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Scaling Security Insights at Cloudflare

blog.cloudflare.com
2 points·by FlyingSnake·26 gün önce·0 comments

Bug Archeology: Solving a decade-old Swift/C++ mystery with LLMs

samkhawase.com
9 points·by FlyingSnake·2 ay önce·5 comments

Email Is Crazy

samkhawase.com
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FlyingSnake
·19 gün önce·discuss
> can travel up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) on a single charge

This would be a big hit in European cities. I own VW e-Up! and it's a perfect EU city car. With it's 375KM range, I rarely charge it more than once a month.
FlyingSnake
·geçen ay·discuss
Which “entire industries” has ChatGPT upended?
FlyingSnake
·geçen ay·discuss
Great article. Hacking old kindles is fun! I encourage everyone to give it a try. The retro feel of eink makes it special for me.

I wrote about my experience in cross compiling zig on an old kindle some time ago.

https://samkhawase.com/blog/zig-kindle-gdb/
FlyingSnake
·2 ay önce·discuss
Used Vivaldi for years but it kept breaking my workflows and would wipe out my meticulously assembled tab groups. After few such gaffes I switched to Brave. I really wanted Vivaldi to work but can’t let it break workflows.
FlyingSnake
·2 ay önce·discuss
Adding C++ to the project wasn't unprecedented TBH. The app was blazing and we didn't have any issues with perf in the project. The app failed for a different reason.
FlyingSnake
·2 ay önce·discuss
PiZero is a pretty solid machine.

I run my micro-homelab on a Pi Zero from 2018. It’s behind Cloudflare tunnels. It runs the apps i need on a DietPi OS within 180MB and it’s uptime is ~8 months.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
All good brother, we all are going through interesting times.

You seem to be in the arena and have skin in the game. Would love to read your blog on these topics.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
> Mughals palace households were mainly speaking Persian language

They actually spoke Chagatai Turkish in the households and Persian was the court language. Urdu developed independently, mostly outside the royal patronage, and much later.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
May I ask what kind of study did you do on the Mughals? What stands out the most for you?

Fun fact: They called themselves "Gurkhaniye" and not "Mughals". It was a term mostly popularized by rivals like Marathas (which is also an exonym)
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
Ignoring your snark, I'm in agreement with what you said. It is indeed a complex topic and I see no John Fairbanks like figure championing the cause.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
I have nothing against Mughals, they had a great impact on the subcontinent history esp during 17th century. However the center of gravity was the Indian Ocean Spice trade network which was the South. This is what the Portuguese and various EICs wanted to connect to. We have records of the vast riches of these Deccan cities from these travelers.

> few dynasties were comparable to the vastness of Mughals

The Mauryas perhaps ruled a much larger area than Mughals. Khalji, Tughlaqs, Satvahanas, and Marathas also ruled over vast landscapes, but they are not much known outside India.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Empire#/media/File:Ind...
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
Text is Lindy. It has withstood the test of time and it's as ubiquitous as SQL or TCP/IP.

Reminds me of this decade old post (and discussion) by Graydon Hoare, "Always bet on text".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271

[2]: https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
True that. There is no interest in objectively studying history in India. It is just a tool to further the agendas of various parties involved.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
The unwavering focus on the Mughal empire by the West, is a curious phenomenon. Is it because they built highly visible monuments like the Taj? Mughals didn’t even reach their zenith until 1680s and were vastly reduced by 1730s.

The Deccan Sultanates and Vijayanagara were more relevant to world history in the 16th Century India. The wonders of Bijapur, Golconda and Hampi would put 16th CE Delhi to shame.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
I've traveled to Hanoi and absolutely loved the phở there. One perk of living in Berlin is the exceptional Phở we get here. Thanks to the large Vietnamese community we have great phở, Bahn mí (esp at the Dong Xuan center). The phở we get here is top tier too, as confirmed by my Vietnamese friends.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
> "Actually…" or "But wait!"

You’re absolutely right!

Jokes apart, I did notice GLM doing these back and forth loops.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
At this point drawing these Pelicans must be in the training data sets.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
I tried GLM5.1 last week after reading about it here. It was slow as molasses for routine tasks and I had to switch back to Claude. It also ran out of 5H credit limit faster than Claude.
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
Spandau occupies a commanding position on the wide confluence of Spree and Havel river. It is part of the wider river networks and one can easily navigate to Elbe and Danube. The coin might have ended up here via trade.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/aFfBzWNgnMiCvdHf6
FlyingSnake
·3 ay önce·discuss
“Each agent gets its own identity from a single domain.“ That too on the edge, along with the futuristic CF Dev primitives.

I had the same thought when I read this part. The $6MM investment on Agent Mail is in serious trouble right now.