Twirrim

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by Twirrim 3y ago
Filed July, eventually marked priority 1 in early December, not a single comment or signs of fix on it since. That doesn't look good at all.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> I've never encountered another person with this same eye disorder... It can be a real nuisance in certain cases. Nice to see this specifically addressed :) I had this as a child, meant that it wasn't clear I had vision issues
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Similarly, for bzip2 there is pbzip2 ( http://compression.great-site.net/pbzip2/?i=1 ). zstd & xz support the "-T" argument for setting thread count. If you pass "-T 0" it will attempt to detect
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Eh? They're pointing out it's an extremely well optimised and fast library, and then pointing out a number of ways in which it's a footgun because it doesn't behave as you'd expect, e.g. NYC = pytz.timezone(&
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Oh this is hilarious. A day later and my warranty replacement 5a just completely died. Same way my wife's one did.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Completely dead motherboard in both of them. Picked it up off the my desk to going use it, and it was powered off, never turned back on again. Wife woke up to hers dead.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I'm new on the "Won't buy another Pixel phone". Both my wife's and my phones (5a) just died out of the blue, within a few months of each other. Hers just a day before warranty expired. I'd had niggles with a
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Despite having no other Apple devices in our household, we've been using and loving AppleTV for years. It really "just works", and keeps getting updates etc.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
If you were to learn a phrase that insulted the king in Thai, and said it in Thailand, you would end up in jail. Doesn't matter if you understood what the phrase said. Ignorance doesn't make you immune to consequences.
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by Twirrim 3y ago
> it simply LEARNS from it as a human coder would learn from it. It doesn't LEARN anything, let alone like a human coder would. It has absolutely zero understanding. It's not actually intelligent. It's a highly tuned
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by Twirrim 3y ago
I'll see if I can dig some up, but there have been similar examples to the image reproduction case that have come out from codepilot, all it took was using some more unique method names (i.e. ones that were very specific to a particula
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by Twirrim 3y ago
Financial privacy on a completely open and visible block chain, that makes transaction analysis incredibly easy, that has resulted in the FBI etc. consistently being able to "de-anonymise" users? That's a really weird definit
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by Twirrim 4y ago
It's an incredibly common thing for con artists to claim they were just one thing away from going straight. This one big con, deal, whatever. There's absolutely no reason to believe them. There's always that next big con,
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by Twirrim 4y ago
That's kind of his point. They don't seem to care about local.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
There are a number of influential libertarian & fiscal conservative lobbying groups that have significant sway, that argue that doing so means people become unaware of how they're being taxed, and for how much. Signing the form be
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by Twirrim 4y ago
The IRS wants to. They're not allowed to.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
I'm not sure I see strong value in this?
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by Twirrim 4y ago
One of the big sources of electricity generation here is hydroelectric, so I've been joking with my kids for a while that we have a water powered car. The first time I brought it up sparked a fun conversation as they wanted to underst
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by Twirrim 4y ago
When I saw the title it reminded me of the 20+ years we'd see almost bi-annual news articles about how Dell was considering adding AMD chips to their line-up. They'd do that, Intel would offer them a discount, and that'd be t
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by Twirrim 4y ago
I don't remember who produced them, but I had a pair of active shutter 3D glasses back in something like 2000, maybe? I think they were Elsa Revelators. All I remember of them was that when they worked they were brilliant, albeit a li
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by Twirrim 4y ago
a relative of mine was involved in developing the eSIM standards, working with a consortium of telcos and phone manufacturers. For whatever reason, docs like that one are something he just loves to both read and produce. Diving in deep to
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by Twirrim 4y ago
HP still knocks the dust off that one every few years, touts their major achievements towards it each time, and implies it's only a couple of years until it'll hit the market. It has been a few years, which means we're probab
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Their own phrasing matters, and clearly states otherwise. This is what makes these chats damning. It means that they knew they had criminals using their platform, how they were using it, and that they, as a deliberate choice, chose not to
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Jeff Bezos used to do similar with Customer Support. He'd meet up with someone in customer support, and shadow their calls for the day. A number of features came out from it, like the ability for customer support to "pull an and
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> So you’re going to continue to host images that have severe remote code execution exploits? That seems an great way to take some very significant reputation hits.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that it is actually affecting us or even a concern. It isn't. I was just calling out that 30 days isn't just "simple" as the parent poster was asserting.
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Almost every language has a simple walk through that goes step by step and explains what parts are, or gets you to the point of having your first working application. Here you go "here's how to set up your build platform".. a
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> Come on, 30 days notice is a walk in the park Sure, maybe in a small business or startup, and even then I'd content not quite as easy as all that. When you're dealing with anything larger, say involving multiple teams, organi
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by Twirrim 4y ago
> + website itself is difficult to find the hello world example I opened the website, saw a docs link, that had a "Getting started" section, and started wondering what you were talking about. Then realised all that gives is Gr
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by Twirrim 4y ago
Almost every one does, if you look at a number of the implementations that are used for Techempower they're very very carefully created to provide optimal behaviour under the benchmarking. They work in ways that you wouldn't norm

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