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aew4ytasghe5··on The Hacker's Dictionary
Seems probable seeing the kind of attacks of his political views in this thread. I'd too keep a firearm for voicing social justice opinions in a country fubar:ed by grief.
aew4ytasghe5··on The least interesting part about AVX-512 is the 512 bits vector width
Specifically RPCS3 had a huge speedup using AVX-512 [1]

1: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ps3-emulation-i9-12900k-vs...

aew4ytasghe5··on The least interesting part about AVX-512 is the 512 bits vector width
Why not use -march=snark?
aew4ytasghe5··on The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)
Thing is, it was the libav guys who attempted a hostile takeover of ffmpeg by stealing the domain, then did a hard fork they called libav and pushed it into distros like Debian, lying about ffmpeg being deprecated and behaved in many ways massively toxic. There are walls of summaries from this horrible event.

Mans Rullgard was of the guys leading the toxic mob.

Not the other way around as you are implying.

Source: I was involved in ffmpeg at the time and read their mailing list over those years.

aew4ytasghe5··on The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)
wat
aew4ytasghe5··on Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
That's how you know i'm not sentient.
aew4ytasghe5··on Curl 8.0.1
The joke is 8.0.0 did not break API.
aew4ytasghe5··on Curl 8.0.0
25 years of CVE:s, why not.
aew4ytasghe5··on Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
> the only problem here is that you're faced with a hundred or a thousand different alternatives for how to learn to program.

This is a well studied and absolutely serious issue called decision fatigue [1]. You seem to be downplaying it's consequences by a large margin, most likely because you do not understand it.

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

aew4ytasghe5··on Faster Base64 in Curl
> The code footprint is small, the surface area for vulnerabilities is small.

I disagree. Their NIH-syndrome and ancient practices seem to be a constant source of new CVE:s [1].

1: https://curl.se/docs/security.html

aew4ytasghe5··on No one wants to have kids anymore
Arbsorlurtlrey.
aew4ytasghe5··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
> Audience of AoC knows that Aoc 2022 just started.

I did not try to make a point of the time of month, but of the claim in the title.

OP only solved the very first task of day 1, and the title suggest all was solved.

If you only can understand a part of what was written, then perhaps you should not comment on it and pretend like you understood the rest too.

aew4ytasghe5··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
I am not aware of anything revolutionary going on in science at the moment, would you care to elaborate?

What advances in computing? As we approached physical limits we've seen cpu and gpu stopped scaling for a couple of years already [1]. The new models just run on higher frequencies and consume unpropornally more wattage.

Quantum computing is a joke [2]. AI is just a overhyped rephrasing of machine learning.

This is rather hinting about the next decade of no technological progress.

And don't get me started on the effects of recession.

1: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/do-expensive-nvidia-g...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-aGIvUomTA

aew4ytasghe5··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
> things that are objective, like code or rhymes

rappers disagree

aew4ytasghe5··on AI solves Advent of Code 2022
Title is mildly misleading, to say the least.

The blog attempts to solve 3 of 24 (thats 12.5 %) of advent of code 2022, and if you read along you'll see OP only had success on the first task of day 1, which would make a more correct title as "AI solves 2% of Avent of Code 2022" (assuming 2 tasks each day).

Do note that AoC tends to start with hello-world style tasks and increase in difficulty.

aew4ytasghe5··on Ask HN: Getting into AI?
> In the past I've been wary of companies throwing AI words around, as in reality many of them were just using some basic ML models and calling it ground breaking AI

What made you change opinion? Afaik, nothing has changed in the field except the amount of hype surrounding it.

aew4ytasghe5··on DNS over Wikipedia
> On a separate note, someone could actually make a website do this without any extension. It would need to use wikipedia dumps and has the advantage it can't be suddenly edited by a malicious actor.

Why would we trust "a website" more than random wikipedia edits to provide correct or up-to-date data?

The purpose of this app is to get the current url of those sites, which keeps changing url semi-frequently, so a offline copy of wikipedia would not work.

aew4ytasghe5··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
It sounds to me like you insist that "spyware" has a different meaning than the majority in this thread.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware#History:

> The first recorded use of the term spyware occurred on October 16, 1995 in a Usenet post that poked fun at Microsoft's business model. Spyware at first denoted software meant for espionage purposes.

aew4ytasghe5··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
> Google doesn’t even manage their own App Store for spyware.

Why do you state such things as facts given no evidence.

Google has a whole team working on analyzing app store malware. It is called Project Zero.

As a counter example you can read their very latest blog post which just happens to analyze android app store malware:

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2022/11/mind-the-gap....

aew4ytasghe5··on New details on commercial spyware vendor Variston
Because zero-click attacks is approaching impossible.
aew4ytasghe5··on The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++ (2019)
UTF8 is only superior in encoding the american keyboard (7 bits of ascii). All the latin letters map to 1 byte encodings. This is why UTF8 wasn't universally hailed to begin with.

Countries like Japan had already solved encoding differently while US was still using ASCII. (See JIS encoding).

As time passed tho, the byte savings matter less. Also combined with transfer compression makes the encoding size differences negligible.

aew4ytasghe5··on The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++ (2019)
You found a quality link.
aew4ytasghe5··on A tiny C header-only RISC-V emulator
This video goes along with the github link:

Writing a Really Tiny RISC-V Emulator by CNLohr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5vB3UqU_E

aew4ytasghe5··on Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for
I mean by your qualifications, Linux in the form of Android "was the last weird built from scratch OS that shipped a massive amount of units".

Also it is not true. A sibling comment mentions Nintendo Switch OS.

aew4ytasghe5··on Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to keep curl support for
Well, then Windows is better at being Windows.

I see Windows, Windows CE, XBox and even MS-DOS on that list.

aew4ytasghe5··on Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
> They all were wrong by assuming that this trend would continue.

> As it turns out. Humans love meeting other humans in real live way more than meeting people online.

That's one way of putting it.

But the economic implications is way more severe. This reasoning about constant economic growth has had the world fooled for way too long.

aew4ytasghe5··on Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
Do not care. The more jobs for me ;-) I only worked about 100 hours this year and already made more than the past 3 years.
aew4ytasghe5··on Complete Rewrite of ESLint
Both are your personal experiences, neither of those are a valid tradeoff.

My experience with js-land is that choosing a typescript and make use of the @types packages is _the_ modern way of doing js dev. What you describe is basically do the same people did 15 years ago.

That is not a trade-off, but a refusal to re-evaluate the situation under changing conditions.

aew4ytasghe5··on Complete Rewrite of ESLint
> I have to say, I think they'd be crazy not to write the new version in TypeScript.

I disagree. The lesson learned from a decade of js tooling is performance issues.

That is why you see more and more js tooling rewritten in rust or other fast languages.

This is GOOD for js development, in the sense you end up with better faster more powerful tooling.

aew4ytasghe5··on Clang is better than GCC
> They did not say they didn't do that, you're assuming.

In the article, the author confirms his test was not working:

> But that bug in my code ruined one month of my work. I coded without realizing tests don't work at all. OUCH!

The issue is exactly what parent mentions, that OP did not let his test fail first so that they were never confident in that the test worked.

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