I believe this means "VBMACXOR16X16X16" is now officially the longest x86 mnemonic
Readit Newsbenchloftbrunch commented on AMD64 Bit Matrix Multiply and Bit Reversal Instructions docs.amd.com/v/u/en-US/69... · Posted by u/matt_d
benchloftbrunch commented on Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010) lists.busybox.net/piperma... · Posted by u/csmantle
Linux does not use this split any more. Many of these dirs were merged back together. The "/usr merge" was adopted by Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Arch Linux, openSUSE and other major distros:
https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/understanding-the-linux--usr-...
`man file-hierarcy` defines modern Linux filesystem layout.
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/file-hierarchy.7.h...
Question: why did they decide to make /usr/bin the "primary" and /bin the symlink? Methinks it should have been the other way around as was the original Unix design before the split.
Also the first URL is serving me scam popup ads that do a crap job at pretending to be android system alerts. Next time please try to choose a more reputable source.
benchloftbrunch commented on OneDrive just deleted all of my files twitter.com/jasonkpargin/... · Posted by u/nomilk
Install Windows 11 and accept the default options. Congrats, your Documents, Desktop, Pictures are now synced to OneDrive. Unless you've read everything during the install, you might not even be aware of it. From now on, deleting files in the web interface will delete them from your computer.
Thankfully it's trivially easy to disable OneDrive via the task manager startup tab. Never had any issues with MSFT sneakily turning it back on either.
This super aggressive OneDrive shit is also why I've stopped putting most things in the standard folders and now just have my own alternative hierarchy in %USERPROFILE% instead.
>This second method is, by the way, argued to increase compatibility as we utilize env to locate bash, which may not be located at /bin/bash. How true this is, is a topic I dare not enter.
At least it seems important on NixOS, I had to rewrite a few shebangs on some scripts that used /bin/bash and didn't work on NixOS.
And on macOS if you need bash > 3.2
Everything is better than PGP (not just GPG --- all PGP implementations).
The problem with PGP is that it's a Swiss Army Knife. It does too many things. The scissors on a Swiss Army Knife are useful in a pinch if you don't have real scissors, but tailors use real scissors.
Whatever it is you're trying to do with encryption, you should use the real tool designed for that task. Different tasks want altogether different cryptosystems with different tradeoffs. There's no one perfect multitasking tool.
When you look at the problem that way, surprisingly few real-world problems ask for "encrypt a file". People need backup, but backup demands backup cryptosystems, which do much more than just encrypt individual files. People need messaging, but messaging is wildly more complicated than file encryption. And of course people want packet signatures, ironically PGP's most mainstream usage, ironic because it relies on only a tiny fraction of PGP's functionality and still somehow doesn't work.
All that is before you get to the absolutely deranged 1990s design of PGP, which is a complex state machine that switches between different modes of operation based on attacker-controlled records (which are mostly invisible to users). Nothing modern looks like PGP, because PGP's underlying design predates modern cryptography. It survives only because nerds have a parasocial relationship with it.
What is the alternative to PGP for the specific use case of secure email? That doesn't mandate dealing with the X509 certificate bureaucracy?
As long as you don't have any security compliance requirements and/or can afford the cost of self hosting your LLM, sure.
Anyone working in government, banking, or healthcare is still out of luck since the likes of Claude and GPT are (should be) off limits.
I would add to that, replace #include with a proper module system that fixes the encapsulation and redundant parsing problems once and for all.
It's 2025 and C++ modules still aren't suitable for real world use yet despite being standardized 5 years ago.
Additionally standardize the ABI up front so that different compilers can interoperate. Make namespaces native to the object file format.
Also, explicitly standardize a compiler optimization mode that does not try to exploit UB in eldritch ways that break basic assumptions about how the machine works for 1% performance gain. I get that's an undecidable problem so it's ok if some extra annotations (call them "attributes" and write them [[like this]]) are needed here for explicit optimizer hints.
benchloftbrunch commented on Japan law opening phone app stores to go into effect www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/e... · Posted by u/shlip
Sony and Nintendo stores are still closed I see lol
No doubt Nintendo was involved in the lobbying effort for this. Back in the 80s they successfully pushed to amend Japanese copyright law to ban game rentals.
benchloftbrunch commented on NaN, the not-a-number number that isn't NaN piccalil.li/blog/nan-the-... · Posted by u/tobr
Also remember that NaN is represented in multiple ways bitwise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN
Also you even have different kinds of NaN (signalling vs quiet)
Per IEEE 754, yes, but JS the language doesn't distinguish between NaN representations.
If drawings overall are anything to go by it varies greatly by legal system, but most would lean on "yes".
A generated image would most likely be not made locally, so there the added question of the image being understood as "distributed".