wild_pointer

In the era of LLM-generated content, such a high-quality writeup is a breath of fresh air. Well done!

This guy is doing something else completely. In his words:

> In my testing, it's between 1.2x and 4x slower than Yolo-C. It uses between 2x and 3x more memory. Others have observed higher overheads in certain tests (I've heard of some things being 8x slower). How much this matters depends on your perspective. Imagine running your desktop environment on a 4x slower computer with 3x less memory. You've probably done exactly this and you probably survived the experience. So the catch is: Fil-C is for folks who want the security benefits badly enough.

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46090332)

We're talking about a lack of fat pointers here, and switching to GC and having a 4x slower computer experience is not required for that.

You didn't read this, did you? https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/

It's not a pointer.

Hey! That wasn't easy!

This is malware, the project is on github

Indeed, some people are :)

Impressive work! Also waiting for fine-grained caching:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-add-an-llvm-cas-library-and...

LLM-created software might

But is it secure? Anthropic demonstrated how agentic browsers are all but. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome?s=33

Did you just assume what I think about protein folding simplicity?!

Very knowledgeable, helpful, and snarky - that's the vibe I'm getting from Raymond Chen too after reading many of his blog posts.

lol

> can haz real life project?

> sure, here's X in a Weekend

Wasted opportunity: shut down -> orange "now it's safe to turn off your computer"

No Windows support :(

Compiler Explorer link: https://c.godbolt.org/z/xE8hzM189

How will making the UI framework open source lead to taskbar changes? For third party contributions in this area, they need to open source the taskbar, not the UI framework.

https://wttr.in/ ftw

How about compiling client-side with wasm, fully or partially? Feasible? Was it considered?

So each spam message will take an extra second and 2 additional cents for electricity? I'm not sure what's the use case here.

Can somebody eli5? Coffee good or coffee bad?

This can if I remember correctly (can't check now), but it's a POC and not a finished product https://github.com/ShizukuIchi/pdf-editor

That's the problem with all the pdf editors available out there. I guess adding stuff is much easier than editing existing stuff which you didn't add, and can be laid out in a gazillion ways, because PDF is a format for viewing and printing, not for editing.

I had a period when I worked with lots of documents. I could only find one fairly decent PDF editor which deserves to be called that way. I could use it to open any PDF and delete an existing element, or change text in an existing field. Sometimes things behaved funny, for example a text field can have each letter in a separate block, but I assume the tool did what it could within reasonable effort. It worked fine for me overall.

They pushed hard for its adoption, for example with the "Not secure" indicator: https://aboutssl.org/how-to-fix-the-https-not-secure-message...

There are other, not less important players, such as Let's Encrypt.

So while they didn't develop or pioneer HTTPS per se, they played an important role.

chicken (+558998, -997)

"In addition, there are some variables such as locks and scope_guards that are only used for their side effects"

...

"This solution is also similar to other languages’ features or conventions"

As far as I know, in Rust you can't use "_" for that, as the value will be dropped right away, so the mutex/resource/etc. won't live for the scope.

I thought it was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler

I starred my UUID of choice. Now I can't find it. Help, I've been scrolling for three days.

Nice one.

Random key: balance is zero.

Real key: balance is (now) zero

Yes, I get it, fighting isn't safe

Can't the same trick be used for slightly more bits? 64-bit uses 48 bits nowadays AFAIK, which is 256 TB. It's usually 50/50 for user/kernel mode. If, say, WASM takes half of the user mode address space, it's still 46 bits which is 64 TB (ought to be enough for anybody?). Or maybe I'm way off, I don't really know the specifics of the trick you're referring to.