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Comment · 1 month ago
Not only that, Opus likes to invent arcane jargons. And the longer the task runs, the harder it is to understand its output. The conversation will be filled with uncommon word choices and awkward sentence structure.
Comment · 7 months ago
But consumer product does not support SDCI (only Epyc Turin supports it), so it does not benefit too much if an accelerator is involved.
Comment · 8 months ago
Should my google search history be part of the commit? To that question my answer is no.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it is all about audience. There is no one-size-fit-all. Different audience have different threat models and different requirements.

For a corporate using an OS in work phones. The threat model is state/corp-sponsored actors. Trade secret leak is unacceptable. When in doubt, data should be wiped. Now wiping PIN makes total sense and is the only sensible option.

An ordinary person, on the other hand, often deals with non tech-savvy ordinary people. The threat model is different. Most likely plausible deniability is enough. The threat level is low. Those users may accept to trade some data security for a more friendly feature.

The ultimate question is whether Graphene envisions itself an opinionated OS that always follows the "best practice" or a generic OS that allows users to define their own threat models.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Like Raft is a "special case" of Paxos, this feels like a "special case" of CRDT.

It has all the flavor of CRDT, but adds a leader and a different way for the total ordering (basically using leader's local lamport clock to break tie).

Throw in leader reelection and some ledger syncing and then give everything some other names, I bet you can have "collaborative text editing on one page".

Comment · 1 year ago
The author gave a talk on this at Tufts during the FWCG last week. Fascinating talk.

One interesting question from audience was whether the ratio between the largest polygon piece and the smallest piece can be made bounded, as the current construction has unbounded ratio.

Comment · 1 year ago
I connect an iPhone 12 to my vehicle's CarPlay all the time. Recently I often found the start unreliable, which defeats all the purpose.
Comment · 2 years ago
Economy of scale: starship can be "mass"-produced

Material: stainless steel is much cheaper

Percentage of reusability: boosters of shuttle cannot be reused, maintenance of shuttle itself is also very expensive (heat shields were pricey). whereas the starship stack has higher reuse percentage and allegedly cheaper to maintain.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Shift key is widely used in Eastern Asian input methods to switch between English and Asian scripts. Pressing Shift while holding Alt is the way to cycle through different input methods on windows systems. Using shift key is a decent idea for Latin script users, but is terrible for Asian script users.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I guess Google's exit from China.
Comment · 2 years ago
We don't even know the complexity class of factorization or discrete log, yet we still use those problems in DH, RSA, ECDSA, ...
Comment · 2 years ago

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