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by tux3 3d ago
Correct! It's still an inode, even without a path.
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by tux3 3d ago
Followup quizz: A file is held open read only by a process, and then you delete the file. Under memory pressure and without swap, can Linux evict those pages to reclaim memory?
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by tux3 4d ago
The Default trait provides a function that actually constructs the type in question. But here the ! type can never be constructed, so the only way to implement Default would be to have it panic, loop infinitely, or otherwise fail at runtime
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by tux3 4d ago
Of course. Auto-vectorization isn't magic, for one. In any video codec, the hot kernels will all be in hand-written assembly. Now I'm not saying AI can't write ASM. I'm saying that compilers have a hard job. They output
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by tux3 8d ago
They're saying the weekly numbers grow a little bit every week, so every week is technically record breaking. The absolute number of lifetime downloads can of course only go up (but that's even more vacuous).
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by tux3 10d ago
As the saying goes, the optimal amount of cheating is not zero. I'm saying it's variable, not that cheating can disappear completely. In other words, utopia is fictional, but that doesn't mean the real world couldn't be
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by tux3 10d ago
I see, my bad. I tried to follow the comment and jumped to conclusions, sorry about that.
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by tux3 10d ago
I admit I'm not a fan of the loop macros, or writing constants like 0xd80000 in decimal, or having all of that code inlined with no further explanation or git history. But I think it's just that this file is lifting parts of the l
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by tux3 10d ago
If OP is willing to cooperate, I'd like to offer an independent investigation on site, and I will be bringing pizza
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by tux3 11d ago
So, it looks like this tries to build a model (or rather, multiple layers of models combined with something called context mixing[0]), potentially analyzing the whole file first? Is it fair to call this a very fancy entropy coder, replacing
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by tux3 11d ago
Short statement from the WMF in response: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/09/03/us-staff-uni... They seem to say they'll accept the outcome and pledge to engage in good-faith. Which is the
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by tux3 11d ago
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, editors are not employees. Even the admins are not employees. (As far as I know you only have to sign any kind of formal documents if you have one of the few roles (as a non-employee) where you may have access to
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by tux3 11d ago
Even looking only at different cultures, saying nothing of nature, the degree to which people are willing to cooperate or defect against the group varies widely. The level of trust varies widely. People aren't motivated solely by the r
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by tux3 12d ago
There's a sign of life on the elexir forum: https://elixirforum.com/t/macro-mayhem-004-peter-announces-p... There's a possibility this was made by a person. Apart from that good luck getting any information b
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by tux3 13d ago
There are four words in "Just connect it to our ERP". Now, for our next challenge, how many r's are there in strawberry?
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by tux3 14d ago
No, it's not a gatekeeping thing. You're coming at this with negative assumptions, so I don't think I can try to convince you. If you hate Rust and want something conservative, then use lld. It has some parallelism, but it&#x
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by tux3 14d ago
The homepage says something about AI guided fuzzing based on libfuzzer or AFL. Looks like they have the LLMs identify a bunch of interesting functions to test, generate some test harnesses, and then sort through the fuzzer findings at a hig
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by tux3 15d ago
GNU ld is indeed extremely slow, it is a very old codebase that isn't designed for modern systems, and it doesn't do any real work in parallel. GNU ld can be 2-10x slower than LLVM lld on real projects, and then mold is again ~5-1
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by tux3 16d ago
Many mathematicians care about understanding the method and the tools used more than the result. LLMs have a large advantage in memory and reading speed, you can feed them the entire internet and published literature at training time, and t
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by tux3 17d ago
Also known as descriptivism. That's what it do.
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by tux3 17d ago
Indeed. And I'm sure any current LLM could come up with more effective ideas than "build 300 million drones", but there wouldn't be any point discussing why exactly that plan would fail. The agents in TFA were focused on
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by tux3 19d ago
I was thinking an FPGA with an open toolchain might make a pretty solid hardware seed that can fairly easily be replicated, without needing your own fab or anything completely impractical. In theory the FPGA could still try to recognize and
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by tux3 19d ago
So this looks like Claude is discussing the idea that when you run untrusted code on your computer, it can do arbitrary things. If there is malicious code, maybe it'll read your files and steal your credentials. Here's a sample: &
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by tux3 19d ago
>as long as you run it on your own trusted hardware and verify the signature first. I think that depends how far you want to take the paranoia. In principle if you want that to be a secure signature that can't be forged, you're
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by tux3 19d ago
People are doing that with lisps and schemes, but then the interpreter keeps growing. People start to want more expressivity, it needs optimizations so that you don't go mad trying to write a compiler with it and needing to wait 15min
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by tux3 20d ago
For one plain text is a bit more convenient to view, edit, and talk about on line. And as you move up towards more complex capabilities, you can start adding simple features like comments and basic text macros to give a name to your common
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by tux3 21d ago
Hypermedia? In my hypertext markup language? That is so not Web 5.0. Best I can offer is a support widget that pops up and keeps trying to talk to you until you interract with it.
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by tux3 22d ago
>Rather than compressing particles [...] If you packed enough photons into one spot I haven't watched the video, but if we're compressing electrons, neutrons, or other fermions, I imagine if we want to keep compressing that do
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by tux3 27d ago
You should buy my ebook on how to get rich quick by selling ebooks, it has excellent EV and guarantees returns that beats the market.
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by tux3 28d ago
>if I want case-insensitive search I simply create an index on lower(column) and use that to query Or even pg_trgm trigram indexes, which are case-insensitive by default and support similarity search to accept typos and misspellings.

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