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by bazzargh 2y ago
I read this and wondered, "what Planet software is Planet Haskell using that it's doing these odd things - oh, it's Venus? https://github.com/rubys/venus ... wow that's old... and doesn't that
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by bazzargh 2y ago
From the Cloudflare version: "Sable IP is merely a shell entity formed to monetize (make money from) an ancient patent portfolio acquired by Sable Networks from Caspian Networks in 2006. Caspian Networks was a router company that went
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by bazzargh 2y ago
It means 'stupid' in Scots so... probably just a joke by the author? Or maybe they were reaching for some similar words and missed - like 'drookit' (soaking wet), 'gloweret' (ominous sky), 'gloamin' (
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by bazzargh 2y ago
Huh. That's new. I'm guessing it must have been someone who read it here, I don't think I ever even posted it anywhere else. I'm not sure what they could think it's phishing for; there's no links out, no redire
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by bazzargh 2y ago
I noodled with a project a couple of years ago to pick art based on the weather https://bazzargh.github.io/weather/ put it on 'manual filter' and try setting some of the filters, you can see the tagged images
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by bazzargh 2y ago
It's way less than thousands. To get this specific bug - one 'e' in the 7th digit and 9 digits less than 'a' - is 1/16*(10/16)^9 = 0.009095. Just under 1 in 1000. But if the 'e' is in the 2nd,3rd
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by bazzargh 2y ago
bash and readline - Chet Ramey. Both originally by Brian Fox https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html maybe less of a bus factor now with OSH approaching feature/speed parity and having more ma
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by bazzargh 2y ago
My own toots-worth of code version for the bbcmicrobot https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/111846600975531195 Mandelbrot wrote about the Great Wave having fractal like properties (eg here in an interview https:/&
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by bazzargh 2y ago
I had just switched to this one when I discovered the problem, so was under contract for the next couple of years, and it's not like they advertise this as a feature where you'd have made that choice beforehand. Also, I didn'
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by bazzargh 2y ago
Virgin Media. At the time I switched I needed more bandwidth for work - dealing with multi-gigabyte blobs all day; I was with BT, but BT wouldn't let me upgrade to a gigabit fibre connection, and the City Fibre network which is now eve
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by bazzargh 2y ago
the isp blocks/redirects the traffic outside my network. so if you just try to send normal udp/tcp port 53 externally, it won't get there. This is why I mention a pihole; by setting my dns server to something on my local netw
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by bazzargh 2y ago
I'm in the UK; my ISP hijacks dns requests on port 53 so nope, none of that works. They're not alone doing this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking#Manipulation_by_... For the most part this is not no
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by bazzargh 2y ago
This is just polishing bad commit messages, it doesn't make them better. A commit message should tell you why the code changed, not summarize what changed. I can read a code change and see what it does, but I can only guess what ca
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by bazzargh 2y ago
The paper says a lot of the secret sauce is dumping a dictionary of the static content and then logging in a binary format. That format looks a lot like gzip, if you squint. Could something like this use the _actual_ gzip format, but writin
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by bazzargh 2y ago
When testing previous versions of uv, I saw it do that too. But uv uses other tricks to speed things up: it downloads in parallel, it takes advantage of PEP-658 metadata (which doesn't need to download the package) and if that metadata
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by bazzargh 2y ago
I really enjoyed it too, though the first half of the book is better than the second. I'd bought it while stuck in an airport trudging through Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (which I hated), saw a book by qntm in my recommend
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by bazzargh 2y ago
I know this one has been fixed, but I also find those an annoyance - more so because if you're not logged in on twitter, you only see the first tweet, not the thread. So rather than get irritated when I click through stories, I block t
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by bazzargh 2y ago
In many jurisdictions requiring blanket acceptance of cookies to access the whole site is illegal, eg https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/direct-marketing-and-pr... . Sites have to offer informed consent for nonessent
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by bazzargh 2y ago
30 years ago (oh dear, that's got to be too long?) I wanted to print out a bunch of guitar tab from OLGA (the online guitar archive, probably kicked off the net many times since?), but that ascii format meant that when you shrank it to
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by bazzargh 2y ago
Nigel Kneale, who wrote the screenplay, famously wrote Quatermass, so you're in the right area - that was a big influence on early Who. Kneale hated the idea of Doctor Who though, and refused to write for it - he said "It sounded
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by bazzargh 2y ago
more appositely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon_(1964_fi... if we do find a note in the cave saying claimed on behalf of Queen Victoria...probably best to leave.
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by bazzargh 2y ago
Cyclestreets already built a custom bike routing engine that is used in a bunch of different cycle map apps/websites, and has been for over a decade https://www.cyclestreets.net/help/journey/routing/ at
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by bazzargh 2y ago
Neko has been around for decades now (but was cuter I think back when the desktop resolution matched the cat) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
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by bazzargh 2y ago
I came up with some L systems for drawing hats and spectres based on the metatiles eg https://trinket.io/python/274cc18bd5 https://trinket.io/python/108e28ab75 (the second program has a bunch of v
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by bazzargh 2y ago
A lot of the broken links and images on that site work if you view it on the internet archive, eg the "Manufactured Fractals" images are mostly missing now, and the "Ineffective Ways to Measure" page is gone now, but sti
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by bazzargh 2y ago
it's named after anatomical structures with the name "rete" (which is just latin for net, but Forgy meant specifically that kind of structure). eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_mirabile Source: via
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by bazzargh 3y ago
A better question to ask would have been, why settle for just memory safety - does a formally verified sshd exist? That kind of thing seems to be implemented more in OCaml and F#, like Project Everest, which has formally verified implementa
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by bazzargh 3y ago
We also had the sugar shortage in 1974 https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jul/09/archive-... ... and the cod wars (not a typo), and a potato shortage https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by bazzargh 3y ago
Wondering if QOA would work for the audio? https://qoaformat.org/ it's a pretty small implementation with decent compression, but not sure if it'd work in those constraints (I'm guessing not. QOA's forma
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by bazzargh 3y ago
it is that - if you turn on the setting "Enable HTTPS mode in all windows" in firefox, the http is automatically converted to an https link and it works.

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