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by cpeterso 3y ago
What are some fun or unusual examples of Hyrum’s Law that you’ve run into? Were you the user, inadvertently depending on some implementation detail? Or were users depending on your implementation’s details?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
My favorite free (though not open source) visual diff and merge tool is Perforce's P4Merge. It's available for Linux, macOS (including as a Homebrew cask), and Windows. My favorite feature is its conflict resolution listing the co
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by cpeterso 3y ago
What is “NTK”?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I’m curious: what are some problems where awk was (presumably) a reasonable choice at first but then the implementation grew into a behemoth? Did the solution need to grow as the problem grew? Or was awk just the wrong choice from the begin
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Training Data for the Price of a Sandwich: Common Crawl's Impact on Gen AI(foundation.mozilla.org)
3 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
All the Lockwise functionality has been integrated into Firefox’s password manager on Android and iOS, including password syncing and filling passwords into native apps’ login.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Thanks for trying to use Firefox first! You can report websites that don’t work in Firefox on webcompat.com and Mozilla web developers will test and diagnose the problem. When possible, they attempt to reach web developers at the site (usin
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Surviving Software Dependencies: Software reuse is here but comes with risks(queue.acm.org)
2 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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What goes right and wrong when games like Diablo 3 take a decade to make (2019)(polygon.com)
14 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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Out-of-bounds read and write in the glibc's qsort()(openwall.com)
151 points by cpeterso 3y ago|121 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Seems like someone should create a new datetime standard, documenting the safe intersection of ISO 8601 and RFC 3339. I did find this useful comparison: https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
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Peter Thiel Backs Doping-Friendly Olympics Rival – The 'Enhanced Games'(forbes.com)
38 points by cpeterso 3y ago|51 comments
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Enhanced Games, the 21st Century Olympics without drug testing(enhanced.org)
2 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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Elon Musk says Neuralink startup has implanted a chip in its first human brain(cnn.com)
2 points by cpeterso 3y ago|4 comments
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Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people's PCs(arstechnica.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
AFAIK, https://arewefastyet.com/ (AWFY) was the first, registered in 2010. “Are We Meta Yet?” http://www.arewemetayet.com/ is an incomplete and outdated list of some of these dashboards. Some domains expire
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If you have scripts that can count uses of the deprecated code, you can use them to detect regressions and generate build warnings if someone adds new code using the deprecated code. Periodically you can decrease the script’s max use counte
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by cpeterso 3y ago
An example: “Are We ESMified Yet?” is a Mozilla dashboard tracking an incremental Firefox code migration (1.5 years and counting) from a Mozilla-specific "JSM" JavaScript module system to the standard ECMAScript Module "ESM&q
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by cpeterso 3y ago
My favorite Dijkstra quote: > The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
For those downvoting, the video really does cite the CIA’s 1980s research into astral projection and the “Gateway Experience”, asserting it is “all correct”. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9qag/how-to-escap
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iOS Sideloading in Europe Will Still Involve App Review and Fees(macrumors.com)
3 points by cpeterso 3y ago|1 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
And Atlassian’s own Jira Product Discovery (JPD) backlog management tool that integrates with Jira: https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/product-discovery
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by cpeterso 3y ago
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/47 > The number 47 makes frequent recurrences in dialogues and on computer screens in Star Trek. > The origin of the significance of 47 can be traced to Star Trek: The Next Ge
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Looks like there are individual sellers reselling Bella Canvas shirts and hoodies on Amazon for much cheaper, depending on your risk tolerance for Amazon sellers.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Yes, I believe so. I loved an event t-shirt so much that I followed up with the organizer to track down the printer and their supplier, since the tag inside the t-shirt has no branding. At the time, I thought BELLA+CANVAS only sold wholesal
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Platform Tilt: Documenting the Uneven Playing Field for Firefox(blog.mozilla.org)
46 points by cpeterso 3y ago|5 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Andrew Waterman's PhD thesis "Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture" has a nice comparison of ISA designs and differences of RISC-V, MIPS, SPARC, Alpha, ARMv7/8, Thumb, OpenRISC, and x86/x86-64. https:&
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Are there any true open-source LLM models, where all the training data is publicly-available (with a compatible license) and the training software can reproduce bit-identical models? Is training nondeterministic? I know LLM outputs are purp
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Worse yet, the dining philosophers in the image have too many hands. No wonder they’re deadlocking! :)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If you try to right size tasks, you can just count tasks instead of estimating them. This approach even has a catchy brand name in agile circles: #noestimates. In every team I’ve tracked, the task count burndown velocity was impressively li

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