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New comment by tempay in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

tempay — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:39:56 +0000

Fusion also came to my mind but after thinking about it for longer I think it's a bad argument. The challenge with fusion is mostly around scale and efficiency to make it competitive against other energy sources (and net energy positive in the first place).

For CRQC it doesn't matter if they're massive expensive energy monsters. Even being able to break a single chosen key is enough to be a problem and once you can do one you can definitely do ten or a hundred.

New comment by tempay in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

tempay — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:41:05 +0000

> ARM64 is starting to catch up in performance for a much lower price

Why do you say "starting to"? arm64 has been competitive with ppc64le for a fairly long time at this point

New comment by tempay in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

tempay — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:58:26 +0000

> It's probably in the same line of "why doesn't an LLM just write assembly directly"

My suspicion is that the "language" part of LLMs means they tend to prefer languages which are closer to human languages than assembly and benefit from much of the same abstractions and tooling (hence the recent acquisition of bun and astral).

New comment by tempay in "Car Seats as Contraception"

tempay — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:09:08 +0000

Raising one child is fine, raise two or three means sharing rooms not having a guest room (e.g. relatives can't stay easily) or an at-home office space.

It's not that you can't, it's just that it's not the standard of living most western people expect.

New comment by tempay in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

tempay — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:39:21 +0000

As much as I'm a Python fan I strongly disagree here that rust is a red herring.

Having a static binary makes distribution way simplier. There are a bunch of ways you could try to achive something like in python but it would be significantly larger.

Performance-wise writing it in python would have heavy startup overhead and wouldn't be able to get close to the same level of performance.

Obviously you could achive the same thing in many other languages, but rust ends up being a really good fit for making a small static binary for this workload of network heavy, IO-bound, async/threading friendly with the occasional bit of CPU heavy work.

New comment by tempay in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

tempay — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:06:23 +0000

It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with.

New comment by tempay in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

tempay — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:28:56 +0000

This is basically the premise of https://www.blacksmith.sh/ as far as I know, though without the need to host the hardware yourself and the potential complexity they comes with that.

New comment by tempay in "Password managers less secure than promised"

tempay — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:54:35 +0000

It seems like 1Password is significantly more secure given the ratio of its market share to the number of articles I’ve seen like this one.

New comment by tempay in "psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context"

tempay — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:12:23 +0000

It requires root

New comment by tempay in "Huge Binaries"

tempay — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:41:19 +0000

I’ve seen LLVM dependent builds hit well over 30GB. At that point it started breaking several package managers.

New comment by tempay in "I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off Live Plus"

tempay — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:32:38 +0000

Prompt for a login or to check for updates on every start or once a week. It wouldn’t be difficult to get the numbers up for the number of online devices.

New comment by tempay in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

tempay — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:17:09 +0000

> Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

I feel like this question has been valid for almost as long as I can remember (e.g. the Mr. Robot extension incident). I find myself struggling to tell if Mozilla is an inherently flawed company or if it's just inherent to trying to survive in such a space.

New comment by tempay in "General principles for the use of AI at CERN"

tempay — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:12:12 +0000

What does the LHC physics program have to do with military applications?

New comment by tempay in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

tempay — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:06:24 +0000

Would expect with a message meet that criteria of exiting with a more helpful error message? From the postmortem it seems to me like they just didn’t know it even was panicing

New comment by tempay in "GHC now runs in the browser"

tempay — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:55:55 +0000

Is it? Typically compilers rely on cross-compilation for this.

New comment by tempay in "GHC now runs in the browser"

tempay — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:36:05 +0000

It can target wasm, the point of the post is that it’s now mature enough to be able to build itself for wasm and run in a browser.

New comment by tempay in "Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category"

tempay — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:27:49 +0000

This isn’t the case in some other fields.

New comment by tempay in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

tempay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:40:38 +0000

There is also pixi (which uses uv for the python side of things) which feels like uv for conda.

New comment by tempay in "Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates"

tempay — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:20:03 +0000

> All the information a client needs to validate a Merkle Tree Certificate can be disseminated out-of-band.

The post didn't discuss it but naively this feels like it becomes a privacy issue?

New comment by tempay in "A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it"

tempay — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:46:44 +0000

Widely know amongst very niche groups, most of whom have either been burnt by the issue or heard about someone who has and have it ingrained in their mind out of fear of debugging such a thing.

I’d bet the majority of ML people are unaware, including those doing lower level stuff.