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owl_vision··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
fsck - 18+ obviously can't just fsck around filesystems
owl_vision··on Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH
something like this, i recon:

  $ tar cf - ~/.shrc | ssh target '(cd ~ && tar xf -)'
owl_vision··on Heartbeats in Distributed Systems
I did this systematically: at the first sign of outlier in performance one system would move itself to another platform and shut itself down. The shutdown meant turn all services off and let someone log in to investigate and rearrange it again. This system allowed different roles to be assigned to different platform. The platform was bare metal or bhyve vm. It worked perfect.
owl_vision··on IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act
what happens if an IP address is not in the geo db? For example: 2606:4700::6811:
owl_vision··on Swift on FreeBSD Preview
Qt has grown so huge that I rather choose Tk or GTK for cross platform GUI.

i would love to see how Swift will do cross platform gui.

owl_vision··on First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes and God - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4B5BYbjf8

owl_vision··on Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'
How does a company define or at least describe company culture and displays it up front? I am genuinely curious, and not trying to start any sort of flame wars.
owl_vision··on Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
an offspring to build your own minimal BSD UNIX system: https://www.smolbsd.org/
owl_vision··on Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends
i ran NetBSD as a desktop on BeagleBoneBlack from circa 2010 until recently when I donated the hardware to a CompSci student.

...and as others mentioned it: the rump kernel.

owl_vision··on OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself
What were the resource setups? How do they compare to linux resource setups?

Defaults in current are in etc.amd64/login.conf. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/etc...

(p.s.: the bubble are cool. highly distracting to me, hence I could not read the article in full.)

owl_vision··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
i always emphasize to new programmers to learn any language and practice it with respect and discipline. All languages have dark corners, the human who can reason which constructs are appropriate.
owl_vision··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
> Carbon exists so that it's possible to migrate a large C++ code base, like Chrome, from C++ to something saner, incrementally.

_Incrementally_: a C++ project can be incrementally made more sane also using constructs to avoid and constructs to use once the problem domain is confined. In my past, I had successfully implemented this quest for 3 different fairly large C++ projects. This is not a strong selling point for carbon.

owl_vision··on New AI architecture is 100x faster in reasoning with just 1k training examples
perceptrons, memory-in-a-box, back-propagation (even though it's computation expensive), Long-term-short-term memory, Support Vector Machines and other Neural Networks.

In the book "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" by Stuart Russell and Peter Norviq, you may find more gems.

owl_vision··on Stock Market and Financial Data (API, Data Viewer, Excel Export)
this is just a link to a signup page.
owl_vision··on The U.S. debt outlook is so dire it now resembles the student loan crisis
Switzerland?
owl_vision··on Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs
i recommend this paper to understand brain-state-in-a-box[0]. In my studies of linear algebra / calculus, we had optimum calculus reaching error minimum.

help me out, i learnt it a long time ago, would "Optimum in der Infinitesimalrechnung" be optimum calculus?

[0] https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/elie/am41%202012/gBSB.pdf

(edit: wording)

owl_vision··on Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic
and low latency messaging: tervella. (2014-2015, I had to deal with it.)
owl_vision··on Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic
Many years ago, I interviewed with Jane Street. They asked me C++ questions and if I am willing to learn OCaml. Sure, I can learn any language. The position was given to someone else who already knew OCaml. They use OCaml for everything, building software to distributing it etc. That's my interview experience with them. I think they chose that language because it can be as speedy as C++ with proper knowledge and optimizations. I do not know OCaml besides learning it when I worked with researchers/mathematicians who wrote OCaml and i had to understand the code.
owl_vision··on Jane Street's sneaky retention tactic
It is fair competition. Using the same tools as one's competition yields similar gains. Using better tools increases the possibility of higher profits. Same as in manufacturing, chip making: better tools more profit. Potentially better profit. Nothing cringey about it.
owl_vision··on How I Program with Agents
plus 1 for using agents for api refresher and discovery. i also use regular search to find possible alternatives and about 3-4 out of 10 normal search wins.

Discovering private api using an agent is super useful.

owl_vision··on Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
for the past 20 odd years, old hardware with tweaked, custom compiled and build FreeBSD, NetBSD served me and my few customers quiet well. There is lot of joy in it. Recently, I started modifying open source software to be self hostable. Some does not work well enough when the internet is not accessible. for example FarmOS.
owl_vision··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
they don't work for me having astigmatism with or without prescription glasses.
owl_vision··on A leap year check in three instructions
there is "Hacker's Delight" by Henry S. Warren, Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker's_Delight

owl_vision··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
Same here with firefox, FreeBSD.
owl_vision··on The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust
since we are at time constructs, german also uses "wenn" when english uses "if" or "when".
owl_vision··on The Linux Kernel's PGP Web of Trust
from constructive corrections, we learn our grammatical, semantical mistakes, hence we move forward to better understand each other.
owl_vision··on The FDIC Dismantling Is Underway
FDIC was created to revive trust in banking during and after the Great Depression when banks collapsed. People distrusted banks, FDIC helped not only regular peoples savings, yet also to help competition in banking. Can we expect the smaller banks collapse and take down the savings of people? What's next the SEC?
owl_vision··on You can't git clone a team
This is the advice I plus one. On the other hand to include kernel to UI raises security questions. In my experience, I was rejected as "we can't hire you, you're too dangerous."
owl_vision··on Ancient DNA Unveils the Cosmopolitan Heart of the Phoenician-Punic Civilization
it is worth watching the video too.
owl_vision··on The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020)
+1. Excellent description of how the skills relate. I often read, listen to poetry when stuck in a math or programming problem. ... or just talk to the rubber duck. :-)
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