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by suspended_state 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus#:~:text=For%20dec... So, who is correct?
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by suspended_state 8mo ago
How do you compare a system where the communication channel goes only one way in a single country to a system where everyone potentially contributes to the content and is distributed over the world? How does one country legislate the conten
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by suspended_state 8mo ago
Some sense of perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46273466
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by suspended_state 8mo ago
So you were criticizing the C language syntax, without considering the context which it was designed in. Just to give this context a little bit more substance, Pascal was designed to work on a mainframe which could address up to 4MB of RAM,
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by suspended_state 8mo ago
I don't really know what you mean by "worst-designed syntax". Do you mean that the design process was bad, or that the result is bad?
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by suspended_state 8mo ago
I'm not sure I understand this article, but the argument you present seems to be that when considering P and NP as relational objects, they don't have the same signature, thus cannot be compared, so the statement "P = NP&quot
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by suspended_state 8mo ago
You should probably have linked the whole work which is briefly referenced at the end of the article, and isn't yet indexed by search engines. I found it by myself: https://zenodo.org/records/18107880
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
The linking stage could perhaps be performed at process launch by a privileged task? See this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494183 Isn't a virtual ISA like an intermediate representation? It do
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
What I meant, and indeed it was poorly explained, is that an address shouldn't be just an integer freely manipulable by any instruction. The microcode will obviously know how to an manipulate an address, but the ISA as a whole doesn&#x
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
> Code has to have addresses for calls and branches. Does it mean that at that level an address has to be an offset in a linear address space? If you have hardware powerful enough to make addresses abstract, couldn't also provide th
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
But that address doesn't have to be visible at the ISA level.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
There are channels in place to discuss security matters in open source. I am by no mean an expert nor very interested in that topic, but just searching a bit led me to https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-list
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
Indeed nobody does that, because it would just be pointless, it doesn't expose the real issue. Is a security vulnerability a symptom, or the real issue though? Doesn't it depends on the purpose of the code containing the bug?
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
> Are memory leak fixes described as memory leak fixes in the logs or intentionally omitted as such? Are kernel panics or hangs not described in the commit logs even if they only happen in weird scenarios? I don't know nor follow ke
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
If it is faulty, then it's not a bug, it's a flaw.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
> The problem with that argument is that the reports don’t necessarily come from the organization for whom it’s an issue. You can already say that for the majority of the bugs being fixed, and I think that's one of the points: taggi
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
It's difficult to really know what was the intent without seeing the actual prompt of the painter. Comment [intentionally] designed to look like generative AI.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/W9krzb8CuhT5zRE5hZzjE
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
Papermaking, printing, gunpowder, compass, porcelain, paper money, abacus, iron plow, wheelbarrow.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
I stumbled on this: https://lobste.rs/s/qoqfwz/inverse_parentheses#c_n5z77w which should provide the answer.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
I think ungrouping make sense if you consider reverse parentheses as a syntactic construct added to the language, and not replacing the existing parentheses. For instance, using "] e [" as the notation for reverse parentheses arou
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
Shouldn't there be an argument for best effort? If the issue has been removed as soon as it has been detected, doesn't it count for something?
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
You're correct.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
Sure, I guess you can understand what I said that way, but that's not what I meant. I wasn't thinking about the implementation, but the specifications. Read again the quote I was refering to if you need better context to understan
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
> got a surprisingly good result > the output wasn't even recognizably Danish How would you know that it's good then?
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
Careful, HN isn't your average IRC channel.
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
> A formally verified program can still have bugs, because the spec (which requires specialized skills to read and understand) may not satisfy the intent of the requirements in some way. That's not a bug, that's a misunderstand
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
I think it does indeed make a lot of sense in the particular example given. But what if we add 2 extra nodes: n5 dependent on n2 alone, and n6 dependent on n3 alone? Should we keep n2 and n3 separate and split n4, or should we merge n2 and
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by suspended_state 9mo ago
Your comment is funny, but please note: it's not drawing a pelican riding a bike, it's describing in SVG a pelican riding a bike. Your candidate would at least displays some knowledge of the SVG specs.
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by suspended_state 10mo ago
I don't know what GP meant, but I can give an example of how I understand it (disregarding the spurious "the" in his comment): in a type system with sub-typing, your expression could be statically typed to return a certain ty

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