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hyghjiyhu

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Yet another im3w1l alt
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hyghjiyhu··on C++ move semantics from scratch (2022)
Moving by default would be too much of a footgun without a borrow checker imo.
hyghjiyhu··on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities
Everyone and everything is automatically downloading updates of US software. It's a door that is impossible to close in the short term.
hyghjiyhu··on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe from US Authorities
If the data center is operated by a "trusted subsidiary" as the article mentions and everyone in key roles is a French citizen with no connection to the US then there is no one to give a gag order.

In practice the US HQ could mandate a security update that secretly uploads all data to the US but that's a whole other can of worms that I don't think anyone is ready to open.

hyghjiyhu··on Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
Post requests aren't really meant for repeatable stuff though. Even browsers will ask for confirmation before letting you reload the result of a post request. I think you are holding it wrong.

Now I get it things happen and you gotta do what you gotta do but then you aren't on the happy path anymore and you can't have the same expectations.

hyghjiyhu··on UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis
From the ghosts perspective it is of prime importance to understand the behaviour of pacman. But it is influenced by the player's psychology which is in turn influenced by the surrounding world. Then: a sufficiently advanced model of pacman must include (at least implicitly) a description of the outside world.
hyghjiyhu··on Rats filmed snatching bats from air
This is an important analysis to perform but it's far from a sure thing. Motives can be murky and hard to assess. Maybe there is one particular scientist that has a baby on the way and fears he is about to be laid off unless he can get a sensational article published asap. A little helping hand from ai could be just the thing, and it's based on a true story just touched up a little bit and besides it's not like the readers will suffer any real harm from this tiny little transgression. Just one little shortcut one little time off course after that it's right back to honest science.
hyghjiyhu··on We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail
I think AI will be a slave to its desires and instincts in the same humans are slaves to our desires and instincts.
hyghjiyhu··on The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology
No man is an island. There must always be a dependency on the outside world. But you can reduce risk by using commodified products.
hyghjiyhu··on Quantifying pass-by-value overhead
If I understand correctly he is passing a single struct whose size he varies. This struct is being memcpy'd to stack (except for very small struct sizes that can be passed directly in registers) and so basically we are looking at a curve of memcpy performance by size.
hyghjiyhu··on GLP-1 therapeutics: Their emerging role in alcohol and substance use disorders
Idk I think the importance given to withdrawals is overrated. Dealing with withdrawals is just matter of gradually lowering the dose.

The lifelong craving is the bigger issue.

hyghjiyhu··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
These tools sound very powerful, could they find use for other Java codebases?
hyghjiyhu··on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
You get 5%? If so, that is surely a big piece of the puzzle. Where do those % come from? Bonds don't yield that right?
hyghjiyhu··on Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
You can do it without annotations if you only do it as an optimization that's not guaranteed to succeed.
hyghjiyhu··on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
I thought he meant basically buy tether with dollar transfer exchange for btc. That shouldn't take long.
hyghjiyhu··on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
Can people holding tether for a day or two while entering of exiting crypto really explain these large amounts?
hyghjiyhu··on Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation
This seems likely. I would assume that the vast majority of memory access can be statically proven safe if you throw enough money at the problem, meaning the bookkeeping can be eliminated.
hyghjiyhu··on Keep Android Open
I have a "weakly held strong opinion" on this subject. I think open source has been a disaster for the state of software for normal people. On the one hand exploited developers making peanuts or nothing for their hard work. On the other hand exploited users losing control of their devices and social networks.

The era when people paid an affordable fee for software they could use however they wanted was much better. But it got squeezed out by free software on the one side and serf-ware on the other.

The proof is in the pudding and the pudding is rotten.

Edit: then again maybe it's unfair of me to blame the decline in paid for software on open source.

hyghjiyhu··on Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
Iirc if you change the numerical values of the collatz problem some instances are undecidable.
hyghjiyhu··on Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops
If they thought the potatoes would rot unless they were all taken it makes perfect sense. This wasn't a "have a potato on us and have a good day :)" situation.
hyghjiyhu··on Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops
The reason people settle out of court is because the threat of having it decided by court. No threat no settlement.
hyghjiyhu··on System.LongBool
A lot of the time variables will be in registers. And registers are basically ints. That would be my guess for why many things are ints that could fit in less space.
hyghjiyhu··on The fix wasn't easy, or C precedence bites
For me it would be natural to use src[1] for an array but *(src+1) for an iterator pointer.
hyghjiyhu··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
The way I would solve that is by requiring that any software / documentation required for the operation, maintenance and repair of medical implants must be stored with some appropriate government body. If the company becomes unwilling or unable to service the product the information is made public.
hyghjiyhu··on Disable AI in Firefox
It summarizes the lyrics iirc. There are ai programs specifically for sheet music and I actually use one that I'm happy with, play score 2.
hyghjiyhu··on Disable AI in Firefox
I should figure out how to turn off ai in acrobat reader. It offers to summarize my sheet music every time I open it...
hyghjiyhu··on US probes Waymo robotaxis over school bus safety
The goal should be to make them appropriately cautious. Not careless but also not paralyzed by fear. Escalating fines have the property that they are self-tuning. They basically say "go ahead and try it! But if there are issues you have to fix them promptly"
hyghjiyhu··on How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go
(I am the person you are replying to)

It could work like this. "Hey OS I would like to process these pages* are they good to go? If not could you fetch and lock them for me" and then if they are ready you process them knowing it won't fault, and if they are not you do something else and try again later.

It's a sort of hybrid of the mmap and fread paradigms in that there are both explicit read requests but the kernel can also get you data on its own initiative if there are spare resources for it.

* to amortize syscall overhead.

hyghjiyhu··on Sodium batteries are finally catching up
What are your thoughts on sodium batteries vs water electrolysis for grid scale?
hyghjiyhu··on US car repossessions surge as more Americans default on auto loans
I haven't done it myself but isn't a tire change suppose to be pretty easy thing to do, certainly better than sitting the whole day in the shop?
hyghjiyhu··on Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Other Hominids?
What seems off to me is that lead (at that level) must have been a factor in the natural environment for a very long time, so it's strange for a tolerance mutation to be recent.
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