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by titzer 4d ago
Thanks for pointing to this. I'm surprised the specification verbiage differs so much between the two standards. However I think the language for C is aspirational and there are cases where compiler optimizations will fail this.
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by titzer 4d ago
> I don't know where it is that people have imagined this is something the C and C++ language designers went out of their way to foist upon you. They did. Most other languages, the vast majority of which are also memory safe languag
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by titzer 4d ago
I don't think this is true. You're going to have to point to the exact place in the spec that says this, because optimizations in the presence of UB in most compilers make absolutely no assumptions.
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by titzer 4d ago
> The compiler is allowed to transform your code if it can prove that the result would interact with the outside world in exactly the same way Well, in C/C++, as soon as your program has one UB bug, the compiler has absolutely no
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by titzer 5d ago
> Most of that sort of industry is in poorer sections of states where the municipalities are constantly being hamstrung by their own state Oh yes, the well-known path to riches by being a toxic dumping ground.
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by titzer 6d ago
> own > revoked I think the dispute is right here.
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by titzer 6d ago
If 30 years ago someone suggested breaking into your house to take away your Nintendo games or remotely disabling them by sending something over the network to the console, it would have absolutely been beyond the pale. But 30 years of boil
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by titzer 7d ago
> In the Google case, users have a private relationship with Google where they elect to let Google track them and retain their information... but when the Police ask for that information it's a 'search' and requires a spec
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by titzer 9d ago
They shouldn't be able to collect it in the first place. The big companies have 10 page agreements that say they "value" your privacy and that they don't sell your data to third parties. They do value it, highly. And the
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by titzer 9d ago
Why does anyone trust any device? The surveillance capitalism is just sleepwalking towards disaster, but nobody cares because of the pretty screen and the goddamn brainrot content.
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by titzer 12d ago
That 2% of performance we got for not having bounds checks on by default, resulting in an endless march of memory safety violations is looking a lot less appealing.
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by titzer 12d ago
And they say AGI isn't here yet.
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by titzer 15d ago
Welcome to growthism.
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by titzer 15d ago
We're still in early stages, but in just 2 years AI has presented higher education with the single most disruptive change in decades. Now a computer can do your entire coursework for you, is available to converse on a broad range of to
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by titzer 16d ago
Agreed. Have a look at the music app that Jordan Rudess built for the iPad that allows a kind of tapped steel guitar / keyboard interface: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JA4DqWmHBY&t=165s He made the touch screen
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by titzer 16d ago
Tech is the way it is because Big Tech wants it to be. Social media is engineered to be the most profitable for the big corporations who run the attention economy which incidentally is a surveillance and content exploitation economy hosting
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by titzer 16d ago
Agent memory is to computer memory is what Mongo DB is to relational database. Incredible to watch things come full circle. Next thing you know, someone is going to figure out a binary encoding.
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by titzer 19d ago
Nothing means anything without consequences. You can write all the amendments you want, but if they intentionally disable and dismantle all means of holding them accountable, the Constitution doesn't mean anything. They can't even
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by titzer 20d ago
I know, pretty much everyone on HN is a self-selected group that's pretty high up on the privilege/luck/wealth scale. I immigrated to Germany from the US in 2013. My employer handled basically everything--even hired a persona
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by titzer 20d ago
Ok, you're clearly trolling it this point. Fences can open.
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by titzer 20d ago
This comment vaguely blames immigrants for not having an escape plan. Millions of people immigrate to the US through all the right mechanisms and follow all the laws and have every intention of staying forever and becoming citizens. Scaring
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by titzer 20d ago
Obviously, people thought about this, and there are lots of fence designs that admit plenty of airflow and lots of products ready-made for this already.
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by titzer 20d ago
> I am tired of our* culture. The way I justify it in my mind is that, by all accounts, there's never been a global civilization of any kind on this planet before. Especially not one with sentient primates connected by instant telec
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by titzer 20d ago
Is it really so hard to put a small fence around it to hide the ugly?
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by titzer 23d ago
I don't use Windows, but I have to say that TextEdit on the Mac is absolute crap. Literally every default is wrong. Text is too small, looks like crap, cut-and-paste always brings absolutely crappy styling with it, its autocomplete and
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by titzer 25d ago
I dunno, Ubuntu got bloated. I tried to put 24 on an old Chromebook at it was atrocious. Going back to MX Linux made the UI relatively snappy.
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by titzer 26d ago
> to show mastery of a topic How do you show mastery of a topic where you neither understand fundamentals nor have skills to do a task without help? Mastery is about demonstrating skills . Skills take practice, hands down. AI can help u
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by titzer 26d ago
Like all things, Google will eventually realize they cannot make significant ad revenue and they will eventually give up and discontinue serving this, though I doubt it's more than a scratch in terms of disk space. It's great they
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by titzer 27d ago
> A substantial portion of the initial manuscript was generated with the assistance of artificial intelligence. The author provided the underlying concept and creative direction and worked extensively with AI tools throughout the develop
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by titzer 27d ago
If you look at the implementation of sqrt for a computer, it's usually implemented with Newton's algorithm, which is an iterative numerical method with high speed convergence. It is computationally efficient and looks approximatel

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