ex
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
That sentence is fine; it’s tolerably annoying. As a long-time HN reader, HN is full of this kind of performative erudition and I’m already used to it. Fable probably learned from the worst parts of HN.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
That’s actually common. Not in academia but a lot of enterprises are specifically not using Fable because Anthropic doesn’t provide a Zero Data Retention mode like they do for Opus. Even at my employer when Fable is available, some employee
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
I’ll be very excited to try it out and see the actual improvement in writing style. The denser writing style probably won’t bother me. Anthropic seems to be listening to community complaint on HN about how the writing style is grating. And

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