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by nine_k 4mo ago
F3 seems to be a reasonable archival data format. I see many replies criticizing F3 as an operational data format, like Parquet. Of course it can't be made as fast in the general case, or as compatible to the existing infrastructure.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
TrueType and OpenType fonts include code executed by a VM to even render them. This wasn't a viable source of attacks so far, due to the properly limited nature of the VMs. Maybe I would pick the eBPF VM instead, with all its limiting
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Does WASM have built-in I/O? If not, all that a decoder would be able to do is to decode into a buffer.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
We do Nix-based cross-compiling for non-embedded software (ARM vs x64). I'd say it works mostly transparently.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Web design style nostalgia, I suppose.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
I suppose that Arabic or Russian may have it much worse.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
> it's just a name, who cares This cannot be, naming things is one of the two canonical hard problems.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Change is painful in general. But it may have a sufficient upside to withstand the pain.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Indeed, especially for a language with forms of verb as regular as in Japanese. The whole language has two and a half irregular verbs. Compare that to Spanish and realize how fortunate you are to study Japanese verbs.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The point is usually to sell a big house in a desirable location, buy a modest house in a less posh an tax-lighter location, and invest the difference to have a steady stream of income.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
There are, sadly, many places of conflicts smoldering for years; not all of them, if any, ended up in production of exportable weapons. E.g. Taiwan is preparing for a PRC invasion for decades; did it produce exportable weapons systems? So t
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by nine_k 4mo ago
FTFY: «building glut» → «adequate housing supply».
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by nine_k 4mo ago
(1) Obtain a vehicle that commands attention. (2) Enjoy everyone's attention! (3) There's no point three.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
I suspect that politicians right before elections may pay more than standard gambling. They gamble with much higher stakes.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The point is that it should not be massive.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
This kind of reactor is really hard to blow up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor#Properties (Disclaimer: most of my life I lived closer than 50 miles to various major nuclear plants.)
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by nine_k 4mo ago
In fact, the uptime of US nuclear power plants was above 90% for the last decade. And even if a reactor goes offline, a power plant usually operates 2 to 4 reactors, so the entire plant continues operating.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Basically the built plant must pass a rigorous inspection before starting operations. But for that the plant needs to be built!
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by nine_k 4mo ago
What made places like Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, IBM Research, etc thrive? What happened to that mechanism, and can we have it back?
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The US in 1950s was very big on science. Nuclear, space, biology, etc, etc. Science seemed to have an answer to everything. I frankly don't remember a time when science was in such a low regard among the US public; maybe in the Deep So
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Heh. I hoped to see a fully analog capacitor-based "movement", either a mechanical movement powered by periodic electric pulses, or maybe a device using split-flap displays powered by three highly precise, thermally-compensated ca
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by nine_k 4mo ago
> People created PyTorch and React, they happen to be working at Meta at the time. Exactly. The fact that they worked on Meta's (then Facebook's) payroll does not make what they've done, or themselves, automatically as b
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by nine_k 4mo ago
Truth be told, the Meta engineering organization created PyTorch and React. I won't color any large entity uniformly bad at all times and aspects.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
> if you have to check an identifier for revocation on every request you could just use an opaque session ID and look that up on every request instead! One reason could be the size. A revocation list only needs to keep session IDs of r
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The support here is mindshare and evangelism, not monetary donations.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The above assumes that other providers will not do their own adjustments.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
JIT gives you almost native performance. AI rewriting tools give you none of the knowledge of running the thing in production. A couple of noticeable mishaps could cost more than halving your fleet saves.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
The old unmaintained ISDN hardware for which the code has been removed is likely 20 years old, or so. The perfectly good laptops are usually 3-4 times younger.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
I suppose it's just imagery from the heyday of Wirth's Oberon, ca 1987. BTW Oberon was / is not just a language, but a whole very interesting interactive computing environment.
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by nine_k 4mo ago
> the fossil record in this area comprises both extant and extinct deep-diving beaked whales. Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred since at least 5.3 million years ago So this look less like an organized

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