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by snuxoll 3mo ago
I really don't think Rust does, but that's if you're outright refusing to use `unsafe` anywhere. Might be a little noisier if you're using things like ManuallyDropped instead of just using raw pointers, but the language
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by snuxoll 6mo ago
> Now that everything is using the same silicon, it costs Apple very little to maintain all these variants (that are mostly binning), so there's little reason not to. Don't underestimate how much of a bitch it is to maintain al
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by snuxoll 7mo ago
"Because it was a 50-50 shot on whether you'd be going left or right [...]" Yeah, that about sums up how terrifying it is to give these agents so much access to things.
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by snuxoll 7mo ago
> I didn't get meds when I was younger. Now I have top 1% IQ (likely average here on hn), but work as a butcher at a slaughterhouse. My mom didn't want to stigmatise me with a diagnosis. I really hope I'm not stating the o
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by snuxoll 7mo ago
Or, alternatively, because many of us have a tendency to eat when we are uninterested in other tasks...simply how much I snack, whether I feel like eating at regular mealtimes, and the correlated impact on my weight, is a pretty big indicat
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by snuxoll 7mo ago
It's close enough, because (most of) the encryption keys are wiped from memory every time the device is locked, and this action makes the secure enclave require PIN authentication to release them again.
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
Installed mini-splits to replace the propane stove that heated my house, DIY job, so all it cost was the units themselves and some materials. Propane bill (no natural gas, town of 500) from Oct 24 to Feb 25 (installed the mini splits that m
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
The problem of other minds is real, which is why I specifically separated philosophical debate from the technological one. Even if we met each other in person, for all I know, I could in fact be the only intelligent being in the universe an
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
Anyone who anthropomorphizes LLM's except for convenience (because I get tired of repeating 'Junie' or 'Claude' in a conversation I will use female and male pronouns for them, respectively) is a fool. Anyone who thi
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
> Note that password-based Bitlocker requires Windows Pro which is quite a bit more expensive. Given that: 1. Retail licenses (instead of OEM ones) can be transferred to new machines 2. Microsoft seems to be making a pattern of allowing
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
> Pg moves the data between positions on update? I assume they typo'd "partitions" as "positions", and thus the GP comment was the correct reply.
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
Except, you don't. Assume eth0 is WAN, eth1 is LAN Look at this nftables setup for a standard IPv4 masquerade setup table ip global { chain inbound-wan { # Add rules here if external devices need to access ser
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
> But that's getting rather off topic. The dispute was about whether or not NAT of IPv4 is of reasonable benefit to end user security in practice, not about whether or not typical IPv6 equipment provides a suitable alternative. And,
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
> With IPv6 it's possible to fail to configure those nftables rules. The firewall could be turned off. So what? It's not like you get SNAT without a couple netfilter rules either. This argument doesn't pass muster, sorry.
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
That’s not at all what the child to me was saying in even a generous reading. But HOT updates are a thing, too.
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
NAT-PMP, UPnP, PCP, et. all primarily exist because consumer networks that have to share a public IP face more issues than simply opening a port up to the internet. Destination port conflicts, port remapping, discovery of your public IP, ar
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
NAT gateways that utilize connection tracking are effectively stateful firewalls. Whether a separate set of ‘firewall’ rules does much good because most SNAT implementations by necessity duplicate this functionality is a bit ignorant, IMO.
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
With partitioning? No you don't. It gets a bit messy if you also want to partition a table by other values (like tenant id or something), since then you probably need to get into using table inheritance instead of the easier declarat
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
I care about having a commit log that's useful and easy to scan through, it's not about it being "visually pleasing". Having a dozen "oopsie" commits in the log doesn't make my life any easier down the roa
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
There's a huge divide between abusing rebase in horrible ways to modify published history, and using it to clean up a patch series you've been working on. Oops, I made a mistake two commits ago, I'd really like to get some d
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by snuxoll 8mo ago
It is used for tracking, that's the whole point of the header. "Who's sending me all of this traffic" is a useful, non-invasive thing for websites to have access to. You can use rel="noreferrer" on a link to
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
It’s a bit different, but if you compare it to solutions from the likes or Oracle, SAP, etc. it’s significantly less awkward to develop for.
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
"Simple" VPS providers like DigitalOcean, etc. really need to get the hell onboard with network virtualization. It's 2026, I don't want to be dealing with individual hosts just being allocated a damned /64 either. G
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
Are you talking about the model or their service ? There's plenty of options for using their models other than the official DeepSeek API.
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
We don't have go go to the extremes of employers that pay what is effectively poverty wages relative to cost of living. The household that brings home $80K/yr would always spend a larger percentage of their income on taxable consu
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
The problem with consumption taxes, as we have seen time and time again, is they disproportionately affect those with lower incomes.
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
Embraer has been working on their auto takeoff system, E2TS, for some time. While improved safety during a critical phase of flight is a goal, airlines are looking at the possibility that it allows increased performance (higher MTOW, shorte
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
PCIe already allows DMA between peers on the bus, but, as you pointed out, the traces for the lanes have to terminate somewhere. However, it doesn't have to be the CPU (which is, of course, the PCIe root in modern systems) handling the
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
> No actually, this doesn't happen the same way on modern Unix. The way symbol resolution works is just not the same. A library asking for an extern called "malloc" will get the same malloc. To use those other allocators,
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by snuxoll 9mo ago
> where allocating using malloc(3) in one DLL then freeing it with free(3) in another being a crash. This can still happen all the time on UNIX systems. glibc's malloc implementation is a fine general purpose allocator, but there&

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