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by p_l 5mo ago
"Chance" is not giving much compared to write lively Gemini-CLI repo
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by p_l 5mo ago
I was thinking more of audits that do not even allow deviation nor have any understanding what they are asking for each checkbox. So it's hard to even start on anything nuanced.
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by p_l 5mo ago
Major problem of entire compliance/auditing industry is not enough asking in companies "what are the actual risks we are dealing with", "what's the goal for given control", "do we have alternative control
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by p_l 5mo ago
Honestly, a lot of issues was that we needed to build up the necessary infrastructure in the first place. And the transformation to market economy involved at least two periods of suicidal decisions in name of ideology that regressed the ec
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by p_l 5mo ago
Peril of writing protocols with an eye to debug them using cheapest terminal you can find on campus and a grad student paid in coffee
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by p_l 5mo ago
Thinkpads were all UEFI since T410 (and related other models), not to mention a lot of non-thinkpad machines since ~2005 were UEFI Type 1 (i.e. "always boot to BIOS emulation mode, but everything underneath is UEFI"). Thus the &#x
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by p_l 5mo ago
You haven't upgraded any x86 compatible beyond 2005? /s
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by p_l 5mo ago
It still shows up in IETF-style textual network protocols, which evolved on non-Unix systems (HTTP, SMTP, etc.)
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by p_l 5mo ago
DOS uses / because programs written for CP/M, and which were subsequently ported to MS-DOS, used forward slashes. when PC/MS-DOS 2.0 was released, with support for directories, it supported both forward and backward slashes f
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by p_l 5mo ago
The whole issue is specific to C and languages that copied C or use its runtime underneath in implementations (like Python) For reference, Unix has no API other than bytes either.
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by p_l 5mo ago
Indeed, C runtime is not part of windows API, and it's normal to have a program include few different copies of C runtime library due to different modules compiled with different compilers/options. C runtime library being part of
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by p_l 5mo ago
The true success of WinAPI, including originally with Windows, is that it provided stable ABI from version to version, and didn't lock you into any language. The Unix world was lazy about it because of the approach of recompiling acros
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by p_l 5mo ago
And because of that, badly reinvented mostly through HTTP
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by p_l 6mo ago
It's generally less an exemption and more a constraint on the monopoly, at least in spirit of the law
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by p_l 6mo ago
The law only cares about how the work is distributed - if you acquired it legally by purchasing, yes you can train LLM on it, and with exception of moral rights in places like EU the author does not have more to say on it. It's treated
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by p_l 6mo ago
AF_ALG if I remember correctly predates userspace-accessible crypto acceleration and was way more important back when it meant you had actual need for "SSL accelerator" cards in servers, among other things
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by p_l 6mo ago
That is in fact correct. Both the compiler (in absence of inclusion of copyrighted libraries) and the LLM are considered to not add creative work and thus do not change copyright status of the works they transform. You can consider the trai
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by p_l 6mo ago
We did not grant human exemptions in copyright law. We gave certain temporary monopoly on certain uses to humans under rules little understood by laymen even if their livelihood depends on it.
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by p_l 6mo ago
Thing is, LLMs level of compression of training set mean that effectively, under the same rules that say you cannot sell that database filled with copyright material, the LLM is fine to sell. Because you have to be able to meaningfully trac
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by p_l 6mo ago
Copyright works on derivative rules - is the component of the work unmistakenly derived from another copyrighted work. Under at least EU AI Act, any work done by AI is not granted copyright. But it does not mean copyright does not apply, it
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by p_l 6mo ago
Some chipsets allowed that, but not all
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by p_l 6mo ago
Possibly inflation adjusted?
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by p_l 6mo ago
The desire to switch to games was, reputedly, seeing Doom outsell Windows 3.x with none of the marketing budget (with Windows having huge one). Then not getting enough support in trying to drum up better support for gaming at Microsoft, IIR
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by p_l 6mo ago
ATM semantics and TSN semantics are quite different, the closest overlap would be in AFDX (avionics full duplex ethernet) except AFDX creates static circuits
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by p_l 6mo ago
"bare metal" "cloud" - pick one. Also, those simpler deployments usually burn more money per utilized compute, or involve reinventing 80% of kids, often badly
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by p_l 6mo ago
I would also say that a lot of people, even people who are professional k8s operators, don't understand enough of the "theory" behind it. The "why and how", to put it shortly. And the end result is often that you ha
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by p_l 6mo ago
Funnily enough the post isn't shitting on k8s, it's shitting on cloud and that k8s (lipstick) can't fix the pig (cloud)
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by p_l 6mo ago
The funniest thing is that kubernetes was designed for bare metal running, not cloud...
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by p_l 6mo ago
Pretty sure TSN is unrelated to ATM determinism, and comes from a completely separate area (replacing custom field buses where timing and contention is more important than bandwidth). Some of ATM complexity came from wanting to deliver the
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by p_l 6mo ago
A lot of the IETF standards winning was vendors avoiding work even when paid for. Another was NIH in considerable important places. Yet another was that ITU standards promoted use of compilers generating serialization code from schema, and

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