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It's funny, some people commenting here seem to be a bit lost. It's also obvious from the article that his home was indeed searched. The idea that the government would not obtain a…

I don't think you know what you are talking about.

Another way to look at it: Microsoft APIs have fallen from grace. Even their own devs don't dogfood anymore. They download something that Facebook made instead and reimplement the …

I didn't say that json can represent all rational numbers. I said that all json numbers have an obvious interpretation as a rational number. So far you haven't really shown an exam…

How do you feel numbers are ill defined in json? The syntactical definition is clear and seems to yield a unique and obvious interpretation of json numbers as mathematical rational…

...The code signing requirement?

Has nothing to do with go. You added a dependency which is not portable. It is well known that systemd project only targets Linux. Vendorise systemd and compile only the journal pa…

Your post could be (uncharitably) paraphrased as: "once you have written correct C++ code, the drawbacks of C++ are not relevant". That is true, and the same is true of C. But it's…

True, but locks are not only needed inside IRQ handler routines.

I wrote "multithreaded" but I really meant "multicore". If two cores are contending for a lock I don't see how irq protection help. As long as there is only one core, I agree.

Does there exist any platform which has multithreading but not atomics? Such a platform would be quite impractical as you can't really implement locks or any other threading primit…

The company is bankrupt. It means they can't/won't/didn't honour their promises.

Convenience? Websites are moving targets. I don't love having to update my tampermonkey scripts when they break.

"Ban" and "sue" are very different things...

What a positive application of AI. Refreshing to see a product which wants to reduce the amount of slop and noise in my life, instead of the opposite. A bit disappointed that it do…

It looks like a method of fabricating more convincing slop? I think the Kagi feature is about promoting real, human-produced content.

Relicensing isn't necessary. If you violate the GPL with respect to a work you automatically lose your license to that work. It's enough if one or two main contributors assert thei…

How much useful combat skills can be taught in only a week? It seems like an extremely low estimate on the training needed to play a useful role in the military.

That is true! But AVIF is based on AV1. As a video codec, AV1 often does need to be implemented in dedicated hardware for cost and power efficiency reasons. I think the article is …

So they "ignore" bit depth by using 32 bits for each sample. This may be a good solution but it's not really magic. They just allocated many more bits than other codecs were willin…

Some people post vulnerability disclosures or pull requests which are obviously fake and generated by LLM. One example: https://hackerone.com/reports/2298307 These people are colla…

It didn't occur to them that he might have written the password down? That's wild.

Meandering post which struggles to get to the point. The font is extremely thin which makes it unnecessarily hard to read. A lot of jargon and abbreviations also hinder understandi…