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spider-marioyesterday at 7:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Isn’t this a bit like saying “ ‘open object files are not open source’ is a complete misunderstanding” because “You can’t rebuild the executable from scratch, but you can’t do this even with the source code anyway (because of build nondeterminism / compiler versions / etc.)”?


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desterothxyesterday at 8:35 AM

not really, compiling isnt a heuristic problem, it has a lot less randomness involved

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