marshray

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by marshray 5mo ago
What a strange way to view life. At least you could go out with the accomplishment of having out-competed some other species along the way.
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by marshray 5mo ago
There's no shortage of 16 inch laptops with numeric keypads. First thing I thought when I saw the picture was "Yay, a 16 inch laptop with the keyboard and pad in the middle!"
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by marshray 5mo ago
1. At least 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth are now extinct. I.e., that's life. 2. "But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
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by marshray 5mo ago
The law of the excluded middle does not create semantic problems for the phrase "being opted-in by default". Human language does not work like that.
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by marshray 5mo ago
[stares awkwardly in Haskell] I often have to remind myself that we have the programs we have today only because somebody wanted them to exist more than they wanted them to express abstract properties like consistency .
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by marshray 5mo ago
You abandoned your dreams of mastering Haskell by making a system operator UI using QT, but gave up out of concern that `journalctl` might not be in PATH?
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by marshray 5mo ago
This would look right at home on an IBM 3278 at the operator's station, controlling started tasks, releasing jobs to run. I think I'm going to put on one of those retro CRT terminals :- D
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by marshray 5mo ago
Hmm. I read a semantic difference between "opt-out" and "being opted-in by default". The first denotes an abstract policy, the second an action that has been done to you in which you were a passive participant. And thi
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by marshray 5mo ago
I feel that I have been a victim of "good telemetry" too, as when advanced product features were removed which were probably not popular but that I personally relied on.
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by marshray 5mo ago
tl;dr: Small, scattered, files instead of one large one. Usually when someone describes their new "language", or other text-based data format, they give examples of it in the announcement post. Maybe this isn't the announceme
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by marshray 5mo ago
This seems like an extraordinary claim to make about an above-room-temperature chemical system that, even in the most Newtonian oversimplification, amounts to an astronomical number of oddly-shaped and unevenly-charged billiard balls flying
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by marshray 5mo ago
That book is badass on so many levels. I'd just started it again yesterday.
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by marshray 5mo ago
> something that comes from consensus from a big, top-down standardisation body usually fails. So IETF is the "big, top-down standardisation body" producing "bloated, inefficient and largely unused standards" here? Wo
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by marshray 5mo ago
I've been using *nix and usenet since the early 1990's. I always thought "editor wars" was a particularly dumb in-joke among a small group and I feel sad when I see people who think it was ever more than that. The Wikipe
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by marshray 5mo ago
Are you claiming that the following program could possibly print "-1" ? #include <stdio.h> int main() { unsigned short a = 1; long b = a; printf("%ld\n", b); } If not, why?
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by marshray 5mo ago
As I generally believed in Moore's law, i.e., accepted the notion that transistors were exponential, I was surprised at how long the difference between a 2 GiB address space and a 3 GiB address space was relevant in practice. In theory
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by marshray 5mo ago
Eventually I realized it was a lot easier to just predict the next word that I was going to say, and say that instead.
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by marshray 5mo ago
Impersonating a federal officer for the purpose of exceeding authorized access to a computer system in furtherance of a fraud, upon Claude, in excess of $5,000 worth of tokens?
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by marshray 5mo ago
No, I meant that I'd resisted doing anything with Docker for its entire existence and just finally gave in and started messing with podman. I have amazing timing.
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by marshray 5mo ago
> from the Newtonian perspective, reality definitely unfolds either one way or the other, and it's not a matter of opinion. You won't hear me claim otherwise. > This is definitionally Harari's naive view of information
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by marshray 5mo ago
I do not speak for MSFT, but last time I spoke with MSRC indeed they would be happy to receive your vulnerability report even if you did not wish to participate in any particular bug bounty program.
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by marshray 5mo ago
> This is the endgame of postmodernist and constructivist thinking that exalts narrative and story as the ground source of truth. In some ways what we are seeing is a return to religious and superstitious thinking where sufficient belief
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by marshray 5mo ago
He really saves the best bit for last, doesn't he? > my breathing in making the blog post above might well have evaporated more water than occurred (incrementally) from all four AI estimates. Clearly his continued breathing is not a
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by marshray 5mo ago
I doubt the vendors would be big fans either lol
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by marshray 5mo ago
Unix originated during the early days of what was called "time sharing", but it was developed for relatively small computers typically shared among a small workgroup within an organization. It was not initially designed to be a hi
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by marshray 5mo ago
If you discover a vulnerability in OpenSSL, are you required to track down and separately notify every downstream packager of OpenSSL? Or do you rely on the OpenSSL project to work their established process?
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by marshray 5mo ago
The Linux kernel team back-ported it to 6.18, 6.19, and 7.0 on 2026-04-11 and publicly disclosed the vulnerability via CVE on 2026-04-22.
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by marshray 5mo ago
AFAICT it was a Linux kernel maintainer who first "told the entire world about the vulnerability" on 2026-03-31: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryp... The CV
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by marshray 5mo ago
Same. I wish I had seen this before pulling all that Cat-6a.
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by marshray 5mo ago
After reading that amazing title, I skimmed the whole article several times looking for the part about DNA existing outside the cells.

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