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Have you looked at jpdb.io ? Iirc it has randomized example sentences

How does that square with this comment from greg from today?

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/3

(About heads up to distros)

Nope, sorry, we are NOT allowed to notify anyone about anything "ahead of time" otherwise we will have to tell everyone about everything. That's the only policy by which all the legal/governmental agencies have agreed to allow us to operate in, so we are stuck with it.

I don't think itd be ok, personally. My impression is regulations and regulatory institutions can be very slow to evolve after technological advances, unless the government is financially liable. A scheme I would be more comfortable with is mandatory insurance and insurance companies with a financial incentive absorbing the liability. On top of that probably add some bare minimum regulatory requirements/certifications.

Harfbuzz does shaping, my understanding is slug does rendering. So they do different things

I have no experience with minors using Linux. Do they not typically have sudo access?

Clang can target windows just fine afaik, although I'm sure the whole process could be improved.

That said, as long as windows is the bigger more profitable market I wouldnt expect a switch, unless the dev tooling situation becomes dramatically better on linux

In addition, success is generally pretty well-defined. Everyone wants correct, performant, bug-free, secure code.

I feel like these are often not well defined? "Its not a bug it's a feature", "premature optimization is the root of all evil", etc

In different contexts, "performant enough" means different things. Similarly, many times I've seen different teams within a company have differing opinions on "correctness"

"life of the program" might imply it needs to begin life at program start. But it can be allocated at runtime, like an example in the list shows. So its rather "lives until the end of the program", but it doesnt need to start life at the start of the program

Not who you were asking but for me about 1800 hours of study+srs+reading+listening for simple shows (not "tons of idioms". Or at least not ones Im not already familiar with). This was for japanese, european languages should be easier.

Speaking as an argentinian, every time I hear about someone using crypto in that way its to avoid taxes, which seems legally murky/gray (if not directly illegal, but not currently prosecuted) to me.

Is games not a part of tech?

Since you already quoted wikipedia, here's what it says about ECS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system

Entity–component–system (ECS) is a software architectural pattern mostly used in video game development for the representation of game world objects. An ECS comprises entities composed from components of data, with systems which operate on the components.

Entity: An entity represents a general-purpose object. In a game engine context, for example, every coarse game object is represented as an entity. Usually, it only consists of a unique id. Implementations typically use a plain integer for this

Common ECS approaches are highly compatible with, and are often combined with, data-oriented design techniques. Data for all instances of a component are contiguously stored together in physical memory, enabling efficient memory access for systems which operate over many entities.

History In 1998, Thief: The Dark Project pioneered an ECS.

So, according to wikipedia:

- An entity is typically just a numeric unique id

- Components are typically physically contiguous (i.e an array)

- Their history began with Thief pioneering them in 1998

I think his definition of OO is different to what we've got used to. Perhaps his definition needs a different name.

I've seen "OOP" used to mean different things. For example, sometimes it's said about a language, and sometimes it's unrelated to language features and simply about the "style" or design/architecture/organization of a codebase (Some people say some C codebases are "object oriented", usually because they use either vtables or function pointers, or/and because they use opaque handles).

Even when talking about "OOP as a programming language descriptor", I've seen it used to mean different things. For example, a lot of people say rust is not object-oriented. But rust lets you define data types, and lets you define methods on data types, and has a language feature to let you create a pointer+vtable construct based on what can reasonably be called an interface (A "trait" in rust). The "only" things it's lacking are either ergonomics or inheritance, or possibly a culture of OOP. So one definition of "OOP" could be "A programming language that has inheritance as a language feature". But some people disagree with that, even when using it as a descriptor of programming languages. They might think it's actually about message passing, or encapsulation, or a combination, etc etc.

And when talking about "style"/design, it can also mean different things. In the talk this post is about, the speaker mentions "compile time hierarchies of encapsulation that match the domain model". I've seen teachers in university teach OOP as a way of modelling the "real world", and say that inheritance should be a semantic "is-a" relationship. I think that's the sort of thing the talk is about. But like I mentioned above, some people disagree and think an OOP codebase does not need to be a compile time hierarchy that represents the domain model, it can be used simply as a mechanism for polymorphism or as a way of code reuse.

Anyways, what I mean to say is that I don't think arguing about the specifics of what "OOP" means in the abstract very useful, and that since in this particular piece the author took the time to explicitly call out what they mean that we should probably stick to that.

If my memory isn't failing me, that was part of the reason rust went with a postfix notation for their async keyword ("thing().await") instead of the more common syntax ("await thing()")

I'm a bit confused. What does any of this have to do with the central thesis of the talk? ("Compile time hierarchies of encapsulation that match the domain model were a mistake")

I understand that OOP is a somewhat diluted term nowdays, meaning different things to different people and in different contexts/communities, but the author spent more than enough time clarifying in excruciating detail what he was talking about.

I would assume some orgs made it public facing for covid and it remained like that

I don't know if it matters to you, but the "video" is just a recording of a conference talk. It wasn't made with the sole intention of making a "video". I agree a text format version of the same information would be useful.

but also wrong in a few places

Would you be so kind as to elaborate how/where? (Other than the "arpanet in the 90s")

I think they were thinking of Carlos Menem's "si hubiera dicho lo que iba a hacer, no me votaba nadie” , but AFAIK thats a misquote [1]

A more recent Argentinian president (Mauricio Macri) said a similar thing though: " If I had told them everything I was going to do, they would have voted to lock me up in an asylum" (Tl mine).

Original [2]: "Si les decía todo lo que iba a hacer, votaban por encerrarme en el manicomio"

[1] https://www.infobae.com/sociedad/2023/11/12/si-decia-lo-que-...

[2] https://www.cronista.com/economia-politica/Macri-Si-les-deci...

What do people find upsetting about Discord?

These are the most common complaints I see from people

- They don't allow third party clients and some people have various complaints about theirs (e.g resource usage)

- Some people think discord is too popular, to the point some things that "don't belong there" have moved to discord. This is usually about being search indexable and requiring an account.

- Fear of monopolostic behaviour ( "enshittification" )

- Some people are mad that they killed public urls for files uploaded to discord. Mostly this is people running into links to images online and being unable to see them, usually not the uploaders

- Discord is centralized and you cannot host your own server

- The only client they allow you to use (See above) is propietary, and some people would rather run something open source

As for me personally, their search functionality drives me insane. I feel like the exact same query gets completely different results depending on the time of day and phase of the moon, making it super unreliable.

You're correct that as far as I understand it the analysis propsoed by the C++ Lifetime Safety Profile is similar in many ways, however I think there's a few important distinctions with these C# features that are not directly related to the analysis: The C++ safety profilers are trying to be backwards compatible with as much C++ code as possible. Whereas my understanding is most of what's talked about in this post is sort of a clean break from idiomatic C#, and is not changing the semantics or adding new warnings to any pre-existing code. Another difference is that C++ obviously does not have a built in runtime GC, so the situations mentioned in this post that get "fixed" by GC heap allocation would remain an issue.

Are you also a proponent of nonlocal type inference? Do you think annotating types is too costly for programmers?

Not to mention the error messages when you get something slightly wrong

If you need to separately convert files yourself, then it is by definition not drop in

there's an example in the first reference link associated with the CVE: https://cosmosofcyberspace.github.io/npm_ip_cve/npm_ip_cve.h...

Granted, it's basically if(function_from_lib(user_input)) make_http_request(user_input) , which imo seems like a bit of a forced example, but it is an example

Why not?

Because it's extra work.

I think most of it is that he shows and explains every invisible wall in the game (Or tries to). The basic explanations are about an hour and a half. It uses graphics for explaining almost everything and does it in quite a bit of detail.

I mean ... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

So the problem is being able to drill down? Most decent IDEs allow you to collapse code blocks (i.e brackets) if that's what you want to do, and the comments accomplish the same thing a function name would. Some editors support region comments that start out collapsed and can be named. I don't see why separate functions would be anyones first instinct to reach for here.

Speaking as another native spanish speaker, I also basically never use accents. I sometimes add them by applying spellchecker suggestions in formal writing (Work emails, etc) when I see the red squiggles.