cobbzilla

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   by cobbzilla 4mo ago

   Now imagine junkies could get high off of seat belts.. then how do you regulate??
2. 152.▲
   by cobbzilla 4mo ago

   I drive my TVs with a locked-down mac mini.
3. 153.▲
   by cobbzilla 4mo ago

   I never connect any “smart” device to wifi. If it doesn’t work without connectivity, I don’t want it. I use my TVs as display devices. They have HDMI-in and that’s it.
4. 154.▲
   by cobbzilla 4mo ago

   FTFY: DNS was for People Now it’s for machines
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   Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history(apnews.com)

   179 points by cobbzilla 4mo ago|50 comments
6. 156.▲
   by cobbzilla 4mo ago

   I must be missing something. Aren’t ~50% of 64-bit integers the product of the number 2 and another 32-bit integer?
7. 157.▲
   A compressed-spring model of spiral galaxy formation(theeggandtherock.com)

   7 points by cobbzilla 4mo ago|0 comments
8. 158.▲
   by cobbzilla 5mo ago

   usually “stdout” is good enough, wrapper/runner routes output to logserver for collation and search. who cares about formats as long as it’s reasonably structured and searchable?
9. 159.▲
   by cobbzilla 5mo ago

   beautiful work! any plans for the 80387 coprocessor?
10. 160.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    i get it, it’s not the canonical “egg shape”, but many eggs (fish/frogs/etc) are spherical.
11. 161.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    I love librivox! please add me to your ios release list. my HN username at g mail
12. 162.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    By extension, does this imply that all the HLL advocates from decades past were shilling for compiler companies?
13. 163.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    I was responding to: > Query strings existed before CGI did… There's nothing wrong about having things decided by the server Sure, but there is also no standard for how to format/parse the query string. And also no server plugi
14. 164.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    I’m in a similar boat, I abandoned ship for Gitea years ago (prior to forgejo fork) and have no regrets. For things that require GitHub I’ve been able to mirror repos there and get things working. Keeping code in sync is annoying though.
15. 165.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    A post claimed CGI led to bad standards around query parameter formatting and parsing. I was merely pointing out that, prior to the advent of CGI, if you wanted to actually do anything with those parameters on the server, you had to extend
16. 166.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    Which runs on what computer in 1995?
17. 167.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    sure looks like VB there, what’s the plugin? Didn’t see anything like that before.
18. 168.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    and what server software is running this code in 1995?
19. 169.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    Maybe dumb question: how does the server “decide” anything other than what file to serve? Today we have many choices but back in the day CGI was the first standard way to do it. So yes query parameters existed before CGI but to use them you
20. 170.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    Federal government spending for Google stuff is probably in the $100Ms. If you pay taxes you’re paying Google.
21. 171.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    Sure, and we can’t guarantee you’ll read the safety instructions that came with your chainsaw. That’s orthogonal to the questions of whether those instructions should exist, whether “power tool safety” concepts should ever be promoted in so
22. 172.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    We have invented a new tool that can cause great harm. Do you see any value whatsoever in promulgating safety guidelines for humans to use the tool without hurting themselves or others? Do you not own any power tools?
23. 173.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    I’m not so hung up on the semantics. The fact that you’ll likely never meet someone again can render an act of kindness towards them, no matter how small, more meaningful, not less.
24. 174.▲
    by cobbzilla 5mo ago

    There is a lens through which this looks like assembly programmers bemoaning the advent of the compiler, and all these posers who only know high level languages and have no idea what’s going on inside the machine, have less control over mem
25. 175.▲
    by cobbzilla 6mo ago

    if you learned it in class, I hope you learn how to exit!
26. 176.▲
    by cobbzilla 6mo ago

    I love all of this, but at least let your students use vi, it was around back then (or close). plus they don’t have to give it up when they go back in the real world, it’s an evergreen skill!
27. 177.▲
    by cobbzilla 6mo ago

    Is there a genuine opportunity to overturn either Wickard or Raich? That would be exciting.
28. 178.▲
    by cobbzilla 6mo ago

    Yes! The linked article didn’t capture all the symbols in the original DDJ article. There were in fact `<<` preceding each arg. The actual line was: obj<-method << arg1 << arg2 which requires overloading the le
29. 179.▲
    by cobbzilla 6mo ago

    I know the kinds of weddings you speak of, and it’s sad, and hard to disagree. Even more sad that for $20-$50k you /could/ have a super unique, awesome and even low-stress wedding (ok that last part depending on parents/relat
30. 180.▲
    by cobbzilla 6mo ago

    A quite memorable article [1] described a “backwards” message-passing technique in C++ using operator overloading so you could do stuff like: obj<-method arg1 arg2; [1] https://jacobfilipp.com/DrDobbs/artic