mike_hock

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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> command buffers over shared memory are the correct way to do this Sounds like a security nightmare.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
A fundamental part of the Wayland protocol is passing file descriptors through the sockets so this doesn't generalize to network sockets. It also can't be done with shared memory.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
pg_dropcluster for when a bunch of calls to DROP DATABASE seems like too much overhead.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Based.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Given the hardware these systems run on, and the compilers and development tools they had available, Win98 was actually the more impressive piece of engineering.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Good animations do a lot for how the app feels. Like all code, they need to be kept in sync when related parts of the code change, of course, so yes, they're a non-zero development and maintenance burden. So what I don't get is th
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
It was directed at the people theorizing and speculating seemingly missing the possibility that it was just a troll. Not acting on information you're being fed by a troll is itself a guardrail against manipulation. We don't know i
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Firefox was indeed blowing past all the other browsers and set to become the standard. That's when Google realized they had to do something. The market could not be allowed to be dominated by a pro-freedom, pro-privacy product.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
European sunscreens are less regulated than American sunscreens and are thus safer because they can draw from a wider array of ingredients. American food is less regulated than European food and is thus less safe because it can draw from a
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Have you seen Home Alone 2?
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Or they're trolling. That used to be the default assumption, I don't know why people have become so gullible.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Half the time it should be larger, right?
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
We definitely know that Pi is irrational, we just don't know if it's normal (i.e. if the PiFS joke even works).
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
So does every other random infinite sequence of bits. The unintuitive part comes from infinity, not pi. It also doesn't contain all past and future knowledge because it also contains all possible falsehoods about the past and future in
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Obvious attack vector for Russia: Submit fixes to severe bugs that can't realistically be fixed any other way.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
I can't believe that fucking Terminator was prophetic.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Kind of a shit move to suddenly pull the rug once they've finally gotten it working. Should have been kept out of main from the start.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Humans can emdash.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
The most astonishing part is that this is dated June 5th, 2026. I.e. a year that starts with 20, not 19.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Do women keep changing their settings in that Gnome 2 fork over the course of their ovulatory cycle? Oh, that kind of mate.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Anything that isn't blatantly obvious zero effort malware is gonna wait for the cooldown to expire and then gradually introduce backdoors or vulnerabilities in subsequent versions once the project has gained trust.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Maps, Uber, WhatsApp, Spotify, Apple Music. How is that a "dump phone"? Just uninstall unnecessary crap and you get the same thing.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
I used to absolutely love this kind of content. Reading the details of how someone reverse-engineered an old game, maybe figured out how some particular part of it worked. A high-fidelity rewrite is the absolute maximum you could achieve. U
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> How is this different? Any way you slice it, you have to configure it somewhere if you're not lucky enough for the default to be acceptable. It's a workaround for a design flaw. If you forget it you'll notice when it fai
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
Every consultant ever, but to be fair that's not per seat.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
There is no way that not every intelligence agency in the world is doing this.
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> Why would that be different with systemd timers? Because you can test if systemctl start foo.service works and if it does, you know it'll work when foo.timer triggers it. > my main gripe with systemd and other Lennartware is th
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by mike_hock 4mo ago
> I used my work email for everything Then you had it coming.
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by mike_hock 5mo ago
> What makes you say that? You can set the PATH right in the crontab. OK but I don't want to hardcode $PATH in the crontab just so I can test the cronjob. Barring the hardcode, $PATH is one thing when cron runs and another when you
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by mike_hock 5mo ago
> If the source or destination is on a remote server, the client then fork(2)s and starts the server openrsync on the remote host over ssh(1). The client and the server subsequently communicate over socketpair(2) pipes. How is that suppo

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