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by ummonk 7mo ago
Great stuff. I would argue that hardened mode should be default though, similar to how siphash is the default hashing function in Rust hash maps. Faster mode should be opt in if the user is confident that the supplied data is nonmalicious a
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by ummonk 7mo ago
That's Rule 5 no?
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by ummonk 7mo ago
The boilerplate and indirection isn't done for performance
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by ummonk 7mo ago
I've worked on optimizing modern slow code. Once you optimize a few bottlenecks it turns out it's very hard to optimize because the rest of the time is spread out over the whole code without any small bottlenecks and it's all
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by ummonk 7mo ago
I would argue that making the company experience the consequences of its choice of metrics / mandates is in fact a moral imperative.
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by ummonk 7mo ago
In fairness though, it does give you good practice for the essential skill of maintaining / improving an old codebase.
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by ummonk 7mo ago
Amazon has had a really bad string of various outages recently. Assuming they're internally treating this as business as usual in post-mortems then perhaps the newsworthy thing is actually that they aren't taking their outages ser
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by ummonk 8mo ago
This is reminding me of the story of a Japanese airport doing a full security sweep because one of the airport restaurants had misplaced a kitchen knife.
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by ummonk 8mo ago
My understanding is it's taken as a given that the authorities at US airports aren't bothering to catch baggage / item thieves amongst airport staff. The only exception is when a firearm (or luggage containing a firearm) goes
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by ummonk 8mo ago
The statement you quoted was about Big Tech oligarchs, not media bias. You need to work on your reading comprehension.
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by ummonk 8mo ago
Not at all. The whole point is that I want discretion over which articles get rewarded for providing me value, not simply monetizing my attention.
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by ummonk 8mo ago
In my ideal world I’d subscribe to a service with a monthly subscription fee where the service takes a small cut and then converts the remainder into a use-it-or-lose-it tip balance (perhaps with the unused balance being auto-donated to a s
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by ummonk 8mo ago
Which tech billionaires are trying to bury us in extreme left wing bullshit?
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by ummonk 8mo ago
One of my annoyances is that most male pop singing is at too high a range for normal baritone men without vocal training to sing along. I actually find it easier to sing along to female pop songs (by singing an octave lower) than to male po
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by ummonk 9mo ago
They’ve defined memorization complexity as having to memorize the best out of almost equally good moves (as opposed to being able to play the best move without memorization because it is so obvious. In reality it’s almost the other way arou
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by ummonk 9mo ago
It’s amazing how complacent and weak-willed the European populace and political leaders are. Quite the contrast to Canada.
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by ummonk 9mo ago
Performing rights are part of copyright law and thus directly relevant to copyright. Stop dissembling.
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by ummonk 9mo ago
What is the actual value of using agentic LLMs (rather than just LLM-powered autocomplete in your IDE) if it requires this much supervision and handholding? When is it actually faster / more effective?
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by ummonk 9mo ago
Out of curiosity were the positions (especially of the Galilean moons) actual simultaneous positions, or positions as seen from Earth, given the ~40 light-minutes distance between the Earth and Jupiter?
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by ummonk 9mo ago
Many Hindus celebrated Malay Sankranti a week ago. It was originally meant to coincide with winter solstice but because the Hindu dates are based on the position of the Sun against the background stars (as viewed from the Earth), precession
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by ummonk 9mo ago
"Could". Of course they'll drag their feet once again because they're appeasing cowards, unlike Canadians.
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by ummonk 9mo ago
I think expecting to get paid to fix bugs, add features, etc. to one’s open source code is much more reasonable and there should be marketplace infrastructure that makes this much easier to do (compared to the current system where developer
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by ummonk 9mo ago
If you willingly choose to make source code publicly available under an open source license you can’t then act all shocked that people don’t have to pay you for using that code. If you wanted to be guaranteed an income whenever your code ge
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by ummonk 9mo ago
This feels like something that merits a small bug bounty
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by ummonk 9mo ago
I'm surprised they didn't name it after some Tolkien reference that they completely misinterpreted...
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by ummonk 9mo ago
Being grumpy and critical is rightly a virtue in the tech community at large, and this serves as a good counterbalance to the astroturfed positivity and marketing pushed by companies. Ironically, I suspect this article’s title would rightly
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by ummonk 9mo ago
There's a sister post with two astroturfed comments saying the same criticism of the post verbatim: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469732
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India orders Musk's X to fix Grok over 'obscene' AI content(techcrunch.com)
11 points by ummonk 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ummonk 10mo ago
Google tells its employees what products they're allowed to buy for personal use?
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India's Biggest Airline Falls into Chaos, Canceling More Than 1k Flights(nytimes.com)
2 points by ummonk 10mo ago|1 comments

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