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by inejge 8mo ago
> I was careful to say "Good code still has a cost" and "delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than [free]" rather than the more aesthetically pleasing "Good code is expensive. Which is nuance
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by inejge 8mo ago
> we invented this new thing called fire [...] So the tribe leader (who, by the way, gropes your children) proposed a solution: centralize control of all the fire Of all the things, a "save-the-children prolegomena to the Prometheus
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by inejge 8mo ago
It's in the library you're using, and you're not using all of it. I've had that exact situation: a dependency was vulnerable in a very specific set of circumstances which never occurred in my usage, but it got flagged by
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by inejge 8mo ago
Definitely. [1] (Use reader mode if the page misbehaves.) [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20260220083443/https://www.theat...
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by inejge 8mo ago
> Yes, you configured an LDAP server using it's own protocol. It was not good. It's still possible to configure OpenLDAP via the slapd.conf file. The old roadmap called for ditching configuration file support in 2.5 IIRC, but i
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by inejge 9mo ago
> I would expect WD-40 to work fairly well because it cleans the chain and gets the filth out of the links That it does, but it doesn't leave much lubricant behind, which you need for a properly functioning chain. As you know, you w
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by inejge 9mo ago
Just like Twitter is now X, full stop? With the difference that the "Office" brand is much older and has much more staying power. Besides, the desktop application suite is still named the same AFAIK.
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by inejge 9mo ago
> It seems massively unlikely. Why? There were other talented people who produced masterful works at an early age. From the same time as this there's a Dürer self-portrait, also aged 12-13: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by inejge 9mo ago
> But why not have the developer that wrote the code guide the AI to generate the content? They know the code best. Knowing the code and knowing how to make the code, or the interface to the code, comprehensible to another user, are diff
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by inejge 9mo ago
> Privacy concerns notwithstanding, one could argue having LLMs with us every step of the way - coding agents, debugging, devops tools etc. That might work until an LLM encounters a question it's programmed to regard as suspicious f
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by inejge 10mo ago
Two things that have helped me a lot of times: -L: skip preprocessing the input file. When opening rotated log files with the names like logfile.1, logfile.2... the default preprocessor on some distros will recognize them as man page source
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by inejge 10mo ago
> I feel like Lua is absolutely underrated. This sounds like an offhand Youtube comment, I'm afraid. Underrated how? Its principal strength, easy embedding with the ability to work as an extension language, is well known in the circ
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by inejge 10mo ago
Because there wasn't that much to save, compared to the sheer size of the budget? Because it's much easier to destroy than to build, generally? Because it's always been more of an ideological exercise and a revenge vehicle th
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by inejge 10mo ago
I don't know about advantages, but lead times in the chip business are long and you're not turning around on a dime without very pressing reasons. Loongson has probably had many things in the pipeline as RISC-V started gaining ste
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by inejge 10mo ago
> The names these people come up with are so embarrassing. And I'm not even talking about the meaning of 'snitch'. They should call it "rat" and be done with it. Besides, "snitch" works for Little Snitc
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by inejge 10mo ago
> When an aperture is aligned to the winter solstice, it is also aligned to avoid light the rest of the year. An early attempt at air conditioning? In the northern latitudes, doubtful. It would be cool enough year round.
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by inejge 10mo ago
> Why don't they use qmail as an example? Perhaps because qmail is an anomaly, not Android? To remain relatively bug-free, a sizeable C project seems to require a small team and iron discipline. Unix MTAs are actually pretty good ex
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by inejge 10mo ago
> If they block/ban/close/suspend a customer account they must provide habeas corpus. * evidence "Habeas corpus" is not a lofty expression for evidence, although people sometimes use it as such. It's a proce
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by inejge 10mo ago
> Hard forks have traditionally led to massive flame wars. Provided that the project is popular and has a community, especially a contributor community (the two don't have to go together.) Most projects aren't that prominent.
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by inejge 10mo ago
There are ways in which shielding in space can do harm: really energetic particles get trapped and produce a shower of daughter particles and rays over a greater area. So you'd need even more shielding. Or you accept that such things w
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by inejge 10mo ago
> Capital "i"s without crossbars aren't capital "i"s. They're lower-case Ls. Any font that doesn't recognize this should be rejected. You have asserted this at least thrice in the past thirty minutes. W
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by inejge 10mo ago
> The 80287 (AKA 287) and 80387 (AKA 387) floating point microprocessors started to pick up some competition from Weitek 1167 and 4167 chips and Inmos Transputer chips, so Intel integrated the FPU into the CPU with the 80486 processor (I
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by inejge 10mo ago
There's illiteracy, and there's functional illiteracy. They're not the same, and people often confuse the two. A literally illiterate person (ha!) wouldn't make headway with almost any realistic computer interface, icons
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by inejge 10mo ago
It's not remotely the same type of error -- error non-handling is very visible in the Rust code, while the Lua code shows the happy path, with no indication that it could explode at runtime. Perhaps it's the similar way of not tes
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by inejge 10mo ago
> I think it was Snowden who made TLS the default. Snowden's revelations were a convincing argument, but I would place more weight on Google in its "we are become Evil" phase (realistically, ever since they attained escape
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by inejge 11mo ago
It will help that side of the process (although, as a sibling has noted, you can CNAME your way into a better-controlled update service), but the challenge of automating cert changes for various non-HTTP services, including various virtual
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by inejge 11mo ago
"Code frequency" for jxl-rs shows no activity from Aug 2021 to Aug 2024, then steady work with a couple of spurts. That's both a longer hiatus and a longer period of subsequent activity (a year+ ago isn't "recently&
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by inejge 11mo ago
> On the SEU issue I’ll add in that even in LEO you can still get SEUs As a sibling post noted, SEUs are possible all the way down to sea level. The recent Airbus mass intervention was essentially a fix for a badly handled SEU in a corne
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by inejge 11mo ago
Okay now I'm imagining a classical ballet recreation of the "Heeere's Johnny" scene. With firemen.
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by inejge 11mo ago
> What has always baffled me is how CS uses the word "safety" where all other industries use "robustness". FWIW "safety factors" are an important part of all kinds of engineering. The term is overloaded an

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