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by screcth 1y ago
Many companies use RHEL Workstation to run proprietary GUI applications. The application usually runs on RHEL Servers and uses X11 forwarding to show the GUI on the Workstation. Running the same OS on the client and on the server makes supp
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by screcth 1y ago
A very important part of people trusting you is them being able to understand what you say without making extra efforts compared to a native speaker. An easy way to improve intonation and fluency is to imitate a native speaker. Copying thin
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by screcth 1y ago
If we consider writing out of bounds to be legal, we make it impossible to reason about the behavior of programs.
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by screcth 2y ago
Can you use the remaining SIMD lanes for processing independent data streams? Think encoding or decoding non-overlapping parts of a video.
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by screcth 2y ago
It implements tmux control mode. It's very useful when working with a remote server. No other terminal implements it AFAIK.
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by screcth 2y ago
The security team cares about minimizing risks to the company and to their own careers. Deviating from what everybody else is doing makes it so that the burden of proving that your policies are sane is on you and if anything bad happens you
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by screcth 2y ago
You can still have use-after-free errors when you use array indices. This can happen if you implement a way to "free" elements stored in the vector. "free" should be interpreted in a wide sense. There's no way for R
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by screcth 2y ago
Why does an optimizing compiler introduce nondeterminism? In my mind an optimizing compiler is a pure function that takes source code and produces an object file.
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by screcth 2y ago
The problem here is that Emacs is the Elisp interpreter. They are the same thing. Emacs would have to start another process for Elisp analysis and code completion. That would be a massive reachitecture of the system.
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by screcth 2y ago
It biases results towards people that "studied how to do the test" rather than studying the material that is evaluated.
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by screcth 2y ago
English exams for ESL students are a great example. Getting good grades in those exams requires that you know the criteria for evaluating each part of the exam and how to tailor your answer to that criteria. For example, if the exam asks yo
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by screcth 2y ago
I understood that you were making an analogy between installing a piece of hardware and its associated kernel driver with installing a game and its associated kernel anticheat. When you install a hardware device you are trusting the manufac
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by screcth 2y ago
User space is not the same as kernel space. User space applications can't access hardware or physical memory. They can't bypass permissions enforced by the OS. None of that applies to hardware or kernel drivers.
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by screcth 2y ago
Can't the tunneling software detect when the upper TCP is retransmitting segments and drop them? That would give the lower TCP enough time to transmit the original segment.
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by screcth 2y ago
Well, you could pick only 10% of the class for one on ones. Pick that 10% randomly or based on your intuition on the authenticity of their work. That threat may be enough to dissuade students from cheating with AI.
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by screcth 2y ago
In my case, I work with proprietary EDA tools. Vendors love messing with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Chaos ensues when they override a system library or two versions require mutually incompatible versions. I agree with the comment you are replying to.
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by screcth 2y ago
I don't think that Brazil is on its way to a humanitarian catastrophe. What makes you say that?
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by screcth 2y ago
Do you think that Pakistanis don't know already that their country is poorly run and that their politicians are corrupt and incompetent? It's pretty condescending to expect a lecture from a foreign government official to be well r
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by screcth 2y ago
FAANG pays very well, and money can be exchanged for goods and services. I know that having benefits like a free bike feels good, but the total compensation you are getting is much lower than that of people that work for big tech and pay fo
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by screcth 2y ago
When Starbucks sells a cup of coffee who makes more money? Starbucks or the coffee farmer? This is the same thing. Businesses that are closer to the consumer make more money than their suppliers.
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by screcth 2y ago
Life as a rich person in the capital city of an Empire is great. I doubt that people in conquered territories felt the same way about the Empire.
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by screcth 2y ago
You could store the current date and time in a global variable and have the producers just read it atomically. The consumer thread would then update it periodically. Timestamps will be somewhat inaccurate but it may help performance.
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by screcth 2y ago
It's really important that drivers can control their car at all times. Software should not override control because it "thinks" that you are making a mistake. This seems like a recipe for disaster when you are in a situation
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by screcth 2y ago
Lisp is too powerful and flexible. That's an advantage and a disadvantage. On the one hand, you can use that power to write elegant programs with great abstractions. One the other hand it's really really easy to create unmaintaina
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by screcth 2y ago
The idea is that the LLM would provide "intuition" to guide the optimizer to find better optimizations, but a formal proof would be necessary to ensure that those optimizations are actually valid.
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by screcth 2y ago
That would be extremely bureaucratic.
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by screcth 2y ago
The problem is that many parts of the ecosystem require that you use the official MS build. You can't connect to the Marketplace and some extensions outright can't be used with a custom build.
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by screcth 2y ago
Because an OS is useless without applications that run on it and POSIX compatibility means that existing software can be ported to it with minimal changes. If it had a custom interface, then porting large projects would be an enormous under
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by screcth 2y ago
It would be better if the compiler could take the async code and transform it automatically to its sans io equivalent. Doing it manually seems error prone and makes it much harder to understand what the code is doing.
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by screcth 2y ago
How difficult would it be to use nuclear power to make synthetic hydrocarbons?

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