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by pdpi 1y ago
Also, &str is closer to const uint8_t* than it is to const char*. Chars are signed by default and are at least 8 bits, but can be wider.
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by pdpi 1y ago
The short of it is that AMD haven’t “avoided it”. Speculative execution side channels aren’t one vulnerability but rather a whole family of vulnerabilities. This particular one is (apparently) Intel-only, same as Meltdown was, but AMD was a
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by pdpi 1y ago
You need a qualifier there — the latest Ubuntu release is 25.04, but 24.04 is the current LTS release.
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by pdpi 1y ago
What about Rust's memory safety story justifies the "so-called" qualifier?
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by pdpi 1y ago
"We can parse at x GB/s" is more or less the reciprocal of "we need y% of your CPU capacity to saturate I/O". Higher x -> lower y -> more CPU for my actual workload.
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by pdpi 1y ago
Can be, but e.g. in London all the major office space hubs also have a bunch of places that cater to office worker lunches. They tend to be comparatively cheap (emphasis on “comparatively”, mind you), and healthier than restaurant food.
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by pdpi 1y ago
Rob Scallon did a video with Carolina a few years ago, where they go into a bit of detail about how you play the thing and how it words. If you’re interested in the theremin, it’s a pretty good watch. https://youtu.be/LYSGTk
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by pdpi 1y ago
A bit meta, but I've come to look forward to the "Why did <bizarre behaviour> happen with <windows version>" headlines that herald a Raymond Chen post. These are always fascinating.
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by pdpi 1y ago
Pointless article. Superficial description of what an elliptic curve is, even less than superficial description of what a discrete logarithm is (including absolutely no mention of what it being discrete means) or how that applies to ellip
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by pdpi 2y ago
> Watch that and tell me if you think it's still cool and normal life is boring. I didn't get the feeling that OP was saying it's cool. Rather, that it's intense, and that the intensity itself is addicting. I was on j
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by pdpi 2y ago
> what about someone who is 18 and just doesn't have the traditional adult facial features? This can be challenging even with humans. My ex got carded when buying alcohol well into her mid thirties, and staff at the schools she taug
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by pdpi 2y ago
I honestly doubt that’s the plan. They’ve bumped up the price once in all the years I’ve been subscribed to the All Tools pack. When they did that, they gave existing subscribers the option to buy two years’ subscription at the old price.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Under "availability in products", they specifically say that the Free tier is not available on Community Edition. https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/
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by pdpi 2y ago
> On top of all that, the All Products Pack and dotUltimate subscriptions will now come with AI Pro included. Well, colour me surprised. I've used JetBrains as an an example of a pretty decent company in the past (e.g. the way they
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by pdpi 2y ago
> They have merged the two together so much so that if Facebook has a complete outage, so does IG. If AWS has a complete outage, so do many completely unrelated businesses. As a regulator, "running on the same infrastructure" w
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by pdpi 2y ago
North/Central America is kind of the outlier running on 100-ish volts. Most of the rest of the world runs on 200-ish[0]. Electricity-related deaths aren't exactly common worldwide. And yes, I can see 100ish causing more fires — gi
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by pdpi 2y ago
A classical example of legal bad behaviour is that of patent trolls.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Fundamentally, rules almost always come with compromises — for the sake of making rules understandable by humans, they have to be relatively simple. Simple rules for complex situations will always forbid some amount of good behaviour, and a
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by pdpi 2y ago
This is such a wild perspective to me. I can't imagine considering somebody a friend while simultaneously not feeling comfortable discussing politics with them.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Honestly, I respect them for it. Sure, I’d be happy to spend less money on games, but there’s a certain honesty and transparency with buying Nintendo games that’s missing on the other platforms. No FOMO, no preorder bonuses, no pressure tac
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by pdpi 2y ago
The Language Server Protocol is essentially a standard for editors to talk to language tooling. All the usual refactor/go-to-definition/auto-complete functionality you expect from a modern IDE is implemented in a language-agnostic
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by pdpi 2y ago
Rachel's been a reliable source of interesting issues like these for the better part of eternity now. Her blog's well worth reading.
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by pdpi 2y ago
> I've never seen one in the wild outside shops, I think this is down to what I was saying: they're not general purpose machines anymore, they're mostly used for specialised workloads. If you don't spend any time in t
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by pdpi 2y ago
I'd be curious to see what the industry-wide numbers look like, but I wouldn't be surprised to see PCs skew even higher in favour of laptops. Desktops are increasingly only relevant for specialised workloads like gaming or high-en
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by pdpi 2y ago
The point isn't "infiniminer predated MC by decades", but rather "immersive simulations and emergent gameplay predated MC by decades", as evidenced by the examples OP gave.
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by pdpi 2y ago
> Monster's counsel had made a horrible mistake, and probably caused lasting harm to the company, by sending me that ridiculous letter This sort of thing always reminds of the Jack Daniels cease and desist letter[0], which, at least
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by pdpi 2y ago
That's a rack-mounted workstation, not a server.
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by pdpi 2y ago
The defining characteristic of security through obscurity is that the effectiveness of the security measure depends on the attacker not knowing about the measure at all. That description doesn’t apply to ASLR.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Sure, the problem then becomes finding the ideal ratio between good "proper" programmers and AI code monkeys. Also, it'll be interesting to see how LLM prompt writing develops as a skill unto itself.
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by pdpi 2y ago
Completely off-topic, but your comment cued me to look at your profile. I don't quite know what it is, but the screenshots on Steam for both Whiskerwood and Railgrade tickle my brain in a very peculiar way. Will surely be picking them

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