rcxdude

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811.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I'm not sure who particularly cares about the stuff Signal is doing with SGX anyway. It always struck me as a 'because we can' move and if you're paranoid enough to worry about it then you're probably paranoid enoug
812.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
The Manhattan project had a huge impact but it was not that big as far as efforts in the war went (they managed to hide the budget allocated to the project from most of congress, for example).
813.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
A meltdown is not a nuclear explosion. It's not even what happens if you fail to make a nuke go off properly.
814.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
OK, then what's the ruse that's got the online people so distracted? Because what you've linked tends to be what people are getting angry about (I mean, there's other things as well, but this is the latest one). Like, th
815.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Violent crimes in general in the UK (at least) are more localised to who you are. Random acts of violence on bystanders are very rare, the vast majority are attacks by someone known to the victim, often gang related.
816.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
You don't generally stop such crimes by punishing them more harshly, you stop them by punishing them more consistently , which is a more expensive solution.
817.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Nah, this is giving him far too much credit. I've read many a theory about how this or that thing that has been said is just a ruse or a troll and the real plan makes so much more sense and his actions have done nothing to demonstrate
818.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I think this is normalising the situation a bit too much. You might 'get of the internet' and stop caring about politics, but the politics still cares about you and does in fact affect the real world.
819.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
There are some systems which can use the LLMs themselves to detect writing (basically, if the text matches what the LLM would predict too well, it's probably LLM generated), but they are far from infallible (with both false positives a
820.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I assume they were aping those terms ironically (especially given the 'you're absolutely right')
821.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Will it render the whole filesystem inaccessible and unrepairable on those filesystems as well? One of the issues with btrfs is that it's brittle: failure tends not to cause an inconsistency in the affected part of the filesystem but b
822.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
This. In the specific case of endianness, if you have bugs with it you're probably already doing something wrong. But in general, supporting weird architectures is not something that should be expected to be foisted on any arbitrary pr
823.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
btrfs's reputation is not great in this regard.
824.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I don't think it's a matter of more 'noble', simply a more comfortable option if it's available to you. It has historically paid better and taken a lower toll on your body. The former is now less true, but the latte
825.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
You do ultimately need to trust some sources to some degree. You can try to cross-correlate multiple sources (and this is in general a good habit!), but that depends on some level of trustworthiness in the sources you are looking at, you&#x
826.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Some of the spike is speculation, and the overshoot seems to be correcting itself now. But the deal that sparked it was a contract promising to buy future capacity , not just doing a big block order for a bunch of stock 'in case'
827.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Grid-scale power electronics are also extremely niche and expensive, perhaps moreso than transformers. HVDC is used where it has a significant advantage, but ease of conversion is not one of those.
828.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Tariffs don't help onshore manufacturing when they apply to the materials that the manufacturing needs and might evaporate before the manufacturing capability is actually created. Tariffs needs to be applied carefully and consistently
829.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Yeah, you can do it, but it's quite a painful process and as you noted it's quite hard to actually get the required information: you can predict the impedance at the chip's pads across frequency, but only with a full-fledged
830.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
it would be better to make p a const char* though, so that the code is not casting away the constness of the string literal (which can invoke undefined behaviour, though in practice string literals are going to be in a read-only area of mem
831.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Yup, people aren't mind-readers. And it can be very hard to predict what bits the client cares about and what they don't, so it's worth biasing towards asking (though I think it's worth emphasizing that 'I don'
832.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
The challenges of doing so are often significantly overstated. It can make a lot of sense to own them.
833.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
AWS is clearly not in a low-margin business, though.
834.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Communicating with submarines that are deep underwater is pretty hard. There are techniques like ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) but they require a small power station to transmit a few characters a minute.
835.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
Until you manage to eliminate or at least limit competition between groups, efficiency is a very important metric to optimize for lest you get out-competed by others, at the very least reducing the effect of your group, if not resulting in
836.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I do think autorouting is largely a UI problem for this reason. Specifying the constraints is very difficult, especially when it's also tied into assessing stuff like power distribution (where the rule of thumb of 100nF is almost certa
837.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
If you're worrying about the endianness of your processor, your code is somehow accessing memory from 'outside' as anything other than a char*, which is already thin ice as far as C and C++ are concerned. You should have a pa
838.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
It doesn't really need a shim, if you're parsing incoming data that code should only depend on the endianness of the data, not the endianness of the processor that the code is running on, and in general if you're staying with
839.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
That's another way to divide up the total amount of available bandwidth (common on any shared medium and they are almost certainly already doing this), but it doesn't increase the amount of available bandwidth in a given area.
840.
by rcxdude 7mo ago
I think part of it is that, especially at the kernel level, it can be hard to really categorise bugs into security or not-security (it has happened in the past that an exploit has used a bug that was not thought to be a security problem). T

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