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At the very least the author's submission and follow-ups to Product Security looks written by AI.

This claim sounds vaguely familiar to me (though the documentation on Dictionary does not state any reason for why the iteration order is unpredictable), though the more common rea…

> If you formalize, you'll end up with one rigorous definition Can't you just formalize both definitions and pick the one to work with based on what you want to do? Surely the only…

"View types" addresses one of the top pain points of the borrow checker, which is disjoint borrows on a single value. The compiler can understand values where only some fields are …

The argument against PRNGs this paper makes isn't that the PRNG produces results that can be distinguished from TRNG, but that the 256-bit seed deterministically chooses a single s…

This sounds nice, but since you're talking about using it with agents, to what extent was AI used to actually write the app?

For new implementations, sure. But it's harder to change existing implementations (anything not already CommonMark-compatible will introduce unexpected changes to existing content …

Not all markdown implementations are CommonMark

Apple Keychain syncing is end-to-end encrypted, Apple cannot see the contents of your synced keychain.

Is it? Why? If a NixOS module doesn’t support what you need, you can just write your own module, and the module system lets you disable existing modules if you need to. Doing anyth…

In Pattern: Defensively Handle Constructors, it recommends using a nested inner module with a private Seal type. But the Seal type is unnecessary. The nested inner module is all yo…

I haven't used Homebrew in a long time, but if I ever did it would be in the way that you describe (so far I've always found reasonable alternatives for the software I want). What …

If you don't use ANC, then why is an ANC issue that only appears on flights a reason for you to not buy a product? If someone said they have weird ears and the AirPods Pro 3 simply…

I'm fascinated by ASN.1, I don't know why it appeals to me so much but I find working with it oddly fun. I've always wanted to find the time to write an ASN.1 compiler for Rust, be…

LaunchDaemons don't rely on GUI login state so they should come up. If you use LaunchAgents then they won't start this way, but LaunchDaemons should be enabled once the data volume…

Unlock over SSH terminates the connection after unlocking the data volume, so it doesn't even attempt to start the shell until you reconnect after it's fully booted up. FWIW you ca…

It's not just 5 moves. It's 5 crossing changes (which don't change the number of crossings, they just change the order of the strings in a crossing). Unknotting also involves movin…

If you need to hold a lock across an await point, you can switch to an async-aware mutex. Both the futures crate and the tokio crate have implementations of async-aware mutexes. Yo…

Your argument here is basically just "I already know Markdown". Sure, the Markdown image syntax is similar to its hyperlink syntax, so if you know the hyperlink syntax then the ima…

It's extremely distracting. I'm not normally one to have issues that require reduced motion, but the asteroids are almost distracting enough on their own, and the fact that it caus…

Yes, if you look at the Linux-specific breakdown it shows "SteamOS Holo" is 28.31% of the Linux userbase, by far the largest single entry there.

It's worth noting that the percentage of Steam users that are Mac users is not going to be equal to the percentage of gamers who play games on Macs, because not only is Steam not t…

But with a full searchable transcript

Full screen stuff isn't supposed to go behind the notch, unless they opt in to supporting it. By default, fullscreen stuff just gets the notchless 16:10 area under the menubar, and…

Those presets aren't display ratios, those presets have to do with color profiles, HDR support, etc.