Well sure, but access to that compute is gated by simple credentials (like API tokens). Those can be hacked. Imagine for example if a model hacks into ~every Linux computer on the internet using an 0day and steals their…
I'll believe this when it's done. Nothing I've seen so far indicates that this would be feasible. As a practical counterexample, the Linux kernel has a verifier for eBPF code that is loaded by untrusted users. That is a…
What would that even look like? What is "benign"? The browser environment already has pretty strict rules for what the JS can do. It's not allowed to read your files, see your webcam without permission, know about other…
There may well be some writing jobs that are safe for the reasons given in this post, but that doesn't help all the writers I know who have already lost their jobs and are struggling to find work. It's not enough that…
Just because something currently takes a lot of time doesn't mean it's a bad process or low value. If you look beyond computers at the overall history of automation, you will find a lot of things that used to be…
As of a couple years ago, mmap actually has a MAP_SYNC flag that makes it durable in the DB sense. The caveat is that it requires DAX on the file and so comes with a whole bunch of restrictions w.r.t. filesystem,…
You need to use your bank's app for Wero, and many EU banks' apps refuse to run on GrapheneOS for the same reasons as PayPal. This is sadly not a clear win for Wero.
The group who is currently winning this group vs. group war doesn't want you to think there is one.
Astronomical distances are vast, million trillion miles too far, that's over a hundred thousand light years. There are known stellar-mass black holes within just 2000 light years of the Earth. Heck, there might be a…
At 11 years old, XMPP had 0 usable clients (I was there and tried them). That's one less than Matrix.
ICC and ICJ have different roles. The ICJ's subjects are countries whereas the ICC deals with individuals. In this case, the ICC has jurisdiction because the alleged crimes were committed in the territory of a signatory…
Has that actually happened in retail stores? All I can find on the topic is about online purchases (or ordering/paying online and picking it up at the store). To do this in brick-and-mortar, you'd have to use remotely…
This "dark forest" feeling is what has recently driven me back to brick-and-mortar stores. Of course they can and do manipulate me via ads, store layout etc. but at least the store looks the same for me as for the…
Nope, you don't need your own AS for this to work, nor do you need to use BGP. They support static routes too. BGP peering support is actually "beta" according to Cloudflare:…
And worse: GitHub Actions not a full-fledged programming environment by itself either, so you're inevitably going to have to deal with nontrivial shell scripts on top of all the YAML mess.
They have a product called Magic Transit that offers DDoS protection and such for plain IP traffic, where Cloudflare does not terminate TLS. Pricing is not public but starts in the five-digit USD per month range…
I'm in Europe, the sky here is literally red at night from fires we are failing to extinguish. France, Spain, UK, Belgium, Germany, Croatia, Serbia are all going through this to different degrees right now.
Meanwhile, Latin a and Cyrillic а, which look identical, have the same origin and are often pronounced identically too, get separate codepoints. CJK unification was not based on any clear preestablished principles but…
> explanation of how byte-level access to memory objects is done in other languages. I'm not pjmlp but I can explain this for the case of Rust, where this works a bit like C but with a few interesting differences.…
Huh, I actually think it's the opposite. Classic Linux distros like debian are much more like Lisp, everything is the same big mutable pile of state and you query and edit it from within the system itself. The REPL is…
They're supplements, not medication, but I've seen crazy variation in the dosages of Vitamin D pills.
It's for building extremely backend-brained frontend stuff, like a sort of anti-NextJS. Also like NextJS, this sort of domain-bending has some unfortunate operational consequences.
That being said, x86_64 has supported 128-bit atomic writes via cmpxchg16b for over a decade. Modern 64-bit ARM has several ways to do them as well. Probably still not widespread enough for OpenJDK to unconditionally…
Yeah, all the common lispers I know are all about interacting with "live" programs as opposed to "dead", compiled ones. Nix takes the last live, mutable, reflectable part of the world of programmers today, the OS…
Yes. Once you're in such a comfortable position that you'll keep making lots of cash regardless of whether you do well or not, there is little incentive to make good decisions, let alone take risks. This is known as the…
Well sure, but access to that compute is gated by simple credentials (like API tokens). Those can be hacked. Imagine for example if a model hacks into ~every Linux computer on the internet using an 0day and steals their…
I'll believe this when it's done. Nothing I've seen so far indicates that this would be feasible. As a practical counterexample, the Linux kernel has a verifier for eBPF code that is loaded by untrusted users. That is a…
What would that even look like? What is "benign"? The browser environment already has pretty strict rules for what the JS can do. It's not allowed to read your files, see your webcam without permission, know about other…
There may well be some writing jobs that are safe for the reasons given in this post, but that doesn't help all the writers I know who have already lost their jobs and are struggling to find work. It's not enough that…
Just because something currently takes a lot of time doesn't mean it's a bad process or low value. If you look beyond computers at the overall history of automation, you will find a lot of things that used to be…
As of a couple years ago, mmap actually has a MAP_SYNC flag that makes it durable in the DB sense. The caveat is that it requires DAX on the file and so comes with a whole bunch of restrictions w.r.t. filesystem,…
You need to use your bank's app for Wero, and many EU banks' apps refuse to run on GrapheneOS for the same reasons as PayPal. This is sadly not a clear win for Wero.
The group who is currently winning this group vs. group war doesn't want you to think there is one.
Astronomical distances are vast, million trillion miles too far, that's over a hundred thousand light years. There are known stellar-mass black holes within just 2000 light years of the Earth. Heck, there might be a…
At 11 years old, XMPP had 0 usable clients (I was there and tried them). That's one less than Matrix.
ICC and ICJ have different roles. The ICJ's subjects are countries whereas the ICC deals with individuals. In this case, the ICC has jurisdiction because the alleged crimes were committed in the territory of a signatory…
Has that actually happened in retail stores? All I can find on the topic is about online purchases (or ordering/paying online and picking it up at the store). To do this in brick-and-mortar, you'd have to use remotely…
This "dark forest" feeling is what has recently driven me back to brick-and-mortar stores. Of course they can and do manipulate me via ads, store layout etc. but at least the store looks the same for me as for the…
Nope, you don't need your own AS for this to work, nor do you need to use BGP. They support static routes too. BGP peering support is actually "beta" according to Cloudflare:…
And worse: GitHub Actions not a full-fledged programming environment by itself either, so you're inevitably going to have to deal with nontrivial shell scripts on top of all the YAML mess.
They have a product called Magic Transit that offers DDoS protection and such for plain IP traffic, where Cloudflare does not terminate TLS. Pricing is not public but starts in the five-digit USD per month range…
I'm in Europe, the sky here is literally red at night from fires we are failing to extinguish. France, Spain, UK, Belgium, Germany, Croatia, Serbia are all going through this to different degrees right now.
Meanwhile, Latin a and Cyrillic а, which look identical, have the same origin and are often pronounced identically too, get separate codepoints. CJK unification was not based on any clear preestablished principles but…
> explanation of how byte-level access to memory objects is done in other languages. I'm not pjmlp but I can explain this for the case of Rust, where this works a bit like C but with a few interesting differences.…
Huh, I actually think it's the opposite. Classic Linux distros like debian are much more like Lisp, everything is the same big mutable pile of state and you query and edit it from within the system itself. The REPL is…
They're supplements, not medication, but I've seen crazy variation in the dosages of Vitamin D pills.
It's for building extremely backend-brained frontend stuff, like a sort of anti-NextJS. Also like NextJS, this sort of domain-bending has some unfortunate operational consequences.
That being said, x86_64 has supported 128-bit atomic writes via cmpxchg16b for over a decade. Modern 64-bit ARM has several ways to do them as well. Probably still not widespread enough for OpenJDK to unconditionally…
Yeah, all the common lispers I know are all about interacting with "live" programs as opposed to "dead", compiled ones. Nix takes the last live, mutable, reflectable part of the world of programmers today, the OS…
Yes. Once you're in such a comfortable position that you'll keep making lots of cash regardless of whether you do well or not, there is little incentive to make good decisions, let alone take risks. This is known as the…