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It may come as a surprise, but this phenomenon of "uninterpretable" circuits designed by algorithms is 30 years old now. Adrian Thompson's research in the 90s evolved FPGAs that di…

Oh that's a surprising interaction. I use dark mode themes, is there something I haven't noticed?

Turn off "Animation Effects" in Settings and it will be instantaneous.

The conventional wisdom in cryptography is that if you don't know you need FIPS, if you don't have paper and a dollar figure telling you how much you need it, you don't need or wan…

Didn't X unban users like Dom Lucre who posted CSAM because of their political affiliation?

Could you explain what a git trailer is if not appended to the message body? My understanding is that trailers are just key-value pairs in a particular format at the end of the mes…

OCI artifacts, using the same protocol as container registries. It's a protocol designed for versioning (tagging) content addressable blobs, associating metadata with them, and it'…

A lot of folks think this, but did you also implement EDNS0? The golang team also thought DNS clients were simple, and it led to almost ten years of difficult to debug panics in Do…

This also happens on switching virtual desktops, even with reduce animations there is a 100ms+ delay before any input on the new desktop will be sent to the correct app.

What's the difference between this and the first link you shared?

If you're generating long reports, code, etc. with an LLM, partial strings matter quite a lot for user experience.

Oh, this is quite similar to an online parser I'd written a few years ago[1]. I have some worked examples on how to use it with the now-standard Chat Completions API for LLMs to st…

Not using the NVDEC and NVJPG units to decompress weights into registers? And you say you're using the whole GPU. There are entire blocks on the silicon going idle!

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing thems…

Always exciting to see Robert Escriva's next database project. Building on top of the incredible engineering of S3 is clever, I'm definitely going to be looking at and learning fro…

I think any discussion of btrfs needs to acknowledge that raid5/6 support was promised in the early years, shipped in the kernel in 2013 and, until 2021's btrfs-progs 5.11 release,…

Is that what I said?

There's no need to call someone pointing out instability of a filesystem dishonest. That's bad faith. I don't get why folks feel the need to come out and cheer for a tool like this…

btrfs has eaten my data, which was probably my bad for trying out a newly stable filesystem around 15 years ago. there are plenty of bug reports of btrfs eating other people's data…

Parity support in multi-disk arrays is older than I am, it's a fairly standard feature. btrfs doesn't support this without data loss risks after 17 years of development.

Respectfully to the maintainers: How can this be a stable filesystem if parity is unstable and risks data loss? How has this been allowed to happen? It just seems so profoundly uns…

I don't think those real identities should be public or deanonymizable from outside a given platform.

> KR (Korea) requires national identity numbers for gaming, which opens up a convenient opportunity to ban cheaters at the “soul” level. It is remarkably effective at keeping them …

Surprised not to see Karnaugh maps mentioned here, as a tool for humans to intuitively find these simplifications. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map