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I thought those were just allegations they made in the lawsuit, not necessarily something they had written evidence of in the form of messages.

How big is the OpenBSD kernel and userland actually compared to a virtualization layer?

I don’t follow. Are you under the misapprehension that ears was referring to auditory perception, rather than vestibular sense of motion?

You just press backspace and hit the accent mark key or for a printing press stack the accent mark on top of the letter. People ditched accents because they were rarely used in Eng…

Protp-Sinaitic was an abjad not an alphabet.

"This is why Hebrew's alphabet near-perfectly phonetically represents the spoken language" - nonsense. That's just because modern Hebrew is based on the written language and thus r…

Yeah and we've already seen this with Facebook getting blamed for Cambridge Analytica.

It sounds more like this was a predefined account recovery flow, rather than some LLM agent making use of arbitrary write access.

If someone is talking about "spinning up a separate machine" for Postgres, they're not talking about a desktop or mobile app...

Why go through the trouble of shoehorning SQLite into a cloud database by getting solutions for HA/failover and DR, when you can just use Postgres off the shelf?

My argument is that they would add an exception for TSMC in the event that Taiwan fell under Chinese control. The alternative would be an extreme supply shock to the industry that'…

Wouldn't the rest of the world encourage ASML to keep supporting the fab because they want the chips to keep coming?

Interesting project in general. I wonder whether it could be adapted to behave reasonably without relying on threading. E.g. run the GC only when *alloc is called.

I mean they brought that incident on themselves...

That factor was downstream of its complexity though. It's far harder to implement a compiler for Ada 83 than even for modern C.

What's a situation where one needs to use `eval` in benign way in JS? If something is precomputable (e.g. `eval("1 + 1")` can just be replaced by 2), then it should be precomputed.…

I don't see why the transformer architecture can't be designed and trained with separate inputs for control data and content data.

Great stuff. I would argue that hardened mode should be default though, similar to how siphash is the default hashing function in Rust hash maps. Faster mode should be opt in if th…

That's Rule 5 no?

The boilerplate and indirection isn't done for performance

I've worked on optimizing modern slow code. Once you optimize a few bottlenecks it turns out it's very hard to optimize because the rest of the time is spread out over the whole co…

I would argue that making the company experience the consequences of its choice of metrics / mandates is in fact a moral imperative.

In fairness though, it does give you good practice for the essential skill of maintaining / improving an old codebase.

Amazon has had a really bad string of various outages recently. Assuming they're internally treating this as business as usual in post-mortems then perhaps the newsworthy thing is …

This is reminding me of the story of a Japanese airport doing a full security sweep because one of the airport restaurants had misplaced a kitchen knife.