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by stackghost 5d ago
I don’t particularly care for MacOS but Apple’s hardware is generally best in class, particularly for battery life, touchpad, and other laptop specifics.
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by stackghost 6d ago
What if I told you that marine biology is a large and rigorous field that is not fully encapsulated by TFA?
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by stackghost 6d ago
They exhibit behaviours that seem to defy alternative explanations, though I doubt anyone could say for certain whether they do or don’t
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by stackghost 6d ago
Kudos to the author for not being so bitter and jaded, like me, and reporting this thinking some change might come. I have mostly resigned myself to watching in unsurprised disgust as tech companies (aided by oodles of HN users who work the
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by stackghost 6d ago
I realized long after the edit window expired that autocorrect changed it to “thus”.
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by stackghost 6d ago
> the design goal is not to maximise interactions The design (not sure about its goal) maximizes incentive for medium-complexity ideas being expressed in comments with at most a handful of replies. The “comments on a submission with rank
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by stackghost 7d ago
> However, only some vowels Pretty sure it’s all vowels isn’t it? “Thee”: apple, evening, island, offer, underpass “Thus”: any other words where you don’t need to avoid a glottal stop to differentiate the word.
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by stackghost 7d ago
I wonder if there is a library to decipher brood war replay files. Perhaps an agent could learn by watching.
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by stackghost 8d ago
>Why wouldn't a person build that into the heart of something important? Because it's inexpensive and not designed to be tamper-resistant. If preventing this type of thing is your goal there are chips out there designed to bre
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by stackghost 8d ago
Sure, but if you’re defending against a nation state actor hopefully you aren’t expecting a raspberry pi to keep you secure.
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by stackghost 8d ago
> The attack requires physical access, destructive preparation, and approximately $250,000 of laboratory equipment. Not super practical, but neat attack
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by stackghost 8d ago
It’s my understanding that this subsystem that failed only allocates codes but I could be wrong there. It doesn’t make sense to have other non-code allocation things competing for queue space with code allocations.
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by stackghost 8d ago
Very interesting. I spent a large part of my career in aerospace and never considered this failure mode before. It makes me wonder: how long is the pathological code allocation time? A few seconds, at most? We're talking about fli
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by stackghost 8d ago
The vast majority of professional developers are not in a position where they can just swap out allocators willy-nilly. They take what they get, and write the code they're assigned to write on the platform the CTO or their product lea
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by stackghost 8d ago
Okay but do you think the hordes of JavaScript developers at FANG can just change the browser’s allocator? The number of programmers who are in positions to care about jemalloc vs other malloc is minuscule
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by stackghost 8d ago
In the Before Times, the vast majority of software was written in garbage collected language where a working knowledge of the relative merits of C memory allocators is not useful or particularly relevant. Why would the scads of people writi
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by stackghost 8d ago
Writing an allocator is simple, you’re correct, but writing an allocator that doesn’t suck is not simple.
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by stackghost 8d ago
Why?
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by stackghost 9d ago
Can't vouch for that but I can vouch for `Dreyer's English` as both hilarious (if you're the sort of person who relishes finding le mot juste , like me) and excellent as a style guide.
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by stackghost 9d ago
There are two visually similar sails. Some are rotating tubes that generate lift via the Magnus effect and even though they create low pressure zones, those are not “suction sails”, strictly speaking. A suction sail is a more or less conven
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by stackghost 10d ago
But will it run Doom?
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by stackghost 10d ago
TFA is the aerospace equivalent of rolling your own crypto. Outsiders often don’t know what they don’t know, resulting in fatally-naive “solutions” to the problems.
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by stackghost 11d ago
Hello I have a question, and my question is what the fuck
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by stackghost 11d ago
At last, the feature Windows has had since XP: separate volume for different audio sources (alarms and ring tones). Embarrassing.
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by stackghost 12d ago
An immutable linux base, like Flatcar, combined with dockerized apps for isolation and easy per-container updates could come pretty close if some engineering were put into UX. You'd need to have unattended upgrades, or perhaps a compan
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by stackghost 12d ago
>This looks great. >"Unbundling BI" is absolutely where things are headed now that more people have agents, coding agents, agent computers to help with work. Agreed. Coupled with bento[0] for slide decks, I think this type
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by stackghost 12d ago
It’s a better lisp, too. Elisp really sucks and is my least favourite part of emacs, which I use daily.
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by stackghost 12d ago
Taco Bell at least looks appetizing in their commercials. Arby's doesn't. It looks weird and gross.
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by stackghost 12d ago
I stand corrected!
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by stackghost 12d ago
> I plan to personally use it to encrypt and backup some of my GPG keys offline, then burn them onto M-DISC discs and store them in a bank safe Won’t that make it difficult to rotate your keys? Keys should be something you don’t hesitate

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