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by om2 4mo ago
That article doesn’t explain why acupuncture works, just gives a hint of a possible mechanism. It also doesn’t contain any evidence that acupuncture works at all (other than as a placebo).
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by om2 4mo ago
- and + operators have the same precedence. And a similar bug is possible if the operators were the same (both -). So I’m not sure it’s right to blame this on operator precedence or mixed operators. It’s just that, ultimately, the “consume”
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by om2 10mo ago
> They also have the option to not spend resources finding the bugs in the first place. The Copenhagen interpretation of security bugs: if you don’t look for it, it doesn’t exist and is not a problem.
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by om2 10mo ago
The codec is compiled in, enabled by default, and auto detected through file magic, so the fact that it is an obscure 1990s hobby codec does not in any way make the vulnerability less exploitable. At this point I think FFmpeg is being inten
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by om2 10mo ago
Nation-states are a very relevant part of the threat model.
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by om2 10mo ago
In this world and the alternate universe both, attackers can also use _un_published vulnerabilities because they have high incentive to do research. Keeping a bug secret does not prevent it from existing or from being exploited.
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by om2 11mo ago
Take it up with the parent of my comment, who compared them directly.
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by om2 11mo ago
Implementing it without tons of security bugs is apparently pretty hard.
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by om2 11mo ago
It doesn’t scale well to content that changes dynamically on the client side very well. Dynamic manipulation of the post transform XSL-FO is confusing and difficult, retransforming the whole document from source is too slow and loses state.
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by om2 11mo ago
Fetch API is a pretty recent addition to the web platform. Back in the day, you could absolutely embed images of stylesheets from ftp: URLs. You could even use it with XMLHttpRequest (predecessor of Fetch). Even further back, gopher: was in
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by om2 11mo ago
XSLT is also a really problematic feature from an implementation perspective (albeit in a different way than showModalDialog or MutationObservers). I’m not a Chrome dev but I think they have decent reasons for going this way.
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by om2 1y ago
We have contributed a number of upstream fixes $ cd gnome-libxml2.git $ git log --oneline --author=@apple.com | wc -l 43 The main reason we have a fork at all is that upstream libxml2 has broken source and binary compatibilit
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by om2 1y ago
The speed of light in a vacuum does not change. The speed of light in a non-vacuum medium can be different than the speed of light in a vacuum, however. And light passing from one medium to another changes speed (and is refracted). See htt
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by om2 1y ago
This study accounts for missing ordinary matter, not dark matter. The linked article makes this clear in the first paragraph. Sometimes I wonder if the first commenters (and often top commenters) on HN read the article at all or just respon
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by om2 1y ago
Web Push does have the sound option now.
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by om2 1y ago
It reduces notification display latency because they can be displayed directly by the system services managing push, without having to wait for an opportune time to fire up a service worker process. It does still allow customizing the notif
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by om2 1y ago
Battery friendly because notifications can be coalesced by the OS and processed without having to fire up a full browser engine process and JS VM just to unpack the notification and post a visible notification. Even in the case where the ap
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by om2 1y ago
It's standards track and we've had positive signals from Mozilla and Google. Apple is just the first to ship in this case. Are you also mad when Apple is _not_ the first to ship a feature? Is there any way to win?
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by om2 1y ago
In Safari 18.4 (currently in beta) tags are supported and notifications can replace each other.
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by om2 1y ago
iOS and macOS native app notifications already work the way Declarative Web Push does, not like classic Web Push. This is giving web apps the same ability to be battery friendly and more reliable that native apps already have.
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by om2 2y ago
What’s the difference between a union type and a disjoint union type? In that C# proposal I couldn’t tell which syntax was which branch of your dichotomy.
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by om2 2y ago
It's not really meaningful to measure entropy of a single password, only of a distribution of passwords. You could assume a password comes from some distribution, but how would you know? Does "grefn" come from a distribution
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by om2 2y ago
At least the way it’s described in the Quanta article, it seems like the mathematicians assumed a charged scalar field, which is not something that exists in nature. All charged particles are associated with spinor (spin 1/2) or vector
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by om2 2y ago
There’s more evidence of Altman being personally involved in this incident than in him being personally involved in the OpenAI exit agreement, and he has denied the latter. I’m not sure I believe his denial in the latter case. Having an NDA
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by om2 2y ago
I haven’t hear the GPT-4o voice before. Comparing the video to the video of Johansson’s voice in “her”, it sounds pretty similar. Johansson’s performance there sounds pretty different from her normal speaking voice in the interview - more i
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Optimizing WebKit and Safari for Speedometer 3.0(webkit.org)
6 points by om2 2y ago|0 comments
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by om2 2y ago
I have tried to teach myself both Hamiltonian and Lagrangian classical mechanics and there’s one mental hurdle I have not been able to get over. The problems are generally set up with starting position and momentum known, and ending positio
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by om2 2y ago
> the cost of changing v is p and the cost of changing x is F I’m sure the equation is right and all but this seems sideways in terms of an intuitive explanation - velocity changes position, and force changes momentum. Force doesn’t dire
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by om2 2y ago
They use of horizontal layout is to some extent a chicken and egg problem, since support for vertical writing has been poor in many web browsers. Vertical writing is often used in books, however, including ePub books that are internally HTM
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by om2 3y ago
Nothing actually stops the score from going higher than 140, it will just max out the visual dashboard at that point. On Speedometer 2, Safari on M3 Macs ended up over 500. At scores that high it’s harder to have intuition, thus the changed

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