CoastalCoder

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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Related, from 1988: https://bousbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/image-9.png
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
> I didn't live long enough to see... Whoa, careful with your verb tenses! You just wrote a ghost story :)
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Those things were delicious.
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
I suppose it depends on the kinds of mistakes to which one is prone.
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Agreed. I especially cringed at the author's example of mixing that with "sudo".
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Maybe it's a bit like current C++ language spec: There's enough complexity in the language spec that most people stick with a (fairly shared) subset. Bash can be very powerful, but IMHO there's a certain point where I find it
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Maybe they meant life insurers, not health insurers?
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Even better. It's web-scale .
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
For what it's worth, I think I understood your original post as you intended it. (Just mentioning this so you know the wording wasn't universally confusing.)
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
You might want to reconsider using "gypped" in that way.
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
(looks at Secretary of the Treasury...) "SCOOOTTTTT !!!!!!"
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
"As of 4:47 PST / 11:47 UTC the errors " From Wikipedia: "The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing the western United States and northwestern Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
> There's a lot to criticise of every country, but we're trying. The US is not trying (*) I'd argue that it's a bit misleading to treat the US as a single entity for this topic. The population is deeply divided on iss
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by CoastalCoder 2mo ago
Not sure, but I would 100% buy a copy of your family cookbook. Just imagine the titles you could use.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
The "stupid" question is generating a lot of interesting conversation.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Yeah, I really like Slashdot's approach to both regular and meta moderation. I don't understand why it never caught on elsewhere.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Honest question: If you have no evidence, then why do you believe it?
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
It does now, apparently.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
One of the comments provides an archive link to the story. I was kind of able to read that on my Android phone, but something on the page made panning really janky so I gave up.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Most of us who build weapons of war live with some awful dilemmas. One of them is: We want to perform our work skillfully, effectively, and professionally. But we never want our tools to actually be needed. (Another is that we can't
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
If you think Milspec is expensive, you should see the cost of not having a Milspec supply chain while still being risk-averse.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
I don't do web stuff, but I wonder if one could easily create a browser extension that hides AI-centric submissions?
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I have the urge to grab a pitchfork, but I know better than to make assumptions about why that functionality was added. Time to do some homework I guess.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Some of the comments here talk about the risk this poses for multi tenant vm providers. Wouldn't this also be a risk for people using VMs to sandbox untrusted code running on trusted hosts?
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
I'm just starting to read up on capabilities-based security in Linux. Would they potentially be a solution to sudo's all-or-nothing granularity in this domain?
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Chuck Norris will pass his torch to Jim Keller. Jim won't have a say in the matter.
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
I really dislike the complexity of modern C++ language specs, but does it obscure much detail about FP ops? TL;DR: A vast majority of the programmers I've worked with don't understand the nuances of FP in general , nor the variou
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
I feel like I'm ignorant of some classical fable here. Is this an allusion?
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Any reason he couldn't try advancing it somewhere like China or India, which (I assume) are less vulnerable to that kind of interference?
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by CoastalCoder 3mo ago
Sounds like we have the basics of an oscillating system now! I wonder what it's resonant frequency is.

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