jrockway

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by jrockway 7mo ago
I still don't understand why people don't cheat in FPSes by looking at the video stream and having a USB mouse that emits the right mouse movements. (The simplest thing is to just click when someone's head is under your cros
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by jrockway 7mo ago
I'd call it write-only memory.
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by jrockway 7mo ago
I've been on a grand jury... the cops lied through their teeth, couldn't keep their stories straight through a prepared monologues reading from notes and ... everyone in the room picked up on it and didn't indict the suspects
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by jrockway 7mo ago
Back in 2000 I got the M1 Air with 8G of RAM (needed the cheapest Mac to test some arm64 stuff) and that laptop served me very well. I never felt RAM-limited. I was always expecting to run out of memory during a big Bazel build or somethi
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by jrockway 7mo ago
I see the suggestions and then choose something different anyway. I don't want to use one of the top 3 most popular responses to an email from a friend. Even if it's something transactional.
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by jrockway 8mo ago
You can actually make go spit out .o files and link it with your favorite linker. Bazel does this, if you ask it to. I played a lot with experimental linkers when I was trying to get build time down for our (well, $JOB-1's) large Go b
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by jrockway 8mo ago
I think it depends on the codebase. There are some reflection calls that you can make that can cause dead code elimination to fail, thought I believe it's less easy to run into than it was a few years ago. One common dependency, at l
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by jrockway 9mo ago
When I was in college I wrote a computer program (yes, involving yellow text) that couldn't be photocopied because I put the "o"s in the right place to trigger the eurion-finding algorithm. People thought it was neat.
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by jrockway 9mo ago
I love this site so much. I learned that there are two typologies of shoelace knots -- one falls apart instantly ( https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm ), and the other is as secure as a double knot. I also
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by jrockway 9mo ago
This is why I think things like devops benefit from the traditional computer science education. Once you see the pattern, whatever project you were assigned looks like something you've done before. And your users will appreciate the
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Interesting application! A friend of mine built a model like this to help her make her voice more feminine, and it is neat to see a similar use case here.
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Lithium primaries are great. I use them in my weather station. 2AAs have lasted at least 4 years, and still work well when it's 0F out.
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by jrockway 9mo ago
sha256 is a very slow algorithm, even with hardware acceleration. BLAKE3 would probably make a noticeable performance difference. Some reading from 2021: https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/
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by jrockway 9mo ago
People travel with liquids they don't intend to eat. Shampoo and all that. There is also nothing that precludes explosives from being non-toxic. Presumably your demise is near if you are carrying explosives through security. What do
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Yeah. Would a reasonable person familiar with software think that there was no license agreement on the software? That's what would be litigated. "My client has only ever used GNU GPL software, he didn't know it was possib
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by jrockway 9mo ago
A similar question is what happens if you get up to go to the bathroom, some software on your machine updates and requires you to accept the new ToS, and your cat jumps up on the keyboard and selects "accept". Are you still bound
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Perl was also my first productive language, and I do miss it a little. Write something like []string{"foo", "bar", "baz"} in go and you really appreciate qw(foo bar baz). Perl was always designed to be easy t
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Yeah, I'll be taking minoxidil for my hair forever. And zyrtec for my allergies forever. So it goes. "What if you get lost in a cave system for 30 years? What then?" I guess I'll lose my hair and be sneezing a lot,
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Yeah, Zepbound is $499 now. Out of reach of many, but an improvement from $549 last year. The terms and conditions are confusing. You can only use the half-off coupon they provide if you have prescription drug insurance. Even if insuranc
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by jrockway 9mo ago
Why is taking it for weight loss such a bad thing? It improves quality of life, health, reduces risk when surgery is needed, etc., etc. Why create a new account just to litigate how statistically relevant the grandparent comment's ane
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by jrockway 9mo ago
That's actually really neat. It suggested regclient/regclient as a repository I'd like. I looked and, yup, I had no idea that existed and it is a sort of thing I like. People complain about The Algorithm but it can be usefu
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by jrockway 9mo ago
I like how the Unicode Consortium really doesn't want to accept any more flags, but you can still probably shoehorn them in if you're Apple or Google and you have a glyph sequence that is backwards compatible. One way of getting
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by jrockway 10mo ago
I had to take Computer Ethics as part of my degree, but it didn't really anticipate the sort of problems that software engineers run into today. It mostly focused on Therac-25 and integer overflows. Indeed, letting your integer overf
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by jrockway 11mo ago
Grok still has that annoying tone, it just uses it to say weird things.
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by jrockway 11mo ago
That is fair. I have noticed doors going missing in hotels but typically travel alone so it didn't really register as an issue. I would not want to share a room with a coworker ever, bathroom door or not.
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by jrockway 11mo ago
I just feel like this becomes time consuming after a while. Will there be soap? Toilet paper? A bed? You don't know unless you ask! But ... c'mon ... they can just tell you on the website.
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by jrockway 11mo ago
What is your definition of "vaguely disabled"?
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by jrockway 11mo ago
I knew about this site and knew about the Lucas-Lehmer test, but I never would have made the connection between the two. People are kind of amazing.
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by jrockway 11mo ago
I think that connecting outlying areas (especially ones you the railroad build yourself) to department stores is what got Japanese rail companies going, but it's probably less important now than it was initially. Farebox revenue cover
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by jrockway 11mo ago
That's fair. I understand why OpenAI wouldn't want to give anyone transcripts (as a user, I frankly wouldn't even want OpenAI to keep my transcripts), and I understand why the NYT doesn't want to give OpenAI all their a

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