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by cstrahan 2y ago
I think you somehow missed the fact that this wasn’t the standard fizzbuzz, but rather a contrived, convoluted version thereof. Of course they were looking for a clever solution, because any solution that satisfied those rules would be cl
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Note that you said “likely” and not “equally likely”. Therein lies your answer. There are applications where hashes are used as identifiers, where it would be impossible to use the original data to resolve possible collisions. One example w
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Hey, if you like living your life uninformed of the risks of your actions (or maybe it’s that the risks are irrelevant to you, if you’re not getting any?), you do you. I don’t know how I can help you understand the utility of analogies (yo
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by cstrahan 2y ago
To add onto the sibling comment: It is indeed a play on the saying “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. What wasn’t explained, though, is the meaning behind the expression. It’s an expression used to mock use of the bandwagon fallacy and
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by cstrahan 2y ago
A similar argument: If you look at the statistics, you’ll find that casual, condomless sex is very common. Despite the risks of STI transmission, it often pans out okay: most STIs are readily curable, while HIV has a low transmission rate a
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I don’t see how sharing one’s rationale for not being a customer (as in the article) is equivalent to asserting a moral stance, nor do I see any condescension. Is it that you are generally opposed to critical response? And if so, do you see
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by cstrahan 2y ago
They don’t. I’m guessing you navigated to the https://mise.jdx.dev/environments.html page and saw the TOML syntax (which looks an awful lot like INI), and confused yourself. Mise (like a lot of software) uses TOML as the
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> Because most people barely know in depth the packaging challenges for one ecosystem. I think you’re greatly overstating the problem, at least insofar as it relates to this tool. For example, Python has its prefix (where packages are in
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by cstrahan 2y ago
You don’t need non-libc dependencies to run into issues when copying a binary from one host to another: glibc uses symbol versioning, so (unless you jump through some hoops) a binary built one a machine with a newer glibc will fail to run o
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> By your argument, since an encyclopedia is not a person, I can copy it with impunity. I don’t see where they said (or implied) that. How does “that isn’t plagiarism” imply “I can copy it with impunity”? Copyright infringement is still
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Ha, several days after hearing about CVE-2024-10914 ( https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-10914 ) > Description > > A vulnerability was found in D-Link DNS-320, DNS-320LW, DNS-325 and DNS-340L up to 2
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by cstrahan 2y ago
While it doesn't capture every syscall, you can get pretty far with the (seemingly little known) Endpoint Security Framework: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/endpointsecurity I cobbled together a little
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by cstrahan 2y ago
The same could be said of Pokemon vs Digimon. Put the two side-by-side and I wouldn't be able to discern which is which. Same with Bakugan, Monsuno, Yu-Gi-Oh, Card Fight!! Vanguard, Future Card Buddyfight, Shadowverse, etc. I don'
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Sure, I can do that. Why the HELL would you need objects and object oriented programming? Wherever you do foo.blah(), you could just do foo_class__do_blah(obj)… so what do objects really grant you that you can’t do with basic procedural pro
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Here’s an example of a common Rust dependency which had a very subtle caching issue: https://github.com/dtolnay/thiserror/pull/279
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> The reflection, code gen, etc. is the answer how you convert the values auto-magically. I don't think anyone (j-pb included) is saying anything to the contrary. Here's what you wrote: >> rusts type system is strong enou
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by cstrahan 2y ago
>> rusts type system is strong enough to build extremely powerful zerocopy serialization > Unclear what you mean, but other than syn and quote you don't have a way to reflect and do code gen, outside of build script. Which als
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I believe it’s because macOS uses a worse audio codec: https://gist.github.com/dvf/3771e58085568559c429d05ccc339219
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by cstrahan 2y ago
How is Mozilla funding a private Google Photos alternative “competition against a world of Chromium”? Maybe you didn’t follow the thread close enough — the complaint isn’t that funding Firefox is counterproductive, but that shoveling dollar
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by cstrahan 2y ago
The fine folks at JetBrains already have done just that: https://www.jetbrains.com/guide/pytest/tutorials/visual_pyte...
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I’m not a Python developer, but… I believe the idea is that those identifiers are semantically related: that fixture decorator inspects the formal parameter names so that it can pass the appropriate arguments to each test when the tests a
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by cstrahan 2y ago
In this scenario, is it GP that exhibits the behavior you’re talking about, or you (given that GP gave their own counter analogy) — or both?
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by cstrahan 2y ago
The VM you just referred to is a virtual machine, that’s what VM stands for. I think you forgot how this thread got started: > If you’re on macOS, then Orbstack is a nice alternative to Docker Desktop We’re talking about running OCI (“
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by cstrahan 2y ago
Wrong, Orbstack does use VMs. https://docs.orbstack.dev/architecture > OrbStack uses a lightweight Linux virtual machine with a shared kernel to minimize overhead and save resources, similar to WSL 2 (Windows Subsystem
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by cstrahan 2y ago
(I’m guessing this is supposed to be a joke in a similar vein as “Emacs is a great operating system that desperately needs a text editor”.) You probably are looking for a different word, rather than “indifferent”. Indifference is a property
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> Complaining about having to learn basic parts of language, while this is true in any platform... There’s a difference between obstinately refusing to learn the basics of a thing, versus taking issue with there being a bunch of self-inf
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by cstrahan 2y ago
> I thought the only way to run Linux on macOS was using some sort of Virtualbox-esque solution. On macOS, Docker uses HyperKit (which is a hypervisor built on top of macOS's Hypervisor.framework) to run a Linux virtual machine behi
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Cross-compilation is orthogonal to bootstrapping , which is the major motivating factor for having something like what is described earlier in this thread: a small compiler written in C which can compile a subset of Rust, used to compile a
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by cstrahan 2y ago
I think it makes more sense if you consider the expression "this tickles my fancy". Why do we use "tickle" there? Because a tickle is a type of stimulation, and "fancy" here means "interest", so one i
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> This is untrue right? It can only protect code, not data, right? Do traffic lights protect the flow of traffic, or do they protect people? It seems reductive to fixate on traffic lights stopping intersecting flows of traffic, when the

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