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fph

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    Comment #49220640

    Opening with the title "hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs" is quite misleading, though.

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    Comment #49215854

    But since it's so fast you can just ask it 100 times where Bruce Lee was born, and statistically you'll get the correct answer. We could call it "mixture of idiots". /s

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    Comment #49147082

    Reasons = because they are computing the desktop market share.

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    Comment #49045843

    This sounds very self-centered. Many people already see the EU bureaucrats as something alien, let's not give them another reason to think they're selfish.

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    Comment #49005741

    Looks more like Munch's The Scream to me.

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    Comment #48996836

    Are they shipping it on Android, too?

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    Comment #48870301

    Weird that we chose these numbers because they have many divisors, and yet no one ever says "it's a third past 10", only "half past" and "a quarter past".

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    Comment #48816748

    Yes, it is in profile/settings.

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    Comment #48777409

    Personally, I wouldn't use anything beyond ASCII in a password. I don't want encoding bugs to lock me out of my encrypted partition or bank account, thank you very much.

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    Comment #48711603

    How would that even work for an open-weight model?

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    Comment #48691959

    There are Latex documents whose output keeps changing no matter how many times you run Latex on them: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/30674/document-requi...

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    Comment #48691942

    I'm looking forward to run Lua inside Latex inside Javascript inside Firefox inside my Android ART virtual machine.

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    Comment #48690458

    But let's put it in perspective: what you're paying them is more than the average salary in many poorer countries.

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    Comment #48679564

    Random shower thought: I wonder if it would be better in the long term to stop digging out archeological findings. The more we excavate, the more damage we do for future archaeolog…

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    Comment #48608937

    That's not an Egyptian fraction decomposition because there are 2 sevens.

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    Comment #48575590

    > Does GrapheneOS publish their repro build efforts as a dashboard anywhere? Instructions to fully reproduce a build are here: https://grapheneos.org/build#reproducible-builds (dis…

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    Comment #48567687

    Technically it's "source-available", not "open-source".

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    Comment #48567648

    Root on computers is insecure. Malware can steal secrets from other applications. We're just used to it, but the Android security model is much better.

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    Comment #48567633

    I recommend Magic Earth. Free with traffic and navigation, and strong privacy promises (unlike Here Maps).

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    Comment #48457681

    Mutts also litter your home.

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    Comment #48449497

    What did you replace it with?

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    Comment #48437768

    Clickbait titles should be changed, as per the guidelines for HN submissions.

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    Comment #48423163

    Because that would be pointless. If you have use-after-free exploit mitigations active, apps can test for its presence by simply trying to use after free. The only way to make the …

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    Comment #48368711

    How do you recharge it? Do you have to swap the battery?

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    Comment #48355317

    Nethack has been widely used to test reinforcement learning agents, starting from at least 2020; there was a Nethack challenge at NeurIPS 2021. https://nethackchallenge.com/report.…