jancsika

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by jancsika 3y ago
Is there any niche of vendors somewhat equivalent to free software zealots in Shenzhen? E.g., "you can boot this little keychain thingy without blobs."
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by jancsika 3y ago
Somewhat related-- I remember tracking a bug to a poorly documented commit in a codebase. The dev had changed the memory allocation routine to multiply the requested size by 8 in order to fix "a crasher." Removing that "fix&q
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by jancsika 3y ago
You're positing that some significant portion of the victims decide to settle like this: if (shame) But it's almost certainly this: if (bankruptcy_risk || shame) History of RIAA settlements-- where prudishness wasn't a factor
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by jancsika 3y ago
Why are you LARPing based on first principles? Just give examples: * Trump's First Step Act. E.g., title III-- can no longer use restraints on prisoners during pregnancy-- and IV-- reducing mandatory minimums for drug felony conviction
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by jancsika 3y ago
Ooh, I'd love to know a few more details about both. What kept NaCl from being independently implemented? And what did WASM learn from NaCl? Edit: ah, someone already mentioned NaCl being CPU-specific.
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by jancsika 3y ago
Does it still count as idempotent if you achieve it by adding a timestamp parameter to each function to specify which version of the global state you want to use?
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by jancsika 3y ago
I love how the graphic undermines his argument. All those tentacles have their own intelligence. Any of them could therefore strangle him, even if they are all axed from the head. Maybe we should change the term "red herring" to &
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by jancsika 3y ago
> But you have engines really not ready, for instance electron based games: you don't have the right version of the GTK+ toolkit installed on your enlightenment/Qt/raw X11/wayland/etc distro? Nah, won't run.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> To the point where I now feel a bit attacked by sea of buttons when I get into a modern non-Tesla. Going to need to read make/model/trim example before I believe that. E.g., Mazda3 has very elegant non-cluttered knob UX. Also
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by jancsika 3y ago
How different can the fallback be? Could you do an image of SBF that falls back to an image of Madoff?
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by jancsika 3y ago
I just don't get the entitlement around Youtube. It costs money to maintain the servers and keep it running, 24/7 so you can enjoy the content. It certainly doesn't owe you a free Rickroll. If for whatever reason Youtube wa
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by jancsika 3y ago
It's almost like you found a lossy encoding for discussing governance. For example, both the NYC taxi medallion system and warlords controlling a city in a failed state would get input as "lawlessness" in your encoding. But t
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by jancsika 3y ago
Sounds like a category error, confusing the sadism of extracting oversized value from restaurateur with the deliciousness of food. At least, I've never had a hankering for a water and a half pound of tiny slivers of sashimi. The prank
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by jancsika 3y ago
I feel like someone could generate sounds like this by learning DSP synthesis techniques and dogmatically treating aliasing as a feature instead of a bug. Edit: to be clear, I like the sounds. I just think DSP beginners learn early to watch
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by jancsika 3y ago
> I've been taking Pixel photos for years, and my phone is always the one people ask to use for group shots at social events. If the average social gathering is more than two people, this is already a minority use case. If the avera
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by jancsika 3y ago
> “Nearly all experts and celebrities use ghostwriters,” Funny enough, my mind first went to Bernie Sanders' My Revolution . Either he didn't use a ghostwriter, or the ghostwriter was Larry David doing a Bernie Sanders impress
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by jancsika 3y ago
How does mathematics avoid technical debt? Like "division by zero is one and only one of the following: a) zero in the case of 1,273 historical contexts where that answer just made things work out smoothly for everyone involved, b) zer
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by jancsika 3y ago
> And, dealer only parts? That's hardly an 'electronics' issue. If resistance differs among any of six coils, halt. That sounds like a software issue to me. It prevented him from replacing a single faulty coil, and requi
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by jancsika 3y ago
Something related to this: I made an SVG interface for displaying/editing diagrams using nw.js (essentially Electron). It would adapt the SVG viewport height and width based on the amount of space that's actively being used so tha
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by jancsika 3y ago
Challenging music is a tough sell because there has been about a hundred years of a critical mass of composers who took the metric of "challenging" and made it a target. That created a lot of noise that's not of the compellin
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by jancsika 3y ago
Ha! I just posted this above: > With the Corolla you just might just have to decide when you've had enough of driving the damned thing. I've got a 95 Honda Civic with a bit over 200k. And the prospect of having to finally chang
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by jancsika 3y ago
From what I've heard the hybrid powertrains are way more complex and prone to extra problems on top of ICE problems. But it's a testament to Toyota's engineering that the Prius makes it seem that this isn't the case. In
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by jancsika 3y ago
> As someone who usually buys ~10 year old cars and drives them into the ground I'm much more interested in long term reliability. That's a much simpler list: 1: Toyota Corolla 2 to end: you're not really serious about run
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by jancsika 3y ago
I recently watched a coworker lose a job by embodying this very logic. I think the problem comes from the conflict between denying/rejecting victimhood, on the one hand, and realizing that one must get the fuck out of a very, very bad
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Customer with expectations that are difficult to match. e.g., using xorg modesetting you had tearing, which is not acceptable for e.g. digital signage. Intel-drv driver had tearfree, but then new hw didn't work. Solving took more
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by jancsika 3y ago
I don't have time to do it, but someone here should post some stories about the efforts of the "coalition of Republican and Democratic lawmakers" mentioned in the article who are opposed to this reauthorization. It'd mak
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by jancsika 3y ago
> It’s unfortunate that our government is so inefficient that we have to pass mass bills like this at all. Efficiency in legislative process is a terrible metric for effectiveness in governance. In fact, some of the worst legislation in
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by jancsika 3y ago
> The other thing you learn is that no plan survives contact with the enemy. Or you learned that decades ago, modeled it for them, and they ran with it.
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by jancsika 3y ago
I don't agree with the author here. Intuition is travelling down main path that has branches which diverge and re-merge into the main path. That's why people seem to intuitively get "merging" back into main, whereas th
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by jancsika 3y ago
I've only ever understood "organic" to refer to one of four things: 1. Chemistry 2. Farming/food (under one of various specifications) 3. An oddly-named composition technique in which phrases of music are built up using

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