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by ptx 2mo ago
Calculon: And you say you can guarantee me the Oscar? Bender: I can guarantee anything you want. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGZ10kZ4lmE
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by ptx 2mo ago
Python lets you bundle all the modules in a zip file and run that (no third-party tools needed): https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
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FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2026(freebsd.org)
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by ptx 2mo ago
This convenience sounds a little dangerous. Would this allow the user to specify e.g. joins or SQL procedure calls using the query parameter?
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by ptx 2mo ago
How is this different from any other language? Python can also make apps for all those platforms, either with native UIs or cross-platform UIs. There are many options. Are you talking about .NET's AOT compilation and that's why yo
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by ptx 2mo ago
.NET also comes with "telemetry" built-in that sends your data to Microsoft without asking for your consent: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145 I wouldn't want to run software from someo
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by ptx 2mo ago
Exactly. This is like proposing to solve memory safety by asking programmers to simply not make any mistakes. Simply specify that "the contributor should verify" that the code has no use after free, no out of bounds access, no und
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by ptx 2mo ago
That was my first reaction as well. The author seems very confused about it. He starts off defining it as something that is unknown or secret, and more specifically, he goes on to say, a secret "kept by a nefarious elite". I suppo
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by ptx 2mo ago
That would make sense if they hadn't first taken away the user's ability to control their own device directly. Some people were OK with that because users could still use this hack, but are presumably less OK with it in retrospect
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by ptx 2mo ago
Shouldn't the core provided by this JEP be a streaming API then, so that you can build whatever you need on top of it? But they specifically exclude that from the goals.
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by ptx 2mo ago
This is not new, and it's weird that this blog post doesn't acknowledge that. A a snapshot from 2017 [0] of their docs show the UI for this very feature. A snapshot from 2023 of their knowledge base [1] says that "Firefox Con
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by ptx 2mo ago
It made perfect sense to me, FWIW. Paintings, sculptures, blog posts, HN comments, etc. are all examples of different things that can be reductively viewed as "content" by those who only want to exploit them for profit, just like
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by ptx 2mo ago
Right, that's the sort of thing I meant. As you read it, you would naturally try to understand why the author used such profound-sounding prose in that particular part of the text. You would expect that the author's intent was to
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by ptx 2mo ago
Probably because LLM output only gives the appearance of cohesive writing, but the more you try to understand the author's intent and meaning, the more confusing and annoying it gets, as there is no author, no intent and no meaning the
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by ptx 2mo ago
Sure, but I was addressing the question that was asked (although perhaps it was asked rhetorically): LG cannot do this to you if you don't install their proprietary software, so Linux users are safe (assuming they use a trustworthy d
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by ptx 2mo ago
My understanding is that the monitor doesn't do anything by itself - it's just Windows detecting the device and automatically downloading and installing LG:s proprietary add-on software. The monitor itself isn't attacking the
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by ptx 2mo ago
Wasn't a lot of the protocol encoded in XML as part of libxcb? Could that be used to generate the tedious code for the X server?
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by ptx 2mo ago
The example program they give as a "specimen" doesn't compile unless you specify the generic type of the "lanes" variable explicitly. And the compiler doesn't tell you where the error is. But it does build and
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by ptx 2mo ago
Building on standards like POSIX prevents vendor lock-in, which is beneficial in the long run because it prevents the vendor from holding you hostage once you start relying on the system. It's a sensible requirement. Microsoft's d
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by ptx 2mo ago
You're probably right about that. It looks like llama.cpp lets you specify a grammar file or a JSON schema - is that what you mean? If the syntax of your DSL can be expressed that way, I suppose you wouldn't have to validate it ex
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by ptx 2mo ago
Always using the same replacement word seems like it doesn't quite solve the problem. The appropriate choice of replacement word could be context-dependent. Maybe you could choose the word based on the previous words as context. Maybe
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by ptx 2mo ago
> it eliminates entire swaths of syntactical errors, allowing the LLM to focus on the semantics As I understood it, the idea the article presents is basically the opposite: The LLM is completely clueless about the semantics, but by con
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by ptx 2mo ago
Recital 11 of the GDPR says that consent must be "freely given", and recital 43 says (in part): "Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processi
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by ptx 2mo ago
Why are they repeating the 6 key themes twice but phrased in different ways and in different order? And then there are 6 recommendations and 5 improvements which are very similar to each other, but the article doesn't say how they are
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by ptx 2mo ago
> Elop oversaw the 2011 launch of a Linux-based smartphone, the Nokia N9. [...] But the N9’s accolades did not ultimately carry the day. Nokia announced its Lumia line of phones the same year—a direct pivot away from MeeGo toward the Wi
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by ptx 2mo ago
Presumably Docker's seccomp profile [1] blocks the init_module system call which is used by insmod [2]. Although, looking at the default profile, it seems to explicitly allow it - but maybe only if you have CAP_SYS_MODULE, which I thin
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by ptx 2mo ago
Does Docker use user namespaces by default? Otherwise root in the container is actually root on the host, from what I read. Correct me if I'm wrong. (Privileges are still limited by seccomp filters blocking some syscalls, and there&#x2
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by ptx 2mo ago
Right, but even if you have a lawful basis for processing the data to collect aggregate statistics (which the article mentions), the GDPR still doesn't allow you to process the data for unrelated purposes such as advertising, which is
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by ptx 2mo ago
Next up: Stabbing people without a knife. If you are tracking people without a lawful basis (e.g. consent), you are violating the GDPR. It doesn't matter if you use cookies. (The article does mention this towards the end.)
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by ptx 2mo ago
Is it essentially implementing a paravirtualized OS that runs the JS runtime? Presumably you have to allocate the memory for the VM up front, or how does that work?

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