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huamidev/GestaltX

An MobileGestalt editor for iOS 27.x, featuring region-code tweaks, device presets, backups.

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Memory management in 40 major C projects, a survey

A survey of 40 major C projects tracked by The Consensus shows only 8 projects allocate solely with malloc/free, only 2 projects allocate without ever using malloc/free, 15 projects make use of regions at some point, 7 projects primarily…

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Alignment 'train/test splits' should be sacred

Tl;dr: Alignment techniques can be used for training alignment or for testing it, but they cannot be used for both! As we build out the set of alignment techniques available to us, we should enforce that some are judiciously reserved only…

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Giving Up on Saving the World

When I was 19, I decided I was going to save the world. Now, 25 years later, I’ve decided to give up. To explain why and what giving up means, we first need to go back to how I ever got into the world-saving business. As a kid, I loved com…

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