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hun3

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    Comment #48915696

    > The only downside is that it won't stop UDP packets from getting to a UDP listener. There will not be a response but the application will still see it. Try: ip route add src ${ne…

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    Comment #48630820

    > The OS is a thin layer providing an abstract and consistent interface regardless of the hardware configuration. This is called a hardware abstraction layer, not OS. https://en.wi…

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    Comment #48627755

    System WebView but Electron is now the system

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    Comment #48627737

    The operating system has historically trusted the applications not to do dumb things too much . Only now we're witnessing the consequences much more frequently thanks to accelerate…

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    Comment #48606665

    (zenzi)³ I mean zenzi-cubic

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    Comment #48485963

    China has proxies that sell cheaper access to frontier models in exchange for permission to train on your data.

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    Comment #48439596

    Right. As an example: Oracle and PostgreSQL don't have dirty reads: READ UNCOMMITTED does nothing. MySQL's concurrency model depends on the engine.

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    Comment #48421543

    What keeps users themselves from vibe-coding their own software? If you don't own quality, why should I pay? You're just a middleman at that point.

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    Comment #48396864

    If you squint hard enough, you'll notice your bank account serves as an IPC semaphore replenishing API credit balances. Your wallet is now a real-time communication channel.

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    Comment #48289779

    _RealShipOpts has a constructor.

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    Comment #48211148

    With consent, yes.

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    Comment #48206594

    No, "virtual machine" alone doesn't make things safer. Shrink your attack surface. Use a completely locked down seccomp. Use nsjail or gVisor for containers. Use microvm or libkrun…

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    Comment #48116809

    Avoiding problems outside your business problem domain, and can therefore guide the AI more effectively towards building the right thing.

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    Comment #48073868

    (Note that this still assumes that each biased-coin toss is i.i.d.)

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    Comment #48016450

    They are orthogonal. Suppose you have 100ms audio latency and no wait time. Then, natural pause will trigger response immediately but you won't notice it has started until after ~2…

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    Comment #47914204

    But it's still a bit more difficult to sue them for leaking your company's data. At least for now.

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    Comment #47914092

    You can write unambiguous (UB-free) code and the compiler's output will be deterministic. There will even be a spec that explains how your source maps to your program's behavior. L…

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    Comment #47913938

    How can you read a language you didn't learn?

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    Comment #47859924

    PatchGuard would like to have a word with you.

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    Comment #47859894

    Ironic, since Unix is itself an embodiment of "worse is better."

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    Comment #47816913

    I used floating timestamps as some kind of an identity. If there is ever a conflict, I just increase it by 1 ulp until it doesn't collide with anything. Sorry.

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    Comment #47597408

    In Python, `shlex` has utilities for quoting and tokenizing strings for POSIX shells. > Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html (Windows users: CMD is hopeless.…