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Index is just a part of the model. The nice property is that the index for LLM does not need to be updated often so LLM plus index can be static. This even works for the latest new…

The model just asked the crawler to get a recent copy of relevant pages and used that to give the answer. That is why AI companies experimenting with browsers or at least agentic e…

With SQLite one automatically gets reliable persistent storage. Try to emulate that with a text file with history that eliminates duplicates. It is surprisingly hard to archive.

SQLite gives indexes that makes searching and locating previous entries much faster. This is relevant when the history is over 100K entries and one wants to avoid duplicates in his…

GN tool that is used in Chromium to generate ninja files has much more restrictive language than CMake or make. And even its more complex features are mostly workarounds or escape …

The article over-downplays the need for sentinel values. Surely Rust has Option that also spreads into C++ these days as std::optional. But for plain C using -1 or negative values …

Yet Elm due to its simplicity does not need a lot of examples. Language itself is small and blessed way to architecture things consist of few patterns. Then things are composable. …

Java allowed to handle out-of-memory rather well if one wanted to even 25 years ago. Basically one allocated a buffer on a startup taking 5% of memory that the application was supp…

Microsoft just followed VAX/VMS that does not overcommit. And there is a noise on Linux mail lists to implement process builder pattern which VAX had like 50 years ago…

You can also use cgroup to set allocation policy for a particular program.

And in Spain most immigrants are from Latin America with close enough culture and language to avoid most integration problems.

Interesting idea. On the other hand on the latest SSD with hardware encryption the raw disk speed under Linux can be over 5 GB/s so on my laptop with 64 GB of RAM the full restorat…

On my laptop with Fedora I just configured Linux to hibernate to disk after 15 minutes of suspend. Powering memory off ensures that bugs like this Debian-specific would not matter.…

I worked for a big company that switched from 1password to Keeper. The transition was smooth and I do not see why it shouldn’t be as long as IT knows what they are doing.

And they are so much nicer. Way less noise and pollution and much better maneuverability on narrow streets or on slippery roads in winter.

Many such IDs are designed for local physical verification, like proof that the mobile phone owner is above certain age or has a valid driving license, they are not designed for re…

With LLMs the cost of duplication is much lower both to write and maintain. So abstractions needs much higher justification.

With LLMs the cost of duplication is much lower and LLMs

I wonder are there any compilers that recognizes switch-in-loop pattern of interprets and optimizes it to be branch-predictor friendly using multiple indirect jumps?

A few years ago I counted 42 tunnels on 100 km between Voss and Bergen center.

For executables on Linux there are things like bubblewrap or firejail. One can also use a restrictive container. But those are strictly weaker than browser sandboxes. The most secu…

Browsers run it in a sandbox process together with allocator hardening. Most of the bugs then are just crashed of the sandbox Another option is WASM or WASM-style sandboxes if usin…

Modern solar work nicely in UK in May-August when wind is weakest due to long hours and cooler weather. However one needs more expensive panels that also work on a cloudy days. The…

The full access to the docker socket from a user account is typically used on a development machine where malware has many other opportunities to become a root.

User namespaces significantly rise the risk of exploits and many setups disable them. One may argue that Docker should have used them when they were available, but that would break…