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by wtallis 1y ago
I think at this point, those "other technologies to enforce security" are the main area of concern for io_uring users: if those other security layers don't know about io_uring they won't apply any restrictions to it.
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by wtallis 1y ago
The DRAM on a SSD like that isn't for caching user data, it's for caching the drive's metadata about which logical blocks (as seen by the OS) correspond to which physical locations in the flash memory.
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by wtallis 1y ago
That really depends on whether the language's standard library API specifies that implementations will use a particular random number generator, or merely specifies that the RNG will have certain properties. If you're going to dep
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by wtallis 1y ago
You're badly mischaracterizing tests like ACID2. The test definition includes a long list of things that invalidate the test, including things like changing the zoom level. So it's wrong to construe that test as requiring pixel-pe
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by wtallis 1y ago
LaTeX isn't intended to take layout control away from the author so much as it is intended to automatically produce a good-enough layout allowing a single author to produce a very large document without employing a designer. HTML by
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by wtallis 1y ago
Only to the same extent that any other co-processor add-in card can do stuff that's not observable by the CPU. Your CPU's RAM is managed by the CPU's memory controller hardware, and that memory controller does not give softwa
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by wtallis 1y ago
You're ignoring the part where squashing commits leaves you with fewer, larger commits to search through, while merging or rebasing leaves you with a more fine-grained commit history that allows a git bisect to better narrow down what
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by wtallis 1y ago
Squash merges simply guarantee that git bisect will not be able to pinpoint a breaking change, because that history is gone .
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by wtallis 1y ago
> a specialized low-power unit in an iGPU is going to be practically indistinguishable from a NPU, except that it will probably be easier to target from existing GPU API's. Possibly, depending on how low the power actually is. We ca
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by wtallis 1y ago
True; everybody's NPU hardware is afflicted by awkward hardware and software constraints that don't come close to keeping pace with the rapidly-shifting interests of ML researchers. To some degree, that's an unavoidable con
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by wtallis 1y ago
It sounds like your problem might be not with the visualization itself, but with the underlying idea of a sampling profiler as opposed to tracing every single call from every single frame.
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by wtallis 1y ago
Worrying about individual commits is also what makes it possible for you to later use git bisect without going crazy.
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by wtallis 1y ago
It doesn't help that web browsers aren't even trying to help users make the distinction. They have an ever-growing list of features and permissions that sites can take advantage of, with no attempt to coalesce anything into a mana
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by wtallis 1y ago
Contract law allows you to sign away many rights you would otherwise retain. I'm not sure that a contract provision being found illegal under antitrust law has the effect of it being retroactively considered unconscionable or excuses a
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by wtallis 1y ago
Firefox moved to multi-process before moving to WebExtensions. You've lost count of how many mass extinctions the Firefox extension has been through, but there were XUL extensions that were updated to be compatible with multi-proce
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by wtallis 1y ago
Crippling my ad blocker doesn't make my browser faster on average, even though dishonest benchmarks from advertising companies may claim otherwise. Removing XUL also didn't make TreeStyleTab faster; quite the opposite. Aside from
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by wtallis 1y ago
No, but I think it's incredibly naive and shortsighted to suggest that we should impose a legal requirement that any platform adopt such an obviously imperfect approach. Your memories of Windows Vista may have faded, but UAC prompts we
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by wtallis 1y ago
It's not exactly what he said. The fact the they agreed to a contract prohibiting them from using an outside payment method and then willfully violated that contract is a detail that courts may not be so willing to overlook.
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by wtallis 1y ago
The rent-seeking is fundamentally a separate issue from the paternalism. Lots of the anti-Apple lobbying and PR is drawing attention to the 30% fees, but for many of those companies, they care much more about winning the freedom to spy on
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by wtallis 1y ago
Every attempt at providing the general public with an "informed consent" escape hatch to security or privacy features ends degrading to either consent fatigue or "misinformed consent" dark patterns.
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by wtallis 1y ago
WebExtensions aren't clearly better from a performance standpoint. Performance won by removing useful features doesn't count.
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by wtallis 1y ago
If privacy or security protections are opt-out, Facebook, et al. will try to use any leverage they can to push their users to opt out. There's real value in a platform that doesn't give Facebook, et al. that opportunity. The
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by wtallis 1y ago
From https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonzales_rogers_apple_app... > Keep in mind this whole thing stems from an injunction from a lawsuit filed by Epic Games that Apple largely won . The result of that laws
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by wtallis 2y ago
And yet, many of the extensions that in the XUL days could cleanly change the browser's UI now have a much more hacky user experience.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Stadiums are pretty much the only place where mmWave in phones makes sense. For the other 99.99% of usage, it's an expensive power-hungry extra radio that doesn't work. mmWave 5G is mostly a sunk cost for Verizon, and largely irre
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by wtallis 2y ago
It isn't hard to run memtest on all your computers, and that will catch the kind of bad RAM that the aforementioned doomsday scenario requires.
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by wtallis 2y ago
To me, the most implausible thing about ZFS-without-ECC doomsaying is the presumption that the failure mode of RAM is a persistently stuck bit. That's way less common than transient errors, and way more likely to be noticed, since it
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by wtallis 2y ago
Expecting a demo application as proof of concept would have been reasonable. Expecting a shipping product in the customer-facing app store is entirely different.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Conservative rasterization is definitely an area-based square pixel technique. I'm not sure how prevalent it is now that it's been available for a few years. Multisample antialiasing patterns are also constructed with square pixel
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by wtallis 2y ago
> security issue was Apple thing Not true; basically everyone shipping laptops with Firewire ports in that era was at risk of DMA attacks. Apple was merely the most notable vendor trying to offer something better than USB 2.0. > has

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