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RetpolineDrama

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    Comment #49157050

    >The vast majority of CVEs are not exploitable Perhaps in isolation. The issue is when you can chain exploits to bypass multiple layers.

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    Comment #48872626

    >which are the biggest contributor to the glints we can see in the night sky. >They're such an enormous part of the problem What an incredible life of privilege you must live to pe…

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    Comment #48872575

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    Comment #48620414

    Lobby wait time is rather extreme, and false-starts are really tough (40m to get full team -> get it balanced -> launch game -> someone disconnects on start, or went AFK because of…

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    Comment #48084312

    >Rust is perfect for writing all of code using LLM. It's strict type system makes is less likely to make very dumb mistakes that other languages might allow. 100%. I've been tellin…

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    Comment #47816488

    >but living in an environment with background radiation levels 50x higher than on Earth We can park a big honkin magnet at the mars-sun lagrange point and cut that down massively.

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    Comment #47806280

    Came here to post this. 4.7 is absolutely useless for binary/firmware analysis on our own freakin products. Anthropic needs to get their ish together I've got real work to do.

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    Comment #47221548

    >I worked on the Xcode team for years Why did you guys remove the ability to detach the console and move it to another window?

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    Comment #47093138

    >How is it illegal? It is their platform to do what they want with it. It was illegal for the officials who did it, not for Meta/Google to follow their orders. That part was merely…

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    Comment #47093127

    >The law was written specifically to allow blocking imports from a country. The precise wording is regulate. The idea that "regulate" means you can turn it on or off with no in-bet…

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    Comment #47092266

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    Comment #47066415

    Or from the other perspective: Meta and Google have had their finger on the scale for more than a decade (along with old twitter). In twitters case, you had regime officials direct…

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    Comment #46772515

    >The SOTA isn't capable of using a code diff as a jumping off point. The low quality of HN comments has been blowing my mind. I have quite literally been doing what you describe ev…

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    Comment #46695631

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    Comment #44713302

    >the slippery slope fallacy I see the slippery slope fallacy-fallacy more than the base fallacy.

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    Comment #44674404

    Swift 6 is only painful if you wrote a ton of terrible Swift 5, and even then Swift 5 has had modes where you could gracefully adopt the Swift 6 safety mechanisms for a long time (…

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    Comment #44640317

    We need to apply sanctions, and end all intelligence sharing with the UK until they stop this nonsense.

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    Comment #44458211

    HN hasn't been a good place for technical discussion in at least 5-6 years, maybe longer. X is much better for this kind of stuff these days (just follow the right people and stick…

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    Comment #44161556

    Not in most of the US, but the ones in Alaska can mummify a water buffalo in under 5 minutes. Running joke is that the mosquito is "Alaska's state bird"

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    Comment #43505458

    Only 1500 miles? Obviously they didn't measure it precisely.

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    Comment #43403190

    Nothing MB has is anywhere close to FXD 13.2.x So if the SAE standards don't reflect that, they are poor standards

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    Comment #43403152

    Today I saw a diesel truck roll coal on anti-tesla protestors. We've gone full circle.

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    Comment #43269276

    >I'm not sure why you want 4k resolution with a 14 inch screen You do realize we had 1440p phones in 2015-2016 right? HiDPI is not new, and it's clarity amazing. Stop buying huge l…

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    Comment #43016926

    I pulled a fresh 20A (120V) circuit just for my 5090 build.

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    Comment #42852973

    Are you lost? Do you know where you are?