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by rst 2y ago
NASA press conference ongoing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOswKRSsHc (Bottom line: they couldn't tell what was up with the thrusters, and didn't want to bet anyone's life on it not getting worse.)
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by rst 2y ago
The whole point of the piece is that while it claims in text to have these restrictions, it freely generates images which violate them.
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by rst 2y ago
Skip down to the bottom for a simple approach that just works, in sufficiently recent PG releases (MERGE). Back up just a bit for something that's nearly as good, and works with everything since Postgresql 10 (INSERT ... ON CONFLICT).
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by rst 2y ago
? There's no other spacecraft there now with spare seats. NASA could arrange to send a Dragon up, but at a pretty fearsome cost. (Crew dragon missions are something like $300 million. There's one scheduled, and paid for, to laun
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by rst 2y ago
It's been worse -- they've been caught setting up ghost kitchens in the name of real restaurants that didn't offer delivery or take-out service, and siphoning off order flow. One Michelin-star restaurateur found out about th
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by rst 2y ago
Correction -- it's a 2:3 scale model of a PDP-10 front panel , concealing a Raspberry Pi running an emulator. In the original equipment, the panel would have been attached to one of several racks containing the CPU and main memory, c
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by rst 2y ago
The piece documents that at least two manufacturers (Data General and Univac) marketed their extended Fortran IV compilers as "Fortran V" -- but it doesn't say whether they actually extended Fortran IV the same way. "Fo
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by rst 2y ago
Project planning started in the early 2010s, a few years before SpaceX had come close to demonstrating reusability -- at the time, it was regarded as a fairly risky and dubious experiment.
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by rst 2y ago
"Filed a formal complaint" with whom? The board itself is the final authority, empowered to investigate and act. If its members have concerns, they either do something or don't. There's nowhere else to pass the buck
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by rst 2y ago
For a case to the contrary: Midler v. Ford -- a case in which Ford hired one of Bette Midler's ex-backup singers to duplicate one of her performances for an ad (after trying and failing to get Midler herself). Ford never said this was
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by rst 2y ago
The point is more that compared to prior landers, the Starship version at least has a uniquely high center of gravity over a narrow base, which makes it a whole lot easier to tip, and amplifies the consequences of, say, leg damage.
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by rst 2y ago
The most elaborate deployed version of this idea is probably PyPy, an alternative Python implementation that works by giving a JIT-compiling partial evaluator a hint-annotated Python interpreter as the program, and the Python code to be exe
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by rst 2y ago
For what it's worth, the word "electronic" in that description is a lot more load-bearing than it looks, excluding machines such as the Harvard Mark I (ASCC) and Bell Labs Relay Computers, both of which were solving problems
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by rst 2y ago
Hachette is one of four plaintiffs; a majority stake is currently held by Vivendi, which is worth over $10 billion. Another, HarperCollins, is owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp, and the Murdochs might just not want to sell.
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by rst 2y ago
In particular, the sections of the demo video where it does something anatomically impossible for humans -- rotating legs in the hip joints, rotating its torso to switch front and back -- are absolutely uncanny valley stuff.
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by rst 2y ago
Likewise New Relic.
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by rst 2y ago
Mildly surprised they weren't doing this already -- the thread doesn't mention whether they're doing the build with Profile Guided Optimization, which is widely reported to yield speedups of 10-20%, depending on the script, w
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by rst 3y ago
Claude's system prompt is given here -- they're not trying to hide it: https://twitter.com/AmandaAskell/status/1765207842993434880/... It doesn't actually include that text, but it may have bee
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by rst 3y ago
Well, it's a POC against a re-keyed version of the exploit; a POC against the original version would require the attacker's private key, which is undisclosed.
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by rst 3y ago
Which helps with some kinds of threats, but not all. It keeps someone from pretending to be the maintainer -- but if an actual maintainer is compromised, coerced, or just bad from the start and biding their time, they can still do whatever
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by rst 3y ago
Hmmm... checking against external sources is an interesting idea -- but using Google as a source of ground truth is a little bit tricky, given how often these days Google itself is spitting up confabulated AI-generated crud (or other low-qu
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by rst 3y ago
Important to note that a lot of this is a statement of goals not results. At the time this was written, they had initial, rough implementations of some of the intended toolkit (e.g., KBEMACS), but a lot of the other components are descri
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by rst 3y ago
... and then Apollo 12 targeted one of the earlier Surveyor probes (which had successfully done its own automated moon landing in the mid-1960s!), and the guidance system had it coming down very close to the earlier probe -- astronaut Pete
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by rst 3y ago
Not the oldest, though. There are still a few systems running 1945-era PCC trolleys -- San Francisco, Philadelphia, and a spur line in Boston (Ashmont-Mattapan), though a lot of those have been subject to pretty dramatic overhauls. For he
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by rst 3y ago
Really interesting. Curious about one particular case -- obfuscating the values of columns which are part of a `unique` constraint. Let's take, say, a set of a hundred thousand nine digit social security numbers, stored in a DB column
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by rst 3y ago
What they did in this demo is collect a bunch of small demos, small enough that earlier models could have answered questions about them, or dinked them, individually, and mostly demonstrated that the model could figure out which demo was
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by rst 3y ago
But if the Rust versions are as safe as claimed, then you're making the critique of C++ stronger, by pointing out that the pitfalls are easier to fall into than the blog post presents -- for the second, you don't even need threads
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by rst 3y ago
However, at least some ORDER BY queries will have a final sorting step before the client sees the first row. (If you're sorting on a column with an index, it may be able to produce the data in sorted order; if not, though, the final s
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by rst 3y ago
Can't necessarily speak for the author, but here's one thing that can happen: If the underlying system has a newer version of git than the one freeze-dried into your container, repositories managed there by native-git might be in
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by rst 3y ago
Well, some Debian derivatives have been moving to .deb alternatives for the current browser -- snap or flatpak -- which may be the reason for them creating "official" .debs for recent releases. (Experience with the snap and flatp

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