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by deathanatos 3mo ago
> from someone (not necessarily the Rust stdlib) implementing a safe wrapper around a particular syscall? You might call that library "nix"[1]. Many, though not all, of the bindings are safe wrappers around the underlying uns
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
I've never understood the thing about gas costs. It is oft complained about. And while it always seems to be a point of contention, a quick google search suggests the cost is ≈$200/mo on average¹. Rent and healthcare vastly outs
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
Unless things have changed, when I looked a couple of years ago, I couldn't make the math math. The cost difference outweighed the savings, IIRC, even if we assumed electricity to be free. The bigger problem, though, was that the EV we
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
Excellent? No, > Remove the control when there is no way for users to enable it That guidance is unhinged, and is exactly the anti-pattern that upthread points to that needs to die. Removing the control is like gaslighting the user: th
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
So, yes, some of this I'd've missed if I hadn't been combing over it quite as finely. But not all of it. But in particular, the cut of the bowl stack being spilled … that scene in particular makes no sense. The entire phy
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
0:19 - the bowl has soup in it, despite coming from the middle of the stack. 0:19 - [same time] several bowls are just sloppified, e.g., having two bottoms 0:45 - last of the soup phases out the bottom of the bowl Continuity errors with the
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
From the linked spec, > The authenticator data is a CBOR structure defined in the WebAuthn Level 3 specification, is returned by the getAuthenticatorData() method of the AuthenticatorAttestationResponse From TFA, > The payload is t
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
> The registry is spread out across a whole decentralized network of computers of which has another decentralized network of computers that proxy requests exists. Ultimately, someone has to be in control of who is or is not part of tha
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
Gotta disagree. The encryption part needed to happen: without it, there's just too much opportunity for governments to intercept unencrypted traffic and abscond with it. We saw that occur with Snowden, and with programs like MUSCULAR i
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
They're not hard to read until you see the queries that coworkers at large companies tend to generate. If the query is a novella that joins half of humankind's know data sources, the query plan tends to not be much better. Then th
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
Malware like this will continue until there is privacy laws that make it illegal. The GN video focuses a lot on consent, and while maybe this is notionally currently illegal without consent, that just steers towards companies shipping a g
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
That site seems to serve offensive images¹. (¹yes, it seems like you can work around it by going to the URL de novo, … but IDK, doesn't seem worth it.)
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
> That said, this should just be a shell itself and not something that generates into other shell dialects. Otherwise, why not use Ruby or something like it that has actual expressive power? I'm guessing the advantage here would b
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
Even if we assume we need to cover their downtime between rides, at a conservative estimate of "we're the only call today" that's $2400 of labor at your rate (≈$400/d, 2 paramedics, 3 shifts). TFA suggests they&#x27
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
That paragraph is somewhat incoherent at that point in the article: margins are razor thin — at a price tag of $12,000 per 6 miles or $2,000 per mile. (Yes, there is some other stuff, much, much, much later that maybe cuts into that …)
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
I don't think it's cowardice, is it? The graph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second seems to indicate that adding a negative leap second at this point in time would be improper. (We're ~+0.1s off
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
A real hacker, maybe. A script kiddie is by definition someone who wouldn't notice. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/script-kiddies.html
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
All government regulation still has to be balanced against whether it intrudes or not on the rights of the People. The government can regulate vehicles, including ensuring drivers have met whatever requirements a license might require — nob
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
Because big tech companies are oligopolies, and there isn't enough competition in the market. If you're dissatisfied with the 2 choices out there, you cannot vote with your wallet.
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
I'd go more with their last statement of, > The team currently in charge needs to have full ownership and be responsible for the code, even if they didn't write it. That's honestly a high enough bar — many orgs I've
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
> My problem rate with Fedex or UPS is maybe 0.1% of packages. I can't remember the last time I had a delivery issue. Well… I had a package being delivered, and it had missed its estimated arrival; it ended with me have a long dis
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
When I was younger, I decided I wanted to learn how to write games. I decided I needed to start simple, though, and I thought NOTEPAD.EXE was about the simplest thing out there. (This was in Windows 3.1.) So to learn how NOTEPAD.EXE worked,
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
I also wanted to experiment with Linux at a young age, and so I tried booting it with LOADLIN[1]. I didn't know what I was doing, but I did successfully boot the kernel with a minimal rootfs! So minimal, it didn't have an init — w
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
The Biden administration both asked nicely for actual, factually incorrect information to be corrected by sites and pressured sites. They were taken to court over both, and they prevailed on the former and lost on the latter: the administra
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
They didn't rule on it because it is out of scope of the matter before the court. The lower courts first have to make a ruling that can be appealed. From the ruling: > The conclusion that a Fourth Amendment search occurred does not
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by deathanatos 3mo ago
The cases covered under the 4A: > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable caus
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by deathanatos 4mo ago
I think crates.io is essentially just the default, and you can point cargo to an alternate package repository, if you so desire. I've worked on projects where we vendored all third-party crates, for example, so our config just pointe
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by deathanatos 4mo ago
The Covid vaccines have saved an estimated 14 million to 20 million lives.[1] The trust was not eroded by scientists, it was eroded by politicians pushing lies. I'm still to this day hearing lies & misinformation repeated about t
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by deathanatos 4mo ago
Generally when I'm debugging these, I need/want to know what was the preflight (if applicable), and was the preflight what was expected? When I help others debug these, generally I find there is little expectation of what the pr
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by deathanatos 4mo ago
> by design the error messages sent to the browser are intentionally gutted A CORS error is not "an error message sent to the browser", it is an error generated by the browser, because the browser has decided it cannot permit

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