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I don’t agree with the implication that there has to be a practical reason to learn new things. I enjoy learning new technologies because it’s fun.

Agreed that many of the articles claims are a bit weak. One point is reasonably strong though: symmetric crypto may not be breakable (battle tested).

Perhaps, but it’s still trivially easy to increase the difficulty of factorization problems on classical computers, We need a machine that can run Shor’s algorithm before integer f…

Code quality at one point in time is useful, but what you want is dependability over time and responsiveness to security fixes; this means looking at the maintainer and their atten…

Don’t good generals know how everyone else in their army does their jobs? At the very least to the extent they can see through the bullshit. For example, I don’t handwrite the code…

A lot of the vulnerabilities being discovered are low hanging fruit. An LLM could discover them, but so could a human. Let me amend your statement: If the industry most seasoned ex…

> I'm not going to pretend I know how to do Github better than Github To be fair, there are lots of forges that are better than GitHub; knowing how to GitHub better than GitHub is …

People who use machines based on the von Neumann architecture?

How would you enforce a single implementation of path parsing?

Most people on earth don’t make $200/mo.

Source? > it's not like they haven't thought about doing the obvious.

Legal ambiguity tends to have a chilling effect. Although I think this is overshadowed by hype at the moment.

Cam shafts predate them.

Let me put it this way. How does the model know what it finds confusing? I’m sure it works great fwiw, also the use of a hot cache is clever.

That’s not the use case of the tailscale daemon though, which was using getent passwd. To clarify: I’m not against CGO, just introducing a glibc dependency by default. I would only…

Theory. I guess my question is: why do you think it works so well. What’s the mechanism behind it? It feels like it would be relatively random across the range of plausible results…

You won’t get grounded results by asking for feedback. The LLM doesn’t know its own internal state so while you may get a plausible and contextually significant answer, it isn’t go…

Others have pointed out that os/user.Lookup is a platform-independent way to resolve this, but additionally you don’t _need_ to link against glibc to use it. If you are writing go,…

“--“ doesn’t work on all versions of getent. A better fix is to call “getent passwd” with no user controlled arguments and then parse the resulting list. This gets rid of the input…

Do you use git reflog?

What does it mean to split a branch in two?

Looks like a strategy for storing a secret across multiple servers such that no single node compromise will result in the secret being compromised. My read is that this adds networ…

Hmm this is a problem that has long been solved with code completion in a JSON language server and a valid JSON schema. By this I mean that you can basically tab-complete your way …

The justification in TFA smell like premature optimization. A nominal bottleneck is just that-nominal. It’s a good thing to keep in your back pocket but you generally don’t want to…

Maybe there were other factors? Maybe they were leaning towards leaving anyway and this influx of cash enabled them to do so? It’s a stupid idea, for sure, but I think the explanat…