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I’m also not seeing the purported images on iOS 26.1 safari

I guess it’s not sufficiently prominent (given that you didn’t see it) but this is discussed in detail in the FAQ section

> async operations require a library to work for some reason Rephrased: ocaml is so flexible that async can be implemented as a library with no special support from the language. T…

And if you’re craving even more telecoms history after that (as I was when I read it a few years ago) Arthur C Clarke’s “How the World Was One” goes into the history of undersea ca…

Potentially also of interest is this [0] article which describes the attempts to build a nuclear powered boring machine that worked by melting rather than cutting the rock. [0] htt…

Focuses more on the historical side of undersea cables, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to recommend Arthur C Clarke’s “How the World was One” which is an incredible book on th…

If you aren’t paying attention you just might end up trading on a real crash too.

Such things already exist. Eg. Appimage or even docker.

Can Linux not trivially do the same thing as windows with LD_PRELOAD? If so why is this more of an issue on Linux than Windows? Is it really less a technical challenge and more jus…

Context for anyone who like me was desperately lost: https://superliminal.com/cube/2x2x2x2/

The https certificate “expiration” date is basically just a “fallback to treating this website as http” date. The site is still perfectly accessible and arguably still more secure …

Small nitpick: it isn’t entirely true that cryptography is “all or nothing”. With things like time lock crypto and proof of work you can effectively have a scheme where large scale…

very distant: The Culture series by Ian Banks Somewhat distant: I Robot by Asimov (specifically the ending) I will not comment on the realism of either of these novels, but will sa…

The riscv system is emulated in software whereas the x86 system is virtualized using kvm.

Is this true? Why can’t qemu use kvm for user mode emulation?

The comparison with QEMU is with KVM disabled, right? Assuming this is true, how does it compare with KVM enabled?

Do you mean to say both FTX and effective altruism are Ponzi schemes? Obviously SBF and FTX turned out to be a huge fraud, but while EA benefited from the fraud mostly unknowingly …

GitHub: https://github.com/danielgross/teleprompter Post links to Twitter announcement because the GitHub repo is a bit barebones

I don't know what crypto.com or KuCoin did, but here are some cryptographic schemes for proof of solvency Vitalik wrote up post-ftx collapse: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/11/19/…

So are there any mitigations for curl users? Anyone know if it's possible to disable IDN by default, and only enable it when (if ever) its needed?

That's fascinating and an incredible example of long term planning. Do you have a source for this? edit: A very cursory check of the Wikipedia page and https://www.vox.com/2017/9/1…

If we’re thinking of the same clip with Matt Levine, I think your characterization is a bit misleading. IIRC Matt Levine was definetly not calling FTX a Ponzi scheme, but yield far…

If they took down their website tomorrow would their market cap change at all? Are these then perhaps some of the least “valuable bytes” which explains the website’s design?