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by pm215 3d ago
ARMv8 also gives you a a UDF imm, for a guaranteed undefined insn with an immediate payload. The reason to want a true UDF imm with an immediate comes down to it being pretty solidly guaranteed that it's going to turn into your languag
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by pm215 15d ago
This is just unfortunate ambiguous phrasing -- Tim Ferris (and anybody else happy on part time hours rather than taking a part time job because they can't find a full time job) doesn't get counted because they don't match the
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by pm215 19d ago
The Severn Valley railway is about to start a trial where you can buy a standard railway network ticket to Bewdley which is then valid on the SVR on special purpose trains for the Kidderminster to Bewdley section; some of those will be stea
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by pm215 21d ago
FWIW, I have always and still do enjoy reading fiction, and I never visualize what's happening in the book. I just read the words and enjoy the story...
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by pm215 24d ago
Though even in the UK I think it has a slightly old fashioned feel -- I feel like parents are more likely to have a pushchair than a pram.
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by pm215 29d ago
I think it's reasonable to complain that the system doesn't have an "important but not urgent" message category (which might e.g. have the same "window pops up that you have to dismiss" UI but trigger whatever
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by pm215 1mo ago
You wouldn't want to hard-wire the deidentification company's name into the contract between Google and Spirit. Otherwise, if the deident-company happens to go bankrupt or otherwise be unable to do the work then you'd need to
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by pm215 1mo ago
I see from the court PDF that the process here involves Spirit giving the data to a "Deidentification Agent" (a third party firm that Google selects and pays for) who is responsible for stripping out things that would link data to
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by pm215 1mo ago
Well, it was originally created for language learning. With vocabulary there really is so much of it that you're better off learning the stuff that sticks and moving on from the handful of items that just don't. In some other fiel
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by pm215 1mo ago
A lot of work and code is Debian specific, and so there's a choice to be made about LLM use for that code, as there is for any project. And there are questions about LLM use in mailing list discussions, bug reports, and other non code
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by pm215 1mo ago
This is the way general resolutions in Debian generally work. There's a lot of pre-vote discussion where different people and groups propose and draft their preferred options, to produce what they feel is the best expression of their p
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by pm215 1mo ago
Neither choice 7 nor 8 attempt to forbid packaging of any upstream project with LLM contributions like the kernel. Choice 7 says "The proposal does not cover indirect contributions, i.e. those originating from upstream works.". It
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by pm215 1mo ago
You started here with "associated with the environmental movement". That's not the same as everyone campaigning on a local issue who puts "environmental issues" into their big list of why some local development shou
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by pm215 1mo ago
Green belt areas mostly are not markers of ecologically important areas. They're a planning tool that largely exists to prevent urban sprawl. A lot of the green belt area is unremarkable commercial agricultural land.
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by pm215 1mo ago
I think here it's worth distinguishing between actually ecologically important, and the ability of campaigners to raise environmental arguments to try to prevent development when their underlying reason is something else (i.e. not want
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by pm215 1mo ago
Alpha punts handling of denormals, infinities and NaNs to software emulation, but that wasn't particularly unusual: some sparc CPUs and early implementations of Arm VFP floating point did the same. Looking at the alpha architecture man
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by pm215 2mo ago
Scripting Japan did a video that goes through a few of them for Japanese: https://youtu.be/gjB79s4oCkc
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by pm215 2mo ago
I suspect it's a mix of historical reasons (#! support was added pretty early, in 1980 or so, when the unix development philosophy I think tended quite strongly to "do the simple thing", and there wasn't so much variatio
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by pm215 2mo ago
Mmm. This Q&A -- https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/M... -- suggests it's been kicking around as printing and journalism jargon since at least the 1980s, and I would expe
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by pm215 3mo ago
The city government tracks data on public realm trees, and has a nice map based visualization of it: https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-and-strategies/environm... and if you zoom in you'll see that many of these
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by pm215 4mo ago
Yes, QEMU's JIT is a fairly easy target to beat. Notably if you are happy to specialize the design to "only x86 to aarch64" and "only usermode" there's quite a lot of gain to be made. QEMU's usermode suppo
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by pm215 5mo ago
For a long time in the dialup era my "answering machine" was a US Robotics voice-capable modem attached to my home Linux PC, with some scripts to make it pick up after N rings, play a message, record whatever the caller said, and
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by pm215 5mo ago
Unfortunately the 70% price rise on the JR pass back in 2023 made it much less likely to be economic for most people compared to just buying tickets as you go, even for trips that visit more than one city. Last time I was there I did a loop
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by pm215 6mo ago
Also, "why these 5 in particular" is definitely not obvious -- there are a great many possible "obvious in some sense but also true in an important way" epigrams to choose from (the Perlis link from another comment has o
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by pm215 6mo ago
If the team is that small and working on things that are that disparate, then it is also very vulnerable to one of those people leaving, at which point there's a whole part of the project that nobody on the team has a good understandin
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by pm215 6mo ago
A fairly large category of the flaky CI jobs I see is "dodgy infrastructure". For instance one recurring type for our project is one I just saw fail this afternoon, where a gitlab CI runner tries to clone the git repo from gitlab
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by pm215 6mo ago
That's why I said "somebody else, without looking at it". Clean-room reimplementation, if you like. The functionality is not forever unimplementable, it is only not implementable by merging this AI-generated PR. It's sim
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by pm215 6mo ago
If you're going to set a firm "no AI" policy, then my inclination would be to treat that kind of PR in the same way the US legal system does evidence obtained illegally: you say "sorry, no, we told you the rules and so y
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by pm215 7mo ago
Even if there isn't any 3rd party code, the whole process of going through the codebase to confirm there really isn't any 3rd party code, and generally getting the legal department to sign off on it, is a lot of work in itself. My
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by pm215 7mo ago
I think Coccinelle is a really cool tool, but I find its documentation totally incomprehensible for some reason. I've read through it multiple times, but I always end up having to find some preexisting script that does what I want, or

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