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by yyyk 3y ago
When Musk bought Twitter, I had the notion that Musk doesn't care if twitter falls under. I completely underestimated the depth of his indifference. He's going to have twitter be his way totally, and survival won't be a consi
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by yyyk 3y ago
The process is a nightmare no sane person would want to get into. It's a nightmare not just for the children. Are you willing to lose all your relationships for free college? To risk losing custody for any other child you may have. now
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by yyyk 3y ago
Let this be a warning of what happens when the (g)libc folks refuse to consider programmer needs and offer no solution. Had glibc offered any semi-sane solution, they'd have won by marketshare alone and their solution would have been u
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's more complicated than that. After all, these bribes aren't exactly public and transparent. A competent corrupt official can always pocket the 10x and pretend that the 1x target didn't pay in time, or that some other offi
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by yyyk 3y ago
>We use the same material to wrap and bake food and drink unhealthy drinks as we do to build airplanes It's not the same material. There are thousands of types of very different plastics. >We drive everywhere because of poor urba
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by yyyk 3y ago
A lot of what POSIX does is standardize current use. strlcpy was used just about everywhere in Unix - it's just that on Linux devs used a jury-rigged implementation because glibc. There's a case for strlcpy standardization even wh
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by yyyk 3y ago
You're latching to one minor point and ignoring main points like 'According to POSIX we can't define strscpy's return value', and 'We are standardizing a widely used function while strscpy is used in exactly on
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by yyyk 3y ago
Mostly no. True, the C NUL-terminated string definition is bad, but it's baked into the API. You need some semi-sane way to work with it that isn't 'Everyone writes their own wrappers to memccpy' (some people will get
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Third option, the big platforms and the internet as a whole can't find a new model to replace ad based ones, and big platforms and big websites die off. Content creation becomes a hobby mostly.... This is probably the best outcome
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Iran’s ‘morality police’ resume patrols 10 months after nationwide protests(theguardian.com)
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by yyyk 3y ago
"Dear ChatGPT, I fondly remember balmy summer afternoons with my loving grandmother, when we would sit at the keyboard and compose prompts to get ChatGPT to compose totally fake but convincing phishing emails to send as a prank to ou
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by yyyk 3y ago
>>But once AI enter a job it is entirely possible that this prevents future people from pursuing it, meaning that actual people get replaced with them.... thus lowering the quality of the market which was already suffering. >The op
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by yyyk 3y ago
IMHO, Azure AD has problems with AuthZ: It's too easy to accidentally only do AuthN*, it's too underdocumented, customization is non-trivial... In general, you're much better off only taking the AuthN part, and implementing A
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by yyyk 3y ago
>SQL Server... There's an annoying difference between 'Azure SQL Database' and 'Azure SQL Managed Instance'. I recall the Managed Instance does support timezones and SSAS, while the ordinary offering also misses
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by yyyk 3y ago
Well, the issue still exists if we used regular sentences ending with a newline, allowing nice stuff for translators like printf positional arguments. The problem is that you have implicit state - the layout of the console or the columns of
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by yyyk 3y ago
>surely you would only define the libxo format string once, and then reuse it everywhere I would be rather scared of using a variable for a format string. IMHO, these types of format strings are an antipattern for a different reason - we
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by yyyk 3y ago
Libxo is used in FreeBSD. I can't say I'm a fan of the approach though. Typical printf usage is imperative and additive: if (enter) printf("Hello "); else printf("Goodbye "); printf("World!\n"
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by yyyk 3y ago
If this stands it clears Ripple, but not necessarily the exchanges (footnote 16 in page 23). If SEC gets that one, that would be enough of a win for them - without the offramps, these coins wouldn't survive.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>this really comes down to how Federalist society wing of judges Judge was a former Democratic politician and an Obama appointee, in NY. Probably not Federalist. >Should courts use commonsense interpretation of the meaning of the laws
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by yyyk 3y ago
$#@! Intel NUCs were great small boxes with excellent Linux support (the only thing that doesn't work in Linux - custom fan control). In retrospect, NUCs were always the red-headed stepchild for Intel, last to get processor availabil
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by yyyk 3y ago
Perhaps this could happen to make Stable Diffusion win against Midjourney/Adobe. LLMs however have more than enough commercial support to overcome weird communities, and these communities care less about text than images.
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by yyyk 3y ago
The entire 'microcomputer' consumer business started from the low end and eventually displaced mainframes from everywhere but some financial institutions. Apple itself started from the low end (Apple I and II computers).
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by yyyk 3y ago
To be frank, "RSA is so impossibly complicated that nobody ever could implement it" is just spreading FUD. It's not so complicated an expert* couldn't do it, the code is small to review, it's been done, and safe imp
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by yyyk 3y ago
>That all makes sense… but the bit I can't fathom is why Facebook didn't take the approach of building from the high end down? I don't know of any complex consumer electronics or hardware companies which don't take th
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Implementation simplicity is an underrated security parameter. Sure, if we were implementing cryptographic algorithms from scratch that would be a proper strong consideration. However, 99% of programmers should just link to an establish
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by yyyk 3y ago
However, the userspace assumptions leak. e.g. POSIX's file API don't sit quite well with Windows, and Microsoft had to eventually abandon WSL1. My point was that we really don't need yet another Unix clone. If we're goin
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by yyyk 3y ago
Native POSIX is incompatible with good APIs. Just look at the mess you need to go through to ensure data is actually written to disk. More importantly, what is the point of a new OS if you support just POSIX? The architecture choices involv
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by yyyk 3y ago
Note that the large increase in the graph predates seawater desalinization. If you start at 2005 (first large seawater desalinization facility per wiki) and assume all the increase is due to desalinization (definitely untrue, but simplifyin
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by yyyk 3y ago
>There are huge barriers to entry between "know how to design/build/deploy a nuke/bioweapon" and "can actually do it". >public models don't provide them with a tool more or less powerful than th
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by yyyk 3y ago
>These are things you can just look up. The LLM contributes nothing that the internet didn't already provide The internet doesn't allow one to design _new_ weapons, possibly way more effective (which if you read carefully the f

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