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br1

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    Comment #48184729

    Formal verification should catch vibe coding bugs.

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    Comment #43897929

    The instance profile example makes it seem like you need to specify the account for "Service": "ec2.amazonaws.com" just with another syntax, while service principals are always in …

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    Comment #43015354

    Leapfrog Triejoin is an example of the trenches contributing to academia and academia valuing it: https://x.com/RelationalAI/status/1836115579133939752

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    Comment #42069078

    The Unicode consortium keeps adding garbage like emojis to keep their job...

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    Comment #40858995

    Because Chile renounced Patagonia to keep Argentina out of the war with Bolivia and Peru. Argentina is the bully around here.

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    Comment #37795209

    The old solutions to phishing, education and weak 2fa, are in the way of the new and improved solutions, FIDO, passkeys. Nobody wants to admit that the old ways were lacking. They …

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    Comment #37344029

    It is a somewhat 'round' number, the width of 720p resolution.

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    Comment #35267199

    Interesting that card/drivers customize so much of ray tracing, like rasterization in pre vulkan/metal/d3d12 or even fixed function gpu days.

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    Comment #28951491

    Exactly, it's to protect your user from you.

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    Comment #28137167

    It would be ironic if Rust ended up killing C and not C++, being adopted into the kernel.

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    Comment #24843046

    And UCS-2 run out of bits because the Unicode consortium keeps adding garbage like emojis to keep their job...

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    Comment #20406772

    Any intuition that justifies the diamond shape? In sharks each diamond is a scale, but maybe a regular rectangular pattern works just as well.

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    Comment #16439188

    Google the title to navigate to wsj.com from google.com

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    Comment #16105361

    Have you considered arr[max(i, arr.len)] instead of AND?

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    Comment #16082147

    If everybody else is patched, bad buys don't have much incentive to write attacks. It's herd immunity. You have chosen no to vaccinate.

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    Comment #16055123

    Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ-8bHsD5s to learn how risc-v does simd, without hardcoding vector lengths or needing peeling loops.

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    Comment #15981748

    I totally agree with you.

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    Comment #15981510

    Collecting tasks from all iterations to await before returning.

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    Comment #15981499

    C# also switched to a new i for each iteration.

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    Comment #15981339

    It's true that defer is more powerful at function scope. You can always recover block scope with an unnamed func. But it doesn't fit with normal lexically scoped constructs. You ge…

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    Comment #15980938

    It's indefensible that defer works on the function and not on the scope.

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    Comment #15974075

    We don't want to have to decide which thread will handle each connection, just pick an idle one.

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    Comment #14895284

    Reminds me of https://01.org/fast-ui-draw/blogs/krogovin/2016/fast-ui-draw... , a Canvas implementation from Intel that also uses a uber shader.

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    Comment #14315308

    I'm surprised that John Carmack seems not to use premultiplied alpha and recommends bleeding: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1818885715...