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by lioeters 1y ago
Hilarious how there's vigorous discussion happening under a post with 200 votes and 100 comments, while it's been flagged the whole time. > No substance, no skill, just wheeling dealing That's their only real skill. There&
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by lioeters 1y ago
Sounds like the difference between code as a craft versus artifact and product. Actually not even product, it's the inner guts of a product that most people don't need to care about, and increasingly just machine generated so it&#
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by lioeters 1y ago
Seeking VC funding now for OpenTormentNexus: Democratize the nightmare.
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by lioeters 1y ago
As much as I'm skeptical of Cloudflare's dominant role, the problem here is not with Cloudflare but the politicians in Spain catering to LaLiga the football league. They're disrupting their country's public web infrastru
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by lioeters 1y ago
Not open source, as far as I can see.
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by lioeters 1y ago
$ echo "What a time to be alive" | sed s/a/an awful/ sed: -e expression #1, char 6: unterminated `s' command Whan awfult a time, indeed. :( Shoulda ran fred instead of sed.
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Yes, I believe it's possible to train our brains and learn to perceive better in higher dimensions. There's a great description in the science-fiction book Neverness, where pilots meld their minds with the spaceship computer to vi
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by lioeters 1y ago
You're right, it's not just about post-install scripts nor NPM and JavaScript. This is a deep fundamental issue in software development practices across most programming language ecosystems. And not only open-source, since proprie
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by lioeters 1y ago
It's an interesting question, why immutability is not built into more languages as the default, so that the most intuitive syntax of assignment produces new values. Without having any expertise in the matter, I'd guess that mutabi
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by lioeters 1y ago
From a link mentioned elsewhere in the thread: > Unlike other npm clients, Bun does not execute arbitrary lifecycle scripts for installed dependencies, such as `postinstall` and `node-gyp` builds. These scripts represent a potential secu
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by lioeters 1y ago
Reminds me of something I saw recently, a tri-value boolean, a "trilean" or "tribool". true, false, unknown yes, no, maybe nullable boolean They all feel "risky" in terms of language design, like nul
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by lioeters 1y ago
Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the Theory of Everything - https://jhap.du.ac.ir/article_488.html (PDF) > General relativity treats spacetime as dynamical and exhibits its breakdown at singularities. This fa
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Oh that's lovely hackery. I found this recent post (Feb '25). 10 years of CCTweaks - https://github.com/cc-tweaked/CC-Tweaked/discussions/2100
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Apparently NaN (not a number) becomes false when type-cast to boolean. Boolean(NaN) ===> false For a hypothetical NaB (not a boolean), the same behavior seems logical. Boolean(NaB) ===> false So the condition `if (
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by lioeters 1y ago
That's a pretty neat effect, a smooth transition between ordered dithering and error diffusion.
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It's like Twitter, there was no good reason to change a name with years of trust and reputation. "X" sounds juvenile and stupid, and so does "Wise". I don't understand how it's legal for companies to name
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Not related to cc, the default C compiler command. > tweakcc is a lightweight, interactive CLI tool that lets you personalize your Claude Code experience. > Command-line tool to customize Claude Code system prompts, add custom themes
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"Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." - Zawinski's Law Get more from your AI-powered writing assistant by upgrading to our new Übermen
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Seriously, Wikipedia has been of immense value to society and education. Yes there are issues with ideologically motivated moderators, poorly cited articles, etc. But even with its flaws, it's an amazing resource provided to the publ
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Glad to see someone commented on this. I just learned about the Strugatsky brothers, classic Soviet Sci-Fi writers. Their life story is interesting and I'm looking forward to reading their works. About misogyny, unfortunately science f
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Except we all know what happened to the "standard" with the Loudness War.
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky(en.wikipedia.org)
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Not only is it ugly in terms of language design, the feature depends on over-engineered frameworks like Next.js and Nitro. Magic string literals that rewrite your functions? No thanks.
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The nicely formatted SICP is also available in downloadable formats. EPUB - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-epub/blob/master/sicp.epu... PDF - https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-p
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Seems like the article was written as a personal journey of learning why UUID is not suitable for security or authorization in any way. For anyone with prior knowledge and experience of UUID, it should be common sense that UUID will not pro
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Oh how interesting, there are related database projects built on the same foundation library/tech called Data Substrate. - EloqSQL - MySQL-compatible, high performance, elastic, distributed SQL database https://github.com&#x
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"Hello HR? I think our printer's been hijacked."
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Why? Claude Lévi-Strauss is respected figure in anthropology. (He hasn't been cancelled, as far as I know.) Oh you mean the jeans company. Levi is a common boy's name of Hebrew origin (so is Elissa for girls), and apparently risin
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> looks like there was a bit of a slip-up Indeed that is a suspicious or at least untrustworthy way to deflect the seriousness of a malware infection that potentially affects all users of an OS distribution.
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> this update disrupts mouse and keyboard functionality within the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), making them unresponsive > Early last week, Microsoft accidentally broke the Windows Media Creation Tool (MCT) just a day ahead o

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