12_throw_away

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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   With complete sincerity: I would like to hear as much about your linux-using retro-gamer grandma as you feel comfortable sharing, she is an icon.
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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   I clicked, getting ready to roll my eyes at the open source drama but ... yeah, this checks all the boxes on the "time for new project management" checklist, when the lead dev: [x] pushes directly to master, [x] pushes *unte
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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   Dunno about "only" ... 99.99998% of flights kill 0% of their passengers. Even if "just" one passenger dies in an incident, your flight is already in the 0.00002th percentile for safety, very bad!
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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   Sure, company dispatchers are usually part of the conversation, and in non-emergency diversions (i.e. the vast majority), they may suggest specific airports that would be more convenient for company logistics. But the final decision is alw
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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   > I think the literal fear of death _might_ be motivation enough for pilots to advocate for safety? You'd think, but individual humans are very very bad at estimating risk, and in toxic group and work situations, humans will often t
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   "t-strings" and `string.templatelib`: new in Python 3.14(docs.python.org)

   3 points by 12_throw_away 1y ago|1 comments
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   WinRing0: 20-year-old foundational library that's insecure by design [video](youtube.com)

   2 points by 12_throw_away 1y ago|1 comments
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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   Text version at https://gamersnexus.net/features/insecure-code-vs-entire-rgb...
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   by 12_throw_away 1y ago

   Yeah, I think this is one of the cleanest PEPs to come around in quite a while, at least from the userspace perspective. Interested to see what happens after the traditional syntax bikeshedding ritual has been completed.
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    The article covers the enjoyable experience of getting networked computers to all agree on a single monotonic clock time. That got me wondering - does there exist a commodity, high-precision, high-reliability hardware clock that can be plug
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Sigh. I really like PyCharm and the Jetbrains IDE experience generally, but also really wish there was more competition in the IDE market (where "IDE" = "purpose-built software development application", as opposed to &qu
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Yep right there in the TOS: a. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED STRICTLY ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND PROVIDER MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE IS COMPLETE, SUITABLE FOR YOUR PURPOSE, RELIABLE, USEFUL, OR ACCURATE.
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    My god this is badly written and confusing. At least an actual person signed it this time? I'm not sure if this was LLM-written because I don't think an LLM would write a missive almost entirely in bullet points - but it has man
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    I'm not sure I can explain more than is in the article, but I feel that writing it out helps me cope with the insanity: "Med-beds" are a far-right-adjacent conspiracy theory. It posits that the rich and powerful have access t
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Because error bars and p-values don't make for exciting headlines with well-defined "rankings"
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Yeah, the UK's goverment does seem to be always be run by extremely unserious people. And yeah, I also don't know why this keeps being the case. It's not unique to the UK at all (actually I think it's mostly the norm,
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    > Surprised to see Deus Ex mentioned I think it's in people's minds because A) "Deus Ex: Remastered" was announced this week [1] and B) many have remarked that the remaster low effort, and at least from its trailer, d
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    > I wrote a physics-accurate flight sim in rust Off-topic - that sounds amazing, is this commercial or hobby software? Any way I could learn more about it?
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    This inspired me to find this catalog, thank you for mentioning it! For those who have not seen it before, Waterwitch is on page 43 of the 2013 catalog here [1], and is described as "Hand held finishing tool used for geolocating target
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Here's an article from late August with some detail [1], including the affected states: New York, Massachusetts, Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Oregon and Vermont. I can't find anything abou
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    > error message that simply says "Something went wrong." Actually, are there HCI guidelines for communicating inexplicable internal errors to the user? I definitely write assertions that really should never ever fail - if they
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    I swear I don't usually complain about UI styling updates, because it's usually not a big deal - but this looks really, really bad [1]. It's less functional with bizarre transparency choices destroying legibility, and big rou
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    Why do some gamers and laparoscopic surgeons use inverted y-axis controls?(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

    4 points by 12_throw_away 1y ago|0 comments
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    > Why a package with 10+ million weekly downloads can just be "updated" like this is beyond me. Have a waiting period. Make sure you have to be explicit. Use dates. Yep. Also interesting how many automated security scanners pic
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    > They were anxious to perform in their new career and interpreted that as shipping tickets as fast as possible. [...].. they had like, no drive at all to engage with problems To be honest, I think these programmers understood their jobs
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    archive link: https://archive.is/IKwgg
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    > To do that you need to represent the invalid configuration as a type Right - and one thing that keeps coming up for me is that, if you want to maintain complex invariants, it's quite natural to express them in terms of the domain
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Well, if you want to collect errors, then you need to have a way to store the transformed input in a form that allows you to check the invariants, which can be arbitrarily complex. So naturally there must be some intermediate representati
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    I like this advice, and yeah, I always try to make illegal states unrepresentable, possibly even to a fault. The problem I run into here is - how do you create good error messages when you do this? If the user has passed you input with mult
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    by 12_throw_away 1y ago

    Oh, this is a rabbit hole. As far as I can tell the pentesters' suit against the sheriff is still ongoing, but back in Iowa courts. The federal court's ruling is ... not good [1]: 1) The court found that the county sheriff had t