Readit NewsPersonally, I’ve been using a wrapper around `collections.namedtuple` as an underlying data structure to create frozen dictionaries when I’ve needed something like that for a project.
A simple example of this is if you have 4 bits of data and have a compression algorithm that turns it into 2 bits of data. If your dataset only contains 0000, 0011, 1100, and 1111; then this can technically be considered lossless compression because we can always reconstruct the exact original data (e.g. 0011 compresses to 01 and can decompress back to 0011, 1100 compresses to 10 and can decompress back to 1100, etc). However, if our dataset later included 1101 and got compressed to 10, this is now “lossy” because it would decompress to 1100, that last bit was “lost”.
An LLM is lossy compression because it lacks the capacity to 1:1 replicate all its input data 100% of the time. It can get quite close in some cases, sure, but it is not perfect every time. So it is considered “lossy”.
Oracle just sent a legal threat to "Rust for Javascript" to remove "Javascript" from their name. (Oracle owns the "Javascript" trademark.)
IANAL, but if I recall correctly part of having a trademark is having a legal obligation to enforce it, and if I'm reading the tweet correctly this is a name of a company and typically one cannot use a trademark in their company name.
Even today, a page served over HTTP just gets an unobtrusive bit of text saying "Not secure", but if a page is served over HTTPS with a cert that expired yesterday you will get a very scary full-page warning that entirely blocks you from accessing the underlying page.
It seems totally backwards to me.
From a security perspective, a door without a lock has no expectation of protecting anything. But a door that should lock but doesn’t, or is supposed to be locked but has the key left in the latch is not providing the security expected, and should be given pause when anticipating security from the lock. This is what the browser is trying to translate with its UI.
https://glorifiedgluer.com/about
The OP appears to be student and software engineer that is employed writing F# and Nix, and made the blog purely as an outlet to document the things they are interested in (and good on them that).
Why not? Is it that easy to intercept a SMS or is that just due to poor handling with some providers?
Things that were not useful in 2006 might be totally useful in 2026 ;P
Still, like you, I'm curious wether he has anything to say about it.
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.”