kryptiskt

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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
-let is a diminutive, signifying something small. Like in piglet or booklet.
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
The NetBSD thing is becoming true again as Linux distros and the kernel are lately on a tear of purging old and niche architectures.
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
I've programmed C++ for decades and I believe all sane C++ code styles disallow multiple inheritance (possibly excepting pure abstract classes which are nothing but interfaces). I certainly haven't encountered any for a long time
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
One of the problems is that you might not use the target language at the equivalent level of abstraction. For example, C is a popular target language, but the C emitted may be very unidiomatic and nothing like human consumable code, it&#x27
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
I once worked at a bookmaker with millions of customers where they had extreme reliability demands during very popular events, since any bets that the punters couldn't place during live betting was lost money. They had one massive serv
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
The Old New Thing is very much engineering. Any contemporary engineers who don't think they have anything to learn from the experience of the past as recounted in the blog are doomed to repeat the same missteps. And much as one would h
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
Less legal risk, ARM has grown litigious and wants a bigger piece of the pie.
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by kryptiskt 11mo ago
Any fan of determinism would need to tackle quantum physics and what seems like unavoidable randomness in it (and there are such theories, but they offer little hope of getting around the randomness from our point of view, since they hide t
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
They don't sell for the highest possible price, because sales would suffer, they try to sell for the price point that brings them most profit. Adding tariffs will change the point of maximum profit upwards, drastically so for low margi
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
My work Ubuntu laptop has 40GB of RAM and and a very fast Nvme SSD, if it gets under memory pressure it slows to a crawl and is for all practical purposes frozen while swapping wildly for 15-20 minutes. So no, my experience with swap isn&#x
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
How would you ensure that an LLM "gets" a puzzle mechanic and that reasonable attempts at it will be rewarded with progress, while not letting players sweet talk it into into disregarding the puzzle?
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Isner-Mahut in 2010 Wimbledon took 11 hours over 3 days and ended 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68. It can't be repeated since they introduced tie breaks in the fifth set as a direct result of the travesty.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Look at the commit log in the bash repo. What good does it do if it notionally is version controlled if the commits look like this: 2025-07-03 Bash-5.3 distribution sources and documentation bash-5.3 Chet Ramey 896 -103357/+17400
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
For a small FreeBSD there is NanoBSD: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
It's not a substitute, an assertion only makes sure that it doesn't happen unnoticed, a proof says that it doesn't happen at all. I might prefer to know that my reactor control system has no overflow ahead of time, rather tha
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
There are other stuff that goes into it. But they still do nearly all of that for the web site, so a print catalogue in addition wouldn't be such a massive undertaking. The problem really is the distribution costs, it used to be delive
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
> Seems to be working for multiple decades without issues? I noted a pretty damn big issue that invalidates the whole idea that the domain is a stable identifier. It's a big problem in practice, even if you're happy with keepin
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Java's package identifiers doesn't work at all, since organizations are far more transient than code (Like, even Sun doesn't exist anymore). And even if my organization still exists, one would think I should be able to hand o
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Java's new green threads are built on delimited continuations.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
I think progress per dollar spent has actually slowed dramatically over the last three years. The models are better, but AI spending has increased by several orders of magnitude during the same time, from hundreds of millions to hundreds of
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Now I wonder how Nenad Petrović and Jenő Bán came up with the optimal solutions to the problems in the 60s.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
In addition to it being fun to do it yourself, it's still possible for an amateur to beat the pros in certain areas like finding new comets (like 2I/Borisov).
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
There are plenty of apps that are plain ripoffs, and lifting assets from the apps they imitate.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
It's kind of ironic that a nominally communistic government doesn't believe that the people have agency to act on their own, guess it reflects their own fears. I hope Xi lies sleepless at night worrying about the Chinese people ge
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
Some examples where it would be useful: Exposing a zip file or exe-embedded data as a filesystem, or making an FS backed by 9P, WebDAV or SFTP.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
extern "C" mmap(addr:*mut c_void, length:c_size_t, prot:c_int, flags:c_int, fd:c_int, offset:c_ssize_t) -> *mut c_void; Piece of cake. Or you could install a crate with bindings if you are afraid of writing code yours
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
When faced with a big task and not knowing where and how to start, a trick I like is writing something crappy that is roughly a step in the right direction. For example, if you're building a web browser (huge monumental task), just loa
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
They dug out the ground under the church while it was held up by beams secured on each side, then they moved the trailer under the church and carefully lowered the beams onto it.
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
It's not at all similar, and that doesn't have anything to do with the quality or lack thereof of the viewpoints. The Notepad++ site is run by the authors and reflects their stance. Putty.org is run by an outside party who hijacks
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by kryptiskt 1y ago
The fear may just be a result of thinking about who is making the decisions. I know I'm good, my peers know I'm good. But how far up in management chain does that knowledge go?

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