haberman

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by haberman 5d ago
Vim is great and I have 25 years of muscle memory for it. But I'm also interested in trying Kakoune ( https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html ) -- which I understand also has a VSCode plugin called Dance (
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by haberman 19d ago
I assume this is for hashing. I've seen several hashing algorithms turn to hardware AES instructions before, but I haven't seen any evidence that this technique outperforms state-of-the-art hashes like RapidHash ( https:/&#x
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by haberman 2mo ago
It was a sincere question and I found your comment quite off-putting. You're talking to someone who spent a month in college installing every free OS I could get my hands on (including the BSDs). I find alternate operating systems int
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by haberman 2mo ago
I often wonder what the current status is of the BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD). Who uses them, who works on them, what is their motivation for doing so? How do they compare to Linux these days, in terms of size, feature set, security ha
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by haberman 2mo ago
> rather than hoping LLVM will have your back My thought here is to proactively verify that LLVM elided the automatic bounds checks in places where you believe that your explicit checks should be sufficient. That was a key part of my art
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by haberman 2mo ago
I see two solid points here: 1. It's not reasonable to expect the application layer to carefully partition its work into "I/O heavy" and "CPU heavy" parts. 2. It's not reasonable to queue up an arbitrary a
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by haberman 2mo ago
> There's a dichotomy being presented here where you have to either choose a "style guide" or a programming language feature in order to avoid bugs. The sleight of hand misdirects the reader away from the main way bugs are
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by haberman 3mo ago
I’ve always found it especially confusing that energy has this quadratic relationship with speed, whereas momentum is linear in the speed.
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by haberman 3mo ago
The French, who have "égalité" in their national motto, prohibit the kind of demographic tracking and reporting that US Progressives consider core to their project. Do you think the French don't care about egalitarianism? N
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by haberman 3mo ago
It happened directly at least once: https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-college-first-de... It happens indirectly all the time. As of 2025, despite all the funding cuts, the AAAS is still publishing its y
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by haberman 3mo ago
I think you can easily turn this around: scientists who are only willing to do science if it involves preferential treatment, DEI statements, and other practices that half of the country despises are saying that it's better to do no sc
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by haberman 4mo ago
If this works I wonder why GOG doesn’t do it automatically.
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by haberman 4mo ago
I am not convinced that separating students by ability harms anybody's academic performance. I think it's a false premise that a parent who wants their kid in advanced classes (or advanced schools) is behaving "antisocially.
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by haberman 5mo ago
I'm inclined to think that this will actually decrease the power of echo chambers. Echo chambers become that way by policing dissent, either through moderation or through aggressive attacks on dissenters. A de-snarkifier would de-fang
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by haberman 5mo ago
I 100% agree with this. I am certain that I cannot foresee how this would play out in reality.
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by haberman 5mo ago
That is unironically exactly what I want from social media. I want the option to engage with the substance of new developments in the world, technology, etc. without the drama. I don't want to be drawn into the drama of strangers (w
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by haberman 5mo ago
This API seems perfect for an idea I've had for a while: a de-snarkifier for social media. Social media can be intellectually stimulating and educational, but it's also easy to get sucked into ideological sniping and flamewars, ev
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by haberman 5mo ago
It's an interesting essay, and the TLC case does sound pretty egregious. But the premise is undermined by the fact that Love is worth an estimated $100M today, largely thanks to owning Nirvana's publishing rights, which she inher
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by haberman 5mo ago
The artists were certainly making more money from the studios and record labels than they got from the authors of DeCSS, Napster, BitTorrent, The Pirate Bay, etc. When Gillian Welch wrote "Everything is Free" in 2001, she wasn&#x2
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by haberman 5mo ago
You can certainly argue second-order effects (ie. we have to restrict information to save information), but the movie studios were making that same argument at the time: > If copyright can no longer protect the distribution of the work t
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by haberman 5mo ago
I'm old enough to remember a time when the primary hacker cause was DRM, the DMCA, patent trolls, export controls for PGP, etc. All things that made it difficult to use information when you want to. "Information wants to be free
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by haberman 5mo ago
Wait, didn't Clinton actually balance the budget? That gets props from me; no government since then has actually given Americans an honest picture of what it actually takes to run a balanced budget, which will require some combination
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by haberman 5mo ago
I would be open to paying higher taxes if I believed it would help address the deficit and debt (instead of just enabling more spending) and if I believed that the money was being well spent. Earlier in my adulthood, I would happily vote fo
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by haberman 6mo ago
> Obama's FAA disincentivised its traditional "feeder" colleges that do ATC courses to "promote diversity", net outcome was fewer applicants It was much worse than that. Students who had already spent years study
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by haberman 6mo ago
> Thankfully, there is the esm-integration proposal, which is already implemented in bundlers today and which we are actively implementing in Firefox. From the code sample, it looks like this proposal also lets you load WASM code synchro
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by haberman 6mo ago
> Not everyone in history thought that 12-TET was an acceptable compromise. Johann Sebastian Bach thought we should use other tuning systems This is presented as fact, but as I understand it there is no conclusive evidence for what Bach
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by haberman 6mo ago
TL;DR: when a user writes to /proc/self/mem, the kernel bypasses the MMU and hardware address translation, opting to emulate it in software (including emulated page faults!), which allows it to disregard any memory protection
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by haberman 7mo ago
> So many of our foundational institutions – hiring, journalism, law, public discourse – are built on the assumption that reputation is hard to build and hard to destroy. That every action can be traced to an individual, and that bad beh
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by haberman 7mo ago
> he eventually needed to write bluntly Is there a history of that here? Were there earlier clear statements of expectations (like CONTRIBUTING.md) that expressed the same expectations, but in a straightforward way, that people just wil
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by haberman 7mo ago
I don't see anything wrong with the way he expressed himself, and I think his point is totally legitimate. I mostly just felt bad that he experienced so much grief about it, on account of a gift he was offering to the world.

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