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smw··on Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C
You sure they weren't just using http or something and thus the concurrency was effectively hidden by the library? Almost any services that takes requests of any kind uses goroutines extensively.
smw··on Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
Rust's async story is much less ergonomic than go's -- mostly because of lack of garbage collection. That might be a good reason by itself?
smw··on Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure
One of the issues is that the US, unlike most of Europe, for example, doesn't require registering your address with your locality or police when you move.
smw··on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
> but you do realize the US has on shore cutting edge fabs, right?

No they don't. Even the US partnerships with TSMC aren't cutting edge.

TSMC and arguably Samsung have cutting edge fabs, no one else.

smw··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
What possible use legitimate use is Snowflake in verifying your identity? ES?
smw··on There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming (2024)
china's building solar like _mad_, read a newspaper
smw··on Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
reference to cigarettes
smw··on Fluxer: Free, open source instant messaging and VoIP platform
Discord lawyers are going to have a field day with that logo design and app look and feel.
smw··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
This reads like AI slop?
smw··on Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]
I think it's possible that starcraft might have a claim here?
smw··on Why E cores make Apple silicon fast
Apple silicon is very fast per size/watt. The mind blowing thing is the macbook air that has weighs very little, doesn't have a fan, and feels competitive with top of the line desktop pcs.
smw··on xAI joins SpaceX
Wouldn't they?
smw··on xAI joins SpaceX
napkin math says sq kms of radiators to cool 100MW, it's just patently ridiculous
smw··on xAI joins SpaceX
You also need square kms of radiators to cool 100MW
smw··on If you tax them, will they leave?
Except you don't pay any estate tax unless your estate is larger than $15 mil
smw··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Isn't the web federated?
smw··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
Yeah, but he's got a botnet of residential ips that he didn't pay for.
smw··on The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
The fact that the first entry in his table says that apt doesn't have source packages is a good marker of the quality of this post.
smw··on Yes, It's Fascism
Hey, I think you're a superhero for making this place such wonderful forum for deep and interesting conversation, but isn't there some point where you might consider putting your finger on the scale to help stop the slide into authoritarianism? This seems like the moment, maybe?
smw··on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
Federal government can't be sued for defamation. "Federal sovereign immunity" basically says the government can't be sued unless it agrees to waive the immunity, and it doesn't for defamation cases.
smw··on Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters
The first sentence of the README is:

  Like Envoy xDS, but for eBPF filters.
Which would make the title make much more sense!
smw··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
STUN
smw··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
You literally can't access the internal devices with the NAT implementation on most consumer level router/access points except for packets addressed to the port mapped to an already open connection originating from the inside. This is almost guaranteed to be a random high port. There's no way to access any other port on an internal ip address.

That's equivalent to default-deny.

I think either you're just trying to "well-actually" us or you're confused.

smw··on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT
Right, and in a similar situation, if the internal device was given a routable ipv6 address by the ISP's cable modem, you could directly access that device.

This isn't a hypothetical. There are ISPs who do this out of the box. I plugged a linux box into my ISP's cable modem/router in Amsterdam and immediately noticed my ssh port was getting hammered by port scanners. This isn't what most customers, especially those who aren't technically sophisticated, expect.

smw··on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction
I have lots of skepticism about everything involved in this, but on this particular point:

It's a bit like TSMC: you couldn't buy space on $latestGen fab because Apple had already bought it all. Many companies would have very much liked to order H200s and weren't able to, as they were all pre-sold to hyperscalers. If one of them stopped buying, it's very likely they could sell to other customers, though there might be more administrative overhead?

Now there are some interesting questions about Nvidia creating demand by investing huge amounts of money in cloud providers that will order nv hardware, but that's a different issue.

smw··on I hate GitHub Actions with passion
https://github.com/nektos/act

Lets you run your actions locally. I've had significant success with it for fast local feedback.

smw··on I hate GitHub Actions with passion
https://github.com/nektos/act
smw··on Git Rebase for the Terrified
I mean `git reflog` is right there! But jj is awesome, agreed
smw··on QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP
tailscale
smw··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
Just FYI, these days cc has 'ide integration' too, it's not just a cli. Grab the vscode extension.
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