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>>they seem to be doing their job just fine >No one believes that. We're having an objective discussion here, please bring receipts, not beliefs.

Spoken like a true journalist with little dev experience :). Though I don't understand why you felt it necessary to go borderline insulting/condescending? Ohwell. Funnily enough, y…

That's one of Congress' responsibilities: the GAO is in the legislative branch, it's Congress' job to exercise oversight. (And it's all US citizens' job to elect people who they tr…

That's why the GAO already exists, and what its job is! There's even an international association and conference of these bodies across countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Int…

Anyone know if "-cpu ${CPU},vmx=off,svm=off" in QEMU is a safe workaround for this? (To disable nested virtualization on a per-VM basis. Only against exploitation from within that …

No, it was testing in the context of a kind of coding I simply don't do. If an AI harness asked me to permit just one of maybe half of the suggested commands, I would stop the harn…

Yeah, that data is junk. I know because I'm in it a whole bunch, and I'm just not a web/devops person. Half the commands made no sense to me. I normally wouldn't have approved them…

ACK. I hadn't read the other arc of this thread yet, I think we're having a failure of communication... along the lines of looking at things from the perspective of a different lay…

> if a writer enters an infinite loop while writing the shared data, that will stop progress in any other algorithm No, it won't, not in a wait-free algorithm. For lock-free algori…

That's not the point of my argument. The compiler declaring things UB needs to be addressed by telling the compiler to not be silly, not by forcing every single access to be on the…

I think you missed the point; seqlock based approaches will lock dead if you suspend/abort a thread in the wrong place. Other lock-free approaches don't have this issue. This isn't…

No, it's neither wait-free nor lock-free. Wait-free guarantees all threads make progress, lock free guarantees at least one thread makes progress even if another thread is suspende…

I've recently started doing crude drawings on my reMarkable when needing something like explainer diagrams. It looks like a toddler did it, but, you know what? It works. I just sto…

You're fixing a theoretical problem (mismatch between CPU and compiler memory models, the CPU is perfectly fine doing these reads and writes, it's only the compiler declaring them …

I guess the point is that the concepts are needed, which is true. But the Rust way (more explicit and targeted) of dealing with these concepts seems better than how either C++ or D…

> # calls helpers that eventually call commit() Show, don't tell. The article should've included an example of these helpers. All in all, this feels poorly written, but also poorly…

UPnP is the standard way to get CPE firewalls to allow a port. Other than that, discussing IPv6 on HN is… draining at best. It's all been argued a million times at this point. Peop…

IPv6. (Let's skip the discussion, I don't feel like watching groundhog day today.)

> > (Richard Branson is "only" worth about $3B btw) > Yes? And? And if that's how far down the list one needs to go to find a billionaire of good repute, that's not a good sign for…

> Cloudflare spreads everywhere and kills the drive to do nice things. How about an internet where we don't need CloudFlare? One without zillions of AI crawlers and script kiddies …

Oh no, if only you could pay someone to figure out ethics concerns for you… maybe if universities offered majoring in Philosophy or Ethics? (Richard Branson is "only" worth about $…

Arguably, being a billionaire and being a compassionate human being are mutually exclusive. You'd spend your wealth and not be a billionaire anymore. The only question is how much …

Nah, he's talking about accelerating his net worth, it just happens to be that right now slowing AI might do that. Especially if it affects his competition.

RCU needs discussing in an article like this. It arguably fudges the definitions of all 3 things a little, but you do get them all.