kevincox

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by kevincox 3d ago
Documenting public water sources is an incredible public good. I thank you for your efforts.
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by kevincox 6d ago
How does Rust help with 2 at all? IIUC the main requirements were not memory or performance related but TPM and instruction set minimums.
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by kevincox 6d ago
No, but my credit card has no battery, requires no cell service, is waterprrof and quite durable. I see the advantages of the Chinese system but I really found myself missing my card. - While payer-offline payments were possible most mercha
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by kevincox 8d ago
This is almost certainly a you problem. Tons of people play remuxes with Jellyfin. I would check that your client supports the requisite codecs, and has a sufficient network connection. Or alternatively check that your server has enough hor
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by kevincox 10d ago
Probably because the account has only ever submitted its own content. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=LabsLucas > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of t
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by kevincox 13d ago
Yes, I found this comment very hard to understand until I realised they were talking about it being opt-out with no setting to change it. (At first I thought it was opt-in by default, and the "by default" implies that there is a s
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by kevincox 15d ago
This also has nothing to do with GrapheneOS except for some user overlap.
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by kevincox 19d ago
It sounds like you are just writing your own allocator? That sounds great, but why is it going to be better than jemalloc? There are many reasons a specialized allocator can be better, but just saying "write your own" doesn't
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by kevincox 26d ago
It seems that you could just compile the data into the WASM blob. Then use a more optimized query engine than sqlite. This should be very fast to compile (most of the WASM is just a byte buffer, the code is just a few binary searches and so
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by kevincox 26d ago
Thundering herd is different. Thundering herd is when a lot of clients trigger requests at the same time. Common situations being a specific time, some other event just occurred or synchronize on other parts of your infrastructure (such as
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by kevincox 27d ago
Sandboxing the process only works well when the malware requires more capabilities than the software itself. So if your software needs to make HTTP requests and read the filesystem then the malware will be able to make HTTP requests and rea
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by kevincox 28d ago
It is if you use full-disk-encryption which is highly recommended.
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by kevincox 29d ago
I really like this approach. It is very natural for modal dialogs to be things that you await. I have used it in various projects in the past. The main downside is if you need to affect the dialog from "outside". For example data
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by kevincox 1mo ago
I assume this oracle will be behind 20 layers of anti-bot protection, CAPTCHAs and hardware attestation challenged. It will be incredibly painful to use. It won't stop the motivated attackers, but will make it too annoying for the aver
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by kevincox 1mo ago
Yup, I explicitly had all anaytics turned off. But had a few sites using Cloudflare for caching. Now I'm checking and seeing this on all of them. This is gross and unacceptable. "Caching" does not mean "modifying my site
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by kevincox 1mo ago
I clicked "Back" to leave the user-hostile website.
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by kevincox 1mo ago
Or just anyone involved in communication at all. For example my condo management team has names for every part of the building that they just assume that everyone understands. They don't seem to understand that most of the people livin
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by kevincox 1mo ago
This storm fronts are really just Google trying to dig in as deep as possible. On one end they are trying to fight the requirements for alternative app stores and making them as hard as possible to use. On the other end they are trying to p
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by kevincox 1mo ago
> Malicious compliance is to make cookie acceptance much easier than refusal. That isn't malicious compliance, it is just non-compliance. If the equally difficult rule wasn't there then it would be malicious compliance.
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by kevincox 1mo ago
This isn't latency bound, it is trivially parallelize. So you want to run it on the most efficient compute you have, not the fastest.
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by kevincox 1mo ago
This used to be a critical feature for me I used to customize the colour per-app so I could see what notifications I had at a glance. However always-on displays have supplanted this use case for me.
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by kevincox 1mo ago
No compaction happened. (That is set near 256k.) It seems to really not like my domain but I've seen it for various things as well (especially high-entropy tokens). Dropping random characters or various things. I've tried various
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by kevincox 1mo ago
This sentence struck me as well. It says what it is focused on, but nothing about what it actually captures. What I would like to see is something like this: - The detectors have a per-determined list of suspect faces and only record inform
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by kevincox 1mo ago
SSS doesn't support signing AFAIK. When I last looked into it GPG/PGP doesn't support shared signing. You can use SSS to encrypt the signing key, but then you need to fully materialize the signing key to actually sign the rel
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by kevincox 1mo ago
I just downloaded the latest llama.cpp and poolside Q4 and within 10k tokens it corrupted "Use ~/p/kevincox.ca as a reference" into "kevinc.ai" and then starts doing stupid things because the directory "do
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by kevincox 1mo ago
For me Laguna frequently slightly corrupted text then it would be unable to notice the difference and get stuck making the dumbest conclusions. Thinks like typoed directory or function names. It was a great model other than that, but I ende
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by kevincox 1mo ago
This just sounds like they bump their unspecified limits by N% to cover this usage. Which of course means nothing because the next time they re-evaluate their limits they will just ignore this bump.
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by kevincox 1mo ago
It's hard to argue that it isn't an optimization, because it doesn't affect the semantics of the program. However most optimizations are very hard to observe. The vast majority of optimizations only affect code size and runti
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by kevincox 1mo ago
I consider this a downside. Now whenever I am cooking on a gas stove I keep burning myself because everything in the vicinity of the stove is so hot. I love with induction that I can always grab the handles of the cookware and don't ha
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by kevincox 1mo ago
I usually hate touch controls. But for the stove I actually like them. I always hated cleaning in and around the knobs. When cooking on the stove you almost always get some sort of splatter so it is nice to clean them every time (something

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