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gxt··on EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
This message has been brought to you by the Minister of The Truth of the Government of Canada. /// Ce message a été émis par le Ministre de La Vérité du Gouvernement du Canada.

Thank you for directing your hate at the specified target. /// Merci d'aiguiller votre haine à la cible sus mentionnée.

gxt··on U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse
Assuming the interlocutor is stupid, at any scale, 1-1 to the whole of american politics probably just highlight that you don't fully grasp their point of view, because then it wouldn't be stupid. You'd be able to explain it to them and get them to see the matter from your perspective. If you can't do that, then you don't know you're right, you might be, but there's no way for you to know, truly.
gxt··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
> Your comment is nothing more than a broad ethnic slur

Have you considered that it may not be an insult but legitimate criticism?

The official government stat is 1.05M FN members. They have been targeted by over 200B$ in federal wealth transfers alone excluding tax incentives, provincial and municipal funding since 2015. That's almost 20K$ per person per year, more than what most Canadians pay in taxes each year and yet many FN communities don't have running water.

I think to ask about potential corruption or at least gross mismanagement is absolutly legitimate.

gxt··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Anybody with access to these models can challenge it to test the hypothesis that spacetime is a 4d viscous fluid with the speed of light being spacetime's sound barrier, mass relating to viscosity, blackholes being cavitation bubbles, Hawking radiation our perception of surface tension, and gravity just being a pressure differencial? Thanks
gxt··on Website streamed live directly from a model
Beyond the training boundary. Seems a propos for "an infinite visual browser". I'm just not clear on how we get to the beyond part of it.

https://flipbook.page/n/f8982ddfd3ef4cbcb2ad8449d7d049b6

gxt··on How to Attend Meetings
There's John Cleese's Meetings Bloody Meetings for good meeting hygiene training. Its entertaining and educational.

https://archive.org/details/meetingsbloodymeetings

gxt··on Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout
You can implement a BTree with nodes stored in file-backed memmaps. It's plenty fast for the usual business case.
gxt··on Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks
I'll take this opportunity to remind anyone on Azure that if you enable service endpoints on a subnet without applying service endpoint policies, anyone with the resourceid of an affected subnet can silently backdoor your network. Your NSGs do not matter for service endpoints.
gxt··on Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me
You can audit your dependencies for crates with security vulnerabilities reported to the RustSec Advisory Database, also block unmaintained crates, and enforce your license requirements using SPDX expressions with cargo-audit and cargo-deny.

You can ensure that third-party Rust dependencies have been audited by a trusted entity with cargo-vet.

And you should have taken a look at where those 3M locs come from, it's usually from Microsoft's windows-rs crates that are transitively included in your dependencies through default features and build targets of crates built to run on windows.

gxt··on Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
Sure they are AGI. Just let one execute in while (1) and give it the ability to store and execute logic rag-like. Soon enough you're gonna have a pretty smart fellow chugging along.
gxt··on How about trailing commas in SQL?
At some point we should just commit the AST to git and render it however it is preferred in IDE.
gxt··on SQL nulls are weird
This has always made queries unpredictable in many scenarios and it should be a feature to turn nulls off entirely and swap them out with Option<T> instead.
gxt··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
I don't care about some scores going up. Newer models need to stop regressing on tasks they were already good at. 4o sucks at LLVM and related tasks were as legacy GPT 4 is relatively ok at it.
gxt··on Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release
What if the DRM/license was based around offering binaries built with 8/16/32/64 bit limits in data types and max records per table, each being its own edition and priced accordingly? Eg yearly license of $8/160/3,200/640,000.
gxt··on Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities
Ultimately security is incompatible with backwards compatibility. All OSes in prod today need to be rebuilt from the ground up to be secure for the next century. That means throwing out a lot of code too. It's the cost to pay.
gxt··on Writing an OS in Rust
We shouldn't write an OS in rust. We should create a data platform on which we can run DML/DDL with an SSMS++ automatic frontend.
gxt··on .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
Is there an appliance or offline service to setup a private CA, do secure remote attestation, and issue certificates only to authenticated peers? Also preferably with fido2 support for administrative purposes.
gxt··on Belenios: Verifiable online voting system
There is a contradiction on the first page. If "ballots are signed by the voter credential" then there is no vote privacy.

Electronic voting system must be prohibited across the board. Every system is vulnerable, electronic system are all remote controllable, I much prefer to have a person within the jurisdiction to go after than someone outside of it.

I don't understand howhy it's ever made out to be more complex than that.

gxt··on Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed
Blob opera: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW...

Für Elise performed by Blob opera: https://youtu.be/0t4BEpbw5jQ

gxt··on Documentation Driven Development (2022)
Few can afford not to follow the basic (DO --> SECURE --> DOCUMENT --> ANNOUNCE) workflow. Working in any other order and you end up having to redo some if not most of the previous steps for whatever you where enterprising.
gxt··on ASML Aims for Hyper-NA EUV, Shrinking Chip Limits
Huygens Optics might be interesting to you. https://youtu.be/rdlZ8KYVtPU
gxt··on WD launches 4TB SD card
At these densities would it make sense to have raid arrays in SD form factor instead of just a bare device?
gxt··on Justin Trudeau announces $2.4B for AI investments in Canada
Over 400 billions in grants since Trudeau became PM in 2015.

https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/432527ab-7aac-45b5-81...

If you're gonna do data analysis of that gigabyte CSV watch out for the 40 billions in contract adjustments. Only sum the last amendement per unique.

For reference, the gross debt of the central government of the Canadian federation before him was 1000 billions. In December of 2023 it had skyrocketed to 1800 billions.

gxt··on Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
It's predicting the next token. The best answers, online, mostly come from polite discourse. It's not a big leap to think manufacturing politeness will yield better answers from a machine.
gxt··on Meta's new LLM-based test generator
Beyond the type system, you're snapshoting exact behavior. Differences between x = y, and 2x=y that the types don't encapsulate, even in rust.
gxt··on Meta's new LLM-based test generator
Elementary tests, like unit tests, should be mecanically generated by walking the AST, differences ack`d and snapshoted when commiting. Every language should come with this built-in.
gxt··on The Bootstrapping Exam: Escaping from “Trusting Trust”
This is the ultimate "test your backups and recovery" story. If we can't do this all modern technology is at risk.
gxt··on Show HN: sqlite-memory-vfs - Open a SQLite db in Python without hitting disk
Do you have benchmarks and how does this differ from pointing SQLite to /dev/shm ?
gxt··on Terrapin Attack for prefix truncation in SSH
This sounds like another reason to no longer put SSH on the bare internet and layer security by only exposing wireguard and having sshd listen on the wireguard network.

This is not helpful for currently vulnerable setups but hopefully will be a good reminder to think about defense in depth :)

gxt··on LinkedIn Issues Warning to Site Shaming Pro-Palestinian Sentiment
The palestinians opposing hamas are extremely quiet. In Sidney the crowds flying palestinian colors chant "gas the Jews" and in Montreal "from the river to the sea". Making the distinction between terrorists and civilians without also acknowledging the specific behaviour of these groups of supporters is another fine line which might land one square with pro-genocide folks if not careful.
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