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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 English writing (only really being used for some loanwords), not because simplifications were forced by typewriters or the printing press (which handle non-English languages just fine).

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 reflects spelling pronunciation rather than historical pronunciation.

Also, proto-Sinaitic is not an alphabet. That's why Persian writing became harder to read when they switched from the nearly alphabetic Old Persian cuneiform to Aramaic abjad descended from proto-Sinaitic.

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's responsible for most stock market and GDP growth in America.

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. If it's not precomputable then it's dependent on input and thus hardly benign -- you'll need to carefully verify that the inputs are properly sanitized.

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 the user is confident that the supplied data is nonmalicious and they need the speed up.

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 code without any small bottlenecks and it's all written in a slow language with no thought for performance.

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 actually that they aren't taking their outages seriously enough.

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.

My understanding is it's taken as a given that the authorities at US airports aren't bothering to catch baggage / item thieves amongst airport staff. The only exception is when a firearm (or luggage containing a firearm) goes missing.

The statement you quoted was about Big Tech oligarchs, not media bias. You need to work on your reading comprehension.

Not at all. The whole point is that I want discretion over which articles get rewarded for providing me value, not simply monetizing my attention.

In my ideal world I’d subscribe to a service with a monthly subscription fee where the service takes a small cut and then converts the remainder into a use-it-or-lose-it tip balance (perhaps with the unused balance being auto-donated to a selected journalism nonprofit). In exchange for this subscription, news providers, bloggers, etc. would unpaywall their articles to me, knowing that by doing so they’re vying for a shot at getting tipped by me for their article.

Which tech billionaires are trying to bury us in extreme left wing bullshit?

One of my annoyances is that most male pop singing is at too high a range for normal baritone men without vocal training to sing along. I actually find it easier to sing along to female pop songs (by singing an octave lower) than to male pop songs.