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j16sdiz··on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence
They bend the knee for censorship requirement. (Not only that, they provided machine learning based filtering service for other Chinese search engine at the time)

According to Google, the China government tried to infiltrate Google's internal computer system. In response, Google stopped the censorship over night, and withdraw from China market shortly afterward.

I still remember night, when _all_ Chinese search engine stopped censoring because Google stopped their filtering service.

The China tech company have evolved much since those days, and they are now much better at censoring compare to what Google had in the early days of the internet.

j16sdiz··on Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents
Beauty standard changes over time, see how people perceive body fat in the past few hundred years. We learns what is beautiful from our peers.

Taste can be acquired and can be cultural. See how people used to had their coffee.

Comparing human to LLM is like comparing something constantly changing to something random -- we can't compare them directly, we need a good model for each of them before comparing.

j16sdiz··on JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs
Yes.
j16sdiz··on How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer
On that level, there are other policies.

Politics in standards bodies, industrial organisations, regulatory issues, funding and investment, etc

j16sdiz··on Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone
Can't you read the faq before comment? The "guest account" is hosted on IdP, not necessary google.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/14757842

j16sdiz··on Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone
It don't.

The "Assured Controls" add on put keys on smartcard / hsm not owned by google.

j16sdiz··on Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone
Those option allows storing private key on smart card.
j16sdiz··on Firefox 143 for Android to introduce DoH
> you could hand out your resolver via DHCP and transparently control local zones. With DoH, that's gone.

Checkout RFC9463

j16sdiz··on You can't test if quantum uses complex numbers
"the math breaks if you just remove the math"

"actually you can replace with something equivalent"

"i said just remove the math, not replacing it"

so, what's the news?

j16sdiz··on I miss using em dashes
AP Style have spaces around it.

It is an interruption to me and I think that little pause is intentional. if the author wants no pause they should have used parentheses

j16sdiz··on What to do with C++ modules?
Last time I checked, MSVC don't want to implement C99/newer and instead focus on C++.
j16sdiz··on What to do with C++ modules?
> https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

12%. Assume the progress is linear (not logarithmic like most cases), we just need 60 more years to migrate those c/c++ code.

j16sdiz··on We accidentally built the wrong internet
When it works, it works great. But how about when it don't?

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Passkey - what would happens when we lost the device? You need some kind of recovery, right?

Social recovery - of course you could do that. Are you doing one recovery for all accounts (which require some kind of "wallet" stored in a centralized location - and can be disabled)? Or one for each services (which may make your grinder account known to your family)?

How about tourists? When you lost your phone while you are traveling in other country, what should you do?

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j16sdiz··on PCIe 8.0 announced by the PCI-Sig will double throughput again
It is not a EE problem. It is an ecosystem problem. You need a whole catalog of compatible hardware for this.
j16sdiz··on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
Unlike LLM, kids have long term memory and they builds up relationships.

Real wisdom is to know when to show empathy and when not to by exploiting (?) existing relationships.

Current generation of LLM can't do that's because every they don't have real memory

j16sdiz··on Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2024)
> First of all, that argument only explains UB of OOB memory accesses at best.

It explains many loop-unroll and integer overflow as well.

j16sdiz··on TCP Client Self-Connect (2013)
The comment section on it answered that: it's TCP simultaneous open.
j16sdiz··on C++: "model of the hardware" vs. "model of the compiler" (2018)
The problem is: "the platform" is never defined.

When you decouple the language from the hardware and you don't specify an abstraction model (like java vm do), "the platform" is just whatever the implementer feels like at that moment.

j16sdiz··on UN report finds UN reports are not widely read
Looks like they are trying to use this metric to justify cutting meeting / reports.

I think this is just wrong. The number of download does not reflect how important or impactful a report is.

j16sdiz··on Clashes between web and X11 colors in the CSS color scheme
Here is a youtube video for Windows 3.1 on 16 color palette EGA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATMVrHfrus8

j16sdiz··on The Collapse of the FDA
stevenAthompson from HN.
j16sdiz··on Death by a Thousand Slops
It cost basically nothing to setup a vpn..
j16sdiz··on Btrfs Allocator Hints
These patches came from oracle. Pretty sure they have a client somewhere needs this.
j16sdiz··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
This is what many human would do. (and I agree many human have broken logic)
j16sdiz··on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
Kafka head of line blocking sucks.
j16sdiz··on Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
Can't change the number of partition dynamically.

Additional challenge if jobs comes in funny sizes

j16sdiz··on Building the Rust Compiler with GCC
recursive function can be inline when unrolled. This is a valid optimization.

Google "llvm inline recursion". It exists. It should works. Fibonacci is the standard test case.

j16sdiz··on Why AO3 Was Down
let's use 128bit integer and handle them like floats in php!

and maybe put a 32bit timestamp along and pretend it can somehow store more than a 32bit integer can.

j16sdiz··on Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds "AI powered" earbuds
cutting your head off won't earn you any money either.
j16sdiz··on LLM's Illusion of Alignment
The website design is bad.

Those GPT-4o quote keep floating up and down. It is impossible to read

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