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New comment by procaryote in "Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier"

procaryote — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:52:33 +0000

It will still collect this data.

Source: have never had Apple Intelligence enabled, have these files anyway

New comment by procaryote in "Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier"

procaryote — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:33:23 +0000

But it does this even when siri is disabled

New comment by procaryote in "sshole"

procaryote — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 23:01:43 +0000

Also the coincidence of 3 weeks later adding "oh, no passwords above 256 chars" making it easy to trigger

New comment by procaryote in "sshole"

procaryote — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:54:04 +0000

Musl, which is vulnerable, is much younger and less battle tested than glibc, which is not vulnerable though

New comment by procaryote in "A new Go API for JSON"

procaryote — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 22:12:23 +0000

What if you want a single language that's pretty fast while simple and maintainable?

New comment by procaryote in "If IPv4 were land"

procaryote — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:41:06 +0000

Thing is, you can run ipv4 only, dual stack or ipv6 only. Ipv6 only won't work. Dual stack has a larger attack surface and is complex. Ipv4 works but costs a relatively tiny bit of money so far.

Why would you not use ipv4?

New comment by procaryote in "If IPv4 were land"

procaryote — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:37:55 +0000

Second system effect. It's way more complicated

Replicating even a simple ipv4 lan with mostly stable local addresses and some isp uplink is pretty complex, even assuming all the devices involved support ipv6, which they wont

It's much easier to run a dual stack with v4 for ease of use on the lan and v6 as an additional address that can change whenever and is only used to reach the wan

But the main reason you'd care would be if you can't get a public ipv4 address to NAT to. And if you can't get that, some of the internet breaks anyway.

New comment by procaryote in "If IPv4 were land"

procaryote — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:11:15 +0000

Then imagine the security implications of trusting windows to serve just some selected files over FTP and never have any security hole that exposed other files or allowed RCE

New comment by procaryote in "Python's experimental JIT to be removed"

procaryote — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:45:36 +0000

If you know the type you need fewer checks in the jitted code, and you can optimise to native types.

If it helps python specifically, given that the types themselves are pretty dynamic, who knows. A python integer doesn't map well to a native integer etc. Python really isn't designed for performance, and retrofitting it is hard.

New comment by procaryote in "Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks"

procaryote — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:22:13 +0000

It sounds enough like real investing that it might make some more people put real money into crypto, while still being unregulated and vague enough that you can outright steal the money or take risks a regulated market wouldn't allow

Or you meant an argument for the person putting their money into it? No idea.

New comment by procaryote in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

procaryote — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:12:57 +0000

That's a separate probem that probably wont be solved by reducing the work week.

That said, ppp adjusted median houshold income has grown fairly steadily even in the US, even with growing inequality... so workers too have benefitted, just not as much as they could of the gains had been spread more evenly

New comment by procaryote in "Python's experimental JIT to be removed"

procaryote — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:47:05 +0000

The performance of python indicates otherwise. There are some performance critical libraries written in C or C++ but a lot of python is written in python.

Python in itself is poorly suited to ever become performant as it lacks the types required. I imagine that causes some issues for effective jit-ing too.

They had a chance to fix this when adding type annotations, but instead of making it "optional/gradual typing" they opted to make it "documentation or linting support", which is obviously the wrong choice, but there were cultural reasons

New comment by procaryote in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

procaryote — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:32:48 +0000

> there's no reason you shouldn't be paid the same for less time because your output is the same/better.

The reason is economic growth for the company / the country.

This in turn is a more subtle point than it seems at first glance. Not having economic growth isn't really a desirable option for a company, a country, or in (the long run) the people involved.

New comment by procaryote in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

procaryote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:06:25 +0000

Give the low quality of microsoft's products, I am very ready to believe that even simple agents can do a better job.

New comment by procaryote in "AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework"

procaryote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:45:56 +0000

You get to understand more of how the world works.

What's the point of exercise when we have machines that can do physical labor? It keeps you healthy.

If you don't use and train your brain, you'll be unhealthy and stupid.

New comment by procaryote in "AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework"

procaryote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:41:18 +0000

Even if you were right about AI, if you plan on keeping humans around, you need them as educated as humanly possible.

New comment by procaryote in "AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework"

procaryote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:33:06 +0000

AI has replaced students in the same way as cars and elevators have replaced exercise

New comment by procaryote in "AI use leads UC Berkeley math professor to see 'no point' in grading homework"

procaryote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:09:44 +0000

You're free to do that, even if doing it isn't graded

New comment by procaryote in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

procaryote — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:02:55 +0000

The total time of their tasks or the micro-benchmark of ripgrep?

New comment by procaryote in "What shall I teach my son?"

procaryote — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:44:01 +0000

How do you make the world better without any useful skills?

Being nice is nice, but it doesn't cure cancer