jrockway

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by jrockway 2y ago
Replacing 1 chip with a lead time of 2 years with 4 chips you can buy today and some software sounds like DfM to me.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Someone has to push the limits to see where they actually are. Now we know.
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by jrockway 2y ago
> Picking up slivers of silly putty from the carpeted floor was not fun. One of my science teachers in high school told me about the time she got a chunk of sodium and a 50 gallon barrel of water. She threw the sodium into the water. I
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by jrockway 2y ago
Languages might remove the dirname part, but argv[0] is not necessarily a path, it's just a string passed to the exec system call that is also passed to main(int argc, char *argv). While many languges don't call their main functi
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by jrockway 2y ago
Things I've learned using gRPC for ~10 years: 1. I really like gRPC and protos for the codegen capabilities. APIs I've worked on that use gRPC have always been really easy to extend. I am always tempted to hand-roll http.Handle(
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by jrockway 2y ago
I think argv[0] is fine. It sounds like there is a lot of bad security scanning software that doesn't understand how the `exec` syscall works. That sounds like their problem and not a fundamental problem with argv[0]. Most people use
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by jrockway 2y ago
A major difficulty in buying a car in the US is lowering your tolerance for sleaze enough to complete the transaction.
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by jrockway 2y ago
This really bothered me many years ago, and I tried CR-39 and even glass, just for fun. I was never that happy with the results. I could always distract myself with chromatic aberration, and I think I eventually decided not to care anymor
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by jrockway 2y ago
I would think "replay attack" works in a lot of cases now. Find someone over 21, get their barcode on the back of the license, sticker that over yours. For bars that just scan and get yes/no, you're in. No need to mod
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by jrockway 2y ago
I agree with this. Kids are already subject to an agenda; for example, never once in my K-12 education did I learn anything about sex. This was because it was politically controversial at the time (and maybe it still is now), so my school
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by jrockway 2y ago
I'm not sure that Big Tech is over. Media companies have had a viable business forever. What happens here is that instead of going to social media and hearing about how to fight insurance companies, you'll just get NFL Wednesday
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by jrockway 2y ago
I'm going to be contrarian here and say, maybe it's the right choice. Bringing up already-litigated drama in an unrelated thread is not particularly constructive. If Guido thinks this person's opinions are relevant, he can
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by jrockway 2y ago
Forcing people to "transition" into the opposite gender that they identify with is also abusive when simple medical procedures are available that let you defer that situation until later. Like, would it really be a huge deal if y
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by jrockway 2y ago
No, they had an administrator. I filed the appeal through HR, though, which was the recommended process at the time. Probably not the right process in retrospect, especially because I accepted the appeal denial at face value and just paid
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by jrockway 2y ago
Honestly, those systems don't look too good for trans people. The NHS requires you to wait years to go on $40/month hormone replacement therapy. The government passed a law banning prescription of puberty blockers for kids that
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by jrockway 2y ago
A lot of insurance plans are employer-paid, meaning that the money comes out of their bank account, not the insurance company's bank account. The insurance company just takes a fee to administer the claims and keep as few bills from h
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by jrockway 2y ago
I really think that health insurance is this. Your premiums cover the yearly risk of getting cancer plus a constant amount for preventative care; a couple vaccines (get your HPV vaccine if you haven't!) and a physical exam. I'm l
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by jrockway 2y ago
It's difficult to simply make the legal system do this. You have to back it up with investigatory teeth, and the victim still has to file an understandable complaint to start the wheels turning. The legal system also has to be suffic
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by jrockway 2y ago
I'm trying to get upset about a tool that lets you photoshop a smoking trash can onto a sidewalk, and it's just not happening. I feel like this is similar to all technical progress. Once, only dedicated wizards could do something
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by jrockway 2y ago
I really don't think that's true. All software is undertested and it's likely that there isn't a significant differences between web apps and security apps. Having said that, writing ring 0 drivers an unsafe language so
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by jrockway 2y ago
I am guessing the API isn't stable enough for letting the runtime set maxprocs. I use https://pkg.go.dev/go.uber.org/automaxprocs and have had to update it periodically because Redhat and Debian have different de
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by jrockway 2y ago
Yeah, I used to run a service that got a pretty constant 20,000 qps and traces pretty much never showed me anything about the really weird issues. It is nice when you can delay the sampling decision to much later. (I use zap for logs now a
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by jrockway 2y ago
I like the wide log model. At work, we write software that customers run for themselves. When it breaks, we can't exactly ssh in and mutate stuff until it works again, so we need some sort of information that they can upload to us.
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by jrockway 2y ago
I think there is potential in this approach, but I don't think we have the training data yet. We have 100+ years of storm tracks, but we don't have 100+ years of surface observations at the mesonet granularity (like, every city h
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by jrockway 2y ago
> They already had plenty of VMC's in the machine shop, etc, and didn't need these, and it was not worth the trouble to sell them. At least back then. Darn, we were trying to get a mill for the NYC office's makerspace. It
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by jrockway 2y ago
> Do you see a bright spot when aiming the laser at drywall? It was red for a second but now what appears to be a black hole is consuming everything.
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by jrockway 2y ago
> Their new prices seemed insane to me. I call this the "going out of business sale".
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by jrockway 2y ago
Many years ago I bought an Intel processor. It came with a sticker inside a book that was several pages of terms and conditions on what the sticker can be stuck on. Mentioned as something not to do was applying the sticker to a computing
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by jrockway 2y ago
This doesn't really seem like their strategy anymore. It's not like Edge directly interprets Typescript, for example. While they embraced and extended Javascript, any extinguishing seems to be on the technical merits rather than
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by jrockway 2y ago
That's interesting. Back when I used Android a decade ago I thought you had to enter a passcode for LUKS or something, to decrypt all the user data. Maybe I am misremembering?

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