Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
If "ultimate truth" cannot be attained, but can be asymptotically approached, is striving for it still a lost cause if the knowledge gained in the approach might be useful? I'll never be able to run a marathon as fast as Eliu
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by Karellen 3y ago
I couldn't find a link to the source code on the site though? Where should I be looking?
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by Karellen 3y ago
> A novice sysadmin granting someone's request to [give them root in an obscure, sneaky manner] ...is a social engineering exploit, not a technical one.
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by Karellen 3y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_doucheba... > "Schrödinger’s douchebag" [i]s someone who makes an unacceptable remark and then waits to see the reaction before declaring retrospectively
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by Karellen 3y ago
The behaviour is unspecified by the standard. Your compiler vendor has to pick a (reasonable) behaviour though and apply it consistently, and while they are not required to document it (IIRC - I think that's just for implementation-def
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by Karellen 3y ago
Sounds like a good complement for Project Gemini https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi
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by Karellen 3y ago
Seems like fun. I was a bit confused by "git blame" at first. I kinda see how the name fits ("Who wrote this?"), but the point of "git blame" is to figure that out for you so you don't have to guess.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Compare it to the other servers in the same `hw` directory: ├── hw │ ├── kdrive │ ├── vfb │ ├── xfree86 <- this one is Xorg │ ├── xnest │ ├── xquartz │ ├── xwayland │ └── xwin
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by Karellen 3y ago
Note that the $400 death star (set 10188) was released in 2008, and $400 in 2008 dollars is worth $570 in 2023 dollars. https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/10188_Death_Star https://www.in2013dollars.com&#x2F
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by Karellen 3y ago
> brands like Lego have evolved, are insanely expensive (>$100) I thought that Lego prices had remained pretty steady over time. https://realityprose.com/what-happened-with-lego/ OK, that study was published 10 y
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by Karellen 3y ago
I'm looking for compatibility tables/information, but can't find the right place to look. Anyone have any idea how well Edge Functions for Javascript works with Edge's Javascript functions?
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by Karellen 3y ago
It's hard to say. How many lines of code does it take to call typeobj->tp_as_number->nb_add() when `tp_as_number` is a pointer to a `struct float_as_number`, and `nb_add` is a pointer to `float_add`? Do struct definition
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by Karellen 3y ago
> in my opinion it's fair to conduct conferences in different countries. First, let me say I agree with this, as with the rest of the points made in the Python Africa letter. It's spot on. > There's a time and place for
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Can't you just... not? So, if someone attends with their partner, are you suggesting they "just... not" show any affection towards them while they're there? No hugging, no hand-holding, no pecks on the cheek? No res
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by Karellen 3y ago
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/par_for_the_course
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Or a security vulnerability has forced a breaking change. Theoretically, I suppose? Do you have a historic example in mind? I've been running Debian "stable" in its various incarnations on servers for over a decade, and
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by Karellen 3y ago
> but the process is pretty much the same - check for breaking changes, Unless you're relying on buggy behaviour, there should be no breaking changes in an LTS update. (...of course, there's no guarantee that you're not re
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by Karellen 3y ago
I wonder if the question a lot of the public are trying to ask is "How much vertical ascent is there in the climb?", but they're not familiar enough with climbing or its terminology to come up with the right wording in the
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by Karellen 3y ago
What if you called your browser xFirefox, and suggested it would be equivalent to "Firefox" on the MDN "Browser compatibility" tables. And you have 1000x the resources of Mozilla at your disposal.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Is that a reference to EEE? I feel like it is, but the capitalisation is confusing me, and now I'm wondering if I'm missing the actual intended meaning.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Microsoft is certainly within the rights afforded to them by the curl license to do this, but: > The provided functionality is certainly a very stripped down and limited version of the libcurl API. A fun detail is that the quite bluntly
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by Karellen 3y ago
Slightly disappointed - I was expecting the description of an alternate history where the development of science, engineering, literature, war, ethics, politics, civil rights, etc... evolved differently with the aid of LLMs. "What woul
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by Karellen 3y ago
Surely some people are more trustworthy than others? Some people are quite introspective and have pretty good meta-awareness, and hedge when they're not sure about something. While other people are known to just bullshit whenever they
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by Karellen 3y ago
Huh. My intuition would have been that stdin/stderr provided by sshd to the shell would have been been marked as `isatty(3)`. TIL.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> A shell run via `sshd` is technically not an interactive shell, as it is started by the ssh-daemon. Hmmm....I'm a bit confused by that one. Why is the program that started the shell an important consideration as to whether it sh
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by Karellen 3y ago
Is this for an in-person interview? Because without checking `man` or stackoverflow (or leaning on ChatGTP) my first response would be to go with `if [ $# -lt 1 ]; ...`. This has the advantage of being pretty readable, and while I've b
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by Karellen 3y ago
> now that ads have become a prolific malware vector, What do you mean "now"? They've been prolific malware vectors for over 20 years!
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by Karellen 3y ago
I don't think there is anything Spotify can do themselves ...which is why legislation like the Uruguay bill is a good thing, and important.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Yes, artists have the wonderful choice of being able to sign for one of three labels, with no meaningful distinction between the deals any of them offer, because that's just how oligopolies roll. And they collude^Whave deals with spo
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by Karellen 3y ago
Awww, I was looking forward to the replies from people who didn't read the fine article, and were deeply confused by comments like "I get this!" or "This happens to me every few months" or "God, It happens to m

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