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Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#50341544)
Not sure their singlenode customers will be happy with Trino

https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/#system=+Hoaus|ucqs|Tuts&ty...

There is not a single component in Windows that is not riddled with bugs, its infuriating.

I wonder what exactly the "quality czar" is doing, maybe he needs a good PIP?

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/05/satya-nadell...

Re:Claude Opus 5 on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:33PM (#49039055)
What are your purposes?
Re:Blender 5.2 LTS on Sunday July 19, 2026 @09:50AM (#48968222)
I'm the same. What helps me is Blender MCP. Then you can ask it how to do things and it will either do it or explain how to do it.

https://www.blender.org/lab/mcp-server/

Re:Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router on Sunday July 12, 2026 @10:26AM (#48881453)
In Germany we have "Störerhaftung" where routerowners are responsible for everything that happens through their router.

I wonder how this would hold up in court, couldn't you argue that routers are generally buggy, how can they force any responsibility if they can easily be hacked?

Re:Rewriting Bun in Rust on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:43AM (#48841838)
Is it though.

There are so many situations where something is guaranteed to be safe but there is no way to express that in the Rust typesystem, so the only thing you can do is to wrap everything in Arcs and Mutexes, which introduces allocations, pointerchasing and locks

Re:How LLMs Work on Saturday June 06, 2026 @05:01AM (#48422903)
> so the model figures out during training what each token should look for and what it should offer

But how does it learn this token-relationship?

All it has is many text samples, but still, nowhere it says how the tokens relate to each other, so where does this information come from?

Re:80386 Microcode Disassembled on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:59PM (#48249228)
If you put this into an emulator, would it boot linux?
I'm currently "working" on a toy 3d Vulkan Physx thingy. It has a simple raycast vehicle and I'm trying to replace it with the PhysX5 built in one (https://nvidia-omniverse.github.io/PhysX/physx/5.6.1/docs/Ve...)

I point it to example snippets and webdocumentation but the code it gens won't work at all, not even close

Opus4.6 is a tiny bit less wrong than Codex 5.4 xhigh, but still pretty useless.

So, after reading all the success stories here and everywhere, I'm wondering if I'm holding it wrong or if it just can't solve everything yet.

Re:Tinybox- offline AI device 120B parameters on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:57AM (#47475378)
He had a video on Youtube where he proudly gloated about how he voted for Trump in not one but two elections, how happy he is that he can now openly talk about it, how its a fresh start for US, how catastrophic Harris would have been.

Did he take down the video because of embarrassment or did he fear negative impact on his sales?

Tried switching to Linux years ago, what brought me be back were issues with Suspend-to-disk, CPU Core parking, GPU powerefficient idle mode

Since my PC is idle most of the time, I care about idle-powerefficiency a lot.

Does stuff like this these days just work? (AMD CPU + Nvidia GPU)

newbie question: when training networks, what mechanism makes the language's concepts be (almost)orthogonal to each other?
Re:The Effect of Noise on Sleep on Friday June 27, 2025 @01:14PM (#44398516)
I have a street in front of my bedroom and I'm wondering how well ANC earbuds work in that case. Will it be completely silent or will there still be some kind of whoosh-sound?
Re:Denuvo Analysis on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @04:13PM (#44240968)
oh
Re:Denuvo Analysis on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:46PM (#44240003)
Wasn't aware of Alive2. Thx, I'll have look.

I had some success with https://github.com/mrphrazer/msynth But its hard to glue this to LLVM.

Re:Denuvo Analysis on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @01:38PM (#44239332)
Had also a look at Denuvo a while ago. Used LLVM to remove the x86 obfuscation and broke it down to VM-Opcodes. Atleast back then, Denuvo seemd to translate gamecode into a stackmachine.

This is how a VM push looks like:

      temp[0]=add(mem[e268], fffffffffffffff8)
      mem[temp[0]]]=mem[e560]
      mem[e268]=temp[0]
(vmreg_e268 is stackpointer, its decremented and stored in tempreg, then the value of vmreg_e560 is copied to stackpointeraddr, then new stackpointervalue is written back)

But i quickly lost interest when it became MBA galore:

      temp[7]=sub(add(add(and(mem[ebe8], b2f7), 3fd8), xor(lshr(mem[ebe8], 1), 2684)), lshr(add(mem[ebe8], b2f8), 1))
      temp[d]=or(sub(sub(4ad, temp[7]), xor(and(shl(temp[7], 1), 95c), 95c)), 8000)
      temp[e]=lshr(temp[d], 1)
      temp[11]=lshr(add(temp[d], 8001), 1)
      mem[ebe8]=sub(xor(xor(temp[e], 3fff), temp[11]), shl(and(and(temp[e], 3fff), temp[11]), 1))
(looks like its doing some operation with a constant to vmreg_ebe8, but obfuscated by MBAs and most likely the result won't ever being used, so its just noise to drown out the real operations)

BTW: anyone aware of LLVM optimizer passimplementations that can deal with MBAs ?

When are you going to implement the first electron-level 386 emulator?
Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @04:12AM (#43182107)
> We do not plan to add a permission model in the next 6 months.

I guess Copilot functionality trumps "Security above all else" now.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/03/prioritizing-sec...

Re:Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models on Friday September 13, 2024 @12:24PM (#41532684)
Makes me wonder if "I don't know" could be added to LLM: whenever an activation has no clear winner value (layman here), couldn't this indicate low response quality?
I thought microcode was encrypted, how do they have its disasm? https://xcancel.com/pic/orig/media%2FGV7BLfeXsAEJ6HC.png
Re:AMD's "Peano" – An LLVM Compiler for Ryzen AI NPUs on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:58AM (#40622541)
Generally speaking, AI Engine processors are in-order, exposed-pipeline VLIW processors. Each VLIW instruction bundle specifies the behavior of one or more functional units, which begin executing a new instruction at the same time. The processor pipeline does not include stall logic to enforce data dependencies, and instructions will continue executing in order regardless of other instructions in the pipeline. As a result, the compiler is able to schedule machine instructions which access the same register in ways that potentially overlap

So a software scheduler? I had no idea it works like this. Very interesting.

This is very helpful, thx.
I wish there was a way to show the code that is generated when using co_return or co_await

e.g. https://cppinsights.io/lnk?code=Ly8gaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2NzLnN0...

Re:How does Single Sign-On (SSO) work? on Monday March 25, 2024 @01:53PM (#39819341)
newbie question: in https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr... What is the point of step 8/9? Couldn't a wrong password already be rejected in step 5/6?
I'm wondering how AI scientists work these days. Do they really hack Cudakernels or do they plug models together with highlevel toolkits like pytorch?

Considering its the latter, considering pytorch takes care of providing optimized backends for various hardwares, how big of a moat is Cuda then really?

Re:Comments Are Code (2018) on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:49AM (#39638837)
I like to think that asserts are a form of active documentation
From the same company that charges you to access your logfiles.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/under_cisa_spressures...

Re:Samsung Extends Android and Security Updates to 7 Years on Thursday January 18, 2024 @02:47AM (#39039102)
I mean, do they even have to do more than run "make image" after rebasing to a new (minor) kernel update ?

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