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by qchris 3d ago
Article should be available at https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/13/security-thr...
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by qchris 4d ago
I don't disagree with your point, but I did read a post by Sean Goedecke[1] (whose opinions on the world of LLM-stuff I've generally come to respect) that I found relevant. It's not that the second-order effects don't ma
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by qchris 21d ago
The company's name was iRobot, not Roomba. I spent a little time working there around 2017. Whatever you're implying my former colleagues' thoughts on the subject are (or mine, for that matter), you're probably wrong.
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by qchris 23d ago
What kills me about this is that 50 TB isn't actually that much data, and they could have pretty easily had a first-party, offline backup of this. You can buy a 16 TB hard disk for <$700 on Newegg (even with the storage price increa
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by qchris 1mo ago
I'm going to be blunt; this is a wildly bad-faith argument. You started the quote right after the important word: illegal. > the illegal, unpermitted gas turbines they've been running at their Memphis Colossus data center Illeg
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by qchris 2mo ago
Years ago, I did some work on thermal management of small satellites, mostly for cooling higher-power onboard computers. The scale is different, but the physics are the same. The story of SpaceX is often that Musk tried to buy a rocket, got
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by qchris 9mo ago
I often like SemiAnalysis' work, but there's parts of this article that are shockingly under-researched and completely missing critical parts of the narrative. > Eighteen months ago, Elon Musk shocked the datacenter industry by
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by qchris 9mo ago
I don't love this comparison, because I have to use Linux, not Mac. It's not really optional for me, and Asahi simply isn't far enough along to fill the gap. As a result, the question is more Framework vs. Dell or Lenovo, and
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by qchris 9mo ago
Not that it's super relevant to this discussion, but I think the largest individual machines operated would probably have to go to high energy particle accelerators like the LHC at CERN or those operated by Fermi Lab. Billions of dolla
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by qchris 9mo ago
Related to [1]; this topic was discussed earlier today (perhaps inspiring this submission?) in a HN thread on C++ coding standards for the F-35 JSF (search "spaghetti"). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=461
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by qchris 10mo ago
You know, in hockey there's sometimes a saying that "if you're too small to carry your gear bag, you're too small to play hockey." Feels like there might be some kind of moral lesson there for this situation.
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by qchris 10mo ago
I'd be interested in seeing these guidelines updated to include "don't re-post the output of an LLM" to reduce comments of this sort. I don't really feel like comments with LLM output as the primary substance meet t
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Tensorflow Wins (2016)(medium.com)
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by qchris 10mo ago
Here's a 2022 from Quartz article that might have some context on this. Anduril isn't on the list according to the footnote, but Thiel and Lucky have since had a history collaborating on projects with the same naming scheme. [1]
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by qchris 1y ago
I haven't heard anyone mention this rule, which I think is useful: Cars, dogs, and water. These are the big three common things that children interact with regularly that can, and will, cause irreparable harm or death with functionall
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by qchris 1y ago
> For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing. I wish these disclaimers went upfront, the way a newspaper by-line would have been. I'
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by qchris 1y ago
I totally get the point you're trying to make (and don't even disagree) but I think the analogy isn't quite right. I'd actually be surprised if I got robbed at a mobbed-up restaurant; my naive understanding was that they
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by qchris 1y ago
My personal opinion is that System76 isn't really targeting personal users with their desktop line, though, but instead is more focused on professional users. For example, I built my own desktop computer at home, but if I needed one fo
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by qchris 1y ago
This completely differs from my own experience with LabView, which I used a number of times in both undergrad/some grad-level coursework (I have a mechanical engineering background), as well as in internships at a couple of different c
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by qchris 1y ago
If anyone's interested, there's a slightly more recent update on this work at the link below, dated about a week after this post (23 March vs. 16 March 2025 on the main link). [1] https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2
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by qchris 2y ago
While I think your points about some of the difficulties that arise in multi-language/framework projects is fair, I sort of roll my eyes whenever someone frames Rust as something like the "hip new thing". The Linux kernel&#x2
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by qchris 2y ago
> But the point is that I need to now do this with every use of a third party library. Well, yes. You have to manage your dependencies (by either catching potential panics or forking/modifying them to meet your needs) or accept thei
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by qchris 2y ago
I think you're using the term "assumed" incorrectly. Per Webster's dictionary[1]: > Presume is used when someone is making an informed guess based on reasonable evidence. Assume is used when the guess is based on litt
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by qchris 2y ago
The default behavior is unwind, and unless the library is targeting something like bare metal embedded, in all likelihood will never resort to an aborting panic. I'll bet $20 USD to the open source project of your choice that the autho
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by qchris 2y ago
There's a such a degree of entitlement to this comment. > And there is no way to wrap this behaviour. [..] As a sibling comment mentioned, this is possible with std::panic::catch_unwind. That is prominent in the std::panic documenta
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by qchris 2y ago
Respectfully, I think it's more likely that you're just not personally plugged into and/or have your awareness tuned to them but those conversations are definitely happening. There's not a single consensus (at least in t
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by qchris 2y ago
I'm using Martin on my personal site for serving MBTiles onto MapLibre. With the exception of some quality-of-life updates like hot-reloads/watching the file directory for changes (which I think they're working on), it's
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by qchris 2y ago
She also ended up writing a book called "Working In Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software" that is a read I'd recommend anyone interested in understanding the dynamics of open source software communities.
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by qchris 2y ago
This is concept is a neat one that I think differentiates the real world from many fantasy worlds. In the latter, many of the core problems are built around somebody having "forbidden" or "dark" knowledge, or the heroes
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by qchris 2y ago
If you haven't seen it already, there was a post a couple of years ago here that got some traction on this subject, in context of a FOIA-related lawsuit filing by a (I'm to understand) well-regarded cryptologist: https:/&#x2

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