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871.
by wrs 2y ago
And if you were in any doubt before, this lesson is now exemplified by the holder of the highest office in the land and approved by popular vote. The rewards of acting ethically are, unfortunately, sometimes only personal. This must be a ha
872.
by wrs 2y ago
Lest LLMs turn into all-knowing but completely opaque oracles, I’d prefer every question ended with “and how do you know?”
873.
by wrs 2y ago
Cursor implemented their own code indexer so its RAG is not limited by VS Code search.
874.
by wrs 2y ago
There are a lot of electrons in a real piece of wire. As the author says, relativistic effects are usually negligible, but in this case the math does work out.
875.
by wrs 2y ago
It intimidates anyone who might want to sue them for anything else. Being widely known for your scorched earth policy can be pretty effective. (Certain "we never settle" insurance companies do this too.)
876.
by wrs 2y ago
I think the argument for entropy mixing was that RDRAND could be broken, not that it was broken. On these processors, apparently yes it could.
877.
by wrs 2y ago
"A test payload for Milan and Genoa CPUs that makes the RDRAND instruction return 4"... Turns out kernel RNG belt-and-suspenders was justified?
878.
by wrs 2y ago
What's funny to me is nearly every computer in a show made now, when everyone in the audience knows what a real computer looks like, will still have a totally fake "Hollywood UI". Mr. Robot excepted, of course.
879.
by wrs 2y ago
It’s just in response to “it's not always clear when the job is done”. With shell integration installed, iTerm knows how to separate commands and responses (you can cmd-shift-arrow to move between them, select the entire response with
880.
by wrs 2y ago
This is great, except the knowledge is no more Eternal than the collection of humans. (The knowledge is also leaky—a lot of it has been lost.) If you turn off the DRAM power long enough, you can’t refresh it. So the need to maintain a susta
881.
by wrs 2y ago
I’m about as likely to use this as buy a self-driving car at this point, but thought I’d point out that iTerm does know when the command has finished, thanks to its shell integration scripts, so does that help? Or if that’s not exposed, may
882.
by wrs 2y ago
Technology as a narrative element has also evolved. I distinctly remember watching X-Files in the 90s and thinking this is the first TV show where everyone is assumed to have a cell phone. Moreover, the phone nearly always works! When one
883.
by wrs 2y ago
I was on a team looking at real life communication behaviors in 2000 or so, when email was pretty new to “normal” folks. We learned it was very common for people on their home computers communicating with family to just reply-all to the mos
884.
by wrs 2y ago
Funny, I had a conversation just yesterday where someone was saying they joined a new company expecting to use collaborative documents for spec documents, technical proposals, etc. This is, btw, a very large company that makes many $B selli
885.
by wrs 2y ago
Testing has shown that humans can't hear phase differences, unlike radio demodulators, so there's no real use for giving a sound card complex numbers. (Before someone replies about snare drums, 3:1 rule, etc. — of course if there
886.
by wrs 2y ago
I dunno, in my experience if you see something worded the way this was: int something_init(const something_init_params* params); the convention is that the params are temporary -- really just a way of passing a bunch of parameters
887.
by wrs 2y ago
Two general debugging lessons to note here: (1) Data watchpoints are a lifesaver that should be in your toolbox. (2) When something funky is happening to a data structure in a C program, look at its address to see if it’s in the stack or th
888.
by wrs 2y ago
If I read the article correctly, Nordic changed the rules on this function without saying anything. It used to work with a stack-allocated config and now it doesn’t. The only way for the caller to know about that in C is a comment.
889.
by wrs 2y ago
Indeed, but I didn't count Motorola's decision there as "24 bits is enough for anybody", because they didn't break anything in the 68000 when they added more bits to the address space (in other words, it was forward
890.
by wrs 2y ago
The FizzBuzz story did go down a rabbit hole, but this sort of TS type extravagance in small doses can help with maintainability. E.g., I wanted to enforce that the keys in a config object couldn’t have consecutive uppercase letters, becaus
891.
by wrs 2y ago
Yes, it’s nice to get paid, but I probably wouldn’t enjoy working with people who think Ansible and Terraform are interchangeable.
892.
by wrs 2y ago
How did you feel about it? Were you dissuaded from further script-kiddieing?
893.
by wrs 2y ago
This happens all the time. Early MacOS put flags in the upper byte of heap pointers, because somebody thought “16MB is enough for anybody”. Physical address extensions had to be added to 32-bit Intel because 4GB turned out to not be “enough
894.
by wrs 2y ago
Well, not according to the author of the post, and we know how concerned he is with truth, so this must be correct? “That leaves us with atheism, which provides us with not the smallest scrap of a foundation on which to build any claims abo
895.
by wrs 2y ago
It’s a bit more complicated than that! Among other things, it wouldn’t have fit in the machine (the first Newton device had 128k of RAM).
896.
by wrs 2y ago
This despite the brilliant defense argument of “that wasn’t fraud because everyone should have known I was lying”…which was also the Fox News defense…and is presumably how the executive branch officially works as of tomorrow.
897.
by wrs 2y ago
Yes, I agree, when it gets to the level of "that made someone vaguely uncomfortable" rather than "that ruined someone's entire life", it no longer qualifies. So, how do you effectively fight the latter without endin
898.
by wrs 2y ago
There is a particular way people should conduct themselves. For example, they shouldn’t murder other people, damage public property, or systematically discriminate against other people based on gender or “race”. We aren’t “quiet” about th
899.
by wrs 2y ago
Certainly this essay is, mostly, “not wrong”. But I was hoping PG might use his powerful brain and hundreds of words to explain how one should combat structural racism and sexism without the unfortunate side effect of “wokeness”. As far as
900.
by wrs 2y ago
I think we now understand that SO's actual historical role was to generate data to bootstrap the LLMs.

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