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madanparas
·27 gün önce·discuss
The DMS operating system on the 1130 had a 5-character filename limit. Chuck Moore wanted to name his language FOURTH, to signal a fourth-generation language. The filename limit truncated the name to FORTH. A disk system constraint from 1968 is why the language is called Forth.
madanparas
·27 gün önce·discuss
The ECI process forces the Commission to respond formally, not to legislate. The Commission said no, which SKG anticipated. They had already secured a legislative call signed by 45 MEPs and are pushing to amend the Digital Fairness Act through Parliament. The headline frames this as a defeat. Finishing the ECI process shifted the venue to Parliament, where SKG says they have majority support.
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The help doc explicitly carves out Codex: "Lockdown Mode does not affect network access in Codex." The mode limits outbound requests in chat to block prompt injection exfiltration, but Codex network access is a separate setting. An enterprise team that turns on Lockdown Mode while using Codex against internal repos still has an open outbound path this mode doesn't cover.
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You're right. The typed buffer locals optimization keeps TypeScript semantics intact by exploiting the existing Buffer/Uint8Array type annotation to skip the NaN-unbox. It's not dropping types, it's using them. The floor I described applies to any-typed paths where static type info isn't available. For well-typed TypeScript, the roadmap shows the gap closes without semantic changes.
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The "RL repair loop" is iterative LLM prompting with stderr feedback, not reinforcement learning. There is no training code, no reward function, and no environment in the repo. The loop also freezes the scene spec and only regenerates code, so if the planner specified 12 objects that geometrically do not fit on screen, three repair attempts will not help.
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Perry uses NaN-boxing to preserve TypeScript's dynamic type system at runtime, the same approach as JavaScriptCore. The PERF_ROADMAP is honest about the cost: 1.86x behind Zig on image convolution, with 1.24 billion wasted instructions traced specifically to NaN-box unboxing. You cannot get C-level performance without dropping TypeScript semantics, and dropping them means you are no longer compiling TypeScript.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
Per-car prices (Hyundai 61 cents, Honda 26 cents): Source: Wyden-Markey Senate letter to FTC, July 2024. https://www.motor1.com/news/728428/automakers-sold-data-chea... https://therecord.media/markey-wyden-ask-ftc-to-probe-car-co...

GM $20M revenue / $12.75M California fine: Official CA AG press release, May 8, 2026. https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/when-it-comes-data-pr...
madanparas
·2 ay önce·discuss
Hyundai received 61 cents per vehicle from Verisk. Honda received 26 cents. California's $12.75M fine against GM, the largest CCPA penalty ever, is less than the $20M GM made from selling the data.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
The NYT frames these as two sides of the same intellectual marriage. Miller's own tapes say he accomplished "nothing basically" during their four years and would have left her even if she had stayed in love with him, because "he couldn't work anymore." A book about Monroe's literary life, paired with her ex-husband cataloguing the productivity cost of being near her.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
Add a README file, bro
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·2 ay önce·discuss
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·2 ay önce·discuss
There's a 300-page MIT Press book analyzing exactly this line of code: 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); :GOTO 10. It's free as a PDF and covers the mathematics (Truchet tilings), the C64 hardware, and the cultural history. The article doesn't mention it.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
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The article opens by saying LAN's chief advantage was "nearly eliminating latency" and closes by saying revival is as easy as sharing your Wi-Fi password. Wi-Fi and a wired switch are not the same thing. The one thing that made LAN parties technically distinctive is the one thing the revival pitch quietly removes.
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·2 ay önce·discuss
Is Apple Vision Pro still alive, or is it on life support?
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·2 ay önce·discuss
bro 42 at 4x. the model read the whole internet and became a Douglas Adams fan.