josefx

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by josefx 13d ago
Didn't they hype up one of the earlier ChatGPT versions as "essentialy skynet"? For them this has always been basic marketing.
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by josefx 15d ago
> auditor following a stupid (but well intentioned) checklist. I once heard that the worst thing you can run into is someone who is both well intentioned and bad at their job.
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by josefx 29d ago
> the former is very simple Somehow most of my portability issues seem to be caused by glibc, its symbol versioning and close ties to the dynamic loader. Minor versions aren't compatible, no two Linux distros ship the same version a
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by josefx 1mo ago
Only if you use floating point in your filesystem checks, which I really hope nobody does. How do you even store 3.14 bytes.
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by josefx 2mo ago
Any project depending on Integer identity had years of warning that this change would come. Also given implicit primitive conversions and object pooling Integer isn't exaclty a prime candidate for object identity to begin with.
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by josefx 2mo ago
It explicitly allows research, tests and third party tools. I am sure that any contributer can still find plenty of use for AI with that.
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by josefx 2mo ago
> is indeed just an American airline. I would say there is nothing descriptive about calling something American. America doesn't even refer to a single country, does it operate out of Brazil? Would that even be relevant information
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by josefx 2mo ago
At least the GL part isn't something that has a widely understood meaning and I don't think any of the competing APIs are generally refered to as Graphics Libraries either.
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by josefx 2mo ago
How is Minecraft doing these days?
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by josefx 2mo ago
> By "through metadata", you mean with some external separate mechanism unrelated to the XML spec? The code generating the xml text may not be aware of the final encoding used to store/transmit it and a library writing tex
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by josefx 2mo ago
By default XML is either UTF-8 or 16, any other encoding has to be identified either through metadata or an explicit declaration in the document itself. If you are guessing it is because someone failed to properly store or transmit the docu
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by josefx 2mo ago
The candidates for prime minister and similar positions tend to be front and center during an election. From what I remember the head of the european commission was picked from a group of people that weren't even up for election after
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by josefx 3mo ago
Folded paper has some structure, so not as much?
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by josefx 3mo ago
> Netscape decided to add a programming language to Navigator. They pursued two routes to achieve this: And the reason for that two language approach is given in the linked source: > We aimed to provide a “glue language” for the Web d
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by josefx 3mo ago
> Having to install a binary blob from a free-software hostile vendor that wanted a monopoly to load a website was always ridiculous ask. The entire browser ecosystem started out closed source. Even JavaScript was written to interact wi
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by josefx 3mo ago
The result I get has an entire section dedicated to scammers using the company name. The only links in that section go to a wikipedia page that doesn't mention any scams and a police help page that doesn't mention the company.
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by josefx 3mo ago
> due to how easy it is to trick them into installing something You have tools from large corporations where the official installation procedure involves copy pasting a command from a random blog post, run it with sudo and watch it downl
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by josefx 3mo ago
Isn't that what vfork tried to address? No COW, the child starts in its parents address space and only gets its own after calling exec.
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by josefx 3mo ago
> In modern CPUs a mispredicted branch is much more expensive than a memory write. Mostly because of caching. The writes either go to the same address as a previous one or move only a small increment, so most writes are likely going to h
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by josefx 4mo ago
That was an unrelated issue from an audit that had been done before the heist. One of the theories right after the heist was that the thieves where former security guards. France had just laid of most of the museums security, the alarm trig
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by josefx 4mo ago
Shouldn't desktop environments detect if a lock screen terminated abnormaly anyway? The OOM killer is just one of many possible causes.
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by josefx 4mo ago
> If some architecture traps on unaligned access, then the compiler can and should simply generate the correct code so that it loads the integer piece by piece instead. Wouldn't the compiler have to assume that every pointer access
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by josefx 4mo ago
> So because they haven't produced your pet project means they haven't changed? Good to know that their flagship cross platform framework not even having an UI component rates "pet project". > No. They didn't
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by josefx 4mo ago
> produced one of the largest open source ecosystems in use (.NET) Are they going to ship an official cross platform UI library any time the next century? Decades after the Java lawsuit they still ship only a crippled copy of their scrap
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by josefx 4mo ago
> but did have the dominant browser for most of the 2000's. By offering it for "free" as part of the OS. Which they could only do because they never intended to pay the developers who wrote it. In a classic Microsoft move
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by josefx 4mo ago
I am not a facebook user, but going by that post they seem to go a step further and outright block any links pointing to news sites. The article mentions some provisions in the Italian law that prohibit restricting visiblity of the news sit
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by josefx 4mo ago
The C compiler also isn't allowed to do all of them. However some people use fast-math or compilers that default to fast-math to break the rules. Some older targets also may use the 80 bit fpu, which is its own mess and any sane compil
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by josefx 5mo ago
Didn't Apple once ship a patch to limit CPU performance on iPhones because battery degradation was a widespread issue?
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by josefx 5mo ago
> The experiment proved that even at a low price point ($8), a massive majority of the PC audience will choose "free" regardless of the developer's size or struggle. Several points: * A pirate can pirate infinity +1 games
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by josefx 5mo ago
Biological classifications are one gigantic mess. There are multiple ways to define what qualifies as a "species". One of them is procreation and viable offspring, going by modern human DNA and the Neanderthal fragments contained

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