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Semantic fuzzing of the Rust compiler and interpreter [pdf]
What would we ever do without big brother controlling all our moves
I’m sure all these people were talented, but it reinforces my own belief that the most important things are passion and focus. I feel like the tech world fixates on 10x programmers like Carmack, but motivated people can pull off amazing things.
That's p as in paragraph. <p> also has some honestly pretty weird end-tag omission rules that makes it very unsuitable for any other semantic than demarcating a paragraph.
If you ever had occasion to have an employer and/or project where this was called for, you could probably "be this smart"; it just comes down to interest and necessity.

I dip in and out of these waters (performance optimization, more systems bare metal engineering), but basically on personal projects. I wish I had jobs where it was more called for, but it's not what most industry work needs.
I'm no legal expert but one obvious difference is that you're talking about trademark rather than copyright infringement.
Previews are pretty annoying to me too but I’m curious: if you like movies, how do you find out about them? I don’t watch ad-supported TV and opt out of ads wherever I can (YouTube Premium, Hulu etc).

When I was in my early 20s in the 2000s, I could go to a theater and just know what the deal was for 90% of the movies that were playing at a 20-plex automatically just from TV ads and a few late-night-show actor interviews. Today I know zero (other than recognizing which one is some Marvel thing). If you dropped me off at the movies I wouldn’t know what to watch without googling them all.
Would <UUID>.example.com not work? With first to register getting priority. Or <pubkey>.example.com with the corresponding private key needed to do updates.

The "nicer" domain I am referring to would be a normal domain from a registrar.
This is still the language that supports setjmp and longjmp and just documents that if you mix them with exceptions the behavior is undefined, right?

You can't have a shameful past when you started shameful. ;) This language's roots are in "I wrote some extensions to simplify C, but I don't want to make it incompatible with C so the extensions don't work coherently in all contexts and you only get sound code if you hold your mouth right" and it never actually got better because nothing ever got removed to make the language more sound.

Well, it did. When it happened, it created other languages.
This was "Azure RTOS", bought by Microsoft in haste after Amazon acquired FreeRTOS.

Bill Lamie left to start PX5 and work on a new lightweight embedded RTOS and took most of the talent with him. If Microsoft is doing this, they're pretty much walking away from their roadmap for Azure RTOS and IoT nodes along those lines.

I call it a win, ThreadX had a lot more ecosystem behind it than FreeRTOS ever did. And it does run on things other than Raspberry Pis. Renesas used to give it away for free if you bought their SoCs.
How would you distinguish between web design and development?
`hyphens: auto` is already language-aware. (It’s just that currently it either does nothing or too much, because the first-fit line breaking algorithm is lousy for hyphenation.)
As fun as "a massive sphere of infinitely expanding ticks dwarfing out all light" sounds, we unfortunately cannot have more ticks than the biomass needed to support them, including their own. Also, this kind of assumes an infinite supply of cows/people/other juicy critters, which brings its own problemas.
That's the point. People liked the policy, but we're biased about anything with the word "Obama".
How can you claim some hypothesis is true if the predictions are wrong? At the very least the hypothesis should be adjusted to try and include why the predictions have failed.

I'm not saying there isn't evidence, but the details do matter. There is a massive difference if the hypothesized phenomena happens in 100 years instead of 10 years (which it seems has been the claim for decades). At the very least there seems to be no accountability for incorrect predictions, which ends up determining the politics of a country. This politicizes it even more as people feel forced to change too quickly in ways they do not see justified.
It depends on the user and the usage. In some cases reading these books doesn't yield the best return for the investment of your time. Consulting the literature that Knuth refers to, rereading and working through the examples, writing your own code could give you so much more.

Volume 2 is within arms reach on my desk. After reading the book and additional literature
over the course of several years, the book is filled with sticker notes. Over time my usage
shifted from reading TAOCP to rereading (and changing) my notes.

> Would you still recommend this book, and if yes, in what circumstances?

Everyone in math/cs should at least know about the existence of theses books. A rough, cursory knowledge of the content is essential, so that one can look up things if there is the need to really understand a specific topic. TOACP should be considered as one of the best and most important/influential science books of the last century.
And, if not stupid, they must be doing it deliberately, so they're evil.
Better toilets? Seriously? The toilets in the Shanghai Metro (or in China, in general) are among its worst features. Many are quite dirty and smelly, and most, if not all, lack soap and toilet paper.

Regarding infrastructure, yes it's new in Shanghai, but new != better. For example, the station floors may look shiny in Shanghai, but they become quite slippery on rainy days—a non-issue in Tokyo. Another example is that many trains in Japan have different air conditioning in different cars even within the same train, a subtle but welcome feature for those sensitive to temperatures—no such thing in Shanghai. Lastly, unlike Japan, metros in Shanghai/China still lack public timetables in 2023. A timetable can save you a lot of time by allowing you to plan your trip.

I agree that the integrated metro system in Shanghai is better for travelers.
Not even close to the same thing. I’m fully prepared to defend myself in my own home. Multiple measures in place to insure specific boundaries are not crossed and if they are multiple methods to commit violence in defense of my family. Not sure how pillaging my neighbor for their underground orange juice would aid in that.

In fact I would argue unjustified war makes the citizens of the country waging the war even more vulnerable and not less.

You are not understanding the thread at all but not a huge shock at orange site.

User 1: we need war to facilitate “external work” and innovation.

User 2: innovation through war is true but is it worth the cost of innocent lives (ignoring the lmfao Elon comment)

Work on comprehending the conversation before adding drivel.
Switzerland, exoscale
The thing is, that the "C++ successor language" sometimes ends up being C++ itself, a decade or two later.

As an example, take this question from 2008:

"How do I tokenize a string in C++?"
https://stackoverflow.com/q/53849/1593077

A very popular, straightforward, and traditional-style answer to this question, , given early on, was:

vector<string> split(const char *str, char c = ' ') {
std::vector<std::string> result;

do {
const char *begin = str;
while(*str != c && *str) { str++; }
result.push_back(std::string(begin, str));
} while (0 != *str++);
return result;
}

but a recent answer is:

auto results = str | ranges::views::tokenize(" ",1);

which is in lazy-evaluated functional style, and doesn't even directly utilize the fugly standard C++ string class. This example is of course a bit simplistic (since the main change exhibited here is in the standard library), but the point is that the language has demonstrasted strong abilities to reconfigure how users tend to write code. But - perhaps I'm giving it more credit than it's due any this won't comen to pass.
poor kiddies. nothing at all fit to feed them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/toxic-flame-...

It's amazing we survived the millennia before now; what with all the contaminants and impurities we were not even aware of.
Where I am of you're seeing putting cooked food in compost someone will immediately jump up to stop you. We have municipal composting systems that are very explicit about what can and can't be included. I'm also involved in various community gardening initiatives in my city and some friends of mine did research into the different low level compost heaps in the city. In every case like that that I saw they were very careful about the cooked food rule.

I'm sure it varies a lot by geography and culture and I'd be loathe to say there's a general "norm" that would apply to the mileus of most readers here.
Is there an official app in the works? I wasn't aware. Do you have a link?
The video is itself a demonstration of how magicians use indirection to distract the audience from what matters, to something that is beside the main point. When we are first shown the translucent model, it is not clear that the head end is only supported by the cams. As the demonstrator pushes the blade down the slot, he talks continuously about how the movement of the cams causes the ears to wiggle. By the time the blade has passed through the device, we have all the information needed to conclude that the head is not connected to the body by a simple rigid support, but I, for one, did not notice this - I was still waiting for whatever is special about this mechanism to be revealed.
This is depressing
No you can't. Read the linked studies. "correlation doesn't equal causation" isn't a magic spell that disproves all research.

For more, here's an open, collaborative review of 386 studies:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...
What's so dystopian about it? Is this just the weird Anglo-Saxon cultural thing of ID cards being way worse than passports and state IDs for incomprehensible reasons?
They did release a new HL game after those: HL:Alyx (VR only though) it was critically acclaimed.
I'm not sure how cache coherency would help here. Cache coherency is specifically about keeping cache coherent (i.e. not stale) in shared memory systems. It is not applicable to pure message passing systems. Also cache coherency per se it has little to say about sequencing and happens-before. That's the job of the memory model built on top (again, still for shared memory).

At an higher level still, the general idea of consistency is of course applicable to both shared memory concurrency and message passing concurrency. Maybe consistency models is what you are thinking about?

Alternatively, maybe you want to implement shared-memory on top of message passing. In this case cache coherency is definitely applicable, but I'm not sure how amenable are common cache coherency protocols to be implemented in software (but it is certainly possible, and probably what some RDMA system do).
So what's your alternative? Leave it rot in a filing cupboard somewhere?
I have increased the number of ads on my site, including a floating footer and sticky sidebars. It increased the revenue by 20%. Sorry.
I think part of it is that games (like films, novels, albums, etc) are intense, grueling creative efforts. I think many young dev teams go in pretty naive and strike gold, and assume it was hard because it was new. Then they make another and realize, nope it’s just hard every time. I think it would be very difficult to sign on to each new project after years of 70 hour weeks. What’s the point of success if you can’t enjoy your time after?
The second picture reminds me of Back to the Future III.
This month in Australia the second largest Telco went down for a day.

Then the next day I read a report on how they’d just dished out someone’s existing mobile number to a new customer!

The same number now registered twice on the network.

Mobile numbers as auth are a disaster.

A convenient disaster however.
I've had the misfortune of needing to fix the C++ from someone who neither knew nor cared what STL and smart pointers are.
Goldeneye was developed by Rare, who had been in existence for 10 years by the time Goldeneye was released. I'd be really surprised if they had landed the rights to a big IP and then turned a bunch of newbies loose on it.
Or, also like California, there are places where land is pretty inexpensive but they are less desirable for various reasons and there isn't a lot of local employment available. (Yes, a fair bit of land is mountainous but there's also a fair bit of habitable but undeveloped/lightly developed land.)
I think Wilders is pretty well known in the anglosphere, or at least I've been following him for a very long time. (Long before I got a job related to political science where I can listen to the 538 podcast and claim it is work related.) On the other hand, I've been a fan of the Netherlands too.
Being a public historian
I’m rather annoyed that Google has locked accounts behind phone based 2FA, before this move. Tie your phone number to all your accounts, or they get deleted.
To be fair hardware sales have slowed down quite a lot because nowadays even a 10-year-old computer is fine for most people. Since it is pretty hard to sell OS software without new hardware this is their solution to this "problem".

Their primary competitor, Apple, chose the route of programmed obsolescence for the hardware bundled to their OS software and also extreme price hikes for a given hardware performance level.

So, I don't know, pick your poison, I guess. I think it's easy to shit on Microsoft, but still most people prefer their shenanigans to Apple ones from what I see, because at least it's a lot easier on the wallet at the end of the day.

As an historical Apple user, I somewhat prefer this behavior because at least I can work around it. You don't have to use Outlook and all of the Windows "ads" can be turned off, especially if you are willing to pay a bit for a "pro" version.
On the other hand, good luck working around Apple extortionate pricing on soldered SSD and RAM. Privacy may be valuable, but that's only true if you are rich enough in the end...
Maybe, in this context it makes lots of sense, if you know C well there are things which "just work how you expect" in C++ and so they need at most a brief refresher.

I agree with Kate Gregory that this is a bad way to teach C++ from scratch. That is, if you know only say, Python or Java (or nothing) and want to learn C++, you should not begin by learning C. Kate's approach skips many of the things you can do in C++ but you shouldn't, whereas if we try to start with C you're going to see that a lot, because "they were legal in C" is why they're allowed in C++ even though they're a bad idea and then you have to unlearn things. You're maybe expecting some of that if you've years of C programming experience, but there's no need to introduce an idea on Monday only to tell students on Tuesday that it's a bad idea and they must never do that.

The most insidious cases are where something is legal and correct in C but it's wrong in C++ yet it will compile and you maybe have broken software. There are some nasty type punning examples, where the pun was an idiomatic C expression which does exactly what you wanted, but in C++ that's Undefined Behaviour and all bets are off. You'd just never teach those type puns in a pure C++ course, they're never the Right Thing™.
> At this point, only the current version is on GitHub, and we don't see any trace of a VideoCore version.

:(

(This is the RPi boot blob)

> Now, there is at least some hope that the Raspberry Pi Foundation might be able to get permission to release the source code for its version.

Indeed that would be something!
Ingo Swann is known for a remote viewing session where he was asked to describe the contents of a sealed envelope placed inside a safe. This experiment took place at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the early stages of the remote viewing program.

Swann accurately described the contents of the envelope within the safe, reporting drawings of mountains, a horse, and an individual riding the horse. To the surprise of the researchers, the actual contents matched Swann's descriptions, which he could not physically access or see through conventional means.

This demonstration was part of the initial efforts to test and explore the potential capabilities of remote viewing. It's often cited as a compelling instance showcasing Swann's purported abilities, but like other remote viewing cases, it remains a subject of debate within scientific circles regarding its reliability and reproducibility under controlled conditions.
Thank you Paul, are you a software engineer ?
Isn't the usa like Canada in that cities don't exist in the constitutional structure, they are basically creations of the state/province and as such can be wiped away with a simple ruling from the state/provincial legislature? Isn't that what one should do in this kind of situation, just pass legislation that revokes the current body's authority, fire all the committee members/representatives/whatever until you get down to base government, put in a transitional government committee on top of that that passes all new and improved ordinances and ensures their implementation before going to a vote 2-4 years down the road to replace themselves after the new status quo is entrenched? This would have the added benefit of getting the rest of the cities in line to do their jobs so they avoid the same fate.
This is how I feel about Vlad's statement on their Discord that he wants to provide email services. That strikes me as a big project in terms of both development and operations, somewhat contrary to their privacy focus, and not something that their users are asking for (on Discord, I'd say that most commenters said they were unlikely to use it any time soon, switching would be too much of a hassle). And while I subscribe to Kagi and love the search product, they're still a tiny company with no long term track record, and far from what I would feel comfortable trusting with my email, which IMO is much more sensitive than my search history. Meanwhile, although Kagi Search already reliably beats Google IMO, there's still a ton of stuff they could do to improve their main product.
Does any money change hands for this kind of front-running? If so, I think there's a good opportunity to either cost them a ton of money or drain whatever budget they allocate to this practice by baiting out registrations.
This type of AI is going to be far better at breaking things than it is at putting them back together.
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I think when you “cannot grasp how supposedly tech literate users can't seem to understand the purpose of” something, then sometimes you need to that as a signal and reevaluate.
Apparently there's no evidence that the quote belongs to Miyamoto.
This know your meme article has some historic references for it.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/a-delayed-game-is-eventually-...
I feel like this move by google is incredilby irresponsible. Imagine the amount of people who used gmail to sign up for third party websites whose accounts can now be compromised via password reset.
Generally speaking, bad. Polls indicate that favorability for Brexit is probably around 35% or lower. It's been getting worse because a lot of the current crisis's the UK faces are the direct result of Brexit. Because a lot of things they took for granted in regards to stuff like the food chain or energy negotiations is something that directly impacts an individual's day to day life.
I did not like the policy. It caused my health insurance to jump from about $40 a month to $300 a month. My deductible went up, my co-pay went up, it got worse. There was a time when I had to let the health insurance go because I couldn't afford it anymore. The government should not have intervened in the marketplace, and I will not support a government health insurance program, everything the government gets involved in goes completely out of control.
"X needs to die" needs to die. Other than gathering some comments agreeing, or not, posting rants about things you think "need to die" accomplishes nothing. People have said "What's your point?" ironically and sarcastically since long before they had the internet.
The neighbor notification and design review are nice ideas in theory but in practice they turn building into a nightmare.

I wish new builds weren’t so bland and ugly, but that’s by far the lesser of the evils at this point.

I hope the crazy tall outer sunset tower gets built so it’s a kick in the pants to cut the red tape and at least allow mid rise without any of the BS that even a single family home construction is face with at present.

Actually if anything, single family houses should be banned in the core city including parts of the sunset and Richmond.
Better debugging for Cloudflare Workers, now with breakpoints
Watch Lights & Magic on Disney+ and you will understand why the reference is in there. ILM, Pixar, WETA had huge influx on graphical swe... hell even photoshop was a sideproject of ILM at the time.
Not really a direct comparison. Yes they can store it on a hard drive, but where are they going to acquire the actual bytes? A cheap optical drive and a secondhand disc is a pretty good strategy and carries zero risk of legal issues because it leaves no trace outside your own PC, as opposed to say, BitTorrent. It’s just possibly much less convenient if the disc is hard to come by.

Also (IANAL) but if you acquire the disc, back it up and then keep or destroy the original, it’s even fully legally sound.
I suspect that the reason for WhatsApp, Signal, Google & co's insistence on requiring a legacy phone number for account creation is that linking it to the user's profile is the easiest and cheapest way to associate it to an individual person for legal compliance, linking it to a national jurisdiction.
What I mean is 1) putting the most important things first and 2) adding sufficient signposts to make the structure of the document clear without having to read everything. I think a strict ordering by importance, which would make a document a kind of simultaneous recursive elaboration of all its points, would be unreadable for a document that, like this one, also has an element of explanation. I think this takes the essence of the inverted pyramid, but if you want to take a definition that is stricter then I'm fine to concede it's not.
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Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?
Intel hybrid CPU scheduler always prefers E cores