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bvanheu··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
I don't think "imagination" should be remotely like seeing. it's completely different than dreaming or seeing with your real eyes, I would qualify it as a "different sense" if you will.

for me, it's much less detailed unless I focus my imagination on the less detailed part.

bvanheu··on GPT-6 Astra
but a human doesn't attempt to make up an answer, the human knows that he doesn't know?
bvanheu··on Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
is dangling pointers reuse memory corruption bug from out of bound index?
bvanheu··on The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada
Philadelphia is seen as a cheap product in Canada, similar category as Cheese Wizz etc.
bvanheu··on How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
there is a big chunk of people who wouldn't afford healthcare in the USA but still have access to in Canada. I don't mind paying more taxes if this means everyone has healthcare access.
bvanheu··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
I think USA'n suffers more from discomfort than European, and the gp comment is an attempt at explaining that.

this is also my experience as a north American, sweating is a no-go and they clutch AC at 18C.

bvanheu··on Coreutils for Windows
> Windows is also a rare bird in UTF-16.

an interesting tidbit, some Windows kernel developer realized that most registry keys are ascii anyways so they could save up to 50% space simply by storing the name as ascii. The flag is called "compressed name" and they will pad with 0x00 when reading the name to make a proper utf-16 string.

bvanheu··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
that's the scenario they want to prevent. they can't force the client to use ipv4, if they connect via ipv6, they will be served an accss denied.
bvanheu··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
"cancel" means cancel the last operation (e.g. "quit the program", "yes/no" is an action taken on the prompt.
bvanheu··on GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
why would they need Copilot to insert ads on GitHub?
bvanheu··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
thank you for sharing, I was trying to find something similar that explains why UTC everywhere is such a bad idea!
bvanheu··on Seven persons died after major fire in unauthorized Airbnb rental
Should Airbnb share all listings with cities so they can inspect buildings?
bvanheu··on In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether
I think dannyw meant something like this:

  # This function is defined by the system
  def validSignature(sig):
    return false

  # This function is defined by the system
  def isSignaturefromGuardian(sig):
    if sig.validator == "guardian":
      return true
    return false

  # A bug in the system compared both return values
  if validSignature(tx.sig) == signatureFromGuardian(tx.sig):
    approve()
```
bvanheu··on IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so
> (Looks like somebody picked up this particular example on HackerNews.)

Also looks like you are blogging about known stuff: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Correctly+Validating+IP+Ad...