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by dxf 1y ago
>Samsung isn't large enough to be considered a gatekeeper under the DMA I don't think it's about Samsung not being "large enough"; Samsung has basically the same market share as Apple does in Europe according to
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by dxf 2y ago
Bret Devereaux has an interesting writeup on "The Problem with Sci Fi Body Armor" and discusses the Dune movie in detail. https://acoup.blog/2024/11/29/collections-the-problem-with-s...
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by dxf 2y ago
I saw Jef Raskin demo the Canon Cat in the 1980s when I was working at Stanford. One of the more interesting concepts behind the interface was, everything was stored in one "circular" file, with marks for document beginnings and e
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by dxf 3y ago
The current top comment on the article explains the situation, and ATC are "not being assholes here": >NorCal had a new interpretation of ILS approaches come down several months ago that tied the controllers hands with regards
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by dxf 3y ago
No you did it the right way. I lived in Canada for 10 years, my partner is Canadian, and we debated what to do when we moved down from Canada to the US. We got an attorney to help advise us. It is very much a problem if your partner is de
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by dxf 3y ago
I can easily see the status of my garage door (open or closed) from anywhere. Solves the problem of "Did I forget to close the garage door?" (and the number of times the answer to that question is "Yes" is > 0). I ca
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by dxf 3y ago
Matt Levine's take on _Going Infinite_: "Many of the reviews that I have read of the book complain that Lewis does not sufficiently explain that Bankman-Fried is Guilty and Bad, Actually, but that is not the book that he wanted to
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by dxf 3y ago
Hover's parent company is Tucows, listed in the parent article as being the third largest "domain holder". I started using Hover/Tucows back when they were Domain Direct, as I liked the idea of using a Canadian-based reg
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by dxf 3y ago
No, you can redistribute it. RedHat can't stop you. But you might only be able to do this once. Because what RedHat can do is cancel your contract, and stop you from using RedHat services, and you won't have access to future ver
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by dxf 3y ago
I had read and enjoyed Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum", and as I read Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" I found I kept contrasting Brown's work to Eco's. In the end, I didn't even finish &quo
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by dxf 3y ago
Videos and slides from the LLVM developer's meetings get posted onto the event site, though not immediately afterwards (as they have to get all the videos processed). If you're willing to wait a short while, the slides and presen
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by dxf 4y ago
>When using an AOT language, how does one take full advantage of all cpu features at runtime? This seems like a place JIT would really outpace AOT. One model is to not try and take advantage of the features at runtime, but to compile per
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by dxf 4y ago
That's not true, the ads shown are related to your online activity and not the content of your mail messages. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6603?hl=en "We will not scan or read your Gmail me
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by dxf 4y ago
LLVM libc's decimal float conversion is based on Ulf Adams' Ryu Printf algorithm (one of the algorithms mentioned in the article). If you're interested in this area, you can look at the code, https://github.com&#x
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by dxf 4y ago
If anyone is curious or otherwise interested, the version of memcpy() used for Google production is basically what is in LLVM's libc, https://libc.llvm.org
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Using LLVM's Libc(youtube.com)
3 points by dxf 4y ago|0 comments
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by dxf 4y ago
>Why would governments push back, when this hole which has already been used will _always_ be available? I'm not aware of a time when Apple pushed a software update (silently or otherwise) to defeat security for a user (or users).
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by dxf 4y ago
So many great suggestions. I'll add Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. It documents the filming of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. The film's footage was shot by Coppola's wife, Eleanor Coppola.
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by dxf 4y ago
Honest question -- why are you trying to get her to move away from Windows? What benefits for her do you see in doing that? Perhaps she would be more amenable to a Chromebook? (Depending on what apps she actually needs to run.)
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by dxf 4y ago
Changing perf/promo processes can be challenging. You can't always roll out minor changes (because the problems may be systematic), nor do them quickly; at Google's scale you need documentation and tooling to support your pr
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by dxf 4y ago
Very long time Engineering Manager here. Engineering Management is not bullshit, though there are many bad Engineering Managers out there, even at companies (like Google, where I've been an EM for over 6 years) that strive to build and
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by dxf 4y ago
Oh, I think you may be right. Thanks!
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by dxf 4y ago
Mr. Rogers didn't start his children's programming work in Canada. That started when he worked on Josie Carey's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josie_Carey ) show The Children's Corner on WQED in Pit
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by dxf 4y ago
Linkers can also do something called "Identical code folding", or ICF, whereby the linker notices that two pieces of code are exactly the same and can merge them. lld's sources include a little overview of how this is done,
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by dxf 4y ago
>Are SLAs even real? SLI: Some metric you use to measure a thing (e.g. uptime, latency, etc.) SLO: Some objective you try to hit, as measured by the SLI (e.g. "99.99% of requests are processed within 3 seconds) SLA: A promise to a c
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The Pushback Effects of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age in Code Review(cacm.acm.org)
8 points by dxf 5y ago|13 comments
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by dxf 5y ago
I was a happy 1Password user and warily switched to their subscription model. But It still does everything I want and now it even does more -- e.g. I can have shared vaults with my partner and other family members, which is more convenient
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by dxf 5y ago
Edited again: I am reminded that you can already get scudo today by using a CMake option to include scudo when building LLVM-libc.
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by dxf 5y ago
The plan is to use Scudo, which is the allocator that lives in compiler-rt. Edited to include the link to Scudo: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/tree/main/compiler-rt/l...
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by dxf 5y ago
The huge advantage of biometrics (fingerprints, FaceID, etc.) is the ease with which a user can unlock their phone. A passcode may be better than a fingerprint, but a fingerprint+longer passcode is better than a shorter passcode (or no pas

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