musicale

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901.
by musicale 1y ago
Multics (written in PL/I) didn't suffer from buffer overflows. Ada was (and is) memory safe. Pascal had (and still has) range checks and bounded strings. But we do have -fbounds-safety in clang (at least on macOS).
902.
by musicale 1y ago
> All thanks to Epic for spearheading this effort. We do not want 30% cut takers in the age of digital distribution. I can see why Epic would not want to pay a 30% platform fee to Apple's game store, much like the 30% which they pay
903.
by musicale 1y ago
syspolicyd rears its ugly head again.
904.
by musicale 2y ago
BIOS is underrated. Basically the driver portion of a DOS- (or CP/M)-like operating system. As demonstrated, you don't need to add too much to it (program loader, simple file system, maybe a command shell and system utilities if y
905.
by musicale 2y ago
Regulatory entrepreneurship. See also: PayPal, OpenAI, ...
906.
by musicale 2y ago
Apple is to blame for Apple Stores all over the world, but not for KFC.
907.
by musicale 2y ago
Did they try DeepSeek?
908.
by musicale 2y ago
> Elastic was in the same bind as every company which writes opensource. There's no way to monetize it It is hard to get customers, especially businesses, to pay for something which is being given away for free.
909.
by musicale 2y ago
I want to go to Open Source University!
910.
by musicale 2y ago
At WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs introduced a "sweet solution" for developers who wanted to program the iPhone: web apps in Mobile Safari! Developers, who wanted a real, native SDK, were greatly disappointed (to put it mildly), and in 200
911.
by musicale 2y ago
Nilsson's complaint that Searle is conflating the running program with the underlying system/interpreter that runs it seems accurate.
912.
by musicale 2y ago
I imagine Searle feels vindicated since LLMs are good at translating Chinese. On the other hand I am reminded of Nilsson's rebuttal: > For all I know, Searle may only be behaving as if he were thinking deeply about these matters.
913.
by musicale 2y ago
Hardware, obviously. ;-) Though working in another country sounds like a great option if you can arrange it. I do have some bad news though: all large companies treat their employees poorly in one way or another.
914.
by musicale 2y ago
Academia may be an unsustainable pyramid scheme, but we don't need to make research conferences one as well. Fortunately Arxiv seems to be changing the publication landscape.
915.
by musicale 2y ago
csrankings considered harmful. Three conferences per area (networking only gets two as apparently it is not an important fiedl) seems crazy - note they had to split AI into a number of subfields. IIRC Usenix ATC (and maybe Eurosys?) were no
916.
by musicale 2y ago
day jobs are underrated: scientists and inventors: https://bigthink.com/hard-science/inventors-day-jobs/ see also: writers, musicians, actors ...
917.
by musicale 2y ago
> there's just not going to be demand for inexperienced software engineers for a while As I understand it, part of the layoffs is downsizing in anticipation of replacing paid staff with AI, but another part is payroll reduction by e
918.
by musicale 2y ago
> If you don’t call free, memory usage will increase over time, but technically, it’s not a leak Prevent "technical" memory leaks while creating actual memory leaks. Also what happens when saver is zero due to a failed malloc?
919.
by musicale 2y ago
> To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath Well that sounds rather damning.
920.
by musicale 2y ago
For a moment I thought you might be the Brian Dear who wrote The Friendly Orange Glow (a fascinating history of the PLATO system).
921.
by musicale 2y ago
C is improving a bit with things like -fbounds-safety https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
922.
by musicale 2y ago
> I am using Safari with AdBlock Pro and AdBlock and see zero ads when browsing the web. Safari's vestigial "never auto-play" setting has never worked, and still doesn't.
923.
by musicale 2y ago
"OK Gemini, please take this 10-minute video on youtube and give me a version without any advertising or promotional content." "I'm sorry Dave, but I am unable to accept requests that oppose Google's business intere
924.
by musicale 2y ago
> we fought so hard against pop-ups throughout the 90's and 2000's only to re-implement pop-ups in javascript as soon as we could A group of people who thought that web users should not be abused may have won the first pop-up b
925.
by musicale 2y ago
It is also hard to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy.
926.
by musicale 2y ago
As I understand it 2023 version is not exactly a port but a 3D graphical remake. I thought it was interesting for that reason and also since it was developed by the founders of Sierra, an important company in the history of adventure games.
927.
by musicale 2y ago
> They're like writing cursive: we learned them, so we think naturally everybody must and lament how much it sucks that kids these days do not Writing cursive may not be the most useful skill (though cursive italic is easy to learn
928.
by musicale 2y ago
> his focus was not the technical details as he felt too much had been written from that perspective Too much technical detail? Not for technologists - that's the interesting bit!
929.
by musicale 2y ago
People who want 64TB of memory in a single system.
930.
by musicale 2y ago
> 70% of CEOs say that they hope to be able to lay people off and replace them with an LLM soon Is the layoff-based business model really the best use case for AI systems? > The surface area for attacks against LLM agents is absolutel

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