Pxtl

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by Pxtl 4mo ago
Fair point. My problem with git is actually mostly the flaw in the object model itself, more than the dismal API. The fundamental mismatch between "to get a clean history you have to edit/destroy history with squashes and rebases
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
Hah, that describes my relationship with git itself, actually.
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
I don't get the use of the spatial layout here. A line may be cruder but if you're going full swordfish hackerman mode why are you caring about grid geography at all? Bind each to a hotkey. The only time you're swiping is
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
Ah, I see the worry. A supply-chain attacker can use de-listing to force an upgrade to the malicious version if clients have dependency ranges that reach into the future. I didn't know about that one. In general, any dependency system
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
It never made sense the other way. If I reference a package, logically I'm also referencing its dependencies at the version that the package uses. Forcing the user to also reference dependencies of dependencies of dependencies means t
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
The combined features that make npm particularly vulnerable: 1) Update by default. Manually updating your package references is annoying and does lead to other security issues as you don't automatically get latest, but it makes this r
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
MS Nuget is also lock-by-default. Latest-by-default should be considered harmful unless the package manager is directly vouching for the veracity and reputability of the packages.
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
Peter Zeihan was saying the same about the Russian invasion of Ukraine when that started, since Russia and Ukraine export fertilizer precursors... If there were famines they didn't make the news (but they might not regardless).
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by Pxtl 4mo ago
No more or less than I do the rest of the js ecosystem.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
I write a horrifying amount of PowersHell and I've always been craving something like that - rather than pwsh reinventing every wheel, just "bash but also with objects".
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Gen X was the peak of lifetime lead poisoning contamination. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119 https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/117h6n5/ge...
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Microsoft: "you shouldn't run untrusted code, here's a mess of ugly dialogs for people to click through if they try." Me: "Okay, I'd like to make signed trusted code, how do I do that?" Microsoft: "do
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Ouch. I'm just getting into tinkering with these things - mine is running on a vanilla gaming desktop with a 12gb 3060 and 32gb of ram. Even going above Qwen 9B risks completely locking up the machine.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
How is this a change from status quo? Bitcoin has been the currency of crime since soon after its inception. Back when you could mine on a CPU it was the way to monetize stolen compute. It was the way to buy illegal things on the now-par
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Honestly there's a huge void online for a new xtranormal
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Dune 2 before that was similarly hackable. The level definitions were just text files with an encoding that only certain editors would open.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
I'm all about the "-ForceDoTheDangerousThing" when I'm making tools (most of my shell scripting is pwsh). The naked "-Force" has always been a mistake on even minimally complex tools.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Reading the article over, it really feels like Docker should be targeting Swarm as (instead of being its own platform) a set of incremental enhancements to Docker Compose. "I need healthcheck-restarts" "I need off-host loggi
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Thank you. I had been procrastinating on learning how to work with containers and finally got a handle on Docker Compose to play with self-hosting a coding agent and was worried that I'd once again procrastinated so long that I'd
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Clean indenting is about saving time so you don't spend way too long getting lost trying to understand what seems like an insane piece of code until you realize it was a mundane bug hidden by incoherent indentation.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
My Galaxy Watch disagrees.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Then use more screws. Stud them all the way down the perimeter of the back 1cm apart for all I care. Still better than heat-guns and prying.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
I wish those prying tools were considered "special". I have a very low success rate at opening up any device that's held together with "clips" without snapping any plastic. It inevitably means "force it just
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Timex has been making iron-man watches held together with Philips-head screws that can withstand 100 meters of water pressure since the mid-1980s. Waterproofing is no excuse for this nonsense.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
The introduction of glue into the assembly of consumer electronics is a crime against humanity and the Earth. If Timex could make iron-man watches 100-meter waterproof with Phillips-head jeweler's screws back in the '80s, there&#
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Europe did the same thing with veggie burgers. Which confuses me because there are a zillion non-beef things called burgers.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
Think about who she ripped off and the difference will be obvious.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
It's funny, I learned a pile of languages in my undergrad and some UML nonsense. None of it covered properly how to write code that was meant to be read, which IMHO is one of the most basic things. Just "hey nobody can understand
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
I keep saying: I know there are good reasons we got "html but for vector art" but I wanted "jpeg but for vector art". I don't generally have to worry about sanitizing jpegs.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
That's what I'm getting at - so in the end, somebody really does need to have access to a regular sysadmin account on the server, even if it's not their default login. I was hoping that there was an option that didn't i

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