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by ummonk 1y ago
I'd do the same thing others are doing, which is a hybrid of classic RISC and CISC elements: * From the RISC side, adhere to a load-store architecture with lots of registers * From the CISC side, have compressed variable length encodin
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by ummonk 1y ago
It’s obvious that if you’re specifically designing a clean sheet ISA, you wouldn’t choose to copy an existing ISA that has seen several decades of backwards compatible accumulated instructions (i.e. x86), but would rather opt for a clean sh
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by ummonk 1y ago
Programmers don’t have much choice, since most compilers don’t really provide an option / optimization level that results in sane behavior for common UB footguns while providing reasonable levels of performance optimization. The one ex
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by ummonk 1y ago
No, optimizing compilers don't translate overflow to platform-specific behavior for signed integers - since it's UB they'll freely make arithmetic or logic assumptions that can result in behavior that can't really be hum
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by ummonk 1y ago
I’d disagree that both languages encourage stack-centric programming idioms. Ada encourages static allocation instead.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Addictive gambling for kids is hardly minor and petty. Many children have spent thousands on EA Sports games.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Not any more it isn't. America is run by influencers now.
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Why Language Models Hallucinate(arxiv.org)
1 points by ummonk 1y ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 1y ago
GP’s point is that the corporations would have been forced to open source their changes (thus allowing FreeBSD to incorporate them) if FreeBSD had been GPL-licensed. I disagree of course, as FreeBSD has benefited significantly from corporat
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by ummonk 1y ago
Do you have examples of undesirable situations arising that would not have been prevented by selecting the GPL instead of a permissive license?
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by ummonk 1y ago
Since the article emphasizes performance so much, I’d have liked to see some benchmarking of the new core utils against the old, instead of the questionable and unsourced claim that “So far benchmarks have shown time and time again that at
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by ummonk 1y ago
It’s actually a terrible excuse as the backlash is demonstrating. Even if they were about to axe the show all along it would have been a good idea to delay that to avoid the appearance they were caving to government pressure.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Are you asserting that he followed left wing influencers or read left wing books or attended left wing classes or somehow got his indoctrination from left wing sources? There isn’t any evidence of that - there is only evidence that he hated
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by ummonk 1y ago
He never said he was a MAGA supporter but that he was being claimed to be not “one of them”. Given that the shooter came from a conservative family in a conservative town and attended trade school and spent his time gaming, I think it’s rea
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by ummonk 1y ago
That's why I cancelled but I'd be curious about the technical reasons that something like this could happen, given that I'd expect cancellation to not be that much of a load on the servers compared to all the other actions us
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by ummonk 1y ago
This was reported in July but seems to be happening again
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Hulu Glitch Blocks Customers from Canceling or Making Changes to Their Accounts(cordcuttersnews.com)
1 points by ummonk 1y ago|5 comments
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by ummonk 1y ago
The same applies to why China had all the building blocks (pun intended) of the printing press but it was perfected by Gutenberg in Europe, where the number of glyphs was much more manageable.
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by ummonk 1y ago
Time spent implementing features / components that don’t exist for the alternative framework of choice, or trying to figure out a framework bug in your own because there aren’t enough other developers using the framework to have surfa
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by ummonk 1y ago
> Another one is the ISO/IEC 8859 encodings are single-byte encodings that extend ASCII to include additional characters, but they are limited to 256 characters. ISO 2022 allowed you to use control codes to switch between ISO 8859 c
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by ummonk 1y ago
North Korean teams tend to perform very well in coding contests, so it’s a safe bet that North Korea is quite good at nurturing a small slice of elite computing talent.
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by ummonk 1y ago
I don’t see any smoking gun here that would prevent the PRC from denying its involvement in these hacking efforts.
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Attorney Mark Zuckerberg suing Meta over repeated Facebook suspensions(wthr.com)
5 points by ummonk 1y ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 1y ago
Seems to be standard in India as well. E.g. the newly announced made in India space microprocessor is targeted by an in house Ada compiler: https://thestateindia.com/2025/09/02/vikram-3201-india-unvei...
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SurrealDB is sacrificing data durability to make benchmarks look better(blog.cf8.gg)
10 points by ummonk 1y ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 1y ago
How would it prevent you from renting your identity out to a bot farm?
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by ummonk 1y ago
This seems like the kind of thing that won't require any resources to maintain, other than possible bugfixes (which 3rd parties can provide). It only requires parsing and DOM manipulation, so it doesn't really require any features
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by ummonk 1y ago
No, that would indeed be reasonable, but the proposal is to remove XSLT from the standard and remove Chrome support for XSLT entirely, forcing websites to adopt the polyfill themselves.
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by ummonk 1y ago
If it's a security issue, shouldn't the browsers just replace C++ code with the JS or WASM polyfill themselves?
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by ummonk 1y ago
The described behavior sounds like significantly worse than tangential annoyance, and isn’t really a common occurrence even on modern user-hostile websites.

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