Arch-TK

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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
"Experienced developers were 19% slower when using AI coding assistants—yet believed they were faster (METR, 2025)" Anecdotally I see this _all the time_...
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Obscurity is a delay tactic which raises the time cost associated with an attack. It is true that obscurity is not a security feature, but it is also true that increasing the time cost associated with attacking you is a form of deterrant fr
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Configurable within the application... at runtime. I want to be able to switch existing terminals with existing applications between themes.
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Most things work fine with black on white terminals. If your software does something dumb when my theme switches to black on white during the day then I am just going to avoid using it...
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Not everywhere is in America you know... And non-H1B workers are probably precisely the kinds of workers that should be the ones rocking the boat.
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Yes if I went hard on something greenfield I'm sure I'll be knee deep in tech debt in less than a day. That being said, given the quality of code these things produce, I just don't see that ever stopping being the case. These
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
"actually good enough to meet the goals?" There's "okay for now" and then there's "this is so crap that if we set our bar this low we'll be knee deep in tech debt in a month". A lot of LLM output
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Yes, you're right. My mistake.
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
Lemonade (made from real sugar, water and lemons and nothing else) can also eat the corrosion off of battery terminals...
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
The video explains how the gas based mass spectrometers he had (indirect) access to don't normally pick up nonvolatile compounds like tannins. It was a big breakthrough that since he didn't have cocoa leaf extract, and he basicall
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by Arch-TK 9mo ago
The problem is really that sometimes making something feel ergonomic in a language can be a pain. Although that in itself might be a hint to change language and write your library there, instead of inventing a new one.
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
> Neither have keybindings that make any sense. I can agree on Windows, but there is no such thing as "keybindings that don't make sense" on a proper Linux WM given that you can literally make up any keybindings you want.
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
There is actually mobile banking for these cases. Which at least for HSBC requires your account details, a (Up to? I don't know the minimum) 10 digit (numeric) pin and you have to say "My Voice is My Password" which sounds li
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
In the UK, yes, banks are on the hook if _you_ get scammed. It seems the bar for them to prove that you were at fault is too high so in reality the banks just make the decision on what you can buy for you. A good few years ago now (when it
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
I've definitely experienced parts of the windows UI crash. explorer.exe isnt just a file browser, half of the UI runs on top of it.
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
I don't use a Mac, but have you ever used Windows? I mean, maybe you have, but if you are not fussy then at worst MacOS is quirky and Windows and Linux are identical and merely have different icons. If you pay a little bit of attention
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
There is a line, it is fuzzy, but if all you did was find something which was there for anyone to find, I would place that firmly on the not hacking side. If it was rot 13 I would put that marginally closer to hacking than this.
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
It sets a bad precedent to call things like this hacks. Firstly, calling this redaction implies that the data is missing, and calling what was done "unredacting" is akin to saying someone "decrypted" a cryptographic hash
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
Putting aside the post and whether it's correct or not. Reinvent what wheel exactly? D-Bus can't read your mind (yet) and as such it can't generate an API for you, you still need to design a protocol, it's just that it&#
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
Let's put aside whether you can trust apple for a moment. Where the hardware comes from is much less of a risk than the fact than where the locked down firmware and software comes from. Yes the west's over-dependence on Chinese ha
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
Paypal released the funds to the project, not to the people making the downpayments. Paypal never returns money immediately to anyone, they sit on it for months while they "investigate". I don't know who you are or where you
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by Arch-TK 10mo ago
It wasn't really abandoned so much as killed by PayPal. The project used PayPal to gather downpayments, PayPal decided to lock the funds for months (almost a year or maybe longer IIRC) because they saw money coming in but no confirmati
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Sure, but it works mostly by intentional hobbling of headers. Meanwhile in other languages you just write/generate bindings and they survive it.
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
That weird feeling when you realise that the people you hang out with form such a weird niche that something considered common knowledge among you is being described as "buried deep within the C standard". What's noteworthy i
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
The article seems to perpetuate one of those age old myths that NAT has something to do with protection. Yes, in a very superficial sense, you can't literally route a packet over the internet backwards to a host behind NAT without matc
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
You are throwing around anecdotes. They're not that helpful. It's worth noting that success in life (for whatever that is defined as) is not the same thing as intelligence. And being intelligent isn't even enough for you to b
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
It's only really NixOS as far as I know that doesn't ever put bash in /bin/bash (as far as Linux distributions go). But, on the other hand, there are quite a few distros (or at least flavours of distros) which don't
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
This is a weird argument. First off, we don't have a good way to actually measure an individual's intelligence. IQ is actually meant to correlate with g which is a hidden factor we're trying to measure. IQ tests are good inso
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
/bin is the "standard" location for bash on a subset of Linux distributions and basically no other Unix... So it's not really a standard. /bin/sh is a much more common convention but once again, not a standard.
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Amazing website. One thing I noticed is that while I hate being told what to do, and my partner hates being told what to do, and we understand deeply how we feel when someone tells us what to do, we still tell each other what to do (which g

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