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by jorams 4mo ago
It's a bit buried, but it does: > In contrast to conventional radial flux motors, the electromagnetic flux in an axial flux motor runs parallel to the axis of rotation. The key components are arranged in a disc‑shaped layout: two ro
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by jorams 4mo ago
My favorite example of bad Netflix subtitles is Suits (2011). The music during the intro is the same throughout the series, from the song Ima Robot - Greenback Boogie. The English subtitles for the lyrics are wrong every single season, and
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by jorams 4mo ago
No. This is the equivalent of putting "echo 'rm -rf ~'" or similar into a test suite. The output of a test suite is not intended to be piped straight into your shell, and if you decide to do so anyway the consequences ar
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by jorams 5mo ago
Something you'll see in real codebases is code that cares whether an input value is "empty", but it doesn't matter if it's null or an empty string. It's very easy to go for this: if ($input) {} It&#x27
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by jorams 5mo ago
You didn't mention private repos in your comment, but I guess that was implied in the $7 thing. That said: SourceHut has private repos and access control.
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by jorams 5mo ago
This is at least partially disingenuous. Zig is working on, and has already shipped for some situations, a faster compiler. Bun runs on an outdated version of Zig that doesn't include it.
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by jorams 5mo ago
Reproducible builds exist to reduce the need for trust, while commercial vendors are in the business of selling trust.
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by jorams 5mo ago
This is because of a deeply annoying default in Apache, where for "security reasons" the underlying script doesn't get to see auth details that might already be handled by Apache. At some point they added the CGIPassAuth dire
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by jorams 5mo ago
The website uses the feature for its intended purpose. Adding random trash to the query string of another website assuming it'll ignore it is in fact a bad idea, always, even if you can usually get away with it.
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by jorams 5mo ago
The batteries regulation[1] doesn't contain such an exemption. The legal argument that iPhones may be exempt goes like this: - The batteries regulation is a general regulation and article 11 specifically says the following: > This
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by jorams 5mo ago
A recall means the manufacturer shipped a faulty product. If you can prove you received a faulty product such requirements also don't apply.
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by jorams 5mo ago
> I am not allowed to replace it on my own as it would invalidate the five year long guarantee provided by the manufacturer. Why is this stuff not considered as well? They're the ones paying for repairs, so it doesn't seem tha
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by jorams 5mo ago
> facilities were purchased for between 1 million yen and 5 million yen and resold to Chinese buyers for between 40 million yen and as much as 100 million yen depending on location Those prices seem weird. They were buying entire care ho
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by jorams 5mo ago
And I assume this[1] is the reference to Backblaze? Notably not Hindenburg and more recent, but I believe there is some team overlap and there doesn't seem to be anything else. [1]: https://www.morpheus-research.com/bac
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by jorams 6mo ago
> So it's very unlikely we'll see developers build sites that are gated on this API existing. I think this is an oddly optimistic outlook from someone who until recently worked at Google. A company that has shipped, and probabl
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by jorams 6mo ago
> It sounds like it has some security vulnerabilities that the maintainers aren't taking seriously It may, and they may or may not, but the author hasn't actually reported any. They're explicitly ignoring the security poli
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by jorams 6mo ago
This is a weird post to be honest. You've found a whole bunch of serious security issues, filed two PRs, one of which is adding some quotes because > Those aren't exploitable XSS, but it doesn't hurt to have a second layer
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by jorams 6mo ago
What it means is here[1]. Anthropic is paying €240k a year and in return they get some marketing in the form of a press release and a website mention, as well as someone to talk to. [1]: https://fund.blender.org/corporate-me
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by jorams 6mo ago
I see your point for most of these but why rutracker? It is entirely in Russian.
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by jorams 6mo ago
So far you've only gotten responses to "how can a worse product win?", and they are valid, but honestly the problem here is that Mercurial is not a better product in at least one very important way: branches. You can visit an
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by jorams 7mo ago
--no-ignore-vcs Or some combination of --no-ignore (or -u/--unrestricted) with --ignore-file or --glob.
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by jorams 7mo ago
Literally type "webhosting" into a search engine and every single provider that comes up will do that all-in-one. They'll also throw in a database and PHP, probably with an automatic installer for things like WordPress. There
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by jorams 7mo ago
This is very far from a new project. The first commit and issues are from 2014.
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by jorams 7mo ago
Small correction: .nl is a ccTLD, or country code TLD. Not a gTLD, or generic TLD.
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by jorams 7mo ago
Your account has almost certainly been assigned a new username already. From the same link: > Starting March 4, 2024, Discord will begin assigning new usernames to users who have not chosen one themselves. If your username still has a di
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by jorams 7mo ago
Notably Discord stopped using that format two years ago, moving to globally unique usernames. Their stated reason[1] for doing so being: > This lets you have the same username as someone else as long as you have different discriminat
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by jorams 7mo ago
> What did they do last year? There is no annual public report of their activity. There is[1][2][3], the one for 2025 just isn't out yet. [1]: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparenc
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by jorams 7mo ago
> I think the American First Amendment would obliterate this government body and probably the whole institution if it was ever tried. This is not a government body, Ofcom is the relevant government body, like the US has the FCC, which yo
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by jorams 7mo ago
I'd go so far as to say any implementation that doesn't conform to RFC 4180[1] is broken and should be fixed. The vast majority of implementations get this right, it's just that some that don't are so high profile it cau
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by jorams 8mo ago
It helps a bit that it's written in Zig, but its primary differentiating feature in the sea of terminal emulators is that it's created by mitchellh, who is kind of a celebrity in some circles.

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