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by lloeki 3y ago
It's all about the distinction between contract and implementation. The difference with bugfixes is that pre-bugfix the intended API contract - including behaviour, not just signature - was not respected by the implementation and post
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by lloeki 3y ago
> The extra quotes don't hurt I have the habit of quoting everything, that way I don't have to think about any corner case where I can skip quotes, and thus conversely never miss anything where I should quote. I do the same w
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by lloeki 3y ago
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1
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by lloeki 3y ago
The most extreme case being Samsung outright painting the moon in when it thinks a piece of picture is semantically likely to be the moon. Whether the detail data is encoded as PNG or as AI weights is immaterial, it is adding data that is
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by lloeki 3y ago
> The only unfortunate thing is that one of its biggest investors is russian's government wealth fund. AFAIK Telegram investors (via debt bonds) are undisclosed, and I could not find a source backing that statement. Care to share?
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by lloeki 3y ago
I don't know of any car from that period that don't have electronics, they all have a bunch of sensors (lambda probe and whatnot), an ECU, ABS and ESP. Or maybe by electronics you mean the various fancy assists like lane keeping a
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by lloeki 3y ago
Clean room has two steps: - Team A: reverse engineer and document - Team B (with no intersection with A): implement from document Allow me to indulge in a thought experiment: What if one tells ChatGPT to generate the documentation, then imp
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by lloeki 3y ago
> An interactive shell can be a login-shell or a non-login-shell. A shell can be login and non-interactive. This happens e.g when starting a session from a X session manager. Subsequently a terminal such as Xterm starts non-login interac
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by lloeki 3y ago
> That bidirectionality is the difficult part Best hack I've come up with when I have to use Bluetooth headsets on calls is to use them unidirectionally by selecting my MacBook microphone as input (try option click on volume control
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by lloeki 3y ago
Since 2018 I've charged, operated, and booted a variety of USB-C devices over a variety of USB-C PD power sources. e.g MacBooks of the 60W and 90W variety I've operated on 90, 60, 45, 30, 20, 15, and 5W chargers, car adapters, pow
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by lloeki 3y ago
> calling USB A “legacy” and a “relic” is so misplaced. we all still own USB A devices. All my client devices have detachable cables. All my host devices are USB-C and have been for a while, except for a) Xbox, b) RPis, c) Car. a) I rare
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by lloeki 3y ago
I mean I personally don't say it is E2E (it is not), rather than they do by having one E being on their side, and thus their verbiage being misleading.
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by lloeki 3y ago
I think GP might have suggested a flush connection that would allow the mouse to stay flat and even operable while charging. In any case, given the thinness of Lightning, I still don't see how it would be impossibly ugly to have had su
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by lloeki 3y ago
Anecdata: however nice is inertia scrolling, me scrolling on the Magic Mouse 100% reliably triggers carpal RSI in under 5min: the activating finger tendon transforms itself into a scorching hell in short order.
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by lloeki 3y ago
Short of someone having fully reverse-engineered iMessage I didn't see it any other way given the way it operates (e.g messages in browser). Their piece about E2E seems especially misleading. I can see how it's "technically
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by lloeki 3y ago
AFAICT this is the thing enabling the "blue bubbles", which the Nothing Phone bundles: https://www.sunbirdapp.com/ Not to be confused with Mozilla's (if anyone remembers that one): https://en.wikip
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by lloeki 3y ago
> a consumer has to trust a third party who may have incentives that don't align with their own That's true for literally anything , not just IoT security and privacy. I mean, even for highly technical users, one can't do
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by lloeki 3y ago
True! In a way my desire for aesthetics somehow wants to like such ligatures - probably a bit too much - but they always fail for me because of the corner cases and leaky details and the pragmatic me yells at my aesthetic one for being so
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by lloeki 3y ago
> It's also fair to say 14:45 when it's actually 14:41 Also fair to simply omit the hour entirely when it is largely known and merely utter "45" > An answer to the above s/above/below (I failed to consist
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by lloeki 3y ago
Now I was wondering if/how ChatGPT would understand/process the customary ^W or ^H we sometimes add for comedic effect. Excerpt of a 3.5 chat: gpt[1]> write a sentence that contains red^Wblue The vibrant red sunset t
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by lloeki 3y ago
Can't say about Germans, French have these habits: > 12h time can also carry a subtext or impreciseness There's an additional twist where 12h time is expected to be precise: when being asked for time, many a time one would answ
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by lloeki 3y ago
I find { to be ok, although I kinda expected them to differ across the font family (esp. Mechanical) The one that kills me is the squiggly comparisons ~>, I find it horrible and doesn't evoke the kind of comparison I see in Gemfiles
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Even if the above were not true, at that point you're back to an internet enabled smart home device system Home Assistant Cloud is essentially a TCP-level proxy (IOW Nabu Casa sees jack squat): > The remote UI encrypts all comm
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by lloeki 3y ago
> As in every job, you will sometimes have incompetent people in your environment. Working with them is very frustrating. They waste so much time and create a toxic environment. On top of that, they are extremely unproductive. That is no
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by lloeki 3y ago
Isn't it instead that the browser changes the focus target upon disablement, and the accessibility tool merely follows? That's what I understood but I may be wrong.
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by lloeki 3y ago
> Missing LODs and lack of culling That is the exact start of the sentence of which you quoted the end of: > Mesh Shaders in this case enable a lot of really smart culling and dynamic level of detail
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by lloeki 3y ago
Maybe that was not the intent but I read it as a reference to Intel ME.
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by lloeki 3y ago
If using bash in vi mode instead of emacs mode: ESC v. zsh starts minimal, so one needs the following for such a feature to be operational: # enable autoload edit-command-line zle -N edit-command-line # bash-like emacs mo
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by lloeki 3y ago
I've always had a peculiar, extremely elastic relationship with time, which I do perceive, only it's wildly all over the place, day in day out; a "moment" could fold hours into an eyeblink, or it could make split seconds
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by lloeki 3y ago
> To me the big stumbling block in the language is that it at first appears declarative, like you're writing a data structure that describes your configuration. However, when you start modifying anything about packages, you need to

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