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Not really, Spectre showcased an attack from within a JavaScript sandbox, which isn't considered to own the machine. Any side effects from speculation machinery can easily become a…

Yesterday I encountered AI-generated food photos on a menu for the first time. I immediately felt grossed out before even realising why. Their generated focaccias didn't even look …

Jsoo supports self-recursive and mutually recursive tail calls, but for general tail calls it would need to trampoline every single call, since the only major browser with proper t…

It's so toxic when people prevent others from avoiding wasting their time reading blatant fluff that no one spent their own time writing.

There's always a lag, you calibrate the test based on previous results, not future ones. If intelligence is decreasing I'd expect every IQ test to keep scoring a median lower than …

A one item collection is admittedly a lame one, but it is a collection. Pointers are collections of zero or one items in a sense. Now, the verb "map" is the traditional name for th…

I assumed their qualifier was being applied to this case as well. However I don't think there's any ambiguity about who are we talking about in this specific thread of comments.

I'm talking exclusively about this particular breach. 48000 out of 50000 have returned voluntarily. I don't think that counts as trying, so talking about success is a category erro…

Most have already returned voluntarily!

See my other reply to you, most are in fact not settling.

48000 out of 50000 in Ceuta's breach won't be migrating actually, since they've already returned voluntarily. Most either were agitators or have realised they weren't any better of…

I'm familiar with OxCaml, but in what sense does Scala have modalities?

You may have misread: Java will keep supporting ARM macOS, they're just deprecating Intel macOS. Also this is a decision taken by the JVM team, not Apple; the latter simply depreca…

I just did, in fact I vaguely remembered it from back then, and after reading the announcement blog post and the quote, I still think that anyone who expected Codeberg to replace t…

I swear HN has some sort of Mandela effect about Codeberg's mission. Their website clearly states they're a community-led non-profit that hosts like-minded FOSS projects, and their…

Reddit mods are volunteers as well.

This is actually a feature of the .inf by design, an AddSoftware directive. It can even link to apps from the store instead of bundling them with the driver. This is designed to in…

It kicked me out on Firefox 152 over Android 13, but only until I enabled desktop mode. Actual desktop Firefox seems to work too. And others say Safari works even on iOS. So they'r…

Splinter Cell Conviction did this well, ambient occlusion got baked for pretty much all models, even dynamic. The dynamic occlusion for characters was solved by approximating them …

They're replying to > The UI of git - for better or worse - directly reflects its internals.

I think about that too. Had I grown up thinking that I need to pay a subscription to build software, I wouldn't have tried to get into engineering at all. As a teen I wanted to lea…

I guess it stands for gameplay loop, but I agree it reads weird.