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Hah. I expect to see a lot of more of this kind of thing in the future, at least until someone works out how to integrate LLMs with a more structured approach to AI. We can't get away with just asking the prediction machine to "do what I mean, please and thank you."
That was an early attempt to stop LLM scraping and wholesale content stealing that I completely forgot about, even though it seemed to be quite effective until I turned on Cloudflare’s AI scraping prevention. The wording is a bit outdated, since most AI scrapers and relevance indexers now just ignore that kind of thing…
Well, you try having your posts rehashed and translated into Hindi, Chinese and a few other languages, complete with links to advertising and malware sites, and getting e-mail about that from a few dozen people - this actually worked (or seemed to work) for a while, despite how ugly it was.
The fact that so many people are now running around with "agentic" software that fundamentally can't distinguish between their own "thoughts"/rules and untrusted user input doesn't turn a meme into malware.
Token predictors by themselves are fundamentally insecure, and cannot be made secure without a strong semantic world model. It's like `eval`-ing everything, or auto-coercing strings to objects or function calls, vs having a strong static type system.
Kobo store is convenient but feels pricey sometimes (I don't have experience with the Kindle store). I don't mind paying them though, because it's still easy enough to strip the DRM and make backup copies of my books. If that changes, I'll take my business elsewhere.
I make a lot of use of my local library through the native Overdrive integration.
It's been quite a while, but IIRC, in Java these statements actually do have a defined behavior.
The ++x is a "pre-increment", meaning the value of the variable is incremented prior to evaluating the expression, while the "post-increment" "x++" is the other way around: the expression evaluates to x, then x is incremented afterwards.
That behavior is inherited from C. The pre/post increment behavior is actually the same in every language that uses them. The priority of operation is also usually the same as well.
The reason the question is tricky is because those operators change the value of a as the full expression is progressively executed.
It's not immediately clear to me what the answer in Java would be.
Just take a++ + ++a for example:
If the value if `a` is hoisted by the jvm then it could be 5++ + ++5, so 5 + 6.
But if it's executed left to right and `a` is looked up every time, then it becomes 5++ + ++6, so 5 + 7.
The value of the variable is not hoisted by the Java compiler. (It's not that JVM, that only executes the byte code, what y doesn't have that kind of ambiguities.)
The semantics of Java is not undefined on multiple assignments to the same variable in an expression, so it can't hoist something if it would change the outcome.
Now, I don't actually know what the outcome is, because I don't remember whether `a += e` reads the value of `a` before or after evaluating `e`. The code is still confusing and unreadable to humans, so you shouldn't write it, but the compiler behavior is not undefined.
And if your variable is accessed from multiple threads, it may be undefined which intermediate values night be seen.
$ cat a.java
class a {
public static void main (String[] args) {
int a = 4;
int b = a++ + ++a;
System.out.println(b);
System.out.println(a);
}
}
$ javac a.java
$ java a
10
6
For the OG controller on Linux, it was/is possible to use third-party open source software like "sc-controller" to map the pads and rebind things the way Steam does, without needing Steam running.
I don't have any reason to believe that similar projects won't work for the new version.
SDL2 and SDL3 have steam controller support. Also, now that SDL2-Compat is a thing (alongside sdl12-compat), this means literally every game/software that uses SDL 1-3 for controllers on Linux (and windows too) should support the steam controllers.
I landed on Inconsolata, which makes sense as it's directly inspired by Consolas. I already use Inconsolata most places, since I'm not usually on Windows.
Comparing JACK and PulseAudio is like comparing apples and oranges. And honestly, JACK by itself is unsuitable as an audio server for general desktop usage.
JACK doesn’t support device hotplug (ya know, connecting and disconnecting a headset, something most of us do) and it also doesn’t support multiple applications generating audio without the user having to configure how audio is mixed.
JACK is designed for low latency in environments like Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) where you know 1) what audio hardware is present at all times, and 2) what applications are going to generate audio.
Many people who use/used JACK ran a PulseAudio bridge on top of it for every application that wasn’t the one or two applications that needed ultra low latency audio.
PulseAudio had some major warts, but JACK wasn’t some panacea that did everything better.
I've had my Framework (w/Arch and KDE) since 2022 and have yet to have any problems with sleep. I can safely unplug from my monitor/dock, close the lid, and drop it in my bag. It's never tried to cook itself while in sleep.
Battery life in sleep (and in general) could be better, but on the whole I've been quite happy with it.
Is it possible that the iPhone filters are weaker due to FaceID requirements? I seem to recall that FaceID (and similar systems, like Windows Hello) depend on IR to get a more 3D map of the face, so it'd make sense that they want to be more sensitive in that range.
Laptops aren't generally being used in the same areas as cars though, so you wouldn't expect to see as many cases involving Windows Hello compatible laptops/cameras.
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